The Rat Brain

[j$]

Wherein Mr. Johnny Cashpoint sing-talks about Encoder/Decoder Rats for your listening pleasure ...

"They're collaborating, they're doing communication through a brain-to-brain interface ..."

Rat brain, Hive mind
Brain chain, Combined
One line, Linked in
Great minds, synching

(All hail rat-brain)
If two heads are better than one then
Billion brains as one is best
(All hail rat-brain)
All for one but all bar one that's you, dumb
Quisling in the nest

We'll win, Rat Race
Legion, One face
Can't let, One man
Infect, Grand plan

Chorus

I have seen the least minds of my generation be destroyed by blandness
We're evolving, problem solving, take 'em in would be akin to madness
They can't bring a single thing, so ring-a-ding, no pod for all those senseless, densest mensches ...

(All hail rat-brain, all hail)
All hail the rat-brain

[LongAztecs]

The Rat Brain
by The Long Aztecs

The Rat Brain... The Rat Brain...
He knows what he know because of his nose. He the Rat Brain!
He knows what he know because of his nose. He the Rat Brain!

Listen children - gather round. 
I've got the story for the London Town
I smell the Rat. The Rat smell me.
He no afraid. He know me. 

He's the Rat Brain... He's the Rat Brain...
He knows what he know because of his nose. He's the Rat Brain!
He knows what he know because of his nose. He's the Rat Brain!

He the big rat all over the town
He make other rats look like the clown.
He fight and he bite he knock them to their knees
Every one say 'He the big cheese'

He's Rat Brain... He's the Rat Brain...
He knows what he know because of his nose. He's the Rat Brain!
He knows what he know because of his nose. He's the Rat Brain!

He the big rat all over the town
He make other rats look like the clown.
He fight and he bite he knock them to their knees
Every one say 'He the big cheese'

He's Rat Brain... He's the Rat Brain...
He knows what he know because of his nose. He's the Rat Brain!
He knows what he know because of his nose. He's the Rat Brain!

[Chumpy]

The Rat Brain
by Jerkatorium

I'm here to talk about the rat brain
a silicon brain that emulates a bunch of neurons
just like the ones that grow the fur on
that's right I'm talkin' 'bout the rat brain
algorithms in a neural network
just like the ones that make your pet work

and if we can grow a rat brain in the lab now
just think of all the cool new brains that we can have now
rat brain, rat brain - we made a camera for your eyes
rat brain, rat brain - we built you to categorize
and until we grow a human brain, I guess you'll have to do
rat brain we made you

talkin' 'bout the rat brain
an organic machine that signals with synapses
evolving as time passes
yeah, rat brain
built with the knowledge of what the kitties smell like
that's a feature nature sells right?

and if we can grow a rat brain in the lab now
just think of all the cool new brains that we can have now
rat brain, rat brain - we made a camera for your eyes
rat brain, rat brain - we built you to categorize
and until we grow a human brain, I guess you'll have to do
rat brain we made you

the blue brain project has digitally recreated a part of a rat's brain
over 30,000 brain cells with 37 million connections
now that's just a small part of a rat's brain, but it's still quite an accomplishment
they hope to improve on this by digitally simulating the entire rat's brain and eventually a human brain
now how awesome is that!?

and if we can grow a rat brain in the lab now
just think of all the cool new brains that we can have now
rat brain, rat brain - we made a camera for your eyes
rat brain, rat brain - we built you to categorize
and until we grow a human brain, I guess you'll have to do
rat brain we made you
'til we grow a human brain, I guess you'll have to do
rat brain we made you

[jeff robertson]

by FLVXXVM FLORVM

Lemme tell you a story about a hard-workin' man
ordinary boy gonna do all I can
bad-lovin' woman givin' me the blues
takin' all my money so I ain't got no shoes
takin' all my money makin' me your dog
eatin' all my goods like a big ol' hog
bad-lovin' woman got me down on my knees
begging for your lovin' like a rat for some cheese
I got the blues!

Baby oh baby why you treat me this way?
Don't you remember back in the day?
I'm the one who took you, showed you to this world
made you feel so special like my own little girl
Takin' everything and makin' me your slave
now you're trying to drive me to me an early grave
I'm scratchin' in the alley like an ol' tom cat
while you're suckin', suckin', suckin' like vampire bat
I got the blues!

Every time I tell you that I'm hittin' the road
that's when you make me think I hit the mother-lode
give me all your lovin', makin' me want to stay
soon as I've unpacked you're gonna take it away
Takin' everything and makin' me your bitch
One day they're gonna find me laying dead in a ditch
You'd stand trial for murder if this was a just world
They'll put it on my grave "he died from lovin' that girl"
I got the blues!

[jb]

"The Rat Brain", by The John Benjamin Band

Meet the boy with the rat brain.
He's OK but his Mom's insane.
She talks to his brother,
Long dead and gone away

Do you listen to the voices
Only stilled by chemistry?
Do you sit in a darkened room
Clean your guns and watch the TV?
Well, far be it from me.

Got a dog, it's a three-leg.
Can't fetch but he sure can beg.
Dog chews on a soup bone,
Cracked open like a chicken egg.

Do you listen to the voices
Only stilled by chemistry?
Do you sit in a darkened room
Clean your guns and watch the TV?

Do you wash until you're bleeding?
Do you long for the day
Do you remember when the people
Knew what it's like to be free
Really, truly, free?

Well, far be it from me.

Meet the boy with the rat brain
Got a different sense of humor.
Don't ask what's so funny
You won't like the answer.

Do you listen to the voices
Only stilled by chemistry?
Do you sit in a darkened room
Clean your guns and watch the TV?
Well, far be it from me.

[iVeg]

The rat brain - Has gone electronic - Simulation
It will be a standard feature of Windows 12
Ratana, your personal assistant will be able to locate cheese
Within a half mile radius, and you'll chew thru concrete to get it

When the rat brain takes over
You'd better run for cover
Hide under the sheets
With your rat-faced lover
When the rat brain's your leader
You're already defeated
You'll be down on your knees
Searching for cheese[s]

You feel pain - From the electrodes - Stimulation
The rat brain is testing you - Go find the food
Ratana will guide you thru the mazes
Here's another can of poison to drink
Jump onto that heated pad
Find the hidden platform or drown

CH

Are you having fun, now that the tables have turned [x3]
The tables have turned [x2]

CH

[noma]

Nick Soma - The Rat Brain

The rat brain, cautious and clever
Always on guard, always sensing danger
Hard to trap and hard to poison
He knows the path, he is confident.
Strategizing and solving mind puzzles all day long.
Brilliant in his observations while we sing a song
that goes

Sometimes I wonder, hey where you at, brain?
While the rat brain is gaining speed
You laze the day away and become a fat brain
You know this way you just can't succeed.

The cat brain, always seeking pleasure
Which, when castrated, is found in cozy chairs
And ripping carpets, cushions, and blankets -
Appropriate punishment for stealing his balls.
Idle moments amounting to the entire day.
Whoops, just killed a birdie, he just wanted to play.

Sometimes I wonder, hey where you at, brain?
While the rat brain will never fail
One day you'll shrink back down to the size of a gnat brain
And the rat brain shall prevail.

The bat brain, almost in 4D -
Nobody understands those hidden ways.
What is it like to be him? It's above us.
Hovering gently, hunting by night.
Call him stupid for trying to drink a plastic surface,
But by echolocation he'll some day take our place.

Sometimes I wonder, hey where you at, brain?
While the rat brain is gaining speed
You laze the day away and become a fat brain
You know this way you just can't succeed.

Sometimes I wonder, hey where you at, brain?
While the rat brain will never fail
One day you'll shrink back down to the size of a gnat brain
And the rat brain shall prevail.

[Here, Atticus]

There's a rat inside a cage inside a lab, and it's his home
There's a man that asks him questions and tells him where to go
If he ever knows answer, then he asks him how he knows
Then he tells him that it's over, and tells him where to go

But the rat brain, it doesn't bother with why
this is happening, he gives them what they need
And the rat brain, I think just to get by
Lets it happen; is what he has to be

There's a man who's asking questions, and they tell him what to ask
And so he poses onward to the rat
And answers find their way back up the chain
And none of this comes back to the rat brain

Every passing day we're moving forward
Another step toward the greater good
And the rat brain does its thing
And the rat's days never change
they never change

So they tell him what to ask
So he interrogates the rat
Until the candle has been burnt
and there is nothing left to learn

There's a man who's asking questions, when they tell him what to ask
Things are slow around the office, so he hangs out with the rat
And he knows that things are slow, and he wants to get away
And he wishes they'd tell him to go
or at least tell him what to say