Lyrics to
Squank

This version of Squank was released by Zz Top in 1971.

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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 kinfold 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.

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About Lyrics and Squank by Zz Top

When you decide to study the lyrics to Squank, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Zz Top. Some of the lyrics to Squank have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Zz Top and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Squank if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Squank" means the words set to the music of Squank, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Zz Top. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Squank and the lyrics to Squank are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Zz Top who came here looking just for the lyrics to Squank, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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