Someone's dad passed out in the street 

The wind-up key woker bees 

Buzz right on by 

At night he still lies 

There 'cos nobody cares 



Insects with briefcases ignore him  

Been lying here for days  

Not my problem, man  

Look man, this is new york 



Now the rats are coming to feed  

Every night they bring more and more of their friends  

Immune to rat poison, totally unafraid  

And this is a very special treat indeed  



They crawl up my pantleg / I'm too weak to move  

No one hears my cries as they start on my toes  

Their teeth are like razors as they gnaw at my hands  

It sure beats mcdonald's so get it while it lasts  



Chew  Devour  

Chew  Devour  

Chew  Devour  

Chew  Devour  



See the headline in the Post? 

No one helped that old man for a week  

They're homeless cos they wanna be  

Let's talk about sports  

Watch 'em tear that old building down  

On the way home  



But when a bulldozer pops the rubble like a pimple  

Volcanoes of rats swarm all over us like bees  

As big as a cat, not afraid to chase people  

Or nibble on the wipers and vinyl roofs of cars  



People are panicking, the cops have all fled  

A shotgun will only kill one at a time  

And it won't be the last time we run for our lives  

From those teeth sinking into our arms and legs  



Chew  Devour  

Chew  Devour  

Chew  Devour  

Chew  Devour  

Mmm Mmm Good  



City fathers see a bright future ahead  

Where the poor no longer exist  

Drive the neighborhood people away from their homes  

Paint 'em over and quadruple the rent  



Isolate the undesirables in places like Harlem  

Our sowetos without walls  

If they won't go away  

Cops smash their heads  

Like they did in Tompkins Square  



Those stories give me the creeps  

I hope I didn't miss that last train  

Some smart-ass plastered life-size pictures of rats  

On the walls of the subway station  

Funny joke  



It's so quiet down here  

It's a little too quiet down here  



Who's that across the tracks  

Smoldering eyes are glaring up at me  

Inching closer and closer, almost laughing out loud  

The train finally comes, but it won't even stop  



Not here, not tonight  

I'm off in an hour, I don't wanna get involved  

With some guy in a suit fighting rats off his face  

Just leave 'em to the night, they'll be gone the next day  



Chew  Devour  

Chew  Devour 

Chew  Devour 

Chew  Devour