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.