20 Rats

20 rats
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© 2022 Carla Ulbrich BMI
ISRC: US-KMZ-21-0003

In the basement of the science lab studying addiction
The experiment was conclusive matching their prediction
Each one had two bottles, one with water one morphine
Twenty rats in twenty cages none of them stayed clean

Many times in many places the trial was replicated
Drugs as powerful as this should’ve never been created
We’ve got to keep them off the streets by every possible means
Twenty rats in twenty cages none of them stayed clean

I tried to warn these rats about how this would go
I told them use will power; just say no
I told them about their strung out friends and relatives I’d seen
But those twenty rats in twenty cages- none of them stayed clean

Then Doctor Alexander came onto the scene He said
“I’m looking at these rats. They’re disengaged.
These are social creatures trapped in isolation
The problem’s not the morphine- the problem is the cage”

He sprung them from confinement and gave them toys and space
Lots of room to exercise and even room to mate
They still had two bottles one with water, one morphine
Those twenty rats free from their cages
All of them stayed clean
All of them stayed clean