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==Lyrics== | ==Lyrics== | ||
<tabber> | <tabber> | ||
|-|Rock and Roll Cockroach | |-|Rock and Roll Cockroach BNC= | ||
<poem>Sitting in a dressing room, about to go on | <poem> | ||
Sitting in a dressing room, about to go on | |||
Internet radio playing an [[Wikipedia:The_xx|xx]] song | Internet radio playing an [[Wikipedia:The_xx|xx]] song | ||
Yogurt | Yogurt topped off with cream | ||
Purell | Purell keeping me clean | ||
Bandmates bro-ing down in the room next door | Bandmates bro-ing down in the room next door | ||
The Rock and roll cockroach | |||
Is searching for something he can eat | |||
The people freak out when he walks out there | |||
So scared | |||
Nostradamus predicted a bomb | |||
And life as we know it on Earth would abruptly stop | |||
From the pile of debris | |||
The creature is struggling free | |||
That's him looking for ''The Sunday Times'' | |||
The | The Rock and roll cockroach | ||
Is searching for something he can eat | |||
The people freak out when he walks out there | |||
So scared | |||
So take your millions | |||
Your perseverance | |||
And shut 'em up | |||
'Cause we don't give a damn | |||
Scream all you want, dear | |||
Try to get an audience | |||
We've got our balls on | |||
We don't give a damn | |||
I didn't say "please" | |||
They could not pry me | |||
I wanna be a star | |||
But not in someone's orbit | |||
I'm the Rock and roll cockroach | |||
Is searching for something I can eat | |||
The people freak out when I walk out there | |||
So scared | |||
</poem> | </poem> | ||
|-|Only a Cockroach= | |-|Only a Cockroach= | ||
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The people freak out when I walk out there | The people freak out when I walk out there | ||
So scared</poem> | So scared</poem> | ||
|-|Rock and Roll Cockroach | |-|Rock and Roll Cockroach (ver. 1)= | ||
<poem> | <poem>Sitting in a dressing room, about to go on | ||
Sitting in a dressing room, about to go on | |||
Internet radio playing an [[Wikipedia:The_xx|xx]] song | Internet radio playing an [[Wikipedia:The_xx|xx]] song | ||
Yogurt | Yogurt from the Brown Cow farm | ||
Purell | Purell, so viruses can't harm | ||
Bandmates bro-ing down in the room next door | Bandmates bro-ing down in the room next door | ||
These are our lives in the twenty-teens | |||
They can go on for eternity | |||
While other bands fade with the passing of time | |||
One of them seems to be doing just fine | |||
Rock and roll cockroach | |||
Na na na | |||
Rock and roll cockroach | |||
Looking for something to eat | |||
The | The prophets foretold that the bomb would drop | ||
And life as we know it will abruptly stop | |||
But from the debris of the shattered globe | |||
A hand will rise up to secure our hold | |||
Rock and roll cockroach | |||
Na na na | |||
Rock and roll cockroach | |||
Looking for something to eat | |||
Na na na | |||
Na na na | |||
Looking for something to eat | |||
</poem> | |||
</poem></tabber> | </tabber> | ||
==Known recordings== | ==Known recordings== | ||