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RATS HAVE RIGHTS

THANKSGIVING DAY

after dinner it's nice
to commit genocide
carving up our meal
and everyone else on the side
by now our emotions
are zombie-fied
we're right here
if Frankenstein wants a bride
after we kill everyone
our slave ships arrive
coming in on the tide
karmic suicide
suicide

white american karma
for amber waves of grain
i'm trying to clean up mine
by standing in the rain

white american karma
above the fruited plain
from spacious sky to shining sea
it's giving me a migraine

thanksgiving day
thanksgiving day


WORKING FOR THE JIHAD

Mohammad's 15
gonna be a suicide bomb
Johnny's 15
goes to school with a gun

we are martyrs one and all
what does it matter anymore
we are martyrs in this war

we are martyrs one and all
it could be so beautiful
can't you hear the jihad calling you?

Mohammad flew up
to heaven on a white horse
Johnny's locked up
says he feels no remorse

we are martyrs one and all
what does it matter anymore
we are martyrs in this war

we are martyrs one and all
it could be so beautiful
can't you hear the jihad calling you?

LIPSTICK
standing in the rain wearing your sweater
the angels that call after me use your name
everywhere i go i pretend i'm walking right behind you and
you turn around see me plain standing like a stain on the ground
in my own orbit a star a lonely satellite
without a planet to wrap her up and hold her tight
i'm watching you in my mind like you're on TV
i'm watching you in my mind like you're on TV
i'm watching you in my mind like you're on TV
i'm watching you in my mind like you're on TV
(i see you what do you see?)

streets suck me down your front door makes me drown
don't tell me the raindrops are not really angels
cause i like the way they paint your face such grace
a sweet embrace just a trace of a smile burdens your lips
the lips i want to kiss without lipstick
makes me want to drown take me down with you
i'm watching you in my mind like you're on TV
i'm watching you in my mind like you're on TV
i'm watching you in my mind like you're on TV
i'm watching you in my mind like you're on TV
(i see you what do you see?)

i'm a romance insomniac 4am i yak yak yak yak
cough syrup without the hack won't set me back
won't give the sleep i lack just a kiss one you wouldn't miss
lend me a kiss i swear i'll give it back to you
let me kiss your lips without lipstick
let me taste the rain on your hair on your coat
on your mouth on your eyelids on your cheeks
i'm standing in the rain wearing your sweater
hoping everything in my life gets better
i'm standing in the rain
take me down with you
standing in the rain
take me down with you
standing in the rain...

CRAWL
i'm tired of being fucked over by women
from now on i'm only gonna date aliens
or Ann Wilson from the group Heart
someone i can trust like that

no one seems to want a girl like me
just a girl who has some sincerity
someone who won't mess up your heart
someone you can trust like that
someone you can trust like that

let me count the women who fucked me over
let me count the women who took advantage
let me count the women who broke my heart
let me count the women who broke my heart

i'm tired of girls who only want free therapy
who spend their lives avoiding common courtesy
i'm just a girl who's true to her heart
someone who is just like that
someone who is just like that

let me count the women who fucked me over
let me count the women who took advantage
let me count the women who broke my heart
let me count the women who broke my heart

so come on put on your blue jeans baby
something to protect your knees
when you're kneeling on my floor just begging
me to give you what you need

i'm tired of being fucked over by women
from now on i'm only gonna date aliens
or Ann Wilson from the group Heart
someone i can trust like that
someone i can trust like that

let me count the women who fucked me over
let me count the women who took advantage
let me count the women who broke my heart
let me count the women who broke my heart

so come on put on your blue jeans baby
something to protect your knees
when you're kneeling on my floor just begging
me to give you what you need

come on come on come on come on baby
something to protect your knees
come on come on come on come on baby
beg me to give you what you need
beg me to give you what you need
beg me to give you what you need
beg me to give you what you need
beg me to give you what you need

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
will one more time get me to heaven?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
will one more time get me to heaven?


AUTOMATIC RIFLE DANCE
the rich watch Titanic in Arabic on bootlegged videos
before we could get them in the USA
you can hear about the sanctions in stereo
cause the kids have nothing to eat all day
and billboards of the generalissimo
line every street when the lights go down
his eyes still shine in Baghdad town
yeah yeah yeah
Baghdad town
yeah yeah yeah

i don't like to drink buttered tea
but i don't believe in any aggression
there are no such things as conquering heroes
cause the conquered don't find their heroes there
and babies cry without tears
i'm tuning into Radio Islam
and the voice of the CIA
every terrorist has a website take my advice
don't get on that bus today
yeah yeah yeah
on that bus today
yeah yeah yeah

anthrax and baby's breath
anthrax and baby's breath
anthrax and baby's breath
anthrax and baby's breath

when you do the automatic rifle dance
well you better move your feet
when bullets splash down like falling rain
you gotta listen to the beat beat beat

get ready get ready get ready get ready
get ready see you in paradise
i've found everyone but Abu Nidal
Hamas, Hezbollah, the IRA
Loyalist Paramilitary, USA
when there's a bomb in Portadown
get out of town
when bricks fly thick through the Belfast sky
hug the ground
when is it right
to use armed struggle
yeah yeah yeah
is it ever right
yeah yeah yeah

anthrax and baby's breath
anthrax and baby's breath
anthrax and baby's breath
anthrax and baby's breath

when you do the automatic rifle dance
well you better move your feet
when bullets splash down like falling rain
you gotta listen to the beat beat beat

when you do the automatic rifle dance
well you better move your feet
when bullets splash down like falling rain
you gotta listen to the beat beat beat of your heart

anthrax and baby's breath...
you got what you wanted
you got what you wanted