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I Just Want To Eat At The Rat All Day

April 2, 1986
Sung to "I Just Want To Bang On The Drum All Day"
by Todd Rundgren


I don't wanna work, I just wanna eat at the Rat all day!
I don't wanna play, I just wanna eat at the Rat all day!

When I go there while I am at school
I don't mean to stare and I don't mean the drool
See the burger with the texture of wood
And don't you know I'd eat it if I thought could

I don't wanna work, I just wanna eat at the Rat all day!
I don't wanna play, I just wanna eat at the Rat all day!

Order some french fries cold as ice
With a rat-on-a-stick wouldn't it be nice
Or order a pizza with extra cement
don't you wonder why your teeth don't make a dent
I tell ya...
I don't wanna work, I just wanna eat at the Rat all day!
I don't wanna play, I just wanna eat at the Rat all day!

Now with the lettuce so brown and the cheese so green
Wonder why the FDA ain't on the scene
The feds would rush in with their badges and things
And be run back out the door by the onion rings

I smell ya...
I don't wanna work, I just wanna eat at the Rat all day!
I don't wanna play, I just wanna eat at the Rat all day!

(repeat ad naseum)

©1986 James (Gary) Geniesse


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