rat

[Verse 1]

Take the story of Rat who's headed west

His buddy once told him he likes the girls there best

Centuries of singers, men who pay their rent

Waxing poetic of a woman's innocence

Rat was batshit and barely played a lick

He took to the highway high off headiness

He and his woman saw through an awful split

The road his only hope of falsifying it

[Chorus]

Come on, come on, come on down

Come on, come on down

The wheels will turn your weary around

[Verse 2]

California calls him by his collar

His waves were ill-behaved, so now hе doesn't bother

Shook the country from him likе a cub clawing its father

Couldn't buy compassion 'cause it'd cost him 40 dollars

Only thing that's cheap (Cheap)

Seems to be his dreams (Dreams)

Even his defeat's (Defeat)

Costing him something (Woo)

[Verse 3]

Bargain, bargain, bargain, bargain, bargain, bargain, bargain

Rat was eating trash out of the back of someone's garden

What he wouldn't give to have some grits to start his morning

Fascinated by the face of the woman who warms them

Rat has made his bath and this is one he'll surely drown in

Imitating tales of cowboy trails and traveling men

Hasn't satisfied a single one of his new women

The one he left alone is in their home and busy hexing

[Chorus]

Come on, come on, come on home

Come on, come on home

At least she'll probably bury your bones

[Bridge]

Country boys know better

Than to leave that weather

They know better

They know better

And a country boy knows

That wherever he goes

It'll show

It'll show

It'll show

It'll show

[Chorus]

Oh, come on, come on, come on down

Come on, come on down

Bring our buddy Rat back around

[Outro]

Take the story of Rat who headed west

His brain hallucinating, his ego in his chest

His friends, they never told him it'd cost him close to death

At home, his woman carves another kind of casket

The kind he gladly climbs and closes himself in