Why Don't You Piss Off Because No-one Likes You?
Liner notes
This has -- clearly -- gone through several iterations since we wrote it. Originally it was an uncharacteristically mean song about a nuisance neighbour who'd periodically interrupt our songwriting sessions. I don't think I recognised it as punching down at the time, and I feel a bit bad about it. I've retargeted it several times, including against a troublesome office-mate (that was punching sideways at worst) and, finally, about Mr Trump, which is the version here. I borrow John Prine's line about playing it at presidential request -- not an official request, you understand, but he's asking for it.It isn’t ‘words’ like bigly that make me prickly
Nor that you’re a sexist, racist chump
Your conspiracy theories are weird and dreary
Just like all your speeches on the stump
You’re anti-immigration and anti-vaccination
Mexicans to you are worse than mumps
Why don’t you piss off, because no-one likes you?
Everyone hates you, everyone hates you.
Put billions in your pocket, while inflation rockets
Drifting off to sleep each time you're bored
Distracting from your failures by invading Venezuela
I don't think there's a Nobel Prize for Fraud
Why don’t you piss off, because no-one likes you?
Everyone hates you, everyone hates you.
You’re living disproof of natural selection
You voted for yourself in the last election
Your Epstein affairs demand investigation
Nobody came to your inauguration
Sad.
Why don’t you piss off, because no-one likes you?
Everyone hates you, everyone hates you.
You’re as shallow as a puddle, and just about as subtle
Every look I give you is black
You might catch me frowning if I could see you drowning
I’d be wondering whether to wave back.
Why don’t you piss off, because no-one likes you?
Everyone hates you, everyone hates you.
Your hair is ridiculous, that’s just for starters
Your fingers are the size of chipolatas
You're building up a backlog of resentment
That's bound to lead to the 25th Amendment
... you’re fired!
Why don’t you piss off, because no-one likes you?
Everyone hates you, everyone hates you.