Influenced by Eliot and Kierkegaard as much as by the musicians they may sound like (Warren Zevon, Velvet Underground), HKM (perhaps merely as personal therapy, now respectfully offered to you) mediate raw experience through the Rock/Pop form.

10 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Progressive Rock, POP: Quirky



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WATCHEM DIE
Shot that boy on the Fourth of July
Cause he was reaching for his Daddyâs gun
I think
I think the roof caved in beneath a clear blue sky
Youâll have to hose me out, too,
But youâll never have to watch me die.

We never have to watchem die
We never have to watchem die
Itâs amazing what can happen when you never have to watchem die.

So we torture their bodies
And we die on their sands
As we spread our blood and treasure all over their land
And the man who gave the order
He wonât ever understand
How anyone can say that heâs got blood on his hands.

Cause he never has to watchem dieâ¦



RISE, LAZARUS
Itâs just a wind in the desert
Itâs just a ship passing silent through an empty sea
Itâs just the grasp of an infant
Itâs just the rise of a mountain through a million years
I see blindness of the start embrace the darkness of the end
Lord, why did you pick me up, just to let me go again?

You gotta rise, Lazarus
You gotta take your bed and walk

I hear those gentle voices calling me
I know thereâs nothing here to fear
Just like a mother reaching out her arms
To draw a long-lost child near

Itâs just the cold in the ocean
Itâs just the leaves in a river on a nameless day
Itâs just a storm on a city
Itâs just the cries of the people as theyâre swept away

Please donât tell me, Lord, that death is not the end
Iâve been once through this vale of tears, I canât walk it once again

You gotta rise, Lazarusâ¦








KYRIE ELEISON
Know someday Iâm gonna have to pay
For all that awful shit I done
Wheel turn round and the devil take his due
They say, Big J, Youâre a jealous God,
And Youâll be comin after me.
Ya ask me what I was thinking about
Iâll say I was thinking bout a young girlâs laugh on a summer breeze.

Kyrie Eleisonâ¦


That was in another country and a long time ago
And, besides, Iâm pretty sure I think that wench is dead.
Never thought that a little indiscretion would leave such a heavy weight on my head.
But Iâm ready now, Dad, and Iâm waitin down on my knees.
Just let me hear once more, before itâs time to go,
The sound of a young girlâs laugh on a summer breeze.

Kyrie Eleisonâ¦.

I know
Iâve got
Such a long list of sins to make.
But I think
Iâll just
Let the dead bury the dead today.

Kyrie Eleisonâ¦


IâLL BE THE BOY
Iâll be the boy who lives down the lane
And youâll be the girl whoâs always sixteen.
Iâll be the kid who waits at the stair
And youâll be the Mom with the soft brown hair.

Little boy waits at the stair
For you to guide him down
His eyes have seen no sorrow or pain
His footsteps donât make a sound.

Young girl waits in a car
For you to take her out
Her eyes are full of sorrow and pain
Her kiss feels just like a shout

Iâll be the boy who lives down the lane
And youâll be the girl whoâs always sixteen.
Iâll be the kid who waits at the stair
And youâll be the Mom with the soft brown hair.

Except there ainât no boy who lives down the lane
And there ainât no girl whoâs always sixteen
And the kid grows up who waits at the stair
And Mom donât always have the soft brown hair.


SECOND CENTURY
I donât know what you think you see
But Iâm not the man I appear to be
Sherriff took my badge a long time ago.

Youthâs a thing of hope and lies
It shouts a bit, and then it dies
And leaves this helpless victim in its wake.

You look at me and you see a coat and tie
But miss the dirt beneath my nails.
Iâm not too old to see the look in a young girlâs eye
But this ancient heart is blind
Its valor left so far behind
That its spirit fails.

There was a time before your time
There was a life, there was a light
That made this dead man live and this blind man see.

But even now it should be clear
That the slave who whispers in your ear
Tells you only what you already knew.

You see love turn to dust before your eyes
Its crimson fades so fast and turns to grey
All this time gone past, and thereâs so little left to say.
The old man wakes to find
All that the young man left behind
In his careless way.



COME, ICE AGE
Blow ye winds
Crack yer cheeks
Drown the cocks and drench the steeples.
Crack the moulds
Burn my head
Split the trees and make me dead.
Rumble fire
Spout the rain
I tax you not
Cause youâre my friend.

Rage and blow
Strike us down
Flat the earth and make us drown.
Houseless heads
Warm and dry
Beneath the edge
Of this perfect sky.
Come no more
Soft and low
But warm your heart
Cause I see the snow.

Come, Ice Age, come.
Live, my fool, and sing for everyone.

Stage of fools
Say yer lines
Where weâve been
Where weâll die
Weep away
Take me eyes
Damn the earth
And damn her skies
Sing ye birds
Burst yer cage
Sing the end of this bitter day.
Cause where weâve been
Is where weâll die
So weep away
And take my eyes.

Come, Ice Age, come.
Live my fool, and sing for everyone.




HYACINTH GIRL
Hello, my name is Mary
But they call me the hyacinth girl.
Iâve been here seven years
But they still call me the hyacinth girl.

Those are pearls that were your eyes
Iâve suffered all that you desire
Iâll bring you flowers when youâre blind
But youâll have to pay me more next time.

Hello, my name is Mary
But they call me the hyacinth girl.

Down we go, so hold on tight
The hanged man wonât be in tonight
The lilacs from your corpse will bloom
As I resurrect that girl you knew.

Hello, my name is Mary
But they call me the hyacinth girl.
I much prefer your roses
But they call me the hyacinth girl.

Youâre my brother, youâre my father
The card you drew says death by water
Iâll wet your hair, Iâll white your bones
Your Irish girl waits said alone.

Hello, my name is Mary
But they call me the hyacinth girl
I was born in April
So the call me the hyacinth girl.



I FEEL FREE
You, you are the girl they want
But I live in the sand.
So I walk down the street when thereâs no one there
And I look for the light in your house.
But you wonât understand.
It always feels like thereâs a third one in the room.
I feel free.

I, I keep where itâs safe, below,
But you live in the sky.
So I crawl up above when thereâs no one there
And I look for the light in your house.
But you will hide whatâs behind your eye.
It always feels like thereâs a third one in the room.
I feel free.



LORDSHIP AND BONDAGE
I feel so bad
Lookin down at the dust on my shoes
Whyâd I have to be a workin man
And spend my day like another man chooses?

Whyâs it gotta work this way
Be a man just when I get my pay?

Cause Iâm nothin,
And I should be everything.

I feel so tired
Of being your bastard son
I know someday soon
I just gotta pop my chain and run.

Whyâve I gotta take this chance?
Whyâve I gotta kill this man?

Cause Iâm nothin,
And I should be everything.




LAST TIME
You promised this would be the last time
Turned out it wasnât very hard
Just pressed my face up to the window
And watched the power lines go by.

That night it started snowing
So I pressed my face up to the window
Schoolâd be out for all the children.
Bags tied round their feet would keep them warm and dry.

Iâm alright
Iâm alright
Donât look me in the eye
But Iâm alright.

There was a chair out in the hallway
There was a woman with long fingers
There were lights in all the windows
There were lights in all the windows, there was darkness in the sky.

We drive so fast
We drive so fast
Weâll drive so very far today.

You drive so fast
You never know
Youâre any further on your way.

Will it happen
When it happens
Will it happen like they say?

You drive so fast
You never noticed
That it happened yesterday.

Thereâs still horses in the pastures
Thereâs still children on the playgrounds
And all the people in the buildings
Trains wait at the station to take them home at night.

Iâm alright
Iâm alright
Donât look me in the eye
But Iâm alright.