DK & The Hoop Snakes 2018

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Newmade World
Dk & The Hoop Snakes
Charles Barrow: Bass, autoharp.
Rick Carter: Drums.
Greg “DK” Kelley: Guitar, keyboards, vocals.
John Kelly: Guitar, percussion, vocals.
Richard “Lefty” Lubrant: Guitar, vocals.
Lida May Tucker: Vocals.

Kenneth: mandola on “Shielded Cable.”
Steve Bonnachi: bass drum on “Dead Man’s Boots.”

All songs, words and music by Greg “DK” Kelley except “Sex Is Everywhere” words and music by Greg “DK” Kelley and John Kelly.
Additional lyric on “He Ain’t Here” by John Kelly.
All songs BMI, copyright 2018.

Produced and engineered by Lord Erudite with production assistance by Lord Accurate.
Vocal arrangements by Lin Kelley.
Recorded and mixed at Bottom Floor Studios.
Mastered by Michael Graves at Osiris Studio.

Metallurgist

I am giving you this ring that I made my very self
You can see just what it means in the metal I did melt
That’s for real that’s for earnest I am your metallurgist
My physique is Hephaestian like casting in the sand
My legs are like steel girders my arms like iron bands
At the forge and at the furnace I am your metallurgist
All my inventions the hinge the blade the screw
Rods of every length and description
Tools that turn out other tools that turn out other tools
I make newmade world I make newmade world
See the new world that I’m making all from the living fire
Wealth brought to fruition by the warmth of my desire
High on a mountain monument in Birmingham
In my left hand a hammer a spear in my right hand
See my will see my courage I am your metallurgist
I will cater and I will furnish I am your metallurgist
At your call and at your service I am your metallurgist
I am your metallurgist I am your metallurgist I am your metallurgist

Not Just Any

The dish not just any dish ran away with the special spoon
Not just any spoon ran away with the dish
My love not just any love ran away with the special guy
Not just any guy ran away with my love
Not just any not just any you’ve got plenty you can choose
Not just any not just anything will do
Something special just don’t settle for just any
Not just any not just any
The cat not just any cat sat upon the special mat
Not just any mat was sat on by the cat
My life not just any life isn’t worth a special damn
Not just any damn is not worth my life
Not just any &c.
I not just any I feel like I’m fixing to special die
Not just any die I feel like I’m fixing to
Not just any &c.
The end not just any end for the song is the special this
Not just any this is the end of the song

Sex Is Everywhere

See them see them every one every bud bird bug and beast
See them see them come a-flock just to join the universal feast
It’s nothing silly like a Cupid’s heart see them coming up from every part
Sex is everywhere
See them see those two mockingbirds hop and bop and spread their wings
Turns out mockingbirds dance every bit as good as they can sing
On the earth in the ocean in the living air
Everybody knows they make they make a pretty pair
Sex is &c.
Seeing what we both can see we got no time to be
In vengeful hateful love we just want to make love love love
Baby you have always known how make me feel so good
Baby listen to your body and your brain and do it good
I love it when you’re going to undress
Gimme gimme gimme full nakedness
Sex is &c.
Seeing what we both can see got no time to be
In hurtful taking love we just want to make love love love
We know how to make love love we just want to make love
Sex is &c.
In the morning in the dark in the kitchen in the park
Do it double do it single make it pelvic make it lingual
In the club and on the train in the heart and on the brain
They’re getting down everybody can see ‘em
They’re doing the floor down in the museum
In detroit augusta ga in Atlanta Pittsburgh PA
It’s in Oakland LA too sex in Dallas and Baton Rouge

Bacteria

There are folks you know who waste their lives avoiding every little germ
How they will regret it when the moment of their death shall come to term
These washings of the feet a pool of life deplete
You can’t live at all without bacteria elemental numbers made them small
Every living thing must have bacteria bacteria hey hey
All around the breakfast see the buttermilk the yogurt and the cheese
Saprophytic workers call the thunder-hurler’s vulture to his feast
The genius for his muse the spirochete will use
You can’t live at all without bacteria look inside your mitochondria
Every one resembles a bacteria bacteria hey hey
Blessed be the creatures who genetic substance generously trade
Blessed be the heat that bursts the seedpod far beneath the light of day
You can’t deny what is a metamorphosis
You can’t live at all without bacteria elemental &c.
You can’t live at all without bacteria look inside &c.

Dead Man’s Boots

Well they sent out a letter saying young man you bitter better
Signup for the draft in the land of the free
And from a hat they pulled a number see who goes out to the jungle
To hunt and kill the wild and bloody VC
My boots they are a dead man’s boots they don’t belong to me
They been gone down in poison and in fire
USA rose to the bait rescue the king of Kuwait
Desert Shield morphed into Desert Storm
And Tim McVeigh took as his mission to wipe out the little children
Ammonium nitrate never made it to the farm
My boots they are &c.
When the twin towers tumbled and the Pentagon crumbled
Take out the wild and the bloody Taliban
And though he had nothing to do with it let’s just go a pay a visit
To hunt and kill the wicked rascal Saddam
You and I stand here wearing dead men’s boots we both just wait and see
It all go down in poison and in fire

Newfound Love

Drenched in monochrome shimmering asterisk
Purple sidewalk wild purple traffic light uh-huh
Down at the corner of Monroe and Piedmont
There stands a pawnshop where there once was a restaurant where
Newfound love finds newmade world newfound love finds newmade world
I know you’re seeing this the way I see you
Newfound love finds newmade world
The air is shaking the ground is shaking
My hands are shaking and my heart is shaking ‘cause
Newfound love &c.
Why don’t we pass into the realm of forgetfulness
Why don’t we pass into the realm of pure nothingness
Newfound love &c.
The tiny mirrors on your clothing excite me
The tiny mirrors in your eyes delight
Newfound love &c.

Tesla vs Edison

Thomas Edison was never a wizard
Though they called him the wizard of Menlo Park
With his bag and bunsen burner trying to cage up carbon
Sweating with the dwarves grunting down in the dark
Nicola Tesla now there was a wizard
Didn’t play no charter didn’t play no mark
Listen hear that it’s the voice of the angels
Making manifest the cosmic spark
Transmit the energy transmit the energy transmit the energy
Let it flow through me let it roll over me
Edison made no discovery uncovered no truth
Assembled the gramophone and motion pictures
Goblins squawking being scratched by needles
Goblins capering about in flimsy flickers
Tesla saw through the painted screen
The tiny particles the immense vibrations
Why allocate light why allocate matter
He saw everything as interpenetration
Transmit the energy &c.
Edison was cantankerous Edison was mean
Pushed people around bragged he never needed sleep
Edison loved his patents his copyrights and contracts
Laying on other people lots of terms and conditions
Tesla was a man Tesla was far from perfect
Got frustrated when other people didn’t see the power in his hand
Migraines synaesthesia black moods of dire depression
That’s the trouble with originality never make everybody understand
Transmit the energy &c.

7 Minutes in Heaven

For seven minutes in heaven I spent a season in hell
For seven minutes in heaven I lost the one I loved so well
Well you shivered and shook and that’s all it took
To put me under your spell
For seven minutes in heaven I spent a season in hell
I know I should have known better than to meet you alone
Now the sweets of temptation have broken up my happy home
O I know I’ve done wrong and it didn’t take you long
To see that I stumbled and fell
For seven minutes in heaven I spent a season in hell
Seven minutes of rapture put a stain on my soul
Seven minutes of passion put me out in the cold
I should have bolted my doorway I heard you ringing my bell
For seven minutes in heaven I spent a season in hell
Seven minutes entangled left me knotted with pain
Seven minutes of comfort left me out in the rain
Yes I bought and I paid for what you offered to sell
For seven minutes in heaven I spent a season in hell

Signifying Blues

When you love somebody you’re gonna find things out
When you love somebody you’re gonna find things out
You’ll wish you’d never known when you love someone
It’s a forest of symbols as far as you can see
It’s a forest of symbols just as far as your eye can see
They’re telling everything you don’t know what they mean
You try to define things by their limits
Always ready to find that borderline
But what lies behind your fine perimeter abides
Like a creature from the worn outside
When you love you’re gonna wish you were dead
When you love somebody you’re gonna wish you’d never been born
But you just can’t live without them ah when you love someone
Mother Nature’s always hiding all her secrets
Everybody’s always tearing into the ground
What lies inside there never means as much
Even as much as you can say out loud
When you love somebody you’re gonna find things out
When you love somebody you’re gonna find things out
You’ll wish you’d never known when you love someone

Shielded Cable

A shielded cable runs from my fingers it fashions the eternal pickup line
No interference perfect transmission I don’t know what to call it but I call it mine
In my eyes fair trains of image rise no need to call them lies
Just because they’ve never been before
Each little piece drawn from the void each little dream it will return again
Each little heat each little joy you best be ready friend to burn again
In a grain of sand see a universe
Turning round and round and round and round and round
A monster fly squats on my paper she dots with darkness everywhere I write
I raise no fist against stupid instinct I know I’ll never teach her wrong from right
Claw in hand away together fly don’t even have to try
Galaxies and worlds within my mind
A shielded cable runs from my fingers it’s all protected from the evil way
By love eternal by love transcendent my thoughts of you my love lift me away

He Ain’t Here

He done split the scene he done tripped the wire
He done exit left he done opened fire
He done flown the coop he done hit and run
He done flashed the pan he done gone gone so
Stop your wishful thinking he ain’t here
He done cashed his chips he done paid his tab
He done grabbed his coat he done called a cab
He done bailed it out he done hit the silk
He done shot his wad he done spilt the milk so
Stop your wishful thinking &c.
Honey what you hanging around here for
He ain’t coming round about here no more
He done slipped the rope he done pulled the plug
He done flicked the switch he done rolled the rug
He done swung the door he done tipped his hat
He done take a bow he done thrown his bat
He done dust his broom he done throwed the bones
He done shifted gears he done rolled the stone
He done gone gone gone gone so
Stop your wishful thinking &c.

Big Hair

Instrumental