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Rot

by Jak Locke

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1.
Riot Trip 03:17
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Half-formed words in a chaotic mind I'm a one trick pony at the end of the line Filling up the air with a silent scream Now paranoia reigns somewhere between dreams While I'm still tripping on a dying dream There's a cell block behind me next to Lethe's stream No signs that could tie me to a devil's road Just a blanket of remorse and another load The end waits here for all of us There's nothing left that I can call my own And yes I think it's beautiful And yes I think it's beautiful No signs that could tie me to a devil's road Just a blanket of remorse and another load No hope no reason No gate back to Eden No memory to lead me to the living tomb of conceding No love to poison me Just shallow pools of ecstasy I'm tripping on the riot in my head The riot in my head
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Stars 02:46
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Sitting outside at 6AM with you on my mind Wondering why it was so easy to leave me behind Finding out that maybe there's more to me than you Sitting outside while the sky turns to a lighter blue Where are all the stars, I need a wish come true To let my heart roam afar or to make things right with you Smoking a cigarette with caffeine in my veins Hard to believe it's been a week since I went insane Fools rushing in where no one else had dared to tread Can't try to take back what has already been said Where are all the stars, I need a wish come true To let my heart roam afar or to make things right with you Where far away is my angel, ease my pain Maybe she's waiting on the Oklahoma plain Thinking about me in a way I've never known Watching the sun rise with me though I'm all alone Where are all the stars, I need a wish come true To let my heart roam afar or to make things right with you There's my lucky star rising high up through the mist Tonight it still may set, but I may just get my wish
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Remnant 04:27
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I seen light, thank the gods and tell them they were right Thrown afar, knowledge leaves a permanent scar You never saw what was come to you A final farewell and a wave that seems so new A feeling wasted, a manufactured soul Said and done and you just play your role Held astray, the journey back a year maybe a day Far too late a paradox to try anticipate She never saw what was come to you A final farewell and a wave that seems so new A future wasted, a lifetime mutated Some crazy fate writes what you will have stated You never know what's in store for you A final farewell and a wave that seemed so new I'm feeling wasted, I'm a manufactured soul Said and done and you just pay your toll
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Cadaver Heart 03:38
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I suffocated in the dirt you piled on all of this Now you say I've changed, well guess whose motherfucking fault that is You say I ain't who I was, I say to you no fucking shit You dug my grave and happily buried me alive in it This goes to the pussywhipped This goes to the worthless shits This goes to my scum-ass friends This goes to my bitter end One night stands replace the love I thought we had Fuck that chance, I got no time to be sad Romance faked, it's a bitch being so stuck To everyone who's been forsaked live it up cuz your whole world is fucked I'll huff and puff and blow my fuckin senses down What we had mutated into shit that has no proper noun So now I'll just forget you, I can no longer take anymore You miss me now? You should have thought of all of that long before This goes to the pussywhipped This goes to the worthless shits This goes to my scum-ass friends This goes to my bitter end One night stands replace the love I thought we had Fuck that chance, I got no time to be sad Romance faked, it's a bitch being so stuck To everyone who's been forsaked Live it up cuz your whole world is fucked One night stands replace the love I thought we had Fuck that chance, I got no time to be sad Romance faked, it's a bitch being so stuck To everyone who's been forsaked Give it up cuz your whole world is fucked It's all fucked Yeah, it's fucked Fucked
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Faded Days 01:53
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Tell of a story of days bright and gold Tell of a time when life wasn't so old Tell of a day that was worth living for Tell of the last time that I opened the door The line that's been trod til it's blurred and erased The clock that keeps time with no hands and no face The pain that's renewed in its cyclical ways Torn from the sanctum, from my faded days Found in the backwater creeks of my mind Lost in the ravaging passage of time Borne on a cloud in the wide open sky Choked in black schisms until it would die Tell me a story of days bright and gold
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Bombed 02:33
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I got a shot in the dark, now watch me guzzle it down This shit ain't no walk in the park but it's the best thing I've found Hello, what is your name and here's mine, I've never seen you before I act on impulse all of the time, alcoholism's whore But what did I have to lose Some tired pride and morals bruised Lost my sense of direction Wonder where I'm headed now? I got a real bad inflammation, my liver is a cesspool AA meetings my destination if I could get off this stool My future just got pissed with my cash, guess what I don't really care One more so I can really get trashed cuz life's more than I can bear But what did I have to lose Some tired pride and morals bruised Lost my sense of direction Wonder where I'm headed now? I'm bombed, fucked up I'm bombed, fucked up I'm bombed, fucked up I'm bombed, fucked up
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Wound 06:20
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Anybody want to know my name Anybody want to talk to me Everybody always acts the same No one seems to care to want to see What's the matter girl, you seem so shy Is it just your way or because I'm around Love escapes my grasp, I wonder why Joy falls like rain, I am my only friend By now you'd think I'd have learned From this state of being there is nothing to be earned Doubts in mind raise more points of concern So the knife takes one, one more turn What's the matter girl, I changed for you I only did it cuz I know your needs This pain nobody can undo This world's a string of selfish pointless deeds By now you'd think I'd have learned From this place there is null to be earned Doubts in mind raise more points of concern So the knife takes one more turn
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Nothing But Time 04:14
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Looking out the window for a day or two with the sun above the roof Kicking back and waiting for my pager's hum with a vodka 80 proof Looking at the cars and people passing by as the fan blades go around Feel my pager buzz against my belt and hip, 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 street and never stopping once on our way to anywhere Waving hi to people I don't even know, they wave back if they don't care 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, roll a spliff up at the bar Buy another beer to wash the liquor down, toking up for about an hour Go back to the house around three A.M., not worried about no strife I'm not really sure just what tomorrow brings, man if this ain't the 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 Nothing but time time time is that a crime Nothing on my mind mind mind and that's just fine
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Skullfucked 02:47
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Gouged out my eye, made me blind to everything Only saw what you were telling me No reason why, maybe not the one I should be asking Since you ain't got what needs to be A feminine nightmare sent from hell No phallus as far as I could tell There's nothing you could stick into my brain And yet I still got skullfucked all the same So what's going on? How has life been now that you realize you fucked up more than anyone? And what's going wrong? How does a man come so far down from his original position? A feminine nightmare sent from hell No phallus as far as I could tell There's nothing you could stick into my brain And yet I still got skullfucked all the same A feminine nightmare sent from hell No phallus as far as I could tell There's nothing you could stick inside my brain And yet I still got skullfucked all the same And yet I still got skullfucked all the same I'll keep on getting skullfucked all the same Yeah skullfuck me one more time all the same
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Forever Or A Day 02:08
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Where there used to be a laugh, a silence lingers The car we used to cruise is far away Once again we feel time's icy fingers Years from months from weeks from a few short days Those lifelong friends how quick they end as soon as we go different routes A dead romance, no second chance All that was gained is on the outs, that's what it is all about Where there used to be a kiss, a cigarette rests The hair where hands flowed through covered with bleach Relationship we built, another fine mess Once so close forever now out of reach Those lifelong friends how quick they end as soon as we go different routes A dead romance, no second chance All that we gained is on the outs, that's what it is all about Responsibility, a thing of the past Commitment, a mark of a time long gone Impossible these days for something to last Past the time from when it was first begun Those lifelong friends how quick they end as soon as we go different routes A dead romance, no second chance All that was gained is on the outs Those lifelong friends how quick they end as soon as we go different routes A dead romance, no second chance All that was gained is on the outs, that's what it is all about
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Self-Worthless 04:11
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Just met a girl, got laid the first date Thinks that she's got even what she overrates Wears a quart of perfume to mask all the pot Lives in a trailer falling down from the rot "Blackhole of shit, blackhole of shit" She showed everything on the first day we met Getting down with her was like Russian roulette Mattress is caving with 112 stains Looks at her losses and labels them gains "Blackhole of shit, blackhole of shit" Spiral of a life's rejection Fucked-up twisted anti-correction No respect breeds no respect and ends at the singularity of shit Hangs on your arm like a drunken whore I'm #99 through her bedroom door Satan only knows what's swimming in her charm Throwaway latex STD farm "Blackhole of shit, blackhole of shit"
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One More Time 02:44
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Locked inside a never-ending task or so it seemed By my side, the devastation wreaked on all these dreams If I'd have known that things would ever be this way I'd do the same knowing my mind Another hour another noon another day Let's play this record one more time Killing time cuz with me there's nothing else left to kill Ring that chime and hear it fade until you've had your fill If I'd have known that things would ever be this way I'd do the same knowing my mind Another hour another noon another day Let's play this record one more time One more time! If I'd have known that things would ever be this way I'd do the same knowing my mind Another hour another noon another day Let's play this record one more time Let's scratch this record one more time Let's break this record one more time Let's smash this record one more time

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This is a ten-year remastered rerelease.

The audio quality is severely compromised on the majority of these songs, as all surviving master tracks were on copies of copies on cassette (and cheap cassette, at that). "Surviving", because many of the individual instrument tracks are lost forcing the use of the final mixdown in the remastering. Some use old keyboard drums and some have real drums. This collection is kind of like a sonic quilt. But here it exists once again for listening, against all odds!

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released October 18, 1999

I'm Not Dead Yet

Copyright © ® 1999 Jak Locke

original release: October 18, 1999
remastered release: October 18, 2009

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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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