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The Mountain Goats – Rat Queen (2020) | Track profile | Dork

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Getting Into Knives
Rat Queen

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The Mountain Goats

Rat Queen

Release date: 23rd October 2020

From Getting Into Knives

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About This Track

"Rat Queen" is a track by The Mountain Goats, from the album Getting Into Knives, released 23rd October 2020. Full lyrics are available below.

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The Mountain Goats

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Lyrics

Rat Queen

[Verse 1]

Meek subjects by torchlight

Come to pay their respects

As foretold

By the ancient texts

Line snaking down the sewer

Reverent hush upon the crowd

One by one we approach

The figure in the shroud

[Chorus]

New dreams

New dreams for the rat queen

New dreams

New dreams for the rat queen

[Verse 2]

Great warm throbbing hum of the undercity

At one with the purpose

I am a faceless, nameless acolyte

Here tonight at your service

Take my visions, make them real

Impose them on the world above

All the dead sleepwalkers

Who never learned how to love

[Chorus]

New dreams

New dreams for the rat queen

New dreams

New dreams for the rat queen

[Verse 3]

Brand new dreams

Great visions

Something heady and threatening

On the boil in the kitchen

Arise from the storm drains

Take to the streets

We who've never once tasted

The stench of defeat

Victory sweet as the dregs

Of the fast food dumpster

Look how they jump when we show up

Like they've just seen a monster

[Chorus]

New dreams

New dreams for the rat queen

New dreams

New dreams for the rat queen

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Track details

From Getting Into Knives

2020

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Album

Getting Into Knives

The Mountain Goats

Release year

2020

—Harbor Me
—Bell Swamp Connection
—The Last Place I Saw You Alive
—Corsican Mastiff Stride
—Getting Into Knives
—Wolf Count
—Pez Dorado
—Rat Queen
—The Great Gold Sheep
—Tidal Wave

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Writer: John Darnielle
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