The Rat's Prayer Releases Gigs Lyrics

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Author
Robyn Hitchcock
According to our records, Robyn has played this song 16 times, most recently at The Penthouse on May 04, 1979. He first performed it at Alma on August 28, 1978, 8 months earlier.
Title Artist Label Type Year
A Can of Bees The Soft Boys Two Crabs Music Album 1979
The Soft Boys 1976-1981 The Soft Boys Rykodisc Album 1993
Rout Of The Clones The Soft Boys Bootleg 1995
Venue Billed As City State Country Date
Alma The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 08/28/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 09/15/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 10/06/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 10/14/1978
London College of Printing The Soft Boys London England UK 10/19/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 10/20/1978
Rock Garden The Soft Boys London England UK 10/27/1978
Downing College, Cambridge University The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 10/28/1978
Leicester University The Soft Boys Leicester England UK 11/21/1978
Eric's The Soft Boys Liverpool England UK 11/25/1978
Rock Garden The Soft Boys London England UK 12/22/1978
Sidney Sussex College The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 01/26/1979
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 03/03/1979
UCL (University College London) The Soft Boys London England UK 03/05/1979
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 03/24/1979
The Penthouse The Soft Boys Scarborough England UK 05/04/1979

Lyrics

I believe in all or nothing
Sometimes in the early morning
I believe in anything

Hungry for the dusty war cries
Hiding from a line of cat's eyes
I believe in Natty Dread

When the gods have shaved and spoken
Soft farewells to spin unbroken
Leaves to match the newly dead

From eye to eye the tumult gathers
Victims work into a lather
Take us with you when you go

Up the trap door
Down the sewer
Off the slat shot shut they trossed
Like a horn in ragged water
And slitting up the slot spot cut

From wall to world the end is never
Odd or strange or even clever
Cleave it with an iron slice

While Cook's below the frothing cinders
Mend the skull of old Belinda
Thudding on a bulb of ice

Here is love and here is cancer
Cleanest velvet for the mince event
To comes your aching teeth

Rot the skin of past and future
Tiny leads are bound to suture
When they show through underneath

Roar the waves so close and hollow
A tide that must be satisfied
Foam is fertilizing
Rotting cleansing of the valiant rat