Rat Race

Album: Single Release Only (2013)
Charted: 77
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  • My heart beats in my head and it's thunderous
    Those caught in the rat race plunder us
    They know what's best for us
    They know what's best for us

    Gotta keep up, gotta get ahead
    Gotta go and get a job and work 'til I'm dead
    They know what's best for us
    They know what's best for us

    And I'm thinking that they must have missed the point
    Hold on, we just hold on for an exit
    And I'm thinking that they must have missed the point
    Hold on, we just hold on for an exit

    Out to defeat, out to defeat everyone
    Out to deceive, out to deceive anyone
    They know what's best for us
    They know what's best for us

    Who holds the master key givin' to authority (WHAT?)
    I don't know, it's a foul monstrosity
    They know what's best for us
    They know what's best for us

    And I'm thinking that they must have missed the point
    Hold on, we just hold on for an exit
    And I'm thinking that they must have missed the point
    Hold on, we just hold on for an exit

    You see the purpose of the rat race defeats me
    When we're gone what's left behind?
    But there seems to be no end or reason
    Yet we still carry on

    You see the purpose of the rat race defeats me
    When we're gone what's left behind?
    But there seems to be no END

    When you finally reach the front of the pack
    There's nothing there, just and endless barren track
    It goes on and on
    It goes on and on

    You know what?
    Let's get disqualified!
    Let's get disqualified!
    And I'm thinking that they must have missed the point
    Hold on, we just hold on for an exit
    And I'm thinking that they must have missed the point
    Hold on, we just hold on for an exit Writer/s: CHRIS BATTEN, LIAM RORY CLEWLOW, ROBERT ROLFE, ROUGHTON REYNOLDS
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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