Lyrics to
Flight Of The Rat

Released by Deep Purple in 1970
From the Album: Deep Purple In Rock |

This version of Flight Of The Rat was released by Deep Purple in 1970.

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Spread the word around
The rat is leaving town
The message is a song
The misery is gone

Once I had a dream
To sing before the queen
She didn’t want to know
She wouldn’t see the show

What a fright
I couldn’t do it right
Oh what a night

Mystic demons fly
All about the sk
With memories of a clown
The saddest show in town

When I was seventeen
Me mother said to me
Be careful what you touch
You shouldn’t take so much

I blew my mind
She was so kind
I could have cried

In my mind
I had to fin
A kind of new way
Of being oh so cool
Like a blue blooded
Well studded
English fool

Speak about the past
Times are changing fast
Once I was so weak
I couldn’t even speak

Shaking put a curse
Nothing could be worse
Walking through the door
Who could ask for more

Now I’m free
And I can see
That I am me

Spread the word around
The rat is leaving town
The message is a song
The misery is gone

Shaking out a curse
Nothing could be worse
Walking through the door
Who could ask for more

Now I’m free
And I can see
That I am me

Please stay away


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About Lyrics and Flight Of The Rat by Deep Purple

The lyrics for Flight Of The Rat are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1970 song by Deep Purple. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Flight Of The Rat have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Flight Of The Rat - Deep Purple and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

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If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Flight Of The Rat by Deep Purple in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Flight Of The Rat" means the words set to the music of Flight Of The Rat, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Deep Purple. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Flight Of The Rat and the lyrics to Flight Of The Rat are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Deep Purple who came here looking just for the lyrics to Flight Of The Rat, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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