New Single: "Guns & Drugs"

I am incredibly excited to introduce you to “Guns & Drugs,” the first song from my upcoming record. This is a song I wrote about the failed War on Drugs - which includes misguided policies focused on the punitive instead of the rehabilitative. It also speaks frankly about CIA involvement in the international drug trade, specifically the well-documented importation of drugs through Mena Airport in Arkansas while Bill Clinton was Governor. The journalist who uncovered this, Gary Webb, committed “suicide” by shooting himself in the back of the head two times. Hence the lyrics “Weave a Webb of who’s complicit, CIAin’t just gonna quit it, I Mena know just what they did...” Here’s a link to the song, exclusively found on Bandcamp: https://doughawk.bandcamp.com/track/guns-drugs

Here are the lyrics:

Why would anybody want to be like this?

Who the hell would make a man in this likeness?

Taking up the stand that he’s righteous

A joke being spoke through a throat

Corrupted, turning up the screws on this madness

They spin our lives like a top upon their axis

Ready but unsteady

Yeah, I really need the practice

To choke, tie a rope

Get united, undivided

Entire populations roped into a habit

No escape because it’s woven in the fabric

Bound and shackled to a scheme so elaborate

Broke, loving dope like a ghost

It’s so simple they’re just telling you to say no

Ain’t no poppy fields be growing in the ghetto, though

Shipping symptoms to a sickness that won’t let go

Black like a match

Feel the burning for the batch

Never let another try to smother you

Like when you’re in the gutter being other

Than you ought

It takes a lot of love, a lot of patience

Even if you’re young or if you’re ancient

We should bust it and replace it

Catalogue it and deface it

Weave a Webb of who’s complicit

CIAin’t just gonna quit it

I Mena know just what they did

We’re gonna blow the lid

It’s just the beginning

The world is burning while they’re earning

But, now we’re winning

And the sun is setting 

On the sin of sucking

The life from the living

The might from the giving

In the fight for beginnings