Lyrics to
Rat Bat Blue

This version of Rat Bat Blue was released by Deep Purple in 1973.

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Hey baby, what you gonna do
When the lights go up on you ?
What’s your name, can I drive you home ?
Sweet woman, are you all alone ?
You’re the one for me
I’m gonna keep you busy as a bee, could bee, could be
Rat bat blue

Now, get up woman, don’t be slow
It’s getting late and I wanna go
No cause for acting big
Got to love, got to live
Stick around with me
I’m gonna show you things you never thought you’d see,
you see
Rat bat blue
You’re so fine

Get out ! You didn’t understand
I’m a hard loving man
No way you can satisfy
The way you look, the way you lie
And when you shut the door
Make sure I don’t see you ’round here no more
Rat bat blue
Alright

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About Lyrics and Rat Bat Blue by Deep Purple

When you decide to study the lyrics to Rat Bat Blue, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Deep Purple. Some of the lyrics to Rat Bat Blue have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Deep Purple and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Rat Bat Blue if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Rat Bat Blue" means the words set to the music of Rat Bat Blue, 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 Rat Bat Blue and the lyrics to Rat Bat Blue 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 Rat Bat Blue, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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