[Intro: Bob Geldof & Dustin]

(Listen, take this seriously)

(Yeah, well, Bob I've the utmost respect for yeh, right?

Just keep the high notes low, love this one)

[Verse 1: Bob Geldof & Dustin]

(Ah, Bob, please)

There was a lot of rocking going on that night (But you weren't playin')

Cruising time for the young bright lights

Just down past the gasworks by the meat factory door

You could see the Five Lamp boys were coming on strong

The Saturday night city beat had already started

And the pulse of the corner boys just sprang into action

And young Billy watched it under the yellow street light

And said "Tonight of all nights, therе's gonna be a fight" (Aggro!)

[Verse 2: Bob Geldof, Dustin & Bob Geldof and Dustin]

Billy don't like it living herе in this town

He says the traps have been sprung long before he was born

He says "Hope bites the dust behind all closed doors

And pus and grime ooze from its scab crusted sores" (Ugh!)

There's screaming and there's crying in the high rise blocks"

It's a rat trap, Billy, but you're already caught

But you can make it if you want to or you need it bad enough

You're young and good looking and you're acting kind of tough

[Chorus 1: Bob Geldof & Bob Geldof and Dustin]

Anyway, it's Saturday night time to see what's going down

Put on the bright suit, Billy, head for the right side of town

It's only 8 o'clock but you're already bored

You don't know what it is but there's got to be more

You'd better find a way out, hey, kick down that door

It's a rat trap and you've been caught

[Bridge: Bob Geldof, Dustin & Bob Geldof and Dustin]

(You don't write them like this anymore, Bob

In fact, your new stuffs brutal!)

"In this town," Billy says "Everybody tries to tell you what to do" (Right enough, Bob, I had the foreman on me all day)

"In this town," Billy says "Everybody says you gotta follow the rules" (Like takin' a bath now and again, Bob)

You walk up to those traffic lights, (Doot! Doot!) switch from your left to your right (Doot! Doot!)

You push in that button and that button goes alight

It says "Walk don't walk, walk don't walk

"Talk don't talk, talk don't talk"

"Walk don't walk, walk don't walk

"Talk don't talk, talk don't talk" (Who wrote this rubbish?)

Hey, Dustin, take a walk, take a walk, take a walk

Geldof, take a wash, take a wash, take a wash

Hey, Dustin, take a walk, take a walk, take a walk

Hey, Dustin, (Yeah?) take a walk with me

(Listen, Bob, if anyone's taking a walk here boss, it's you)

(This misery)

(Misery? You're the one hasn't stopped whingin' since yeh got here. Get up the yard! Ya smell of [?])

[Verse 3: Bob Geldof, Dustin & Bob Geldof and Dustin]

Oh, little Judy's trying to watch Top of the Pops

But Mum and Dad are fighting, don't they ever stop?

She takes down her coat and walks out to the street

It's cold on that road, but it's got that home beat

Deep down in her pocket, she finds 50p

Is that any way for a young girl to be?

"I'm think I'd get out of school, work in some factory

Work all the hours God gave me, get myself a little easy money"

Now, now, now

(What? Yeah two sugars please, Bono)

[Chorus 2: Bob Geldof, Dustin & Bob Geldof and Dustin]

Her mind's made up, she just walked down that road

Her hands in her pockets, coat buttoned against the cold

She finally finds Bill down at the Italian cafe

He's drunk, it's hard to understand what Billy says

But then he mumbles in his coffee and he suddenly roars

"It's a rat trap, Bob! And we've been caught"

(I meant to ask ya, as a friend like and all that, you know?

Do you have a mirror in your house?)

(No)

(You don't? Well you see ,it's just that. Look, I think I should tell ya

I think you've missed a few bits shavin'. Honestly, it looks like you've two big, long, black snots hangin' outta your nose

And you "Sir Bob" and all that. What?)

[Outro: Bob Geldof & Dustin]

Rat trap, you've been caught in a

Rat trap, you've been caught in a

Rat trap, you've been caught in a

Rat trap, you've been caught in a

Rat trap, you've been caught in a

Rat trap, you've been caught in a

Rat trap, you've been caught in a

Rat trap, you've been caught in a

Rat trap, you've been caught in a

Rat trap, you've been caught in a

Rat trap, you've been caught in a

Rat trap, you've been caught in a rat trap

(Rat trap and mouse trap in a hat flap

And you've been caught

It's Father's Day, I don't like Mondays

Rat trap, go on outta that Bob)