DK & The Hoop Snakes, 2024

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Produced by Lord Accurate and Lord Erudite

Recorded, mixed, and mastered at Bottom Floor Studio, Tucker, Georgia

Charles Barrow: bass and vocal
Rick Carter: drums
Greg “Dk” Kelley: guitar and vocal
Lida May Tucker: vocal

All songs, words, and music on by Greg “DK” Kelley

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.

It’s a Mixture

Sometimes I hear you talking in your sleep
I hear you say the word yes to me
Asleep you don’t know there’s a world outside
And I can’t even dream what’s on your mind
There’s strangeness everywhere
Fair and foul and foul and fair
Feel yourself dying all of the time
How you gonna work out a rhyme
It’s a mixture it’s a mixture
Missing out can’t be and avoidable crime
‘Cause nothing ever happens one at a time
Be glad for wet falling red and green leaves
Be glad for breakers breaking on the beach
Be glad no singularity frames the world
Little bit boy and a little bit girl
I get scared when I’m all alone
I feel afraid when everybody is gone
But when I feel warm loving come near
It kinda puts a shine on my fear
It’s a mixture &c.
You and I we’re looking out
Yeah between the golden bars
Of the flaming ramparts of the world
What lies out there beyond the farthest stars
It’s a mixture &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

What’s Ailing Me

I just don’t know what’s ailing me
I left my home to sail the sea
Now I can’t tell what’s up from down
The world keeps whirling around and round
As with an arrow string and bow
All those I love all those I know
I’ve pierced their hearts I know they bleed
I just don’t know what’s ailing me
My restless body restless mind
Will not stay still will not take time
To smell the flowers blooming round
To hear the mockingbird’s glad sound
I love to laugh I love to sing
Love pleasure more than anything
But simple joy I cannot see
I just don’t know what’s wrong with me
In neither water nor in wine
Can I find anything that’s mine
Before the day I cross the sea
Won’t somebody say what’s ailing me

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.