Lyrics and translation Iwan Fals - Tikus - Tikus Kantor

Tikus - Tikus Kantor

Kisah usang tikus-tikus kantor
Yang suka berenang di sungai yang kotor
Kisah usang tikus-tikus berdasi
Yang suka ingkar janji lalu sembunyi

Di balik meja teman sekerja
Di dalam lemari dari baja

Kucing datang cepat ganti muka
Segera menjelma bagai tak tercela
Masa bodoh hilang harga diri
Asal tak terbukti ah tentu sikat lagi

Tikus-tikus tak kenal kenyang
Rakus, rakus, bukan kepalang
Otak tikus memang bukan otak udang
Kucing datang tikus menghilang

Kucing-kucing yang kerjanya molor
Tak ingat tikus kantor datang menteror
Cerdik, licik, tikus bertingkah tengik
Mungkin karena sang kucing pura-pura mendelik

Tikus tahu sang kucing lapar
Kasih roti jalan pun lancar
Memang sial sang tikus teramat pintar
Atau mungkin si kucing yang kurang ditatar

Tikus-tikus tak kenal kenyang
Rakus, rakus, bukan kepalang
Otak tikus memang bukan otak udang
Kucing datang tikus menghilang

Rats - Office Rats

The old story of office rats
Who love to swim in dirty rivers
The old story of rats in ties
Who love to break promises and then hide

Behind the desks of colleagues
In the steel cabinets

The cat comes, quickly changes its face
Immediately becomes like it's spotless
Doesn't care about lost dignity
As long as it's not proven, well, of course, it'll brush it off again

Rats who don't know satiation
Greedy, greedy, beyond measure
A rat's brain is not a shrimp's brain
The cat comes, the rat disappears

Cats whose work is lazy
Don't remember office rats coming to terrorize
Clever, cunning, rats behave stinky
Maybe because the cat pretends to glare

The rat knows the cat is hungry
Give it bread, the path is smooth
Indeed, the rat is too smart
Or maybe the cat isn't well-trained

Rats who don't know satiation
Greedy, greedy, beyond measure
A rat's brain is not a shrimp's brain
The cat comes, the rat disappears