Rats and Rats and Rats for Candy Lyrics
Oh, Candy! (Yeah!) Oh, Candy! (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!)
Behind her teeth fifteen rats started screaming and sobbing.
Candy Girl! (Yeah!) Candy Girl! (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!)
those rodent's smoked cigars.
In her throat! (Yeah!) They're blowing smoke! (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!)
Oh, Candy! (Yeah!) I have to go! (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!)
They're just sick, and they need a bed lined with fine lace.
There's thorns growing in our bones!
Our hunger is X-Rated.
Oh, Mother, we love you so.
you say "it's getting awfully late"
and then she sticks onto you,
her clothes fall off,
and she pushes into you.
But those rats have chewed a hole straight through.
Her navel (yeah!) her nipple! (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.)
Oh, Candy! I've got to go!
These rats are not living inside my hotel face,
they are just sick, and need a bed lined with fine lace.
We're coughing up needles and nails!
Our veins are flowing with barbed wire!
Oh, Mother, we are so frail!
But wait! We've got a trick for him.
We'll twist tears into shit eaten grins.
You find yourself alone in Candy's bed.
And everything is gone.
The paintings, jewels, and songs.
But, Candy's blowing in the breeze.
The rats devoured her up, in her sleep, oh.
Her skins tied to the bed post,
like a flag on a ship of ghosts.
You read the letter on the dresser, oh-oh.
The sick brown sun rubbing in your soul.
You should have seen through our fake broken bones.
Our tears that were razor sharpened,
were calculated to rob you blind.
I saw those rats on a bicycle(bicycle)
they crept by me and started bawling:
their eyes turned to icicles(icicles)
"ohhh-nooo we need a vacancy."
I think it's interesting that nobody has mentioned the line "you know that pity's got an ugly pricetag."
Candy is showing pity on the rats, and she pays for this with her life, as well as all of her belongings.
I don't think this song has anything to do with disease, at least not in the literal sence. I also doubt that Candy is a prostitute, or a slut, or anything other than a kind person who makes the mistake of showing pity on the wrong people (or in this case the wrong rodents).
After taking all that Candy has to offer them, the rats move on to find a new victim. Mr. Howell sees the rats riding a bicycle (he is not riding it) and they are screaming "we need a vacancy!" They are looking for someone else like Candy who will show pity on them and ultimately be consumed by them.
This is exactly it. It is a portrait of America, the ticks and the people who let them. (Read a lot of Ayn Rand so makes sense to me)
This is exactly it. It is a portrait of America, the ticks and the people who let them. (Read a lot of Ayn Rand so makes sense to me)
This is a very clever song with many layers of metaphors and it isn't about Candy at all, the song is about Mr. Howell.
In one metaphor, Candy is a sex doll and the rats are both literal rats that have eaten "a hole in her navel," but they also represent Mr. Howell's self pity. In a deeper metaphor, Candy is a prostitute and the rats are her STDs.
"Candy Girl" is the name of a high end Japanese sex doll. "a door on her thighs" refers to the openings built into the doll that are used to clean it.
Mr. Howell is lonely and craves human interaction. Full of self pity, he buys Candy (the doll, or the hooker). The ugly price tag is the $7,000 (according to Wikipedia) that the doll costs, and the STDs you get from having sex with a prostitute.
In both metaphors, Candy is used up, in poor shape, and has little value other than as an object to have sex with. Mr Howell recognizes that Candy is not the deep human connection that he craves. Howell want more than sex, and struggles with an internal conflict in which he chooses meaningless, superficial (and potentially dangerous) sex over the pain of loneliness.
The lines about the rats "not living inside her face" allude to the fact that he doesn't truly desire Candy, but he is settling for her/it temporarily.
The rats are not calling Candy "mother." When they say "mother" they are referring to Mr. Howell. Everything that Candy is, exists only in Mr. Howells imagination. The imaginary dinner he is having with this doll so that he can feel less lonely, for example.
The shit eating grin refers to the face one makes during orgasm.
After the imaginary date is over, he's satisfied his sexual urges, wakes up the next morning and everything he'd imagined the night before is gone ("the paintings, the jewels, the songs") and he is back in reality.
His regret and disgust are alluded to in the letter the rats left for him to read the next morning (addressing him as Mother again). We know the letter is for him because Candy is essentially gone at this point. In the other metaphor, the Prostitute robs him.
Three weeks later he starts to feel the same desires and self pity. This is when he sees the rats on a bicycle, screaming for a vacancy, or in other words, someone or something he can direct his superficial desires towards. This is when the cycle continues.
That is why Candy is both a Prostitute and a sex doll. It's a cycle of loneliness and lust that Mr. Howell is going through. One week he uses an old ragged doll, another week he uses a prostitute.
i love their storylines too fucking much.
Seems to be about a heroin addict, or some skanky ho.
While it could very well be about a heroin addict, or a prostitute, my initial thought was that it's just a weird, creepy story. I'm not saying I think I'm right or anything, but that's just what I think about it.
i'm thinkin perhaps the rats, since they come from inside her, are a metaphor for her having a bad spirit (being bad on the inside). what do ya'll think?
I think it's just a really fucked story.
Maybe it has some deeper metaphorical meaning...but maybe not.
i'm doubting there are really any metaphors at work here. it's just a story.
this song might be my favorite on the new cd. i cant decide what i think the rats are, if anything. if its just a story like some people think, its an awesomely creepy story. i love it.
Thegreatcreator: It was all of Candy's stuff that was stolen, not Mr. Howell's: "You find yourself alone in Candy's bed. And everything is gone. The paintings, jewels, and songs."