Dark Rock — An adult rider rests beside an immense star-reflecting obsidian outcrop above a bright Central California river valley filled with wildflowers

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Dark Rock

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr. Listen to the recorded versions and follow the lyric below.

Original Doug Heyes lyrics · AI-generated music & vocals

Dark stone becomes a recurring image for a world that has bruised the narrator without ending his capacity for love. Motorcycles, river crossings and downtown nights carry two companions toward escape. Amid defiance and danger, the most important promise is modest and human: they will get through the night together.

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Recorded versions

3 recordings. Different voices and arrangements bring another side of the song into the light.

Lyrics

Dark Rock

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr

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DARK ROCK

Dark Rock
It's like Carbon or Obsidian
Dark Rock
You’d better ride your Indian
I'll come on my Victory
We'll swim away in Ecstasy
We'll sing, Baby, Can't You See
What this World has done to me

Give me a smile, my sweet Love Child
Your kind of style just drives me wild
Come on, take a ride another country mile
See you in the morning over on the other side
We can head up there together in the middle of the night
We can talk about forever and make everything all right
We can swim across the River till the world is out of sight
If it's broken, Baby, we can put it right

CHORUS:
Dark Rock
Are you digging in too deep?
Dark Rock
Do you have promises to keep?
Hard Rock
Are you still counting sheep till you are fast asleep?
Do you have a Home, do you have enough to eat?
Dark Rock
Let's go dancing in the street!

BRIDGE:
Gonna cock and lock it
Like another Davy Crockett
Got a rocket in my pocket
And you're never gonna stop it
When we get Downtown, you really gotta Rock it
If you can't find a Line, then Baby, maybe time to walk it
Boulevard of Broken Dreams, nothing ever what it seems
Gonna have to break the lock, Dark Rock, Dark Rock

It's another sunny day, time to make our getaway
Cuz, when it's time to play, we all need a holiday
It's a dark, black rock, but it's shining like a light
I got a hardwood stock on my shoulder for the night
You tell me that the stars are bright, I can't see, but it's all right
Both our candles burning bright
We'll make it through another night

Early in the morning, at the dawning of the light
You are sleeping by my side, and everything's all right
Just the way I promise you, we both made it through the night
Now I am here to hold your Hand until we say good night
Dark Rock, but honey, you can see inside
Dark Rock, it's not another lonely ride
We'll go places you've never seen
Escape the Land of In Between

OUTRO:
Dark Rock, and a little shot of soul
Don't stop, I've got a little rock and roll
Let's rock, don't ever tell me what to do
Dark Rock, cuz baby, I'm in love with you
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