DK & The Hoop Snakes, 2024

Sweet Desire

Sweet desire comes with bitterness
When you can’t control what you need
Sweet desire comes with destructiveness
But those I love I love indeed
You got a feeling you can’t deny
Satisfaction or you’re gonna die
Start to like the feeling start to like the tease
Once again you have been enthralled
Doesn’t matter what you think it’s called
It’s just the enslavement no action ever frees
Sweet desire &c.
I ate all the strawberries runs so very contrary
I wanted to share them with you
You got a passion that never sleeps
Haunting the daylight haunting all your dreams
Full on satisfaction never satisfies
Sweet desire &c.

Half in Two

You split me half in two now baby
Cut me off from myself
Sent half of me to heaven baby
Sent half of me to hell
You split me half in two baby
Don’t know how act don’t know what to do
You sucked out the best part of my life
You split me half in two
You tied me up in circles baby
Got me going round and round
I’m tangled up like a hoop snake baby
Ah that’s rolling on the ground
You tied me up in circles baby
And I can’t tell last from first
Don’t know which way is up no more
You tied me up in circles
Lashed me to a rock made vultures eat my guts
Everything is a punishment you just can’t get enough
Stab me in eye put a bullet in my back
Make me crucified then you wish me good luck
You split me half in two now baby
I’m one half false and one half true
North and south are just directions now
You split me half in two

Mr Polymer

I got on the motorway
How I got here I can’t say
Broken gridlines show welcome escape
From the fictions of display
Hey Mr Polymer wrap me in your ever-branching chain
Help me to forget my name
From the darkness and the light
Take away what afflicts my sight Mr Polymer
I am driven down this place
Here I stand and here I stay
Blessed be sterility
To be more and less than man
Hey Mr &c. from the water and the wine
Take away anything of mine Mr Polymer
Oh your dwelling is invisible In the raging highway sign
I am mapped on your telemetry
Let me see it shine
I’ll be happy I’ll be free No more personality
Under your expectancy and the glory of your hand
Hey Mr &c. from my life and my lifelessness
Through the doorway let me confess Mr Polymer

I’m Falling

I woke up this morning my lips all stained with wine
All night long the room was whirling
Every time I closed my eyes
Oh from a falling dream I want to light beside you
I’m vertiginously being thrown
Out and down to the frozen ground
From the foot of the empyreal throne
I’m falling falling from heaven
I’m falling from out of the sky
I’m falling I gotta pitch and roll and it’s such a dizzy height
I’m falling can’t see the bottom I’m falling I’m taking a dive
I’m falling in combustion down yes and this must be the life
Burn up on reentry you can trace the fiery trail of my flight
Set my bar with the shooting stars
Who burn out because they’re burning so bright
I wear no jumping boots I got no parachute
Got no google goggles up on my eyes
Steal the fire from the father dire
And you can watch the thief as he flies
I’m falling &c.
Headed for a hideous ruin I see the creeping fear in your eyes
Splattered on the sidewalk can this really be the end of my life
Ah honey don’t you cry you see I’m glad to die
If I get to lie a while in your arms
Everyone some day got to go away
So now tell me where’s the hurt or the harm
I’m falling &c.