Death on the Horizon

Written: Electronics Class, TVI, Albuquerque NM, 1973

Knees was exceptionally bored one day in vocational school and wrote the lyrics to two songs, Death on the Horizon (a Neil Young-inspired ditty) and Who Cares As Long As I Get Mine? (a C&W contrarian song). At noon he decided to take the rest of the day off and went home and wrote the music to both. Obviously, both the lyrics and the music are plagiarisms of what Neil Young had done with songs like Down by the River.

Were you down by the river

In the cold last night

Did you see someone lyin on the sand

Did you hear the sound of someone

Cursin black and white

Did you feel the blood on your hands?

Tell the world there’s death on the horizon

Murder in the hearts of the people you love

If a song would stain the killer

With the blood of his victim

Would you dare to sing the words

You’re thinkin of?

Was he black, was he white?

You never did say

If he was a friend

Did you know the other guy too?

Did you get a premonition

Of the coming of the end

Just what the hell are you gonna do?