Rat Trap lyrics

Artist  : Boomtown Rats 
Song : Rat Trap



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 There was an awful lot of rocking going on that
night,

Cruising time for the young bright lights,

Just down past the gasworks, by the meat factory
door,

The five lamp boyswere coming on strong.

The Saturday night city beat had already
started

The pulse of the corner boys sprang into
action

And young Billy watched it all under the yellow
street light

And said "tonight of all nights there's
gonna be a fight"



He doesn't like it living here in this town

He says the traps have been sprung long before he
was born

He says "hope bites the dust behind all the
closed doors

And pus and grime ooze from its scab crusted
sores.

There's screaming and crying in the high rise
blocks"

It's a rat trap Billy and you're already
caught

But you can make it if you want to or you need it
bad enough

You're young and good looking and you're acting
kind of tough

Anyway it's Saturday night time to see what's
going down.

Put on the bright suit Billy, head for the right
side of town

It's only 8 o'clock but you're already bored

You don't know what it is but there's got to be
more

You'd better find a way out, hey kick down the
door

It's a rat trap and you've been caught



In this town Billy says "everybody tries to
tell you what to do"

In this town Billy says "everybody says you
gotta follow rules."

Hey you walk up to those traffic lights,

Switch from your left to right

You push in that button, and when that button
comes alight 

It tells you 

"Walk don't walk

Talk don't talk"

Hey Billy take a walk...with me.

Little Judy's trying to watch "top of the
pops"

But mum and dad are fighting don't they ever
stop,

She take down her coat and walks out on the
street,

It's cold on that road, but it's got that home
beat,

Deep down in her pockets she finds 50p.,

Now is that any way for a young girl to be,

"I'm gonna get out of school work in some
factory,

Work all the hours God gave me get myself a
little easy money"

Now, now, now na na.



Her mind's made up, she walks down the road,

Her hands in her pockets, coat buttoned 'gainst
the cold,

She finds Billy down at the Italion cafe

And when he's drunk it's hard to understand what
Billy says

But then he mumbles in his coffee and suddenly
roars,

"It's a rat trap and we've been
caught...."