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| Name = My Pet Rat St. Michael<br />
| Cover = ME-Candy.jpg<br />
| Caption = ''Candy Ass'' cover<br />
| Artist = [[Mark Eitzel]]<br />
| Album = [[Candy Ass]]<br />
| Released = 2005<br />
| Format = CD<br />
| Length = <br />
| Label = [[Cooking Vinyl]]<br />
| Writer = [[Mark Eitzel]]<br />
| Producer = [[Mark Eitzel]]<br />
| Tracks = <br />
#'''"My Pet Rat St. Michael"'''<br />
#"[[Cotton Candy Tenth Power]]"<br />
#"[[Make Sure They Hear]]"<br />
#"[[Sleeping Beauty]]"<br />
#"[[A Loving Tribute To My City]]"<br />
#"[[Homeland Pastoral]]"<br />
#"[[Roll Away My Stone]]"<br />
#"[[Green Eyes]]"<br />
#"[[Cobh]]"<br />
#"[[I Am Fassbinder]]"<br />
#"[[Song Of The Mole]]"<br />
#"[[Guitar Lover]]"<br />
}}<br />
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'''"My Pet Rat St. Michael"''' is the first song on [[Mark Eitzel]]'s 8th solo album, 2005's ''[[Candy Ass]]''. <br />
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==Lyrics==<br />
You got to help my pet rat doc - he's always glum<br><br />
Though I give him lab cigarettes, sawdust, even a wheel to run<br><br />
I tell him: you should be happy there's no reason to stare<br><br />
I play him Mariah Carey - so there's butterflies and rainbows in the air<br />
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His name is St. Michael and he's a bit of a class clown<br><br />
He laughs with people who always laugh him down<br><br />
He would hang himself except he already chewed threw his rope<br><br />
He would rise on heavens wings except he's miserable as the pope<br />
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I know the party's over<br><br />
But whoops would you look at that - my glass is still half full<br><br />
I show it to St. Michael but his eyes they drift like frost<br><br />
While he watches all the goodness in his heart burn away like exhaust<br />
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Remember when I mentioned my half full glass<br><br />
It comes in handy when you always want more<br><br />
It magically fills as the boasts get empty<br><br />
From the tired swimmer who can no longer see the shore<br />
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Yeah I know the party's over<br><br />
I'm a little relieved but what will I do know<br><br />
I'll be nicer to St. Michael, that rat really makes me laugh<br><br />
When he says - in the end there are no saints there are no liars<br><br />
there are just sparks falling down wires<br><br />
They have no heart but they always sing<br><br />
They are the heroin in everything<br><br />
A beauty easy to explain away<br><br />
But how do you make it stay:<br><br />
You got to fight for it...<br />
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==Video==<br />
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==Also appears on==<br />
* ''[[Ten Years Of Tears]]'' <small>Live version</small><br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist|2}}<br />
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[[Category:Mark Eitzel songs]]</div>Amc-admin