Plan B

Plan B is a song sung by Remy (Patton Oswalt) and Emile (Peter Sohn)* at the end of Your Friend the Rat. It encourages the viewer to see rats in a different way, and restates some of the themes and ideas that were taught earlier in the short film.

Lyrics

 * Emile: Key of G fellas. And swing it!


 * [Remy and Emile]
 * We'll follow you to Mars
 * Or wherever you people go...


 * [Low-voice rat]
 * We rats are right there down below.


 * [Remy and Emile]
 * We’ve traveled near and far,
 * With swamis, geisha, thugs and czars
 * In planes and boats and submarines,
 * We’ve sailed from Liverpool to Queens.
 * We’re even in Qatar, or wherever you people go...
 * We all adore François Truffaut.


 * Abandon musophobia
 * And embrace a new utopia:


 * [Emile]
 * Butterflies and puppy dogs
 * Summer evenings, crispy frogs


 * [Remy and Emile]
 * Imagine if you will a world
 * Where women, rats
 * And men and children
 * Live in peace and harmony,
 * We’re even holding hands


 * We’re dancing through the streets
 * And singing cabaret songs, ooh la la la
 * Join with us we’ll make a Human/ratty wonderland.


 * We’ll help you tie your shoes
 * When you don’t feel like bending over
 * And perhaps you’ll take that trap
 * From out behind the pantry door


 * We’ll say “Bonjour” and “How’s the family?”
 * When we pass each other on the street
 * And just like that we won’t be strangers anymore.


 * So here we go to Mars
 * With our stories intertwined
 * And although once you tried to kill us
 * Now we know that you won’t mind


 * We’ll journey through the stars
 * And whatever else may be...


 * [Remy]
 * We all hate that lousy flea...
 * [Emile]
 * That lousy flea...

* The composer, James G. Dashe, performs the voice of the low rat on this song.