i’m still not satisfied
i never have been n i never will
i wanna explain myself
i wanna explain this whole damn thing
i wanna explain why we are neither created by jehovah nor evolution
i wanna explain how this illusion is penetrated
i wanna call out for mercy and for peace on earth
no unnecessary killings please
anywhere by anyone to anything
yeah and keep our new l.p. on the amazon charts
yeah king fred summons old bach
yeah my mind has fractured
this is really how it is
i aint pretending with you now
get thee on thy stomach
and go about in dust alleth your days
i turn rods into serpents for my own back
yes i am the snakeman from your dreams
cold and hard like coiled steel flexing round the world i squeeze
the spirit of rock has filled me
the spirit of rock has taken me
it waits in my cortex the killer
it spirals out as i hit the stage
as the first note hits the atmosphere
the spirit of rock says
NOW ROCK TO THE EAST
NOW ROCK TO THE WEST
NOW YOURE ROCKING INNA HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT
and lo and be hulled
and low and be held
and white happy moses drank the rich rice milk in vineland
and he led his people to a beautiful gig
and he said wait here for i must prepare
and so he retired to his wilderness room
where the burning bush appeared before him
for a long time he communed with the bush
and he learned of the mysteries of rock
its deep subtleties that can invoke ecstasy
but his followers grew restless
and said amongst themselves
he does not talk to us
he does not embrace us
he does not cherish us
but how were they the riff raff to know
the old man had much cherished his dear ones around the world
for 30 summers n winters it was said
he had led them through the nothingness
and at last had he delivered them here
24 hour deliverance he guaranteed himself in rock n roll
and after three long decades
moses had not withered or over ripened
but had fully matured as a receiver
no longer a grim or dim receiver
but a true receiver
and as he receives
he reflects back
and by a subtle art unbeknownst to any
a combination of ideas
by a movement
by a sudden intensity
by a flexing of muscle
by a slackening of tension
by a thrust or retreat
by a flurry of information
by words which will pierce your brosnan
by everything included
and by everything left out
by the way the drums are beaten to death
by the way the guitars howl like monkeys with rabies
by the way racket seems to come from everywhere at once
but its a controlled howling racket
its not a sloppy amateurish racket
its the spirit of rock and its mean and inchoate
but we got four master(bator)s here
controlling its possible explosion into absurdity
holding it right there
there on the brink
right there on the very edgiest edge
in the twilight world
where nothing means anything
and anything means everything
and as we play we will hammer you with poignance till you drop
you wont know why
you wont be able to decipher it
it will happen too fast
like a drunk slugger from a pub
versus
a nimble kung fu wolfe
we will disarm you and have you down
before you even know where you are
loud and stupid and brutal
suddenly that will make sense
simple and throbbing
then the words start up
oh they are not simple my friend
they are your own mirror
to see yourself and all i did was the frame
me?
i”m a desert wind in a telephone box
i dial yer #s up
i pick yer locks
i have transcended
i am not what i ever was before
you will see
you will see
the spirit of rock has taken me now
i invited it in so long ago
but i had to be truly ready
for he has inhabited so very very few before me
i have had a almost 40 year apprenticeship
until just so very recently
when he did fly into me mid song
and takeover and merger
and oh god the spirit of rock is truly infallible
none of you will ever know this feeling i guess
i’m sorry but i sacrificed everything so that i may rock
now lo
it hath come to pass
the spirit will say
ROCK TO THE NORTH
ROCK TO THE SOUTH
ROCK LIKE A BITCH
ROCK LIKE A BASTARD
ROCK LIKE HONEY
ROCK LIKE FIRE
ROCK LIKE VELVET
ROCK LIKE SEX
ROCK LIKE LIFE
ROCK LIKE DEATH
the spirit of rock where do you cometh from ?
ASK NOT ! says the spirit in a vox ac 30 voice
ok spirit of rock
i say
cowering in the spirits presence
i will not unleash it again until i play
let my people wonder then at signs they hear in my sounds
in my voice let them hear the voice of everyman
and let them know me by any secret name they choose
and let them buy tickets and murch and trinkets and cds
and let them come back again n again
and clap n cheer and grin from ear to ear
oh spirit of rock……
soon
soon
i will give you your freedom again…
and then
you can do whatever you like
with me