The Rat Age - Lyrics - T Bone Burnett

Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett is an American musician, songwriter, and soundtrack and record producer. He was a touring guitarist in Bob Dylan's band on the Rolling Thunder Revue. After the tour ended, Burnett and two other members of the backing band formed The Alpha Band, followed by his first solo album in 1980.

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.