Pressed Rat And Warthog Lyrics

Lyric discussion by chuckeroo 

Cover art for Pressed Rat And Warthog lyrics by Cream

My friend Reed back in college in 1970 told me his dad told him that pressed rat was a term for hashish and that the song is about a head shop forced to close down by the heat in London.Best to not get too deep on the meaning unless you happen to be Ratty or Toad on acid!

Song Meaning

I always just took it to be, 2 hippies with niknames, pressed rat and wart hog, that ran a wierd head shop, and were left with no choice for some reason to leave their business. That's just the way I seen things happen around Georgetown in dc back in them days, so thats about all i seen in it, a great tune though, that i still love.