DK & The Hoop Snakes, 2023

Salt Marsh

When you’ve put aside your creamy candies
Follow the forbidden road
Past the crummy asphalt land
To where the salty rushes grow
The web of roots and rhizomes
Grassblood tangle of weeds and palmetto
The slicing sawgrass fingers
Risky region of fish and mosquitoes
Sand will reach each crease and crevice
Sulfur seasons rack your bones
Can’t you see you don’t belong here
Can’t you see you’re not at home
The wading birds complaining
Moonsong heard where the tides are receding
Ominous sounds of water
Go now leave the invertebrates breeding
Here everything its place of birth
Here everything returns to earth
Here uncanny peace and strife
Go live your little human life
Birth and death must not surround you
These extremes are not your call
Fish and fowl and worm deny you
Seek the comfort of your hall
The smell of decomposing
Tread not here where the bugs are prolific
Boot sucks up marshmud bubbles
Tombgas primitive scent of placenta

Lying Crying

I saw you lying on the floor I saw you crying on the floor
I saw you lying lying crying lying on the floor
That’s when I knew you swore you’d never love me no more
I heard you talking in your sleep I heard you walking in your sleep
I heard you talking talking walking talking in your sleep
That’s when I knew you’d never never be mine to keep
Don’t leave me don’t leave me can’t you see I love you so
Please need me please need me I need to never let you go
I saw you haunting in the night I saw you flaunting in the light
I saw you haunting haunting flaunting in the lights at night
I knew that never again would everything be alright
I love you I love you I don’t know what else I can say
I love you I love you I hate to see our love decay
I’m breaking up it’s breaking up
I’m breaking down we’re breaking up
You just don’t need me

Torna (Falling)

You may find yourself yearning
To the earth to be returning
For the rest you have been earning
All the days you’ve been awake
While the day is calmly ending
Nightfall gently is descending
Light and dark lusciously blending
Mingled fragrances ascending
Toward decline your thoughts are tending
Old Decay you are befriending
To him songs of love you’re sending
Quiet breath away to take
Do not think you’re leaving
No one here is deceiving
Let be no grieving
Do not fear falling down
All of the bridges they are falling down
The London bridges they are falling down
And all the bridges down in Jacksonville are falling falling falling down
All of the skyscrapers are falling down
All of the palaces are falling down
Don’t give your heart and soul to things material things falling falling down
And all the lovely things are falling down
And all the ugly things are falling down
And all the secret things you covet falling falling down

Decay

I am Decay
The lord of all the things that decompose
All that which opens comes to me to close
You know me
I am the wheel of life’s downturning side
Where soon you will abide
Come dance with me
I am Decline
The blessed sun himself falls in the west
Leaving in darkness you and all the rest
You know me
I am the destiny of all that stands
All matter in my hands
Come dance with me
I am Decay
I am the force that dwells so deep beneath all lovely things
For without me the sweetest blushing flower never springs
I am Decease
You know from story and from song of old
Things fall apart the center cannot hold
You know me
All beauty fades all love must breathe its last
Affections in the past
Come dance with me
I am Decay
I am the spirit of the compost pit
The essence of the fertilizing shit
Come dance with me

Head Explode

You keep telling me I can’t
You don’t know me well enough
I start dropping things when you talk like that
Everybody has got their stuff
Don’t burden me with no heavy load
I will not let my head explode
‘Cause I break it up when my head explode
You got a million rules putting me in debt
Nobody gonna make me multitask
I don’t live my life living under threat
I can’t do my thing and watch my ass
I do not honor your honor code
I will not let &c.
I try to drive my car take it nice and slow
Everybody else fast and furious
Trying to gain attention so everybody knows
Neither life nor death is taken serious
It’s nightmare out there on the open road
I will not let &c.
Everywhere I look it’s a vision of hell
Broke up skulls broke up leg bones
I saw woman’s face look like an empty shell
Nothing can be seen if it isn’t shown
Everybody reaps what they have sowed
I will not let &c.

Any Eye

Everything’s just a little worse than it ever ever used to be
It’s just decay as far as any eye can see