Left to their own devices, the rats destroy themselves.









Rats in a cage
Burning with rage
Hungry and crazed
Pushed to the edge

Filled with disease
Driven by greed
Addicted to more
Out of control

Crushing people
“Get outta the way!
Development’s way:
Surrender and pay.”

Rats in a cage
Addicted to war
Unequivocally wrong
And out of control!

Rats in a cage
Screaming in pain
No fault of their own
They’re not in control

Garbage Media
Erasing all clues
Inciting real doom
The profit of few

No decision
No good rationale
The shrill and the crass
Corruption to last

Rats in a cage
Addicted to war
Intractable Wrongs
And out of control!

Tell me why
They must die

Rats in the middle:
Filled with disease
Cutting my eye:
And blinded by greed
Rats in the middle:
They’re out of control
They’ll destroy them all

Rats in a cage
Disgusting disgrace
Punish the weak
And do it with glee

Tell me something
Where will it end?
Where will it end?
Where will it end?

Tell me why
They must die

Rats in the middle:
Filled with disease
Cutting my eye:
And blinded by greed
Rats in the middle:
They’re out of control
They’ll destroy them all

Rats in the middle with the
sticky fingers
They are trapped by their own device
Shredding each other in the name of survival
Screaming obvious
They don’t have to die

No good bye

Almost everyone that has had a job, has had at least one that took their soul away.








Cringe on my way to work,
already hear the punch-in
at the ole hey ho hey ho hey ho -

I feel my brain go numb, my body knows it’s time
to do the ole hey ho hey ho hey ho

You know how time stands still? It’s slower when it’s slower!
At the ole hey ho hey ho hey ho -

At least for break, i step out back, and have myself a lil’ smoke…
“You ain’t back yet?”

And so i smoke, stare at the wall, stare at the wall,
I wanna go…
“It ain’t time yet!”

Back at my station, washing dishes and the ramikins and looking for a napkin at the ole hey ho hey ho hey ho…

Bussing tables, stacking plates -- That table’s nasty!
At the ole hey ho hey ho hey ho –

You know how time stands still? It’s slower when it’s slower!
At the ole hey ho hey ho hey ho…

At least for break, i step out back, and have myself a lil’ smoke…
“You ain’t back yet?”

And so i smoke, stare at the wall, stare at the wall,
I wanna go…
“It ain’t time yet!”

“I can train a monkey to do what you do” (1)

At least for break, i step out back, and have myself a lil’ smoke…
“You ain’t back yet?”

And so i smoke, stare at the wall, stare at the wall,
I wanna go…
“It ain’t time yet!”

“Get me outta here!”

(1) Heinz, the owner of the Fish Market restaurant in Charleston, SC said these exact words to Franklin when he was working there as a waiter.