“This song was written about the landlord that my wife and I had at the time. The landlord who started out to be a really, really swell guy, and he just really seemed great, and we never understood what the problem was. But he went from being kind of a friend to an enemy. That song and “Good Riddance,” which was also on the same record, were written about that guy.”David Yow (449)

“This song was written about the landlord that my wife and I had at the time. The landlord who started out to be a really, really swell guy, and he just really seemed great, and we never understood what the problem was. But he went from being kind of a friend to an enemy. That song and “Thumbscrews,” which was also on the same record, were written about that guy.”David Yow (449)

“That is mostly about this guy I knew in Chicago, and I should say his name, but I’m not going to. He’s kind of a puss – pushed a girl down the stairs at a club in Chicago. The impetus of the song is him doing that.”David Yow (449)

“I think that’s the first song I ever wrote. I wrote the music and the lyrics to that. I had been in a punk rock band before that, and my girlfriend, Carla, who was just a sweet, wonderful, beautiful girl, had dumped me. A few of the songs on that first Scratch Acid record are kind of about her and “Cannibal” is one of them. I mean, after she dumped me, I just felt sick for so long. I had headaches, I had stomachaches. My heart was broken.”David Yow (449)