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lyrics

take the story of Rat who’s headed west
his buddy once told him he likes the girls there best
centuries of singers, men who pay their rent
waxing poetic of a woman’s innocence

rat was batshit and barely played a lick
he took to the highway high off headiness
he and his woman saw through an awful split
the road his only hope of falsifying it

come on come on come on down
come on come on down

the wheels will turn ur weary around

california calls him by his collar
his waves were ill behaved so now he doesn’t bother
shook the country from him like a cub clawing it’s father
couldn’t buy compassion cause it’d cost him 40 dollars

only thing that’s cheap
seems to be his dreams
even his defeat’s
costing him something

bargain bargain bargain bargain bargain bargain bargain
rat was eating trash out of the back of someone’s garden
what he wouldn’t give to eat some grits to start his morning
fascinated by the face of the woman who warms them

rat has made his bath
and this is one he’ll surely drown in
imitating tales of cowboy trails
and traveling men
hasn’t satisfied a single one of
his new women
the one he left alone is in their home
and busy hexin

come on come on come on home
come on come on home
at least she’ll probably bury your bones

country boys know better
than to leave that weather
they know
better
they know
better

and a country boy knows
that wherever he goes
it’ll show
it’ll show
it’ll show
it’ll show

come on come on come on down
come on come on down
bring our buddy rat back around

take the story of rat who headed west
his brain hallucinatin his ego in his chest
his friends they never told him it’d cost him close to death
at home his woman carves another kind of casket
the kind he gladly climbs
and closes himself in

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from Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love?, released April 14, 2023
Writer: Kara Jackson, Kaina Castillo, Nnamdï Ogbannaya, Sen Morimoto
Composer: Kara Jackson, Kaina Castillo, Nnamdï Ogbannaya, Sen Morimoto

Executive Producer: Kara Jackson, KAINA, Nnamdï, Sen Morimoto
Producer: KAINA, Nnamdï, Sen Morimoto
Musician credits: Kara Jackson, Kaina Castillo, Nnamdï Ogbannaya, Sen Morimoto
Programming: Kaina Castillo, Sen Morimoto
Violin: Macie Stewart
Guitar: Kara Jackson
Vocals: Kara Jackson
Vocal Engineer: Kaina Castillo, Nnamdï Ogbannaya, Sen Morimoto
Backing Vocals: Kara Jackson, Kaina Castillo, Nnamdï Ogbannaya, Sen Morimoto
Electric Guitar: Sen Morimoto
Piano: Sen Morimoto
Organ: Sen Morimoto
Bass: Nnamdï Ogbannaya
Percussion: Sen Morimoto
Lyricist credit: Kara Jackson
Performed by: Kara Jackson
Producer credits: Produced by KAINA, Nnamdï, Sen Morimoto
Mixing credit: Mixed by Jason Agel
Mastering credit: Mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC
Recorded by: Kaina Castillo, Nnamdï Ogbannaya, Sen Morimoto

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