'Rat Race' is a seemingly slower number.....What the crew do though is quietly blaze away and one can't help but be attracted by the inner zest (well I can't anyway). What strikes me more than anything about this number is how good it must be in the 'live' arena. One can imagine the singer in there with the punters and the heads banging away to the more straight ahead moments. FUNGAL PUNK REVIEW
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lyrics
RAT RACE -
RAT!!!!
you get up early & start your RAT fucking day
you're out the door, you're on your RAT fucking way
to your bullshit job for your shitty fuckin' pay
you're just a fucking RAT in the RAT RACE
it's a RAT RACE
slaving away every fucking day for your murder wage
and now the day is done
the RAT RACE is over & run
and you were the first to place
but it doesn't even matter
you're still a fucking RAT
in the RAT RACE
it's a RAT RACE
slaving away for your murder wage every fucking day
you created a cage, now your spending your days just rotting away
it's a RAT RACE
so you say that "shit's all fucked"
"times are tough"
you've completely given up
slaving away every fucking day for your murder wage
IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO BREAK OUT OF THE CAGE & FUCKING ESCAPE
FROM THE rat race
credits
from ALREADY DEAD,
released September 26, 2009
TRACE - GUITARS, BACKING VOCALS
CHUCK - DRUMS, BACKING VOCALS
JEREMY - GUITARS, BASS, VOCALS
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