We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Dark Side of a Pearl

from Waiting by Doug Hoekstra

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

about

“Like a musical Eden, the underground's become a hothouse for singer/songwriters, a true embarrassment of riches…Doug Hoekstra has blossomed into an artist to be mentioned alongside Kristin Hersh, Vic Chestnut, Joe Henry, and others that bestow their beauty on this peculiarly personal corner of the musical landscape….Hoekstra has a soft-spoken singing style that rises just above an importuning whisper, shared like a secret above the burbling of his folk-inflected arrangements. Not that you should get the impression his musical constructs are in any way vanilla or simplistic, just gentle and understated in many cases, like the hum of 60s pop hauntingly audible from a distant room….suffused with a reflective softness, a slow, considerate pacing that takes its time surveying its surroundings.” (Big Takeover feature piece)

lyrics

Dark Side of a Pearl

Quiet walks the streets outside
Everyone’s locked safe inside
The television tells them what to wear
She used to care, but since gave in
He doesn’t look too deep within
All they want is a little peace

In their heart, they let it pass
In their heart, the world is cast
Into the dark dark side of a pearl

He loosens his tie, kicks off his shoes
She whistles "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"
Writes down an idea that she has,
She's got blue eyes clear as an arctic pool
Curves roll down from hot to cool
Like blood at the bottom of the well

I knew them both many years ago
When life was a moving picture show
All our dreams had been blessed
She played a beautiful blue guitar
Had a voice to grace a deco bar
He rarely spoke, but to tell a joke
She’d always laugh and he’d watch her glow

In his heart, he lets it pass…

Now what used to make her laugh, eats inside
And tear up her verse almost for spite
One day she called me on the phone to spill it all
I gave her what seemed like good advice
She hung up the phone and picked a fight
Pushing his buttons like only lovers can

He took the ring she’d tossed aside
Threw it to the world outside
She watched it sail through time and space
Standing in the door she saw the view
Houses filled with people on the move
Some for the darkness; others the light
There was nothin’ left for her to decide

In his heart, he lets it pass…

The trees were lined with Spanish moss
And I wonder what they lost
Somewhere in those ragged fields of grass
Fate can turn so suddenly
I turned off the light among blessed dreams
And held my wife as we fell asleep

credits

from Waiting, released January 1, 2003
Doug Hoekstra - acoustic & electric guitar, harmonica, keyboards, loops, vocals
George Marinelli - bass
Amelia White - vocals

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Doug Hoekstra image

Doug Hoekstra Nashville, Tennessee

Doug Hoekstra’s singular musical persona sets sympathetic narratives against understated vocals, memorable melodies, and subtle but unexpected arrangement turns. His albums have earned Nashville Music Award and Independent Music Award nominations, a bevy of top 10 list appearances, and a reputation as a “songwriter’s songwriter” (CMJ Music Monthly). "The Day Deserved" due out Spring 2021 ... more

contact / help

Contact Doug Hoekstra

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Doug Hoekstra, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featured guests are the golden-voiced Baby Rose and psyche soulsters Brainstory.
listen now