Lyrics Hungry Ants - Barry Adamson

Hungry Ants

«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?»
«Oh, no.»
«Nope.»
«Mickey and
Mallory Knox are without a doubt the most twisted, depraved pair of shit
fucked that has ever been my displeasure to lay my goddamn eyes on.
I’m
tellin' you, these two motherfuckers are a walkin' reminder of just how
fucked up the system really is.»
«Don't get me started,
okay, warden?
Don’t get me started.»
«Dwight, you call
me Dwight.»
«They've killed a shitload of inmates and guards.»
«Three inmates, five guards and one shrink all in one
year’s time… Open that goddamn gate!»
«Yes, sir."[Jack
Scagnetti:] «What, a psychiatrist?»
«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.»
«Oh…»
«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…» «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?»
«What happened?"[Jack
Scagnetti:] «When I was born I spend the first part of my life in Texas.»
«Oh, that’s funny, you don’t have an accent."[Jack
Scagnetti:] «Nah, I don’t wanna talk like those assholes."[Dwight
McClusky:] «Well, my, my mother was from Texas.»
«I meant
those other assholes, you know, who used to beat the shit 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.»
«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?»
«I spent all goddamn day lying flat on the grass, bein'
eat alive by fucking 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.»
«You…"[Jack
Scagnetti:] «And comin' off a peace officer.»
«You got
it right, Jack.
You got it right.
Say, you don’t mind, do ya, if I call you
Jack?»