When you were King Rat (lyric)

Do you remember the time you said you'd set the school on fire?
Well I believed what you told me, so it became true for a while
Down by the railway line with stories of a girl from art school
And how you posed for her paintings and I asked, 'does she have any friends too?'

I remember when you were King Rat
I remember, what became of that?

You were the talented one when it came to TROUBLE
Something that we'd heard about you said you'd taken double
A borrowed car and some lines, they both went much too fast
I said 'I know where we're going,' but some things aren't meant to last

I remember when you were King Rat
I remember, what became of that?

Do YOU remember?

Do you remember the times we said we'd set the world on fire
But now we pick up the pieces from afternoons planning ways to end in style

I remember when you were King Rat
I remember, what became of that?

(c) 2007 the scissors

Picture of preserved Ratten Koenig at the Mauritianum Musuem in Altenburg, Germany courtesy Wikipedia