DK & The Hoop Snakes 2016

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Rick Carter: drums
Adam “atomotics” Haynes: bass, vocals
Greg “Dk” Kelley: guitar, percussion, vocals
John Kelly: guitar, percussion, vocals
Rick “Lefty” Lubrant: guitar, vocals
Lida May Tucker: vocals

Tom Kessler: additional guitar on “Remember Me”

Produced by Lord Erudite
All words and music by Greg “Dk” Kelley except “Torna,” an adaptation by Dk of “Torna a Surriento” by Ernesto and Giambattista De Curtis,” 1902, (PD)
Additional lyric in “Zombie Rock” by John Kelley
Recorded and mixed at Bottom Floor Studio, Tucker, Georgia, March-July, 2016
Mastered by Michael Graves at Osiris Studio

Cover design by Lefty
Photography by Andrea Larner, Lefty, Rodney Muncke, and Kevin Thomas

Blame

I see you got a another corneal abrasion
Makes it hard for you to see
Who caused the crime who made the mayhem
Who caused the injury
You got your poison pen you got your poison paper
I know you’re taking some names
Poison paper and poison pen
So you can blame blame blame blame blame blame blame blame blame
Am I humble enough to take a cheap plea bargain
I guess the answer is no
I’m way too proud to bow and beg and for your forgiveness
I guess I gotta let you go
Oh well the subcommittee asking who lost China
Take your pick they’re all the same
Who who lost China subcommittee ask
So you can blame &c.
So let it low as you can go as you can go
Let’s have a toast to the cultural leader
Makes it hard for you to see
Outside agitators coming down here
As seen on your TV
Somebody else is making an invasion
Don’t know from where they came
Invasion made by somebody else
Who you can blame &c.

Super Smeller

Wash your hands boy
She’s a super smeller
Brush your teeth man
She knows what you do
Wipe your feet boy
She’s a super smeller
Knows what you do
Check your mustache fella
She’s a super smeller
What’s that dripping goo
Knows what you do
Supplemental roughage
She knows what you do
She’s a super smeller
Olfactory reconnaissance
Hyper-sensory response
Chemical surveillance
Particulate intelligence

Remember Me

The candle flickers I’ve tried to watch it ‘til the dawn
Not going to make it the candle fire is almost gone
I know I lit it just just too early in the day
Miscalculating how fast candles burn away
Will you remember me when my face you longer see
Will you remember me when there is nothing left of me
And when I finally hang up my guitar on a weeping willow tree
Pray you tell me will you still remember me
The party’s over the fight is fought the race is run
I’ve turned the corner I have surrendered I have succumbed
I’ve lost everything but what I truly need
But now I know that those I love I love indeed
Will you remember me when my voice you no more hear
Will you remember me when you have shed your one last tear
And when I finally hang &c.
Remember me
Will you remember me will you still remember me
And when I finally hang &c.

Torna/Hello Hell/Zombie Rock

Only the better sort of people get to go to hell
You’ll find our residence requirements quite restrictive overall
Our great activity is exclusivity
It is quite insufficient me-early to lie or cheat or steal
Oh hell is only for the people who can feel
Our entertainments are quite edifying here in hell
Witness those lovers gaily tossed upon the whirlwind to and fro
You see they know their crime justifies all the time
That we require to be convinced that we should break the seventh seal
Oh hell is only for the people who can feel
You see this naked calculation isn’t quite the thing
We’re more impressed by your capacity for suffering
Do you feel pity for the loved one you have wronged
Do you regret a simple pleasure when it’s gone gone gone
The feasts of hell will tantalize even the most jaded of tastes
Perfection just out of one’s reach will stimulate the palate fine
With sounds euphonious so pandemonious
The songs of hellish joy and pain accompany each lavish meal
Oh hell &c.
You see this naked &c.
So you must ask yourself did Mom and Papa raise you right
And is your breeding really adequate for these infernal rolls
Do you feel guilt rush in for every little sin
Do you feel infinite remorse for children crushed beneath your heel
Oh hell is only for the people who can feel

Dire predictions from the days of old
Prophesying the death of Rock and Roll
They’re telling all the boys and girls to try to act their age
Who’re coming out around the world
Rising from their graves
Zombie rock zombie rock zombie rock
See the flesh dripping off a their bones
Rock and roll has up and died
We ain’t got God on our side
Rock is dead let’s do the zombie rock
Mama papa told me in 1956
To turn down that radio and it was going to make me sick
Beer and sex and cigarettes
Conspire to make me die
But Suzie Pony-tail never forgets
She wanna hear the Wolfman cry
Zombie rock &c.
Someone come and put a hole in our heads
Let the air in and out of our heads
We got world famous collapsible heads
We got shrunken heads
You know they buried Rock and Roll in a television box
They drove a stake through those blue suede shoes
And through the bobby sox
Cut the heads off all the boys and girls
Who wouldn’t to act their age
There’s nothing left to live for in this world
When calypso’s all the rage
Zombie rock &c.
Please don’t make me go back up in there

Earthly Love

I pray at the temple of your love sweet love
I give thanks at the shrine of your earthly love
We become one in our bodies
We become one in our souls
I pray at the temple of your love
I take warm sanctuary in your love sweet love
I feel safe from all evil in your earthly love
You raise me up when you touch me
And you thrill me when you settle down
I take warm sanctuary in your love
Well passion is suffering
Yes and reason is woe
But the heart has its reasons
That reason does not know
Earthly love earthly love give me sweet earthly love
Earthly love earthly love give me sweet earthly love
We become one in our bodies
Ah become one right down in our very souls
Give me love give me sweet earthly love

Don’t Measure Me

Every night after midnight I wander to the shrine
Of that vast immortal fabulous great lady
I go down to the museum but all I’ve ever seen
Is this little girl who haunts me white and naked
If you see what I’ve seen all these images so unclean
Please don’t please don’t please please please
Don’t measure me
On the street the spots of oil shining in the yellow light
Reflect scenes they are so violent and shameful
Shine their oily little rainbows like the creatures of the night
Who just cough and lift their skirts in supplication
If you see &c.
BR: Think about what you pray for think about what you need
For you might get what you pray for
What you live for you will die for you will carry to your grave
Better not hope for salvation when there’s nothing left to save
I’ve seen planets tire and die with repletion from their vice
Plenty ready for the poison conflagration
Now they’ve crowned me with thorns and they’ve numbered all my bones
But I’m still one step shy of deification
Now you’ve seen &c.

One Million Billion

My baby’s driving one million billion batmobiles
My baby’s driving one million billion batmobiles
That’s a lotta cars that’s how many there are
My baby’s driving one million billion batmobiles
My baby’s beating one million billion slot machines
My baby’s beating one million billion slot machines
That’s a lotta machines for one boy to beat
My baby’s beating one million billion slot machines
I dunno how he’s driving all those cars
I dunno how he’s beating all those machines
I dunno how he’s making all that money
But I hope he’s not making lots of big mistakes
My baby’s taking one million billion sleeping pills
My baby’s taking one million billion sleeping pills
That’s a lotta pills to make one boy sleep
My baby’s taking one million billion sleeping pills
My baby’s working one million billion sex machines
Moving doing it you know like one million billion sex machines
That’s a lotta sex that’s sure a lotta sex
My baby’s working one million billion sex machines
One million billion

Residue

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

(Don’t Let Him) Steal Your Heart

He will steal your lighter he will steal your pen
And then an I’m sorry letter to you he will send
He’s measured every lock and stock and crock and packer picker’s part
Let him steal your money but don’t let him steal your heart
He will promise the ocean promise the moon
You look cute when you’re pregnant you will hear pretty soon
You know he’s only practicing the panderer’s art
Let him steal your money but don’t let him steal your heart
Let him steal the roof out from over your head
Let him steal your grandpappy’s four poster bed
Let him steal your grandmama’s frying pan
But when he comes for your loving run as fast as you can
Fall for a feel-up fall for a smile
He’s gonna run out of gas on the 35th mile
That Mustang five point oh’s something that you never shoulda start
Let him steal your money but don’t let him steal your heart
Let him steal the radio steal the fan
Let him steal your furniture as fast as he can
We got a good thing going don’t let him tear it apart
Don’t let his greasy hands get a grip on your heart
He’ll steal your living he’ll steal your time
He’ll steal your lyrics your rhythm your rhyme
He’ll steal your arms and your legs and all the good body parts
Let him steal your money but don’t let him steal your heart

In the Loop

You’re in the loop her wicked loop
Orbit her planetary circle
You’ll kiss the boot jump through the hoop
Now you can join her vicious circus
She’s got the noose around your neck
Now you can flop upon deck
Now feel all humble-ing sensations
She’s got the key to all your woes
She got the ring piercing your nose
Disciplinary exaltations
You’re in the loop her wicked loop
Now she controls your life’s direction
One of the group one lazy scoop
She’s added you to her collection
Now let us teach you how to pray
Now let us school you what to say
Now you must beg for her to like you
Now that she’s got you on your knees
Worship her fearful symmetries
Hands on each side ready to strike you
Behold her minions in a row
Behold how we put on the show
Enter and exit at her pleasure
No need to kick and raise a fuss
Now you belong as one of us
One little jewel in her treasure

Not Even

Is it more precious than gold not even
Is it more precious than seeds not even not even not even
What have you done with your precious one
None under your lock and key
How do you judge you care too much
You believe but you cannot see
Don’t you want to give it to me not even not even not even

Panic Button

The people down the hall don’t look like me
The food they cook is smelling freakily
Come to think of it my girlfriend looks different too
I must protect myself what am I going to do
Why don’t you
Ditch the panic button
Just cool your head just cool your jets jets jets jets jets
When all you think about is sucking self-defence
You get a chubby just dreaming ‘bout a 12-foot fence
When your hair stands up and your claws extend
You’re sure as sure as shit is sure the world is gonna end
Why don’t you
Ditch &c.
Every atom in the universe making you scared
You heard something go bump on the outside stair
Oooh maybe it’s the bad people from down the hall
Oh my god you just shot the family dog
Why don’t you Ditch &c.

I Need Your Help

Instrumental

Word Talking

I am word talking man I am word talking man
I got words louder than actions
Gonna make everybody understand
I have seen the end of the the world I have seen the end of the the world
Oh the sorrow and the suffering
Little girl little girl
I am word talking man I am word talking man
I got words knock down palaces
Knock down empires where they stand