Rat Trap-The Boomtown Rats

[ti:Rat Trap] [ar:The Boomtown Rats] [al:Classic Album Selection: Six Albums 1977-1984] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Rat Trap - The Boomtown Rats [00:32.71]There was a lot of rocking going on that night [00:35.42] [00:37.28]Cruising time for the young bright lights [00:39.36] [00:40.26]Just down past the gasworks [00:41.37]By the meat factory door [00:43.54]The five lamp boys were coming on strong [00:46.36] [00:46.97]The Saturday night city beat had already started and the [00:50.83]The pulse of the corner boys just sprang into action [00:53.82] [00:54.63]And young Billy watched it under the yellow street light [00:57.56]And said tonight of all nights there's gonna be a fight [01:02.65] [01:04.49]Billy don't like it living here in this town [01:07.59]He says traps have been sprung long before he was born [01:10.93]He says hope bites the dust behind all the closed doors [01:14.89]And pus and grime ooze from its scab-crusted sores [01:18.38]There's screaming and crying in the high-rise blocks [01:21.41]It's a rat trap Billy [01:23.10]But you're already caught [01:24.54]And you can make it if you want to or you need it bad enough [01:28.45]You're young and good-looking and you're acting kind of tough [01:31.82]Anyway it's Saturday night [01:33.32]Time to see what's going down [01:34.95]Put on a bright suit Billy [01:36.90]Head for the right side of town [01:38.97]It's only eight o'clock [01:40.31]But you're already bored [01:41.96]You don't know what it is [01:43.79]But there's got to be more [01:45.44]You'd better find a way out [01:47.03]Hey kick down that door [01:48.98]It's a rat trap and you've been caught [01:53.07] [01:59.83]In this town Billy says everybody's trying to tell you what to do [02:03.98] [02:06.54]In this town Billy says everybody says you gotta follow rules [02:10.51] [02:12.46]You walk up to the traffic lights [02:14.61]You switch from your left to your right [02:16.25]You push in that button [02:17.76]And that button comes alight [02:19.32]And it's [02:20.46]Walk don't walk [02:21.42]Walk don't walk [02:22.50] [02:23.10]Talk don't talk [02:24.70]Talk don't talk [02:25.68] [02:26.34]Walk don't walk [02:27.32] [02:28.06]Walk don't walk [02:28.98] [02:29.71]Talk don't talk [02:31.37]Talk don't talk [02:32.44]Hey Billy take a walk [02:34.38]Take a walk [02:35.28]Take a walk [02:36.40]Billy take a walk [02:37.84]Take a walk [02:38.73]Take a walk [02:39.83]Billy take a walk [02:41.13]Take a walk [02:42.00]Take a walk [02:42.76]Hey Billy take a walk with me [02:46.78] [03:13.41]Well little Judy's trying to watch Top of the Pops [03:16.95]But mum and dad are fighting [03:18.69]Don't they ever stop [03:20.62]She takes off her coat and walks down to the street [03:23.89]It's cold on that road [03:25.41]But it's got that home beat [03:27.33]Deep down in her pocket she finds 50p [03:29.73] [03:30.71]Hey is that any way for a young girl to be [03:33.71]I'm gonna get out of school [03:35.40]Work in some factory [03:36.93]Work all the hours God gave me [03:39.34]Get myself a little easy money [03:41.59]Now now now na na [03:43.87] [03:47.82]Her mind's made up [03:49.30]She walks down the road [03:51.03]Her hands in her pockets [03:52.34]Coat buttoned against the cold [03:54.35]She finally finds Billy down at the Italian cafe [03:57.61]And when he's drunk it's hard to understand what Billy says [04:00.52]But then he mumbles in his coffee and he suddenly roars [04:04.17]It's a rat trap Judy and we've been caught