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Strange Apartments

by Jak Locke

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1.
Oklahoma Plain 03:30
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Out in the rolling fields where the plowmen harvest grain Beyond these humid winds I sing my lone refrain To Absalom I can relate, my fortune is my pride To pages of the calendar I flip through in my mind You can see it in Picasso's hand painting on the hangman's hood And your silence speaks it better than her speeches ever could James Reddick and Greg Johnson shaking hands along the trail To my discrepancy I watched the evening pale And in this campaign of particulars, Joab as my Fury muse On the Wailing Wall I count my hands knowing of this mocking ruse Now Annas and Caiaphas wait in line to take my place When I fall to earth just hold my hand and I'll ignore your face In electrical ecstasy I cannot help but hope The graves they open constantly in the shadow of some pope But me, I just can't keep staring, I can feel the tide start to rise So I'm going to Oklahoma where the ground is twice as high
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Fireplug 03:27
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Innuendo gives me chills for all my days Sophomoric devil woman knows my ways Effervescent, hung my boots up on a nail Ephemeral through the skies tied to a sail Participle disciple-ing my lonesome years Blind and hollow, corrupting the purest tears Seraphimic waves that crash upon the rocks Intersession, pack my soul up in a box
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Brass Sky 03:00
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Out in the distance, there's a way Out in the morning, beyond the day I'll be waiting like a slow river rolling Passin time in the waves She'll be calling, waiting for you To bathe in sun rays, to bathe in dew She'll be waiting in the afternoon Dropping petals on the graves Out in the morning where echoes sail Sirens reach out beyond the pale I'll be waitin while my black steed is sleepin Countin blades of the grass
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Just Like Dresden 03:40
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Prismatic cascades fall to me, angelic voices call to me Lightning filled now empty veins, she commands the storms and rains Contagious flames filled with light, the timepiece hand that killed the night Upon the lunar halo's lance returned to hold Brancusic stance Oh paragon take everything I been missing Patience is a beggar's game, addiction goes by any name Retired to a god's reward, the favor of the Queen of Swords In crystal balls and augurs' flights I dare not glimpse the future nights Rejecting trite inane repose, Achilles' heel long been exposed Oh paragon take everything I been missing No chance that any of this was real, iconoclastic virtues concealed The bellows of the mornin sun that rose and flares no matter strength of wind that blows Now tethered by a cord of hollow pearls, with that she'd take my soul and all the godforsaken world The drifter's lane's what it is that waits, your thread now at the scissor of the fates Oh paragon take everything I been missing Oh paragon take everything I been missing Oh paragon take everything I been missing
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Gascan 04:04
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Outside, rusted brown ditch drain underground Soaring under drones, this grass blade all disowned Replaced for a time, erased, now we fly Ulcer stuffed with mud, kitchen floor covered in blood She's my only friend
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Angelwing 04:36
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Will you say hello for me? Will you tell me if he smiles? Yes, sweet girl, I’ll do what you ask I’ll be back in just a while What did he say what did he do? Was my interest all in vain? Yes, sweet girl, I’m sorry, I’ll protect you from the rain Will you take a walk with me? I’d like your company Anything you ask, sweet girl, is fine it’s fine with me Will you take a walk with me? I’d like your company Anything you ask, sweet girl, is fine it’s fine with me I met a man, oh yes, I did, I think I am in love That’s wonderful, sweet girl, to see your heart so high above He’s gone away, he’s gone away, I think that I may die Calm down, sweet girl, he still loves you, he’ll be back in two July’s Will you kiss me softly? Will you hold me close to you? Yes, sweet girl, it’s what I always hoped that I could do Will you kiss me softly? Will you hold me close to you? Yes, sweet girl, it’s what I always hoped that I could do Will you now forget me? Will you let me fly away? If what you ask will make you happy, I’d do it yesterday Will you now forget me? Will you let me fly away? If what you ask will make you happy, I’d do it yesterday
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Trespassing Mirage 02:14
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The tortoise shell-like shimmer glint from Sophia's necklace shines To prisms of the eyes of God which constantly strike me blind And kissing corpses dredged up from vacations in the swamp My liege comes strolling vicariously with circumstance and pomp Sophia knows her place quite well, she wears it on her arm As wedding bells and carnivals announce her righteous charm Me, I'm rolling in the carpet from the trial yesterday And trying to forget about the debt that I must pay The fifteen dollar sacrifice is going up for sale To Louis the Fourteenth and Apostle Paul in jail You can't find truth in fiction like Sophia always says Now I'm walking to Arabia and sorting through this mess The terrapin and Uncle Remus riding on his back Make light of all the cargo loads that the tired sailors stack So I perforate my clothing and my alabaster face And wait here for Sophia to show me to my place Show me to my place, show me to my place, show me to my place, show me to my place
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Hangman 03:43
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When you get there, drink the water for me Be sure to tell me if it's as sweet as I remember it to be When you get there, bathe in the moonlight for me Be sure to tell me if it's as comforting as I remember it to be, it to be I remember well There ain't much, there ain't much to be When you get there could you hang yourself from the tree? Tell me if it's as high as I remember it to be Oh tell me the wind does twist you If it's cold and if it turns you in the breeze like it did to me Oh tell me, oh tell me, oh tell me, oh tell me, oh tell me, yeah
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Time To Get Gone One Last Time 04:00
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Behind the idealistic mask you can gamble with your soul Redeeming the troubled with my smile, my mind and all I hold And showing for it solitude within the merchant host Rejecting peace and convincing myself that least is most A panhandler's wrist forsaking pain no matter time held stiff But for the grace of alcohol to stand in the wind as it shifts And fills my sails the wrong way out, misfortune as my guide Selling off my typical word of God for the Hecatic muse who lied My ambiguous philosophy drips still through the veins Of sedimentary intellects of those who live to drain Now figures pass outside my door singing songs that I can't hear To wait for rainstorm prophecy to tell when all is clear I might be back next Sunday, I'll write you if I'm not I can't stick around this place too long, you've probably forgot With its chorus of dissonant parrots and its women who beg to be used No, I'm going back where I came from where I've got, I got nothing And nothing to lose
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Dead End Road 06:25
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Baby you ain’t even heard the best yet: You've never had the chance to meet yourself Your mirror tells a different lie each Sunday You ain’t got a thing besides your wealth Now all that I remember is your body Delusional illusions you could spare The dimes for all the broke down offroad merchants The entire broke down town don’t even care You could do me nearly anything and think that I'd stand by And you could run right off a mountain and think that you could fly Baby now you got my shreds of remnants Locked away inside some dresser drawer Lonely lounging someplace by your radio And praying you don’t need me anymore Disjointed melodies, reminders Of what you’d love to disclaim as your guilt Wasting finely down like hourglass sand Inside the ghetto palace that you’ve built You could do me nearly anything and think that I'd stand by So go and run right off the mountain and I will watch you die Baby you could tear a man to pieces As if you’re ignorant about your craft The plastic hallway opens to your command Corrosive wind in every mining shaft And pointless, spent this anarchy of romance To fill me up with temporary breath In this absurdist carnival of wishgames That, probably, I’ll play until my death

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Jak Locke played everything

recorded at various places around Marrero and Thibodaux through October and November 2002

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released November 18, 2002

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Jak Locke New Orleans, Louisiana

Jak Locke is a multi-genre songwriter and performer based in and native to New Orleans, LA.

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