Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Syd Barrett
Canonical path: /syd-barrett/rats
Related lyric paths: 6
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Rats
Read Rats lyrics by Syd Barrett on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Rats
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Got it hit down
Spot knock inside a spider
Said: That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
Love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
Says: That's love - All know it
TV, teeth, feet, peace, feel it
That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
That's love yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
Like the fall that brings me to
I like the fall that brings me to
I like the cord around sinew
I make a cord around sinew
Duck, the way to least is less
The deep craving of the metal west
Hell tomorrow's rain and test
Hell tomorrow's rain and test
Love an empty son and guess
Love an empty son and guess
Dimples dangerous and blessed
Heaving, arriving, tinkling
Mingling jets and statuettes
Seething wet we meeting fleck
Seething wet we meeting fleck
Lines and winds and crib and half
Each fair day I give you half
Of each fair day I give you half
I look into your eyes and you
Flake in the sun for you
Bam, spastic, tactile engine
Heaving, crackle, slinky, dormy, roofy, wham
I'll have them, fried bloke
Broken jardy, cardy, smoocho
Moocho, paki, pufftle
Sploshette moxy, very smelly
Cable, gable, splintra, channel
Top the seam he's taken off
Rats, rats lay down flat
We don't need you, we act like that
And if you think you're unloved
Then we know about that
Rats, rats, lay down flat!
Yes, yes, yes, yes, lay down flat!
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