Starts so slowly, just a place to stay / Somewhere warm where they can spend their days / Air is
stagnant and he feels unclean / Hair hangs greasy and he smells obscene / Something's happened
and it's not so good / broken bottles in the face of love / Mottled flesh under the harsh strip-light /
Nylon sheets to keep them warm at night / Once it's started it can never stop / fills his head with a
dark damp fog / In the distance is a constant cry / growing louder as the years go by / Days get
longer and he starts to drink / spews his stomach in the kitchen sink / Tells his children they should
have respect / Tells his wife that she's a nervous wreck / He hates his wife and he hates them all /
He hates his wife and he hates them all / Can't be bothered when it's all the same / leave it long
enough, it goes away / In the meantime stomach turns to fat / She tries to tell him but he can't have
that / She's only "jealous" and she's "telling lies" / Standing naked in his flesh disguise / It took him
months to get her into bed / now he's got her he just wants her dead / She wants excitement and she
needs romance / all she gets are dirty underpants / Stupid animal that can't know why / something's
wrong so someone has to die / The wind is blowing and the rain falls down / Sends his family on a
trip down town / Sees them die in a burning wreck / Sees them burn, smokes a cigarette / He hates
his wife and he hates them all / He hates his wife and he hates them all / He knows he's finished but
he can't stop now / and he wants to end it but he can't see how / and it's all in pieces, thrown it all
away / Oh, but he's not ugly, he just looks that way / And he wants some quiet and he needs it now
/ but the scream he's started's getting far too loud / and he still pretends he does it just for now / His
day will come he'll lose it all somehow / Killing time until his ship arrives / been dead ten years but
he's still alive / and the time is wasted and the ship has sunk / but he hasn't noticed and he comes
home drunk / and he's just dead weight, he'll never leave the ground / He tries to stand but he keeps
falling down / and it's hard to know he doesn't count for much / He's not a has-been, just a
never-was / Oh he hates his wife and he hates them all / He hates his wife and he hates them all /
Hates his wife / Hates them all.
