White Picket Fence (The Rat Race)

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ © 2024 Adam Natoli all rights reserved. I'm happy for my work to be used, but please be polite and credit me for my writing or show that it's a remix of my original piece. Thank you 😊 [Man] We're all sold the same dream from a very young age... be a good person and jump in your cage... what's good is debatable, but the obligations we feel are always relatable... go to school and get a degree, then build a career to pay back that fee... go get married and have some kids... sacrifice your freedom as your consciousness rids... you of any remaining common sense... as you strive to achieve that white picket fence... [Woman] So, rat... rat... rattle along in the rat race... Follow the rules and keep up the pace... And be like everyone else to save face... Being openly different shouldn't be a disgrace... Don't let others dictate the dreams you should chase... Do-doo-doop-dee-dooo Do-doo-doop-dee-dooo We bounce... bounce... bounce around... without direction as the powerful pounce... pounce... pounce... stripped back to nothing, not even an ounce... [Man] You're targeted when you are young... before you're wise enough to challenge what's being sung... you become indebted to a hierarchy... before you even realise you've been trapped by the patriarchy... everything you have is now governed by someone higher... but they'll spin it on you to make you feel like the liar... they'll drain your brain... whilst depleting your heart of every last desire... So, rat... rat... rattle along in the rat race... Follow the rules and keep up the pace... And be like everyone else to save face... Being openly different shouldn't be a disgrace... Don't let others dictate the dreams you should chase... Do-doo-doop-dee-dooo Do-doo-doop-dee-dooo We bounce... bounce... bounce around... without direction as the powerful pounce... pounce... pounce... stripped back to nothing, not even an ounce... [Instrumental] [Change up] [Man with backing woman] So, rat... rat... rattle along in the rat race... Follow the rules and keep up the pace... And be like everyone else to save face... Being openly different shouldn't be a disgrace... Don't let others dictate the dreams you should chase... Do-doo-doop-dee-dooo Do-doo-doop-dee-dooo We bounce... bounce... bounce around... without direction as the powerful pounce... pounce... pounce... stripped back to nothing, not even an ounce...