From the recording Snakes
Today is St Patrick’s Day. This holiday has become something that I have grown to love more and more for my own set of reasons. The band that I run with has a 3-hour traditional Irish set that we perform this time of year. It’s a real blast and I’ve come to love the songs and the playing of them with people so close to me. I wanted to do a song for St. Patrick’s Day.
On a separate note, I’ve been thinking a lot about psychopaths lately. They move through society so easily. It’s as though us normies are somehow enamored with them. It seems like they ascend to the highest points of our institutions and society with such ease. It’s like most of us are under a spell, and these psychos just have the run of the place.
I reckon that they are as ancient as anything else. Any account of Roman History is surely dotted with absolute psychopaths. But Caligula didn’t have the internet, a global media apparatus or suicide drones. Lately, it just feels like we’ve given them the keys to the shop and gone inside to watch Judge Judy while they destroy everything.
I hope I’m wrong or perhaps not seeing the big picture
Lyrics
Wake me up
It’s St Patrick’s Day but still there’s all these snakes
I see em round, everywhere I go
They’re moving in
They’re eating everything we’re tryna pull together
Pretty soon they’re gonna take it all
We fell asleep when we shoulda been guarding the wall
We couldn’t see, no reason to worry at all
Fathers tried to keep their sons in the dark
Surely now, there’d never be another war
The coast was clear so we all went out to lunch
It’d do us good to kick back and relax a touch
Things were going fine, We didn’t see trouble nowhere
One or two got through, now they’re everywhere
They toughened up when they found themselves alone
No warming lies on winter nights out on their own
Mothers told, their daughters to beware
This world had snakes, everywhere lies a snare
Those days of hunger don’t come up to much
In this land of plenty, milk and honey, paper money and such
Things are going bad and Everyones scared,
What do we do, me and you, Is there anyone there