Shed Reading (Rattus Norvegicus) (исполнитель: Black Flag)
I am Rattus Norvegicus. I’m sitting in some [bad word] hole rat’s nest and I’m a little angry. I wanted to be a talk show host-not a rat. You men think you have it bad with women? I’ve got it a lot worse let me tell you. What am I gonna say to some nice looking girl who I want to meet? I can tread water for over 36 hours? I can chew through lead pipes and cinderblocks? I [bad word] on telephone wires?! And what if I do get the girl home? Can’t fit her though the door-it’s too small. Yeah I got a lot of girls. How’d you like to have a tail that went through your body to drag around all the time?- Not my idea of fun by a long shot! And do you see the neighborhoods that I’m forced to live in? Those people live like pigs! Can’t catch the subway-they haven’t built it yet. Can’t catch the up-town bus I can’t reach the step-up. Hey taxi! And everyone, Wants to kill me, Feed me [bad word] and poison, Put electrodes in my head and make [bad word] on treadmills Dissect, bisect, and defect me. Biome, blind, mane and tame me. Are you folks crazy?! You never invite me to your parties as if I would really wanna go anyhow. Have you ever asked me to go to a movie? How ‘bout bowling? You ever seen a rat cry? I got tears. And I have a heart-and I got brains. If you could just see past the fur, I think that you would see That I’m a lot like you.