King Rat
Modest Mouse

Well!
Well!
Well!
Well!

We spun like birds on fire right down towards the residence and I
I took all that I desired, even crooks have to pay the rent.
We swam like rats on fire right, right down the reservoir
We took all that we could carry but we tried to carry more.

And you know you know you know it all went wrong.
And you know you know you know it was all wrong.

We choked on street tap water well I'm gonna have to try the real thing
I took your laugh by the collar and it knew not to swing.
Anytime I tried an honest job well the till had a hole and ha-ha
We laughed about payin' rent 'cause the county jails they're free.

And you know you know you know it all went wrong.
And you know you know you know it was all wrong.

Deep water, deep water
Senseless denial
I went down like a rag doll as you would, child
Deep water, deep water
Senseless denial
I went down like a rag doll as you would, child

Oh, lucky lucky lucky lucky me again.
I said it looks like I've got to use my feet again
Well I just spent my last one-hundred dollars
God I'll pay my bill again

Oh, I don't care
Oh, how I just don't care.

Deep water, deep water
Senseless denial
I went down like a rag doll shooken and shy
Deep water, deep water
Senseless denial
I went down like a rag doll rat of a child

Well King rat has me on his list again
I can never be on the fence again
I found out it's all loud
Open like an organ and it
Talk, talk, talk, talk again
He promised me that when I cheated him
But I could open my eye well

Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky,
Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky me again.

Deep water, deep water
This senseless denial
I got fed like a fish, full of open smiles
Blue water, deep water
Oh senseless denial
I got fed like a fish on the cardboard smiles

Well well
What do you have to say for yourself?
I said, well well
Well?
I said well, well, well, well!

Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky me again.
I hardly knew I should use my feet again
What do you have to say for yourself?
What do you have to say for yourself?


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  3 Inch horses, Two Faced Monsters   3rd Planet   3rd Planet [Radio Edit][#][*][Version]   5-4-3-2-1 Lipsoff   5-4-3-2-1... Lips Off   5-4-3-2-1... Lisp Off   A Different City   A Life of Arctic Sounds   A Life Of Artic Sounds   A Manic Depressive Named Laughing Boy   All Night Diner   All Nite Diner   Alone Down There   Ansel   Austral Opithecus   Australopithecus   Autumn Beds   Baby Blue Sedan   Bankrupt On Selling   Be Brave   Beach Side Property   Beta Carotene   Birds v. Worms   Birds Vrs Worms   Birds Vs. Worms   Black Blood and Old New Agers   Black Cadillacs   Blame It on the Tetons   Blame Yourself   Breakthrough   Broke   Broke (Interstate 8)   Bukowski   Bury Me With It   Buttons to Push the Buttons   Calculus Man   Call to Dial a Song   Classy Plastic Lumber   Convenient Parking   Cowboy Dan   Coyotes   Crazy Gnome   Custom Concern   Custom Concern [BBC Radio 1 Session Version][#][*]...   Dance Hall   Dark Center Of The Universe   Dark Centre Of The Universe   Dashboard   Dead End Job At The Dead Letter Office   Dig Your Grave   Dirty Fingernail   Dirty Fingernails   Dog Paddle   Doin' The Cockroach   Doin\' The Cockroach   Doin' The Cockroach   Dramamine   Duke's Up   Duke's Up   Dukes Up   Edit the Sad Parts   Education   Every Penny Fed 'ar   Every Penny Fed ar   Every Penny Fed Car   Exit Does Not Exist   Feelings   Fire It Up   Float On   Florida   Fly Trapped In A Jar   Follow Through   Four Fingered Fisherman   Four Leaf Clover   From California to Houston (with The Six Parts Sev...   From Point A to Point B   Fruit   Fruit That Ate Itself   God is an Indian and You're an Asshole   Gravity Rides Everything   Grey Ice Water   Guilty Cocker Spaniels   Head South   Heart Cooks Brain   Heart of Mine   Here It Comes   History Sticks to Your Feet   Horn Intro   Humpin Pumpklin   Humpin' Pumpklin   Humpin' Pumpklin   I Came As A Rat   I Came As A Rat (Long Walk Off A Short Dock)   I've Got It All (Most)   I've Got It All (Most)   Interlude (Milo)   Interstate 8   Introduction   Invisible   It Always Rains on a Picnic   Jesus Christ Was An Only Child   Karma's Payment   Karma\'s Payment   Karma's Payment   Lampshades on Fire   Leaflets Gabe   Life Like Weeds   Little Motel   Lives   Long Distance Drunk   Lounge   Lounge (Closing Time)   Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds   Make Everyone Happy\/Mechanical Birds   March Into The Sea   Medication   Mice Eat Cheese   Might   Missed The Boat   Monkey   My Fault   Nappy Heads (Remix) *   Needlepoint   Neverending Math Equation   Night On The Sun   Nothin\' New   Nothing New   Novocain Stain   Novocaine Stain   Ocean Breathes Salty   Ocean Breathes Salty (Alternate Version)   Ohio   One Chance   Other People's Lives   Other People's Lives   Other Peoples Lives   Out Of Gas   Paper Thin Walls   Parasites Will be Excited When You're Dead   Parasites Will Be Excited When You're Dead   Parting Of The Sensory   Path of Least Resistance   People As Places As People   People We Know   Perfect Disguise   Perfect Disguise (BBC Radio Session)   Perpetual Motion Machine   Pistol   Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL. 1996)   Poison the Well   Polar Opposites   Positive Negative   Pups To Dust   Race Car Grin You Ain't No Landmark   Race Car Grin You Ain't No Landmark   Recharge   Red Hand Case   Satellite Skin   Satin in a Coffin   Secret Agent X-9   Secret Angent X-9   She Ionizes And Atomizes   She Ionizes Atomizes   Shit In Your Cut   Shit Luck   Sin Gun Chaser   Sleepwalking   So Much Beauty In Dirt   Some Seek Stardom   Space Travel Is Boring   Spitting Venom   Steam Engenius   Styrafoam Boots\/it's All Nice   Styrofoam Boots / It's All Nice On Ice, Alright   Styrofoam Boots / It's All Nice On Ice, Alrig...   Styrofoam Boots / Its All Nice On Ice, Alright   Styrofoam Boots \/ It's All Nice On Ice, Alright   Styrofoam Boots/It\'s All Nice On Ice   Sucker Bet   Sucker Betru   Summer   Sunspots   Sunspots In The House Of The Last Scapegoat   Sunspots In The House Of The Late Scapegoat   Sweater   Swy   Talkin Shit About A Pretty Sunset   Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset   Teeth Like God's Shoeshine   Teeth Like God\'s Shoeshine   Teeth Like God's Shoeshine   The Tortoise and the Tourist   The Air   The Best Room   The Beta Carotene   The Cold Part   The Devils Workday   The Fruit That Ate Itself   The Good Times Are Killing Me   The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box   The Parasites Will Be Excited When Youre Dead   The Stars Are Projectors   The View   The Waydown   The Whale Song   The World at Large   Think Long   Third Planet   This Devil's Workday   This Devils Workday   This Is Real Life (Untitled Demo)   Three Inch Horses, Two Faced Monsters   Tiny Cities Made Of Ash   Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes   Too Many Fiestas for Reuben   Trailer Trash   Trailer Trash - Modest Mouse   Trailer Trash/Ice on the Sheets   Trucker's Atlas   Trucker's Atlas   Truckers Atlas   Tunda Desert   Tundra/Desert   Tundra\/Desert   TundraDesert   Ugly Casanova   Ugly Cassanova   Wagon Ride Return   Way Down   We've Got Everything   We\'ve Got Everything   We\u2019ve Got Everything   We've Got Everything   Whale Song   What People Are Made Of   Whenever I Breath Out   Whenever I Breath Out, You Breath In (Positive, Ne   Whenever I Breathe Out   Whenever I Breathe Out, You Breathe In (Positive/N...   Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In (Positive/N...   Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In (Positive\/...   Whenever You See Fit   White Lies, Yellow Teeth   Wicked Campaign   Wild Pack Of Family Dogs   Willful Suspension Of Disbelief   Wood Grain   Workin On Leavin The Livin   Workin' On Leavin' The Livin'   Working On Leaving The Living   World at Large   Worms vs. Birds   Wrong Decision   You'll See   You're The Good Things   You're The Good Things (It's Alright To Die)   You're The Good Things   Your Life   Youre The Good Things

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