"Rat Racin' 2020"

All sounds: Billy Beck

Lyrics:

It was a long dank summer
Through the gas they were gettin'
From all the gummers and
The rules that Mom was settin'
Couldn't buy a thing
Wasn't nothin' swingin'
All across the land from sea-to-sea

Anxiety and tension, sneakin' apprehension
Sideways lookin' and that's not to mention
What nobody knew but wouldn't stop
Guessin' away...

Flags flyin' high up & down the line
Most didn't know about half the time
What it's all about, all the scream & shout
Jumpin' up & down, all day long

[chorus]

You can find your own way if you want to
Everybody oughta make up their minds
Build yourself better and we might get together
And have a good time

There wasn't much of a way
On the road to the day
When the dawn broke high
In the Western sky
The line was all laid
The ride was all paid
With nothin' left to do but run it out

Just a means to an end
Without room to pretend
About how it all started
To buckle and bend
People went swayin'
Like a symphony playin'
On the fight side of history
A damned funny thing about 'the town square'
Ain't nothing good scrollin' down there
All those Twits and Instafaces
Rounded up in safe spaces

[chorus]

[bridge]

Workin' hard all day in a natural way
With a love for inspiration
And an eye for the truth
Here and there, everywhere
Tryin' to make it better in a modern world
But now the place is reelin'
With a deep, dark feelin':
Everybody's racin' a rat

[guitar]

That sunset was a thing to behold
Nobody knows the price that it tolled
Mom cookin' dinner, his budget gettin' thinner
Cryin' his blues out on the TV

Then the night fell in on the stupefied crowd
They had a Summer of Love in the streets downtown
Lordy what a party it was coming to
One fine day

It all went flyin' off the high-side
All the pieces landed on a lone outrider
Mommy couldn't take it, Daddy couldn't fake it
Kids boxed up in a safety zone

[chorus]