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Pond Scum Dumb
This is a song I wrote from the perspective of one of my AA buddies. He’s my buddy in the sense that I would periodically talk with at meetings and he would open up and tell me stories of his absolutely horrific childhood. I had to write a song. The song is supposed to be him talking about his step father, who use to beat him as a child, beat his mother, beat his sibling, pass out drunk on the couch, lock him and his brother in the basement, just horrible things. My friend told me that he felt as though his step-fathers violence had shaped him into the violent alcoholic that he is today, well at the time he was in recovery, I hope to God he still is. “Pond Scum” is how he described his stepfather to me. He told me that when he was as little as eight years old his step father used to lock him in the cellar where he told me “there was nothing there, but cold and damp”. Then his stepfather and his stepfather’s friends used to come down to the cellar to box with him and his older brother. They would essentially beat the shit out of children after a few beers. And so in his own adult life, my friend found himself joining the army in attempts to get away from it all, only to start drinking heavily and even smoking crack to confront the emotional, psychological trauma his stepfather imprinted on him. He’s terrified that he’s becoming the same man, or at least a man of similar violent tendencies.

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You are pond scum
You are dead to me
The cellar doors would close
There was nothing there
But cold and damp
And I would box with drunken monsters
8 years old, I’d sleep with garbage

You are pond scum
You reflect no light
20 years have gone by
I've tied you to your favorite chair
And I will watch you die
under my fists
and leak out blood and piss

You are pond scum
You deserve no life
Stepfather
I hear your name
In my dreams
You’re the violent man
This violent man
Is doomed to become
And remain

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from Empathy, Empathy Dead Weight, released June 22, 2015
Tony - Guitar Vocals FX Piano
Heath - Drums Guitar Bass

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