Squank - Lyrics - Zz Top

ZZ Top is an American rock band that formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas. The band comprises guitarist and lead vocalist Billy Gibbons , bassist and co-lead vocalist Dusty Hill, and drummer Frank Beard. One of the few major label recording groups to have held the same lineup for more than forty years, ZZ Top has been praised by critics and fellow musicians alike for their technical mastery. Of the group, music writer Cub Koda said "As genuine roots musicians, they have few peers; Gibbons is one of America's finest blues guitarists working in the arena rock idiom while Hill and Beard provide the ultimate rhythm section support."

Woman, grab your children, run and hide. Don't let it catch up with you. You gotta fight it to stay alive, and if it gets you, man, you're through. It smells so rotten and rank. Well, everybody calls it the squank. It's sick, depressin, gettin' bigger all the time. Don't help it any way you can. It's grey and brown and sometimes lime and it's spreadin' all over the land. And soon we'll be all breathin' out of tanks if somethin' ain't done about the squank. The meanest thing the world's ever bred by me and you and my kin-folk too. A monster can't live unless it's fed, and it's being fed by me and you. And soon it's gonna leave the world blank, and we'll all be erased by the squank.