Filk: Rat out of Hell

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 129622

Rat out of Hell, to the tune of Bat out of Hell, by Meat Loaf.
For Jen, along with a nice batch of cockroach clusters.


Pettigrew remembers the night he was outed in the Shrieking Shack and 
began his life on the run back to LV:

The Wolfsbane not taken and the werewolf is howling 
Way down by the forest tonight.
There's a man who's transforming and the gleam in his eye
And his teeth shining oh so bright.
There's fear that's in the air and a full moon in the sky,
And a killer's out to make things right.
And down in the tunnels from which we are arising
Where I once went as a young boy with the Marauders,
He was starting to foam in the night.

(pre-chorus)
Oh, Master, you're the only one in this whole world
That's mad and full of might.
And wherever you are and wherever you go,
There's always gonna be a fight.
But I gotta get out, I gotta break out now
Before Old Sevvie sees I'm gone.
So I gotta make the most of this chance- now of never.
If I don't oh, you know,
I'll go to Azkaban.

(chorus)
Like a rat out of hell, I'll be gone to Albania.
When the night is over, like a rat out of hell, 
I'll be gone, gone, gone.
Like a rat out of hell, I'll be gone to Albania.
But when the trip is done 
And I find my Lord
And he sees devotion true.
I'll say "My Master, I've searched for you forever;
And I'm groveling now to you."

I'm gonna hit the forest like a Banishing Curse
>From a dragon-heart/Sequoia wand.
As soon as I transform, I'll be off to Apparate
And I'm off with the Dark Lord to bond.
Though life was really good in the Weasley Burrow,
Now everything is totally lost.
And, yeah, it really sucks, but now, unless I roll,
You know I'm gonna pay the cost.

Well, I know that I'm damned if I cannot get out,
And maybe I'm damned if I do.
But, My Master, you know that I'm just too faint of heart
And so I want to align with you.
If I gotta be damned, you know I'd rather be damned,
Rather be aligned with you.
Well, if I gotta be damned, you know I'd rather be damned
Gotta be damned, you know I'd rather be damned,
Gotta be damned, you know I'd rather be damned,
Rather be aligned, 
Rather be aligned,
Rather be aligned with you.

(repeat pre-chorus)
(repeat chorus)
I'll say "My Master, I've searched for you forever;
And I'm groveling now to you."

Well, I can see myself, tearing out of here
Faster than any other rat has ever gone.
And my paws are tired, but my soul is wired
And Sirius can't stop me now, 
I'm gonna make my escape.
And I can't stop thinking of you
And I never see you Crucio until you're real irate.

And I never see you Crucio until you're real irate.

Then I'm down in the middle of a wood in Albania.
Down and pledging my own soul to a writhing snake.
And I think somebody somewhere is in Dementor hell.
But the one thing for me is my heart's still beating,
'Cause it's still in my body.  'Cause I got away
Like a rat out of hell.

Then I'm down in the middle of a wood in Albania.
Down and pledging my own soul to a writhing snake.
And I think somebody somewhere is in Dementor hell.
But the one thing for me is my heart's 
Still beating, Still beating,
'Cause it's still in my body.  
'Cause I got away
Like a rat out of hell.
Like a rat out of hell.
(repeat)

Ginger, who notes that filking is much easier if you have the song on 
tape and can rewind a bit as needed.