Dead Confederate – The Rat

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  Source: deadconfederate.com
  
  Shoot from the back
  Take good aim
  Make sure I'm dead
  Bang! Bang!
  
  Cause I'm The Rat
  No mistake
  Under the bed
  Where you sleep
  
  Crush the skull
  Make me tame
  Sweep it up
  Hide it away
  
  No moral shown
  No explain
  Stupid human
  Shit for brains
  
  Draw tiny pictures round all the dead leaves
  Bag and burn, Bang! Bang!
  
  Float your judgements across the breeze
  Bag and burn, Bang! Bang!
  
  Live inside your Jesus dream
  Bag and burn, Bang! Bang!
  
  Get some sleep
  Lie in wait
  Until the day
  I burn away
  
  Forget the cause
  Present the case
  Bring me down
  Lose your worth
  
  I'll follow you
  To the grave
  At the gates
  I see the passing saved
  
  The judge be judged
  The wretched be saved
  You throw a curse
  Across your name
  
  Draw tiny pictures round all the dead leaves
  Float your judgments across the breeze
  Watch them float off to never be seen
  You live inside your Jesus dream

  Flag King Koopaon March 14, 2011   Link

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  My Interpretation:I think it's about evangelists that attack people with Bibles and make judgments without showing any of the compassion and love that the Word says they need. After so long of being attacked for believing differently, they begin to see it in black and white: me against them. This happened to an atheist friend of mine, and it took forever to win him back.
  
  'Cause I'm a rat
  there's no mistake
  Under the bed
  where you sleep
  
  Crush the skull
  make me tame
  Sweep it up
  Hide it away
  
  No morals shown
  in no way explained
  Stupid human
  Shit for brains
  
  "I'm a rat" meaning the author feels demonized. "Crush the skull, make me tame" meaning he won't be 'broken' by ideology. "No morals shown, in now way explained; stupid human, shit for brains" meaning some people call unbelievers stupid for not seeing what (for them) is obvious. "Bag and burn" would be likening it to a hunt; bag 'em, but then they're useless, having no independent thought.
  
  Throw your judgments
  across the breeze
  Watch them float off
  to never be saved
  
  When you attack someone and judge them like that, they won't turn. They'll just hate you, and for good reason.

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  General Comment:jeez and *best! sry guys

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  General Comment:*the

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  General Comment:Stupid human
  Shit for brains
  beat line! i love this song!
  I love teh timing it's slow and
  deliberate.

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  General Comment:I just heard of these guys and they are excellent! Another horribly unknown but shockingly awesome song by these guys is "Get Out" which is shockingly not on their debut LP but was included upon their self-titled E.P. Awesome songs.

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  General Comment:Lyric corrections:
  
  "And draw tiny pictures 'round all the days"
  Should be:
  "And draw tiny pictures around the dead leaves"
  
  "Get some sleep or lie in wait
  Until the day I run away"
  Should be:
  "Get some sleep or lie in wake
  Until the day I burn away"
  
  "The judge be judged, and all the rich be saved."
  Should be:
  "The judge be judged, and all the wretched be saved."
  
  "I throw my curse all across your days"
  Should be:
  "I throw my curse all across your name"

  Flag ScottyD620on March 09, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:Way I see the song is that someone did something bad in their life and then used the Jesus crutch to say that they were saved despite doing it. Bag and burn to conceal your sins and judge others that aren't religious. The rat is the person that saw the person do what they did so they need to bury them so they don't tell anyone of what they've done. "Get some sleep or lie in wake" could be saying that the guilt of the person keeps them up at night. Then when they die the rat will throw the curse of what the other did to make sure he pays for what he has done.
  
  I explained that really bad but hope you understood it

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  General Comment:"You live inside your Jesus dream" is the best line from this song by far.
  I think its about people and how we "throw all our judgments across the breeze" by killing the rats and sweeping up the dead leaves to bag and burn them. People pretend to believe in God, but they're killing the world to make it more convenient for them, which is the "Jesus dream" part.
  Its probably way off, but that's all I could make of it.

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  General Comment:I love the whole feel of this song and speaking from the rats point of view is really cool. I think the the part that says "I see the passing say" should actually be "I see the passing Saints" and also "all the rich be saved" should be "all the rats should be saved"

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