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Sweet Angel Cake

from Do What You Wanna Do by John Hyatt

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Little greedy grasping ghosts are grabbing everything and running all around in little cloaks

They don’t know that they are dead, folks, and old habits die hard

This ain’t no joke, they’re out of their holes and spooking up the town

Stealing your hard-earned stuff if you just for a second put it down.

Those little grasping ghosts are thieving rascals just like when they were around

Always on the take – always on the make



And some of them, look like other men or women walking round in the bright of day

They’re applying for and getting the top jobs by the way

They’re in the colleges, the government, business and the banks

Do you follow me? There’s hollow men ordering missiles, planes and tanks

To help them grab the moneybags and drag that swag and hoard it in the ground

When will the living folk wise up, it ain’t no joke we’re being outrun and overrun

By little greedy grasping ghosts.


So, here and now, I’m going to perform the ceremony to help them peacefully on their way, I will make a beautiful cake and leave it out in the sun and when those greedy grasping ghosts see it they are sure to steal a bite but it’s a magic cake and just one taste will send them to the Void where they belong. Empty to empty, hollow to the hole, everything is nothing and that’s where they do belong.


Let them be reborn in a form that will help them make amends some day

For the misery they’re causing you and me and our life-loving friends

Going round stealing from the needy and being greedy grasping from the poor

Is no way to be alive so let me show you the way that’s true leading you back through death’s door.


Come on, always on the take. Come on, always on the make. I am warning you. Whatever you do, don’t dare bite a slice of my sweet Angel Cake.

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from Do What You Wanna Do, released May 1, 2010

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