Name: City Of Rats
Duration: P00H03M26S
Description: Theme: Phrygian

City Of Rats

from Song A Week - Summer 2016 by Ben Below

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Theme: Phrygian

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Under the city in darkness they lurk
They live in the dark and the damp and the murk
For so long they've sat back, been baited and trapped
Once roamed the surface and they want it back

Rats!
They're under your floorboards
Rats!
They live in your street
Rats!
Whether paupers or lords
Rats!
Right under your feet

One at a time and they're harmless enough
When they come in packs then it starts to get tough
But when all move as one they can tear flesh from bone
The threat rose and drove people out of their homes

And so they came, and we left - like rats fleeing a sinking ship, or so the saying goes. But in this case, the rats were definitely not the ones doing the fleeing. The disease, the violence, it all became too much, as family after family fled for safer pastures. The most stubborn tried to stay of course, but none lasted. Every nook, every cranny, every shop, every building - all overrun. And so became the city of the rats.

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from Song A Week - Summer 2016, released August 27, 2016

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