FLIGHT OF THE RAT (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)

 

 Spread the word around

 The rat is leaving town

 The message is a song

 The misery is gone

 Oh, yes he did.

 

 Once I had a dream

 To sing before the queen

 She didn't want to know

 She wouldn't see the show

 

 What a fright

 I couldn't do it right

 Oh what a night,

 Oh what a sight.

 

 Mystic demons fly

 All about the sky

 With memories of a clown

 The saddest show in town, oh yes.

 

 When I was seventeen

 Me mother said to me

 Be careful what you touch

 You shouldn't take so much.

 

 I blew my mind

 She was so kind

 I could have cried, oh no.

 

 In my mind

 I had to find

 A kind of new way

 Of being oh so cool

 Like a blue blooded

 Well studded

 English fool

 

 Speak about the past

 Times are changing fast

 Once I was so weak

 I couldn't even speak

 Not a word.

 

 Shaking put a curse-

 Nothing could be worse

 Walking through the door

 Who could ask for more?

 

 Now I'm free

 And I can see,

 And I am me,

 Yes I am free

 

 Spread the word around -

 The rat is leaving town

 The message is a song

 The misery is gone

 

 Shaking out a curse

 Nothing could be worse

 Walking through the door

 Who could ask for more

 

 Now I'm free

 And I can see,

 And I am me,

 Yes I am free

 

 Please stay away!