“Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’”: The Visitor That Won’t Be Denied

[Squareinthecircle]

On “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’”: The Visitor That Won’t Be Denied

Come Darken Our Doorsteps




Kevin Boykin
Nov 01, 2025



There are riffs you play, and there are riffs that play you. The opening of “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’” is the latter. You don’t so much hear it as you get stuck between its teeth.

It begins in D. Or at least, it feels like it does — and that’s the trick. That first gesture tells your ear, “settle here.” You wait for the verse to land in D, for the band to put down roots. But no — the floor slides, and suddenly you’re in C. You can call that a key change if you want, but it isn’t. It’s sleight of hand. It’s prestidigitation. Keith sets you up for one tonic and yanks it away.

And then the cycle begins. Each time that D comes around, you think maybe this time it will stick. Maybe this time the center will hold. It never does. Instead, the riff resets the illusion over and over, pulling you into a loop that never resolves. It’s tonal vertigo: permanent, deliberate.

At 24 seconds in, we get what ends up being the structure of the song — a second guitar part, staying simple, refusing to be sucked into the tempting groove: remaining mature in the face of this outbreak. The simple rhythm plays the parental figure and vehicle, suffering little children, loading them into the station wagon and dropping the kids off at the local digs.

Add to that the Lydian spike — the F♯ against C — and the whole thing tilts at an angle. It’s wrong in the best way. Here the kids get the green light to wallow in all the things mom said not to do. That raised fourth is like a lightbulb buzzing overhead: sharp, bright, dissonant. You don’t tune it out; it drills into your skull. Have your fun now but remember you have school in the morning.



And rhythmically? Forget standing comfort — relief only comes when you allow the voodoo to infect. The riff floats against the pulse just enough to make you second-guess where “one” lives. For the first few bars, it feels like a polyrhythm — two grids competing for your body. By the time the drums lock you in, you’re already off balance, swaying in someone else’s trance.

That’s the genius here. It’s not chops, it’s not flash — it’s manipulation. Musical deception is a sonic sweet nothing in your ear. It’s the proper use of mind trickery — for the enrichment of our lives. The riff in question lies to you, over and over, and you thank it for the privilege. By the time the song finally breaks into its long stoner jam, a feature considered necessary in that day (de rigueur even, all the kids were doing it!), it’s like someone opened a window in a stifling room. The exorcism after the possession.

There are grooves that get you moving, and then there are grooves that tear through your flesh, rip out your soul with clawed appendages, and claim it for themselves for the perverted and capricious pursuit of psychopathic entertainment. “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’” doesn’t just own you — it keeps tricking you into coming back, hoping that maybe this time the D will take its shoes off and sit a spell.

And that’s the secret in the sauce. The riff keeps promising resolution and never delivers, like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown every time, but damn if we don’t find ourselves trying to kick. Our definition of perfection requires adjustment — all the information is in and there is no more coming on this one. There is beauty in a superposition of understanding.



https://kevinboykin.substack.com/p/o...sitor?r=2ld5cy

[RskikR]

Love that song.

[Blastolabs]

AI generated SPAM on Avalon? Really? Bill can correct me if I'm am wrong.

You do realize that many people can instantly recognize ai generated writing right?

[Squareinthecircle]

Obviously not. I wrote that. You're rude, wrong and disgusting.

[Squareinthecircle]

Posted by Blastolabs (here)
AI generated SPAM on Avalon? Really? Bill can correct me if I'm am wrong.

You do realize that many people can instantly recognize ai generated writing right?

I invite you to a public debate on this accusation, on video. I'll give you all the time you need to make your case before I make my rebuttal. It'll be fun.

[Squareinthecircle]

Posted by Blastolabs (here)
AI generated SPAM on Avalon? Really? Bill can correct me if I'm am wrong.

You do realize that many people can instantly recognize ai generated writing right?

I originally wrote this months ago then stuck it in draft like I tend to do. I have around 70 articles in draft now waiting to be finished. I found the revisions and edits I made after I brought the bones out of mothballs. Here are some screenshots of those revisions and edits:









These are the ones that came from the edits I made on the draft form of the piece. I found several more that were made to the article proper which I can provide but I'm hoping I won't have to do that.

[Squareinthecircle]

I had the time so here's the other edits I have available to me. When I originally wrote this there would have been another slew of these revisions but I can't seem to find that info.

I need an apology for this accusation. This is an attempt to ruin my reputation, and as Abraham Lincoln said "Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair."

Other quotes:

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it." - Warren Buffett

"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it." - Benjamin Franklin

Our friend "Blastolabs" shows us all that the destroying deed spoken of by Franklin above doesn't even need to come from the subject themself.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Blastolabs (here)
AI generated SPAM on Avalon? Really? Bill can correct me if I'm wrong.

You do realize that many people can instantly recognize AI generated writing right?

Dear Friends, below is the link to an AI text detector. (And there are many others, free online and easily found.) As best I can see, none of Squareinthecircle's posts or articles are AI generated.

• https://quillbot.com/ai-content-detector

[Ewan]

A bit precious though - You're rude, wrong and disgusting.

[ThePythonicCow]

From this page of the Wordpress website that Squareinthecircle links to from his Avalon profile page:

Archiving & Infrastructure – Preserve Continuity
Redundantly store and systematize knowledge so it survives suppression, reinterpretation, or decay.

I approve of this message.

[Squareinthecircle]

Posted by Ewan (here)
A bit precious though - You're rude, wrong and disgusting.

He baselessly attacked my credibility. It's easy to judge from your seat.

[Squareinthecircle]

I just need to know if the debate is on or not.

[Squareinthecircle]

Posted by Ewan (here)
A bit precious though - You're rude, wrong and disgusting.

This requires a bit more explaining I think. I write for a group that is oppressed severely by world powers- the Targeted Individuals. I take the job very seriously for a number of reasons, and I and my work represent something that has value to their situation and struggle. I am also a TI and go through torture that would break the toughest of customers. With this mandate I cannot allow lies to influence others- I have to hit back with everything I have. I am not pursuing personal gain, I'm working to help and liberate a group of innocent people sentenced to death. Please understand this when you see what I write and my serious disposition. My focus has to be on clarity, evidence, and defense of the innocent.

[Squareinthecircle]

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)
From this page of the Wordpress website that Squareinthecircle links to from his Avalon profile page:

Archiving & Infrastructure – Preserve Continuity
Redundantly store and systematize knowledge so it survives suppression, reinterpretation, or decay.

I approve of this message.

Thanks. I'm being silly here, and please humor me, but in the continuing interest of 'preservation of continuity and resistance of reinterpretation or decay' that quote actually came from the article below, not from the Critical Thinking one linked.

https://kasspert.wordpress.com/2025/...ually-do-good/

[rgray222]

OK, I am moderately interested. There are many interesting aspects of this thread that I kinda enjoyed. The cleverness in the musical deception is certainly worth pointing out. It is a great example of how music can manipulate perception and drive emotion, it's the reason that a quarter of a million people turned up at Woodstock and really did not understand what was calling them to go.

Then there was the delightful AI accusation, which I honestly enjoyed.

Paul apparently gave his approval of something, but I wasn't quite sure of what

On top of all that (I am not making light of this), there is this off-topic targeted group of individuals that you are helping to liberate, this certainly could stand some deeper discussion

I will leave it to you, Squareinthecircle on where you wish to take this.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by rgray222 (here)
Paul apparently gave his approval of something, but I wasn't quite sure of what

Backing up knowledge locally, as I've been doing most years since 2011 for the Avalon forum, and as I do for whatever other knowledge I find of interest to preserve. Unlike granite carvings, my backups won't survive planetary cataclysms or thousands of years, but they are out of easy reach of our online digital overlords.

[Squareinthecircle]

Posted by rgray222 (here)
OK, I am moderately interested. There are many interesting aspects of this thread that I kinda enjoyed. The cleverness in the musical deception is certainly worth pointing out. It is a great example of how music can manipulate perception and drive emotion, it's the reason that a quarter of a million people turned up at Woodstock and really did not understand what was calling them to go.

Then there was the delightful AI accusation, which I honestly enjoyed.

Paul apparently gave his approval of something, but I wasn't quite sure of what

On top of all that (I am not making light of this), there is this off-topic targeted group of individuals that you are helping to liberate, this certainly could stand some deeper discussion

I will leave it to you, Squareinthecircle on where you wish to take this.

Thanks for that. Yeah I've written over 100 (130?) articles on the topic of the Targeted Individual phenomenon, done many interviews and more in efforts to help understand, maintain health and even use the experience as character-building (we don't improve when things are good), and primarily conceptual work to make connections to help expose. I sometimes help to create counters to their methods but mostly work behind the scenes. The 'Targeted Individuals' forum here at ProjectAvalon as well as the 'Mind Control' forum are where I put most of my work. Give 'em a go. I also write many theories, and really I never know what will come that day.

The interview I did with DJChris explains a lot about me, which I posted I think in the Targeted Individual forum.

If anyone is interested here are my WordPress and Substack links. I post everything I write at WordPress, but drop the TI material at WP exclusively and post what I aim at the general public at Substack.

https://kasspert.wordpress.com/

https://kevinboykin.substack.com/


Since I have the stage here I want to say I'm sorry I don't fit in better here. I'm trying.