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Cyanide
03:54
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It's a dead man hanging in a children's parade
It's a daylight betrayal and a midnight charade
See your corpse in the mirrors of the shards of your houses of glass
It's a carnival freakshow where the deaf kill the blind
Where the able are slaughtered but nobody minds
Another day going nowhere, if you're lucky it won't go too fast
When the codeine's flowing, want to take my time
Want to sing a love song with the funeral chimes
To a girl who pretends that the fallout is nothing but snow
Cyanide in the water and I'm dry like a bone
If you won't violate me then just leave me alone
Another dirt-poor suicide waiting for the time to go
I can see that each beginning brings about nothing more than countdowns to their end
Me, I'm just waiting waiting for the rain to pass the time
Nothing left to believe, got nothing to defend
Now my alibi's level, holding hands with the devil
Kill the silence with violence while the holy ones revel
And I'll watch from the corner til the minutes are too few to waste
When your angels approach you for to carry you home
Try as hard as you can not to see you're alone
Another surplus soul spent as ten more are born to replace
I can see that each beginning brings about nothing more than countdowns to their end
Me, I'm just waiting waiting for the rain to pass the time
Nothing left to believe, got nothing to defend
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2. |
I Haven't Snapped
02:50
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Words upon words, our favorite game, let's drop them to see where they scatter
Trading it up for the value of names for an audience that doesn't matter
Back and forth, passing the mantle of blame, taking more pride as it tatters
Only to find now I'm left with the same, only older, more jaded and sadder
No, I haven't snapped, I've shattered
It's as lonely as you'd guess, when you've made it your address at the end of the road that's less traveled
I was only at my best when I held claim to so much less, finding comfort in some warm spot of gravel
Dead memories attest to the price of the obsessed, past the pale mane I can see them from my saddle
I can't begin to clean the mess and I can't help but to confess there was never a thing there to battle
And that I haven't snapped, I've unraveled
I've got nothing left in me and so far to go
I've got nothing left in me and so far to go
I've got nothing left in me and so far to go
I've got nothing left in me and so far to go
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I think this time the ending's clear
I can feel it I can feel it, it's gonna be a cataclysm, I can't wait til it's here
Life is cheaper than ever, you're worth more if you'd never climbed out of the womb
Existence is free but survival will cost you so pay up until you rot in the tomb
Don't mean nothing if you can't buy it, age comes fast in the dead riot
In the end the only difference you'll find is that your coffin's nicer than mine
Who'd want to be happy if it don't pay?
The mark of success is your cash and prizes
I got nothing to show for my life and I think that I like it that way, hey
Find another distraction, we're just chemical reactions
Repeat opinions from the headlines as if they were your own
It's just a game, it's just a game, all of the fortunes you claim
When no one's paying you can't play it alone
When the currency's hit the bottom, the day of equality's finally come
Anybody that could possibly help are the ones you moved here to get away from
Don't mean nothing if you can't buy it, age comes fast in the dead riot
In the end the only difference you'll find is that your coffin's nicer than mine
Who'd want to be happy if it don't pay?
The mark of success is your cash and prizes
I got nothing to show for my life and I think that I like it that way, hey
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4. |
Nothing But Time
04:18
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Looking out the window for a day or two with the sun above the roof
Kicking back and waiting for to sober up with a vodka 80 proof
Listen to the cars and people passing by as the fan blades go around
Now my phone is ringing as I take a drag, pick my phone up off the ground
Nothing but time time time is that a crime
Nothing on my mind mind mind and that's just fine
Nothing but time time time is that a crime
Nothing on my mind mind mind and that's just fine
Talking to my girl until I hear a knock and I tell her "call you back"
Open up the door and it's my boy Dennis in his beat up Cadillac
Cruising down the highway with a paper bag wrapped around my day's intent
Park at the apartments, pass another hour just to know that it's been spent
Nothing but time time time is that a crime
Nothing on my mind mind mind and that's just fine
Nothing but time time time is that a crime
Nothing on my mind mind mind and that's just fine
Over to the club after the sun goes down, see my friends up at the bar
Buy another beer to wash the liquor down, we shoot pool for about an hour
Get back to the house around three A.M., not worried about no strife
I'm not really sure just what tomorrow brings and that's my kind of life
Nothing but time time time is that a crime
Nothing on my mind mind mind and that's just fine
Nothing but time time time is that a crime
Nothing on my mind mind mind and that's just fine
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Dreamless
03:32
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I hear voices where silence resides, all they speak is demagogue refrains
Lockdown, breakdown, another regicide, infinite reels of repeated frames
Another worthless seed dispensed, masochistic ignorance
Just another cold dreamscape to see
I've become my own dream's ghost, kill the virus, kill the host
I can see the end begins with me, yeah
I see the beauty of my beautiful sin somewhere behind the screaming tide
The truth's more lucid than it's ever been: the purpose of the universe is to die
Another worthless seed dispensed, masochistic ignorance
Just another cold dreamscape to see
I've become my own dream's ghost, kill the virus, kill the host
I can see the end begins with me, yeah, me
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Hannah
03:39
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Oh there's Hannah, the girl I don't know and she don't know me, and that's okay
Watch her coming and watch her go, nothing to see and nothing to say
Hannah, walk on by, let's not let a good thing die
Hannah, don't say hi, hi's just prelude to goodbye
Hannah, let's not try, if we don't talk then we can't lie
She might be the very best friend you'd ever make, I hope she'll stay
Or maybe she's one issue away from slashing your face, run away
Hannah, walk on by, let's not let a good thing die
Hannah, don't say hi, hi's just prelude to goodbye
Hannah, let's not try, if we don't talk then we can't lie
Hannah, Hannah, Hannah, Hannah, Hannah, Hannah
Walk on by, don't say hi, let's not let a good thing die
If we don't talk then let's not try, say say say say say say goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye ooh
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Repeater
03:29
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I'm misery with company with nothing to say
Another brakeman on the rail so that the devil can prey
Screaming at the streetlights and I'm bound to be heard
With a pocket full of nothing and a mouth full of words
In the breadline again, I should just call it my home
Fishing change from dirty mouths of the public phones
Daily swallowing the squalor that you've only heard of
All the ashes down below and all the rain from above
You never be nobody, never goin nowhere, uh uh, uh uh
I got the train comin at me and I just don't care, uh uh, uh uh
With my soul on the market and I feel so strange
Nobody's buying anyway, can't break a penny for change
Besides, who'd be there to split the rails if I were to go away?
Another slum rat asking me to spare him a joint
I could pull on the money machine but really what'd be the point?
In the shipwreck of the city where the tragedies sing
And I'm just another echo, watch me ring ring ring
Yeah I'm misery with company, I got nothing new
A broke down repeater with a five nickel view
Screaming at the streetlights and I'm bound to be heard
Say you love me or you hate me, all I'm hearing is words
"You'll never be nobody, never going nowhere", uh uh, uh uh
I got the train coming at me and I just don't care, uh uh, uh uh
With my soul on the market and I feel so strange
Nobody's buying anyway, can't break a penny for change
Besides, who'd be there to split the rails if I were to go away?
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Drag
02:46
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Well it's your turn to scream your grudges at a wall
Small victory when you say anything at all
Absence of absence, I don't think I'd miss that much
In light of day even our shadows never touch
I've called your bluff about a thousand times a day
So what's one more if it means you might go away
Won't be the one to own I helped this go astray
The choice is yours and maybe this time you don't stay
How long have we been biding time here for the fall
Some poetry of rage, neglect and alcohol
Shall I compare you to a summer gutter breeze?
You're like a dry heave making me gag on my knees
I've called your bluff about a thousand times a day
So what's one more if it means that you go away
Only one thing that could surprise me you could say
I'll wait for you to make that move and find a way
You don't stay, you don't stay yeah
You don't stay, you don't stay yeah
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Bleary
03:17
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And the sun that blares my head to ring is just the light that hangs from the ceiling, I left it on again
All the mirrors facing me once more, bent and impossible to ignore, they turn me off again
Sh-sh-she says "You only believe you need this," and yes I do, I do
I-I-I say "I can be invincible or just a dimmer shade of this"
She said, "You can't do this forever"
And I said, "I don't need forever"
I'm trading ages for a chance to breathe and a temporary silence
I rent the person that I used to be with no regard for the expense
I can save myself another day, gotta find some way to make it
Gonna take another shot today, gonna find some way to break it, break it, go
(She said, I said, she said, I said)
I'm trading ages for a chance to breathe and a temporary silence
I rent the person that I used to be with no regard for the expense
I can save myself another day, gotta find some way to make it
Gonna take another shot today, gonna find some way to break it, break it, go
They turn me off again
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10. |
Wrecking Ball
04:35
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I got plenty of time, we got nothing to say
You gotta take it to the limit on the devil birthday
Lookin for somethin to bide my time
Gotta find someone to kill some time
With a pocket of change and a bag full of brown
You can taste the laced bass in the spot downtown
Junkyard hustlers and a heart attack smile
Grandfather time'll be high for a while
Pincushion arms, all the spoons are black
Tornado weather yellow blazer on his back
He's the type that like it when the sky fall down
We all the type that like it when the sky fall down
We all the type that like it when the sky fall down, I want to make it fall!
Another drip in the faucet with a tip in the jar
Another singin waste of space that'll never go far
Another grain on the beach, another stain on the wall
She the type of woman want to be with them all
We love the type of woman want to be with them all
Drifter jailbait, totally naive
I wanna throw it all away like you wouldn't believe
About the stupidest goddess that I ever did see
I won't be happy til she sleepin with me
Everybody wants it and they looking for some
Well run and hide cuz here I come
Suicide and a bottle of rum
Suicide and a bottle of rum, yeah, yeah, yeah!
Ask for time, I got plenty to spare
Never asked your name, got no reason to care
Never expect nobody to ask me to stay
And I couldn't care less you hear a word I say
No, I couldn't care less you hear a word I say
City park carnival making some headway
Slam piece trailer beast looking for threeways
See the man sleeping at the One Eyed Jack's
Two tone lone drone, put it on wax stoned
Tokin up homegrown, stupid and white
Wrecking ball come I'm gonna be all right
Wrecking ball come we gonna be all right
Oh when the wrecking ball come we gonna be all right, go!
Oh, turn it out
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Never mind your long lost lover, you can always find another
We never found a reason to stay, happy endings always bored us anyway
I can see the song before us: verse for now; tomorrow, chorus
There's a sickness in seeing it through-ooh, maybe someday something I'll relate to
And if it's not, I'll at least have heard it through to the end, two, three, go
Never mind your long lost lover, you can always find another
There's a sickness in seeing it through-ooh, maybe someday something I'll relate to
It's too late to, it's too late to, it's too late to-ooh, it's too late to
All my thoughts keep drifting toward
(Twenty steps from being free)
Every road that I ignored
(Tomorrow's never reaching me)
But for now we should resume
(This is what we're meant to be)
Singing to our empty room
(And if it's not then don't tell me)
I dream of when this song won't speak to me again, til then
How cruel, oh how cruel, how cruel, oh how cruel
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12. |
Letter
03:26
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The town has gone to sleep for now, I think I've got some time to write
Most of these folks you don't know though I think you'd be surprised who you might
They said "we're gonna put a play together though we don't know yet what it's about
We'll let everybody be in it so that there's no one left to be in the crowd"
You know, you're ten blocks from the beginning, sixty miles from the start
A hundred times you'll stake a claim there a million miles from the mark
I know you think I'm wasting time here not sculpting up an image to play
This is my last letter, and here's the last thing I'll say:
While I'm out there "wasting time" maybe you might find
Everything's a "waste of time" in the right frame of mind
All you left behind, when it hits you blind
Find whatever signs you'll heed to, here's where I resign
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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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