Lyrics to
Road Rats

This version of Road Rats was released by Alice Cooper in 1977.

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We work this band ’cause they make it rock,
but we’re the guys that make it roll.
We move the drums and amps and junk.
Road rats…
we’re a pack,
and the road’s our home.
On the road half my young man’s life.
I spend a lot of time;
ain’t got no bread to show for it.
Road rats…
all the cash spent on whites and wine.
We’re the men behind the man.
We’re the backbone muscle clan.
We do a thousand one night stands.
If the stars can make it,
if the band can shake it,
well, if those guys can take it,
we can,
yeah.
We work this band ’cause they make it rock,
but we’re the guys that make it roll.
We move the drums and amps and junk.
Road rats…
we’re a pack,
and the road’s our home.
Road rats…
we’re a pack,
and the road’s our home.
Road rats…
we’re a pack,
and the road’s our home.
Road rats…
we’re a pack,
and the road’s our home.
We’re the men behind the man.
We’re the backbone muscle clan.
We do a thousand one night stands.
If the stars can make it,
if the band can shake it,
well, if those guys can take it,
we can,
yeah.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Road Rats, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Alice Cooper. Some of the lyrics to Road Rats have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Alice Cooper and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Road Rats 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 Road Rats" means the words set to the music of Road Rats, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Alice Cooper. 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 Road Rats and the lyrics to Road Rats are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Alice Cooper who came here looking just for the lyrics to Road Rats, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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