Request for Lyrics to 'Rat Trap'
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Geldof)please e-mail them to a.bard...@lse.ac.uk
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Anita
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ScallyUK
>If anyone has the complete lyrics to Rat Trap by the BoomTown Rats (Bob
>Geldof)please e-mail them to a.bard...@lse.ac.uk
Thanks to Erin for helping out on these.
"Rat Trap" - The Boomtown Rats
(B. Geldof)
on the album _Tonic For The Troops_ - Columbia, 1978
There was a lot of rocking going on that night
Cruising time for the young, bright lights
Just down past the gasworks, by the meat factory door
The five lamp boys were coming on strong
The Saturday night city beat had already started and the
The pulse of the corner boys just sprang into action
And young Billy watched it under the yellow street light
And said "tonight of all nights there's gonna be a fight"
Billy don't like it living here in this town
He says traps have been sprung long before he was born
He says "hope bites the dust behind all the closed doors
And pus and grime ooze from its scab-crusted sores
There's screaming and crying in the high-rise blocks"
It's a rat trap, Billy, but you're already caught
And you can make it if you want to or you need it bad enough
You're young and good-looking and you're acting kind of tough
Anyway it's Saturday night, time to see what's going down
Put on a bright suit, Billy, head for the right side of town
It's only eight o'clock, but you're already bored
You don't know what it is, but there's got to be more
You'd better find a way out, hey, kick down that door
It's a rat trap, and you've been caught
In this town Billy says "everybody's trying to tell you what to do"
In this town Billy says "everybody says you gotta follow rules"
You walk up to the traffic lights
You switch from your left to your right
You push in that button, and that button comes alight
And it's
"Walk, don't walk, walk, don't walk
Talk, don't talk, talk, don't talk
Walk, don't walk, walk, don't walk
Talk, don't talk, talk, don't talk"
Hey, Billy, take a walk, take a walk, take a walk
Billy, take a walk, take a walk, take a walk
Billy, take a walk, take a walk, take a walk
Hey, Billy take a walk with me
Well, little Judy's trying to watch "Top of the Pops"
But mum and dad are fighting, don't they ever stop
She takes off her coat and walks down to the street
It's cold on that road, but it's got that home beat
Deep down in her pocket she finds 50p
Hey, is that any way for a young girl to be
"I'm gonna get out of school, work in some factory
Work all the hours God gave me, get myself a little easy money"
Now, now, now, na na
Her mind's made up, she walks down the road
Her hands in her pockets, coat buttoned 'gainst the cold
She finally finds Billy down at the Italian cafe
When he's drunk it's hard to understand what Billy says
But then he mumbles in his coffee and suddenly roars
"It's a rat trap, Judy, and we've been caught..."
Rat trap
You've been caught in a rat trap
(repeat last line to fade)
Scals
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Take a walk with me
Down through all that misery
Swing high, stay free.
BTW, I have the first four Boomtown Rats albums (Boomtown Rats, Tonic for
the Troops, Fine Art of Surfacing, Mondo Bongo) on vinyl, all with lyric
sheets - I guess I could transcribe the lyrics if anybody REALLY wants them.
Sorry, I don't have V Deep.
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ScallyUK <scal...@aol.com> wrote in message
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ScallyUK
>Take a walk with me
>Down through all that misery
>Swing high, stay free.
Well, I'm glad somebody could get that mumbled part (I got the "swing high,
stay free" bit... the rest was a blur). Erin typed up the text from the lyric
sheet and apparently it wasn't on it. I don't have the lyric sheet.
>BTW, I have the first four Boomtown Rats albums (Boomtown Rats, Tonic for
>the Troops, Fine Art of Surfacing, Mondo Bongo) on vinyl, all with lyric
>sheets - I guess I could transcribe the lyrics if anybody REALLY wants them.
>Sorry, I don't have V Deep.
I have _V Deep_, but I can't imagine anyone would want the lyrics to anything
on it.
Scals
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