The Rat Age Lyrics - Tooth Of Crime - T Bone Burnett

I was conceived in a behavior station 

Light years from civilization 

I was born in oblivion 

Half Balinese half Libyan 

My father was a vector 

My mother was a specter 

As earthmen battle for their skins 

I come down with the aliens 

Is this not the rat age 

The demented Photostat age 

The time of no room 

We've broken the genetic code 

And left it bleeding by the road 

Where murderers loom 

You've changed your face you've changed your scent 

You've even changed your fingerprint 

Image is anything 

But with all this electricity 

You can't change your publicity 

The lies the many sing 

Down in the greed plex 

Under a spike of light 

Stop at the slave port 

Enter the death resort 

No stimulation 

Nothing but mono thought 

Re simulation 

Depop but don't get caught 

I dream to surf the rodeocean 

Negotiate meaning with no emotion 

If the kill is clean your still got time 

To hone evil on the tooth of crime 

I'm sober on the grapes of wrath 

While running down the psycho path 

Is this not a cruel world 

Good morning little school girl 

It's the rat age.