last night was all flashbulbs and flat bills
the basement got swallowed by turntables and hollow pills
the vets got calloused and the chameleons got clean
we were left smoldering in the burning pre-dawn gleam
it's so easy to forget / it's so easy to submit
we go belly up in the slow sick tidal pull
rotting out the ebb and flow
I'm smelling rats
we ran away laughing from brick-splattered windows
we got levitated high / we got crippled low
we bled out on all those swollen streets
we made lovers in the cold concrete sheets
it's so easy to forget / it's so easy to submit
we go belly up in the slow sick tidal pull
rotting out the ebb and flow
I'm smelling rats