Roots Music Report

20 rats  

2:38

© 2022 Carla Ulbrich BMI 

ISRC: US-KMZ-21-0003

 

In the basement of the science lab studying addiction

The experiment was conclusive matching their prediction

Each one had two bottles, one with water one morphine

Twenty rats in twenty cages none of them stayed clean

 

Many times in many places the trial was replicated

Drugs as powerful as this should’ve never been created

We’ve got to keep them off the streets by every possible means

Twenty rats in twenty cages none of them stayed clean

 

I tried to warn these rats about how this would go

I told them use will power; just say no

I told them about their strung out friends and relatives I’d seen

But those twenty rats in twenty cages- none of them stayed clean

 

Then Doctor Alexander came onto the scene He said

“I’m looking at these rats. They’re disengaged.

These are social creatures trapped in isolation

The problem’s not the morphine- the problem is the cage”

 

He sprung them from confinement and gave them toys and space 

Lots of room to exercise and even room to mate

They still had two bottles one with water, one morphine

Those twenty rats free from their cages 

All of them stayed clean    

All of them stayed clean