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Jim DiBattista: Music

Scumbag

(Tropical Storm)
January 18, 2001
Jim DiBattista
We were working at some school in the middle of Newark in the middle of the summer masking and grouting (for all you old waterproofers out there) and we were on a break when John Lanza said "Zeke, you should write a song called Scumbag in my eye". I thought what a great idea, so I tore off the part of a cement bag and wrote these words down, took it home later and finished it.
Scumbag

Pissy-eyed and shit-faced feeling no pain
sometimes my life's like old beer down the drain
but I won't cry, although I might try
and you'll always be a scumbag in my eyes

You're looking in the mirror at a face that would scare
your own sweet mother if she could be here
you look like The Missing Link they wish they would find
and you'll always be a scumbag in my eyes

You are an asshole, a dickhead and what's more
your sister's a tramp your old lady's a whore

well as I sit here drinking this beer
it occurs to me by and by
you'll always be a scumbag to me
yea you'll always be a scumbag in my eyes
you'll always be a scumbag in my eyes