Deep Purple - Flight of the Rat

Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorise themselves as any one genre. The band also incorporated classical music, blues-rock, pop and progressive rock elements. They were once listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's loudest band, and have sold over 100 million albums worldwide. Deep Purple were ranked #22 on VH1's Greatest Artists of Hard Rock programme.
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Spread the word around
The rat is leaving town
The message is a song
The misery is gone

Once I had a dream
To sing before the queen
She didn't want to know
She wouldn't see the show

What a fright
I couldn't do it right
Oh what a night

Mystic demons fly
All about the sk
With memories of a clown
The saddest show in town

When I was seventeen
Me mother said to me
Be careful what you touch
You shouldn't take so much

I blew my mind
She was so kind
I could have cried

In my mind
I had to fin
A kind of new way
Of being oh so cool
Like a blue blooded
Well studded
English fool

Speak about the past
Times are changing fast
Once I was so weak
I couldn't even speak

Shaking put a curse
Nothing could be worse
Walking through the door
Who could ask for more

Now I'm free
And I can see
That I am me

Spread the word around
The rat is leaving town
The message is a song
The misery is gone

Shaking out a curse
Nothing could be worse
Walking through the door
Who could ask for more

Now I'm free
And I can see
That I am me

Please stay away

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[ruimsts52]

I vote for Deep Purple in Rock as BEST album ever!

[RitchiePage72]

Ian Paice is a really huge BEAST on the drums!!!!!

[AksSnertl]

Paice is a R&R 'W E A P O N'!

[AksSnertl]

Lord is L O R D

[AksSnertl]

very  good

[ThePostaldude666]

Ian Paice ROCKS! :D

[stoneoverbone]

IN ROCK is the bible of rock & roll

[Dieterle112]

3.....zep....black.s......deep­.p.........meine jugend ich liebe euch alle und auch uriahs

[kikboy4]

@romulomaza Bloodsucker is also a beast song

[progrocker9]

Oh my God, the album cover!! It speaks as loudly as the music. Remember this is decades before Photoshop. Lot's of airbrushing, tinting, cropping and who knows what the hell else! A work of art alongside found art!

[kneelandpray1]

Pure heavy fuckin' metal....1970!!!!