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Rat Boy

Internationally Unknown

Release date: 25th January 2019

From Internationally Unknown
Track 6
3:19
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About This Track

'Internationally Unknown' by Rat Boy is an alternative track from the album 'Internationally Unknown', released in 2019. The lyrics tumble through a narrator trying to make sense of being “Internationally unknown”, stuck in a small town that never planned them, and looking for relief in the discovery that someone has been found. There is a restless, self-aware quality to the voice, like a roll-call of doubt, followed by a quick, relieved pivot. The repeated uncertainty gives way to gratitude, keeping the perspective on confusion, belonging, and escape routes.

"Internationally Unknown" is a track by Rat Boy, from the album Internationally Unknown, released 25th January 2019. The track is 3:19 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Rat Boy.

About the Artist

Rat Boy

Rat Boy

Lyrics

Internationally Unknown

Internationally unknown
Internationally unknown
Internationally unknown
Internationally unknown
I don't know, where we're gonna go
I'm internationally unknown

I was born last lost in a family
In a town where they never, ever planned me
Just like the others
Thank fuck we found each other
Sitting smoking spliff, 16 undercover til
So undercover's when I met my first lover
She broke my heart when she ran off with my brother
I shed more tears in my teenage years
Considering that's when my picture's better than now 'cos

I don't know, where we're gonna go
I'm internationally unknown

I don't know, where we're gonna go
I'm internationally unknown
(I'm internationally unknown)

Screaming, wrong music ain't ever on the radio
Ripping out the cigarettes
Pulling up to buy a coke
Don't let them know, it's hid under my pillow
Looking back now it don't seem too long ago
At the time I thought they were the worst times
Right now I feel they were the best 'cause
Now i'm alone with my conscious on my chest man
Life ain't looking forward to the rest so...

I don't know, where we're gonna go
I'm internationally unknown

I don't know, where we're gonna go
I'm internationally unknown
(I'm internationally unknown)

Raised on a diet of free porn and stale bread
Always started on by the boys on the mopeds
Out late, we never went to bed
No street cred, I might as well have been dead, so
Walked ahead, talking shit in the back shed
Also flip for five scenes, rubber that instead
Misled by government in the power
Now I work a dead-end job
Minimum by the hour

I don't know, where we're gonna go
I'm internationally unknown

I don't know, where we're gonna go
I'm internationally unknown
(I'm internationally unkown)

I don't know, where we're gonna go
I'm internationally unknown
(I'm internationally unkown)

I don't know, where we're gonna go
I'm internationally unknown
(I'm internationally unkown)

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From Internationally Unknown

3:192019
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Internationally Unknown
Internationally Unknown
Rat Boy
25th January 2019
Track number
6
Release year
2019
  1. 1Chip on My Shoulder
    2:01
  2. 2My Name Is Rat Boy
    2:33
  3. 3Don't Hesitate
    2:53
  4. 4I Wanna Skate
    2:15

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Harry Todd, King Gizmo, MILA (Liam Haygarth), Noah Booth, RAT BOY, Tim Timebomb
    Producer
    RAT BOY, Tim Timebomb
    Engineer
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    Bass
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    Guitar
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