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Getting Into Knives |
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October 23, 2020 |
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Length |
4:09 |
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Rat Queen is the 10th song on the album Getting Into Knives. It also appears as the 14th song on the 2021 live album The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volumes 3 and 4.
Lyrics[]
Meek subjects by torchlight come to pay their respects As foretold by the ancient texts Line snaking down the sewer Reverent hush upon the crowd One by on we approach The figure in the shroud New dreams New dreams for the rat queen New dreams New dreams for the rat queen Great warm throbbing hum of the undercity At one with the purpose I am a faceless, nameless acolyte Here tonight at your service Take my visions, make them real Impose them on the world above All the dead sleepwalkers Who never learned how to love New dreams New dreams for the rat queen New dreams New dreams for the rat queen Brand new dreams, great visions Something heady and threatening On the boil in the kitchen Arise from the storm-drains, take to the streets We who've never once tasted the stench of defeat Victory sweet as the dregs of the fast-food dumpster Look how they jump when we show up Like they've just seen a monster New dreams New dreams for the rat queen New dreams New dreams for the rat queen
Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]
- "Alright, so I'm back over here at Guitar Station and we're trying to get our act together with Mr. Chris Boerner, who plays all over 'Getting Into Knives.' He's on Bell Swamp Connection, he's on Picture of My Dress; he's on this song, which is about, uh, the church, at which he and I met where we, uh, engaged in weekly, very ardent and ecstatic worship of the Rat Queen. This is called, 'Rat Queen.'" -- 2021-04-18 - The Jordan Lake Sessions - Pittsboro, NC
Things Referenced in this Song[]
Live Shows this Song Was Played at[]
- 2021-04-18 - The Jordan Lake Sessions - Pittsboro, NC
- 2021-08-08 - Saturn - Birmingham, AL
- 2021-08-18 - The Black Sheep - Colorado Springs, CO
Videos of this Song[]
| Getting Into Knives |
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Track list: "Corsican Mastiff Stride" • "Get Famous" • "Picture of My Dress" • "As Many Candles As Possible" • "Tidal Wave" • "Pez Dorado" • "The Last Place I Saw You Alive" • "Bell Swamp Connection" • "The Great Gold Sheep" • "Rat Queen" • "Wolf Count" • "Harbor Me" • "Getting Into Knives" |
| The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volumes 3 and 4 |
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| Track list: "In the Craters on the Moon" • "Letter from Belgium" • "Woke Up New" • "Pez Dorado" • "Picture of My Dress" • "Whole Wide World" • "Dark in Here" • "Korean Bird Paintings" • "Snow Owl" • "Against Pollution" • "The Last Place I Saw You Alive" • "In Memory of Satan" • "Bell Swamp Connection" • "Rat Queen" • "Shelved" • "Sax Rohmer #1" • "This Year" • "Have to Explode" • "Game Shows Touch Our Lives" • "Until Olympius Returns" • "The Young Thousands" • "Corsican Mastiff Stride" • "Blood Capsules" • "Hair Match" • "Solidarity Forever" • "Soft Targets" • "Black Pear Tree" • "Wolf Count" • "Never Quite Free" • "Wild Sage" • "Jazz No Children" • "Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod" • "Exegetic Chains" • "Going Invisible 2" |