STEPHEN & THE SNAKE "HEAT LIGHTNING" & "LEFT HAND, RIGHT HAND (SINGLE)

STEPHEN & THE SNAKE IMG-S501 UPC: 884385181697 Produced by Martin & Gulliksen for Iris Properties, Inc.

1. Heat Lightning 2. Left Hand, Right Hand

Experimental musical form, blending elements of poetry, folk, jazz, and ambient sound.

(1) Heat Lightning" This is a story about feeling powerless in the face of heartbreak. It s hot, hard to breath. Your shirt is stuck to your skin. A flat cloud cover reflects the city lights. You tremble, numb from waiting at the window for the rain. Maybe it s the window of a jail cell, or of the solitary confinement of your own room. Maybe you re trapped within your own aching heart. A tightly coiled spring inside your mind is about to snap. The lightning flashes. The lightning lies. There ll be no rain, and she s not coming. There ll be only tears.

(2)Left Hand, Right Hand: These are the wages of tyranny, wherever it occurs. Some bloody day, the victims of oppression will rise up. They always have. They always will. Bereft of liberty and justice, armed with truth and righteous fury, be they left or right, black or white, they will unite. Together they will lop off the fist of fascism and break the chains of bondage. They will burn away the rot of corruption and build upon the ashes. And liberty and justice will be theirs again. The song is inspired by a poem by Francis Woodbridge, Jr