A Tale of One Bad Rat Lyrics

This is the tale of one bad rat

With little feet to move his fat

He's gnawing at the lace edge of your slip

With his bloody eyes and foam upon his lip

This is the tale of one bad rat

It's midnight halloween and he bursts upon the scene

As his head jerks back and forth from side to side

His beady eyes are red and his conscience almost dead

Yet he creeps on through the alley full of pride

His tail drags on behind him like a virgins wedding train

His chubby sides vibrating like an awning in the rain

You'd better watch your step tonight you'd better hide your welcome mat

Because you don't want to make his acquaintance because he's one bad rat

This is the tale of one bad rat

With little feet to move his fat

He's gnawing at the lace edge of your slip

With his bloody eyes and foam upon his lip

This is the tale of one bad rat

A woman stands by the dumpster dressed in leather silk and lust

She's been searching all her life for a simple man to trust

With a needle in her forearm and a dagger in her heart

He eyes her tender ankle like a misdirected dart

He tip toes up behind her and then he bites her on the calf

As she screams and stumbles backwards he breathes an evil laugh

And as she's writhing in the trash bin covered up with grease and fat

He revels in the mayhem because he's one bad rat

This is the tale of one bad rat

With little feet to move his fat

He's gnawing at the lace edge of your slip

With his bloody eyes and foam upon his lip

This is the tale of one bad rat

He scampers off towards main street where the dealers are wearing chains

As they slide their bits of poison towards the lifeless morning rains

The theater is letting out society is fat

He's wading up the gutter toward a painted virgin net

She's flagging down a yellow cab and he hops in through the door

He crawls up on her thigh and she wails like someone's whore

She passes out he snickers as he's nibbling on her cat

The driver runs a red light because he's one bad rat

This is the tale of one bad rat

With little feet to move his fat

He's gnawing at the lace edge of your slip

With his bloody eyes and foam upon his lip

This is the tale of one bad rat

The cops then pull the cabby to the side of seventh ave

They're putting him in handcuffs and saying

What else do you have?

A virgin in your backseat and a kilo in the trunk

Well it's obvious you've had a few

It's obvious you're drunk

The cabby is laying face down and the cop screams

Not a move

The rat crawls up the cabby's arm and then he bites him very smooth

He throws both arms up toward the sky and gets shot there lying flat

With a princess on his floorboard and one bad rat

This is the tale of one bad rat

With little feet to move his fat

He's gnawing at the lace edge of your slip

With his bloody eyes and foam upon his lip

This is the tale of one bad rat

The sun is peeking out behind a fountain in the park

Young lovers sit and touch again pretending that it's still dark

The birds are tuning up again for one more symphony

The buses start to polluting while there's no more moon to see

There's a half bit piece of hot dog on a sidewalk like a bait

Emerging from the bushes for some breakfast he can't wait

The trash policeman sees him getting careless getting fat

Then he clubs him with a broomstick enough of one bad rat

This is the tale of one bad rat

With little feet to move his fat

He's gnawing at the lace edge of your slip

With his bloody eyes and foam upon his lip

This is the tale of one bad rat