Hungry Ants Lyrics – Barry Adamson

Hungry Ants Text

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[Dwight McClusky:] "I'll tell ya something, Scagnetti, in all of my days in the penal business, and that ain't no small
amount of days, right boys?" [Kavanaugh:] "Oh, no." [Wurlitzer:] "Nope." [Dwight McClusky:] "Mickey and Mallory Knox are
without a doubt the most twisted, depraved pair of sh*t f**ked that has ever been my displeasure to lay my goddamn eyes on.
I'm tellin' you, these two motherf**kers are a walkin' reminder of just how f**ked up the system really is." [Jack
Scagnetti:] "Don't get me started, okay, warden? Don't get me started." [Dwight McClusky:] "Dwight, you call me Dwight."

[Jack Scagnetti:] "They've killed a sh*tload of inmates and guards." [Dwight McClusky:] "Three inmates, five guards and one
shrink all in one year's time... Open that goddamn gate!" [Prison Guard:] "Yes, sir." [Jack Scagnetti:] "What, a
psychiatrist?" [Dwight McClusky:] "Yeah, Mickey's better half, Miss Mallory, strangled his ass when he made the dumb-ass
mistake to ask her what her parents were like, and she done it all shut up on tranquilizers too." [Jack Scagnetti:] "Oh..."

[Dwight McClusky:] "Ain't love grand? If that doesn't tell the truth. Listen, I got another dead lie: love makes the world
go around." [Black Inmate:] "Hey, I need to talk to you 'bout..." [Dwight McClusky:] "How did a fellow like you get to be a
specialist in psychos anyway?" [Jack Scagnetti:] "Well, actually, Dwight, I'd recommend having your mother killed by one.
After that happened I developed a rather keen interest in the subject, you know?" [Dwight McClusky:] "What happened?" [Jack
Scagnetti:] "When I was born I spend the first part of my life in Texas." [Dwight McClusky:] "Oh, that's funny, you don't
have an accent." [Jack Scagnetti:] "Nah, I don't wanna talk like those a**holes." [Dwight McClusky:] "Well, my, my mother was
from Texas." [Jack Scagnetti:] "I meant those other a**holes, you know, who used to beat the sh*t out of me. Anyway, one day,
when I was 8 years old, my mother... my mother... I wanted to play in the park. And it just so happened to be the same day
Charles Whitman had climbed to the top of the University Texas Tower and started shooting strangers." [Dwight McClusky:] "And
you was with her." [Jack Scagnetti:] "Sure was. You see, the thing is, Dwight, I didn't hear any shots. I didn't hear any of
'em. And one minute I'm walking with my mother when all of a sudden... Chest explodes. She hits the ground, right? I'm just
lookin' at her, her forearm flies off, her hip explodes and... Now, I'm not hearing any of these shots, right? BOOM! Chest
explodes! Right?"

[Jack Scagnetti:] "I spent all goddamn day lying flat on the grass, bein' eat alive by f**king ants. I'm thinking, what
happened to my ma, you know? And ever since then I've had a strong opinion about the psychopathic fools that's alive today in
America's fast food culture. I tend not to exhibit the self-discipline, you know." [Dwight McClusky:] "You..." [Jack
Scagnetti:] "And comin' off a peace officer." [Dwight McClusky:] "You got it right, Jack. You got it right. Say, you don't
mind, do ya, if I call you Jack?"


[Thanks to btoma@hotmail.com for lyrics]