DK & The Hoop Snakes
Downstrokes
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Sunlight
I’ve been away for fifteen months
Feels like it’s been fifteen years
As my head moved forward felt my heart falling behind
But in my hour of darkness I’ve not been as I was blind
Let the sunlight in your eyes
Let the sunlight in you rise
I got on the bus to neverland
There’s a reason why they call it neverland
Frozen in the winter of the everlasting no
At last I hear the voices of the springtime waters’ flow
Let the &c.
In olden days a madman would be shut inside a box
Treatment for a head case would be darkness bars and locks
Nowadays the night police mad passions up in heat
Blow away the naked guy found wandering in the street
Praying for your body as they drop you in the hole
What they call asylum is a tomb built for the soul
Let the &c

Most Perfect Jewel
My oh my what have I done
Carelessly cast away
The only woman I ever loved
If she falters let her fall
‘Cause even the most perfect jewel is flawed
Day and night you work and toil
To make accomplishments
Something you can be proud of
Deady pride that twists your heart
When even your most perfect jewel is flawed
It’s a disappointed feeling
When you get just what you want
No pleasure is both permanent and pure
You want it make it stand still
To turn to stone
It’s a disappointed &c.
On the night I cross the bar
To meet my Maker
Will I have the courage to stand tall
And say take me in Almighty God
‘Cause even Your most perfect jewel is flawed
Even the Lord’s most perfect jewel is sadly flawed

Velvet Sleeve
Why my beloved did you abandon me
Why did you leave me my love
That’s when a hot seed
Burned through my fine velvet sleeve
Hostility perfidy insanity malignity
Incivility impunity dishonesty duplicity inanity banality
A swarm of a thousand wasps
Pursues me to the very brink
Of the ancient city cesspool
Deputy seeks revenge upon me
For the death of the sheriff
Whom I never shot

The Valve
I had a valve installed
In the back of my neck
Guilt worry and indecision
Making me a nervous wreck
I got all kind of symptoms
I got invisible pain
The Doctor said I need an implant
Keep me from going insane
Oh the valve oh the valve
Oh the valve it doesn’t shut no more
It’s all crapping out it’s not keeping down
Stuff coming up through the basement floor
My head is my house
I got a window eye
I got a hole in my rooftop
Open to a stormy sky
I got a chimney facing downward
I got a padlock in my mouth
I got danger on the outside
I ain’t never going out
Oh the valve &c.
I prayed for madness
And the madness came
I tried to halt that delivery
But it showed up just the same
I thought it’d help me write a letter
I thought it’d help me write a song
I’m not feeling any better
I’m feeling bad that I was wrong
Oh the valve &c.

Pretty Fire
Fade to black but see the image frozen on the screen
Takes me back to the dirty forest to the dirty playground
To the dirty primal furry scene
I want to turn back the line that I crossed
I want to be obliterated buggered beaten maimed
I want to watch at the keyhole I lost
I want to play the old familiar game
I’ve outgrown the stupid tricks I followed where they led
On my own I learned to scratch the pebbles
On the uneven pavement
I learned to scratch my skin until it bled
I want to drown in the creek in my backyard
I want to take a boat ride with my old vacation friends
I want to find where that dark river starts
I want find out where that river ends
Down my throat never kiss me any other way
Skin the goat let the blood go running
Let the blood go streaming
Burn the fat and throw the meat away
I want to sulk where the grape tangles grow
Light my cigarette upon the sacrificial pyre
I want to write words that nobody knows
Throw my paper on the pretty fire

I Can’t Go On
Sleep who says sleep
Someone who gets no sleep says sleep
Peace who says peace
Someone who gets no peace says peace
And it’s all I do to make peace with you
I can’t go on
One who says one
Someone who’s got no one says one
Love who says love
Someone who’s got no love says love
And it’s all &c.

Cathy Ann
I got an invitation to go out to a funeral
From the mother of my old girlfriend
Cathy Ann died of leukemia
I never loved her she died for love of me
I never loved her she died for love of me
She died for love of me
Now what am I supposed to do
I really thought really I loved her
Till I met you my love and off we ran
Found out I’d all along been telling lies
Fell out of touch with Cathy Ann
I never loved her &c.
I never listened to her heart’s love
Heart’s love heart’s love
And then sickened in her heart’s blood
Heart’s blood heart’s blood
I know I’m a conceited asshole
I know the cause of death was cancer
I know I don’t know what effect I had
I know I’ll never know the answer
My friends say I should get outside myself
Like try some charitable giving
And Jesus died to save the dead from hell
Who’s going to die to save the living
I never loved her &c.
The mother of the Virgin Mary
The virgin martyr St. Catherine
Heard of a billion babies named for them
But neither one protected Cathy Ann
I never loved her &c.

Message of Love
Hear the rhythm of love
Hear the rhythm of love and justice coming down from all around
Dreaming back to Eden nowhere and everywhere
The land of peace and freedom
To save us from the burden of
These endless days of restless rage
Hear the rhythm of love
Hear the rhythm of love and justice coming down from all around
Hear the rhythm of love coming all around
Hear the rhythm of love and justice coming down from all around
Keep away from cowardice and don’t give into fear
Don’t be intimidated by
The selfish ones those long black guns
They want frighten everyone
Sometimes they shoot sometimes they score
They buy their courage at a store
Something’s living in the sunset
Something’s living in the ocean
Something’s living in the mountain
Something’s living deep within us
Hear the rhythm &c.

Residue
You left me with a residue
A wasp-colored stain that I cannot forget
A frank expression everybody gets
You left me with a residue
You left me with a residue

I Will Signify
I’m overcome with depletion
My plenty hoard I have all spent
I’ve spent my wisest hours sleeping
My waking hours on indolence
I’ve turned my palace into wasteland
But in the place where castles rise
To such a height on so blank a night
That tells me I will signify
My jealous guardians make proposals
I should forgive I should forget
They designate my word and promise
And style them each a petty jest
The gov’nors threaten retribution
My poor weak case to charge and try
To such a height on so blank a night
That tells me I will signify
I will signify
Can’t be satisfied
While I live or die
I will signify
Somewhere is form somewhere is meaning
Just where remains a puzzlement
The hell is heaven’s star a-leading
Lately have you seen Bethlehem
No more will peace sustain the nations
Where all the bloody passions rise
I’m going nowhere somebody help me
To know that I will signify
I once had fame I once had friendship
A cross of gold upon my back
But fame and friends and gold are fleeting
Things I’ve forgotten fade to black
Ahead the endless road of freedom
Above the endless lonely sky
And in my head an endless song
That tells me I will signify
I will &c.
John Keats abed he lay a-dying
A Roman pillow neath his head
Unknown unwept and yet he whispered
I’ll be among the poets when I’m dead
I am no Keats I am no poet
I have no skill to prophesy
But to such a height on this dark blank night
I know that I will signify
I will &c.

The Glory of the World
Let’s all say goodbye to Carthage
Rome Troy Paris Moscow Washington and London
Say goodbye to Ankgor Wat
Goodbye Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Goodbye mining manufacture
Wining dining software tycoon’s billions
Thus passes
Thus passes away
Thus passes away
The glory of the world
The glory of the world
Goodbye White House goodbye Kremlin
Goodbye Moe’s & Joe’s and Mary Mac’s Tea Room
Goodbye Hamlet Mona Lisa
Abbey Road and Exile on Main Street
Goodbye Hustler goodbye Playboy
Goodbye Penthouse and every image of the birth of Venus
Thus passes &c.
Say goodbye to every being
To every animal and plant that ever lived a day
Say goodbye to every concept
Every consciousness every word you ever heard a wise man say
Say goodbye to every star to every planet
To that tender little flap of skin that ever made you stay
Thus passes &c.