Why (Mackie's Childhood Song) - The Tiger Lillies

Wwwwwwwwwwhy was my father so nasty?

Why did he beat me up?

Why did he abuse me daily

Threaten my throat to cut?

Why did he… beat up my mother

Beat up my mother, as well?

Why did he make both of our lives

Into a living Hell?

Why?

Why?

Why?

Why?

Why did he punch me in the face

And punch my mother as well?

Why did he leer and smile at us

As the bruises on our faces did swell?

Why did I stab him in the back

Laugh as he shouted out?

Why did he bleed on the carpet?

Why does his blood all spurt out?

Why?

Why?

Why?

Why?

Why as we followed, followed his hearse

Why did his memory we curse?

Why did we spit on his coffin

As they lowered it into the earth?

Why did they arrest me

Lock me away in a cell?

Why did my mother die of a broken heart

After feeling unwell?

Why?

Why?

Why?

Why?

Why did they lock me up

When I was his victim and slave?

Well, when I get out of this prison cell

I’m going to go and piss on his grave!