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Rat Boy
SCUM
BOILING POINT

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BOILING POINT

Release date: 10th August 2017

From SCUM

Track 5

2:59

Alternative Music Rock Indie Rock

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About This Track

'BOILING POINT' by Rat Boy is an alternative track on the album 'SCUM' (2017). The lyrics stage a bitter contrast between youthful dreams and a more hazardous present, with the refrain pressing the sense that “the world is near boiling point” and that anger is being directed at politics rather than fate. That heat is channelled through images of readiness to snap, as hope curdles into menace and frustration.

"BOILING POINT" is a track by Rat Boy, from the album SCUM, released 10th August 2017. The track is 2:59 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Rat Boy.

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Lyrics

BOILING POINT

Boiling
Boiling
Boiling
Boiling

We all had dreams
When we were young
But now we're loaded
Just like a gun
We all had dreams
When we were young
But now we're loaded
Just like a gun

The world is near boiling point
Seeing Theresa May who we didn't appoint
Living for the sound of silent missiles
That within one second can reach fifteen miles
Something's wrong, can't you see?
How can you let people on the street freeze?
This is our so-called democracy
Anti-homeless spite [?]

We all had dreams
When we were young
But now we're loaded
Just like a gun
We all had dreams
When we were young
But now we're loaded
Just like a gun

Get your information from corrupt newspapers
Live your life below the shiny skyscrapers
Big corporations and gentrification
Crashing the party with no invitation
We know
They don't
If you voted Brexit, please find the nearest exit

We all had dreams
When we were young
But now we're loaded
Just like a gun
We all had dreams
When we were young
But now we're loaded
Just like a gun

Boiling
Boiling
Boiling
Boiling, boiling
Boiling
Boiling
Boiling

We all had dreams
When we were young
But now we're loaded
Just like a gun
We all had dreams
When we were young
But now we're loaded
Just like a gun

We all had dreams
When we were young
But now we're loaded
Just like a gun
We all had dreams
When we were young
But now we're loaded
Just like a gun

Boiling
Boiling
Boiling

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Track details

From SCUM

2:592017

Listen

Album

11th August 2017

Track number

5

Release year

2017

1TURN ROUND M8
2:58
2REVOLUTION
3:29
3LAIDBACK
3:33
4MOVE
2:51

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5BOILING POINT

2:59

10KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

12ILL BE WAITING

13KICKED OUTTA SCHOOL

—ILL BE WAITING

—Big Fucka Burgers Interlude

—End Of The Road (Interlude)

—Sirenz Interlude

—Post Scum Interlude

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—Trumptowers Interlude

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: RAT BOY
Producer: RAT BOY
Engineer: Tom Pullen
Bass: RAT BOY
Drums: Noah Booth, RAT BOY
Guitar: RAT BOY
Keyboards: RAT BOY
Vocals: RAT BOY
Mastering Engineer: John Davis (Engineer)
Mixing Engineer: Steve Sedgwick
Programmer: RAT BOY
Recording Engineer: RAT BOY

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The song’s from his upcoming album, ‘Internationally Unknown’.

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And Everything Everything, too.

5 Mar 2018 • 6:00 pm

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Rat Boy has remixed Annabel Allum’s track, ‘Beat the Birds’

"It sounds mega," says Annabel.

27 Feb 2018 • 10:21 am

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Watch Rat Boy's new video for 'Knock Knock Pt II'

The release follows his just-finished UK tour.

14 Feb 2018 • 4:13 pm

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Rat Boy has announced he's off on tour in 2018

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24 Aug 2017 • 2:31 pm

Rat Boy hits the road with new tour

Rat Boy hits the road with new tour

Rat Boy is heading out on tour throughout April and May, and he’s taking some of our faves with him for a couple of those dates: joining him at the Manc...

30 Jan 2017 • 3:09 pm