"Rat Race"

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LYRICS

Everybody's running not me I’m walking
Taking my sweet time
Winners are losing and the losers are forgotten
The beginning is the end of the line
495, 128 and the Mass Pike is backed up to the Allston Tolls
The rats are racing moving into the city
Filling up their concrete holes

Everybody is gambling at the Wall Street casino
Lay the money down on the techs and bio-meds
Ain’t it so hard when the ball lands on black
All your chips were on red
5 o’clock pm its time to call it quits again
Dash to the exit door
The rats are racing moving out of the city
Just like the night before

Johnny used to be a young man with dreams
Followed someone else’s instead
Now he is just a piece of the machine
Growing old in a hole and can’t get out of his head
Johnny used to be a young man with dreams
Followed his fathers instead
Now he is just a piece of the machine
Growing old in a hole he mine as well be dead

Everybody locks the doors to the beautiful prisons
From the outside all the condos look the same
Mr. Jones bought a brand new car ya need more money
Gotta play he keep up game
Another big meaningless meeting starts in the morning
Get to bed early and be to work on time
The rats will be racing and moving into the city
I’m going the other way and taking what’s mine