Rancid - Rats In The Hallway lyrics

I'm gonna win

I'll take you out in a minute

Step in my flat see what's in it

I live in the land of the welfare state

My flat used to be section P

Now it's a rat infested cocaine run

My whole world plays like a broken drum

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Drunken bum

Rats in the hallway again

Set up get put go away & ride away

Sit up our bed up your bed to lay

Kick up our rip up this place apart

Even when I finish I'm back at the start

I'm out of line on Adeline St. heat

Don't keep this crooked beat

4 A.M. no waves breakin'

What's left of the P.M. the A.M. has taken

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Outside my gate my crew is drinking a 40 oz.

They asked me if there's still rats in the hallway

I said some things ain't like the weather

They never change for the better

This girl came up to me

She said she would do me no harm

Rolled up her sleave and showed me the tracks on her arm

I said, "What's your name?" she said "I'm Mya."

She said "Tim I wanna take you higher."

Junkie drunken bum

Rats in the hallway again

Zombie walking kid out on his own with no moral

Mr. High leave the body

In comes Mr. Withdrawal

Pain is the only thing the body will allow

The kid wants to dance

The gangster knows how

Johnny bought some shit down on Market St.

Shoot up boot up the human target

He hit the dirty spike when he hit the scene

It's easy to stay dirty when nothing is clean

Johnny's a writer who tags up jackal

Jackel just clamped on unclampable shackles

Rout up Shoot up some dope to go like legal currency

It's money it's like that rat tat tat

Kid got shot point blank in the back

My land lord said not to be bumming

He was a cocaine stoop and he had it coming

He was only 12 years old

He was in the blizzard

He got shot for being cold

It don't seem right

Tonight hit the lights alright

Watch the roaches run into the darkest room

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