Rat

Intro 
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Take the story of Rat who's headed west 
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His buddy once told him he likes the girls there best 
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Centuries of singers, men who pay their rent 
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Waxing poetic of a woman's innocence 
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Rat was batshit and barely played a lick 
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He took to the highway high off headiness 
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He and his woman saw through an awful split 
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The road his only hope of falsifying it 
 

 
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Come on, come on, come on down 
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Come on, come on down 
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The wheels will turn your weary around 
 

 
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California calls him by his collar 
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His waves were ill-behaved, so now h doesn't bother# 
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Shook the country from him lik a cub clawing its father 
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Couldn't buy compassion 'cause it'd cost him 40 dollars 


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Only thing that's cheap (Cheap) 
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Seems to be his dreams (Dreams) 
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Even his defeat's (Defeat) 
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Costing him something (Woo) 
 

 
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Bargain, bargain, bargain, bargain, bargain, bargain, bargain 
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Rat was eating trash out of the back of someone's garden 
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What he wouldn't give to have some grits to start his morning 
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Fascinated by the face of the woman who warms them 
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Rat has made his bath and this is one he'll surely drown in 
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Imitating tales of cowboy trails and traveling men 
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Hasn't satisfied a single one of his new women 
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The one he left alone is in their home and busy hexing 
 

 
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Come on, come on, come on home 
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Come on, come on home 
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At least she'll probably bury your bones 
 

 
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Country boys know better 
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Than to leave that weather 
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They know better 
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They know better 
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And a country boy knows 
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That wherever he goes 
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It'll show 
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It'll show 
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It'll show 
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It'll show 
 

 
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Come on, come on, come on down 
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Come on, come on down 
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Bring our buddy Rat back around 
 

Outro 
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Take the story of Rat who headed west 
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His brain hallucinating, his ego in his chest 
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His friends, they never told him it'd cost him close to death 
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At home, his woman carves another kind of casket 
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The kind he gladly climbs and closes himself in