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The Wreckage, The Yield, And A Place I Can Crawl Up From

by Jak Locke

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1.
Some Sort Of Beautiful Racket 04:09
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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, 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, maybe someday something I'll relate to It's too late to, it's too late to, it's too late to, 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) But if it's not I'll at least have heard it through to the end How cruel, how cruel, how cruel, how cruel
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Issues 04:06
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Biding time until the tale's abruptly over Now we mourn and wish that we had gotten closer, yes we will All the worth of yesterday comes clear tomorrow Will we spend it banking time for sake of sorrow, as we do? It's easy enough to say that you know there'll come a day When what you take for granted's gonna be taken away But my friend, these are things we will never get again Meanwhile, she says, "I woke up with zero confidence today I tell myself this happens to everyone But when it's said with such little confidence It's hard to believe from such an unsure one" He says, "If what defines me now had defined me then My life would have been a lot easier I'll probably be saying the same thing In ten years about right now too" They say, "If I'm still around somehow, I'll see you then" Woe, woe Cuz when we found each other we were looking for naught And if we look we'll find we found exactly what we sought But maybe that's too honest, keep it unspoken So we can keep competing who's the most broken I can feel we're on the cusp of the brink of the edge Of an inkling of a feeling like we're nearing to the ledge Of the possibility that me and you unwillingly Could maybe accidentally let on what we might really be But that's a chapter for someone more well adjusted Wondering what that freedom's like as we discussed it/disgusted, and we are Air behind the mask, if stifling, is familiar Helps to focus the dark lines in clouds of silver that we mar Meanwhile, he says, "I woke up with someone else's life today If I can change my circles then they'll never know And if I fake it long enough I'll start to believe it Around the time I'll feel it's started losing the glow" She says, "I've got to leave this behind I think I'm losing my mind There must be so much more I could be doing If only I'd been more selective, I'd be less defective Closer to my objective when I leave these losers" They say, "If I'm still around somehow, I'll see you then" Oh woe, woe
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No Longer Last Spring 03:33
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When you're walking down St. Philip Street surrounded by chalk outlines of the martyrs And you find that you resemble more than one Believe me, I'll relate, but that don't mean that I'll be waiting there to save you When you see shadows are dead without the sun When you've seen the darkest hour and you still can bear to hold hands with the timepiece There's nothing I want more than that for you, but only in the cruelest way When you're tired of your losing streak from rounds of seven card stud with the devil Ante up again my friend, pretend you ever had a choice to play Well you're drowning, it's clear and what's worse my dear Is that you really think you can breathe under the tide I told you before, I won't tell you no more That the path to hell ain't narrow, and yours is twice as wide Yes, my dear, I tire of you wailing all these pointless nothing sorrows Some siren drifting lonesome from their home And yes, my dear, there is a ladder out of every hole, even ones that you dig, yes there is But this time you'll have to build it all alone
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Trading Down 03:01
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Say, I'm running out of firsts but I got a lot of fifths So I'm seeing what stays down and you can see which way I drift I wanna follow you down to the nightclub I got a lot of bad reasons to be with you And we're not leaving til I've reached the bottom I I I've gotta find a place I can crawl up from Gotta find a place I can crawl up from Gotta find a place I can crawl up from, yeah Lately I've been taking time to find some silence Still, I know myself, I know I'll lose the taste for that too soon Say, I see you see me here and I suppose I shouldn't mind But what did you expect to hear? I don't care if I get signed I want a poison hangover to find me Yeah yeah, I got a bad mind and it's all for sale Oh yeah, you might want to close your eyes now I'm gonna self destruct and I'm gonna get paid I'm gonna self destruct and I'm gonna get paid I'm gonna self destruct and I'm gonna get paid, yeah Lately I've been biding time to make my exit It's so loud inside now, yesterday would not be too soon And now it's the part of the song with the most lyrical meaning: Oh ohh ooh, oh ohh ohh ooh, oh ohh ohh ooooh, oh ohh ooooh
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Bleary 03:04
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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 "you only believe you need this" and yes I do, I do I said "I can be invincible or just a dimmer shade of this" She said "you only believe you need this" and yes I do, I do I said "I can be invincible or just a dimmer shade of this") (You can't do this forever, you can't do this 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) They turn me off again
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Night Never Falls, It Crashes 03:11
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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 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? Your 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 To the top now 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 that 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? Your mark of success is your cash and prizes Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh I got nothing to show for my life and I think that I like it that way Take it take it home, oh
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Soon 04:28
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We're waiting, we know it's gonna come to be eventually Rotating, the world keeps pushing us through days relentlessly For all I know this could be the best we get For all we know we could be reaching the end of our fill of it Yesterday's dead, tomorrow's in your head Waiting to begin as you near the end Then pining for the very time you've killed There's something better on the other side I'm gonna drop everything here, gonna make it mine Because it's time for a change It's time it's time it's time it's time for a change I'm feeling restless and less rested and spun I'm taking shots with my shadow til the demons are done Then find another broken brother while we wait for the sun Go! For all I know this could be the best we get For all we know we could be reaching the end of our fill of it All I can say in the light of day is the same I see when the light's on me And I'll find a shadow there, you know I will It's that time already, I'm feeling generic again I've given it six weeks, it usually passes by then I'm all outta charm here, the thrill's gone and slipped out of hand You can't recreate it, it's phony if it's in demand Oh paragon, give back everything I been missing (Tell me a story of days bright and gold Tell me how cheaply I made sure they were sold) (How we took it as if without care You can never come back if you were never there) (Oh paragon, give back everything I been missing) Nobody watches as I exit from the cell I made from bricks dragged from the bottom of the well I've sung this song before but changed the words tonight So long as no one reads them, think I'll be all right All right! For all I know, this could be the best we get For all we know we could be reaching the end of our fill of it All I can say in the light of day is the same I see when the light's on me And I'll find a shadow there, you know I will For all we know
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Recluse 04:22
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One more collection of notes for myself to recall I hang an octagon on the wall to remind me that it's time to stop Door shut like stone across the room but I'm not alone, I've got my doom And maybe something else, I'll tell you how it feels when I feel something else Something else But I've got, not now, sometimes I get these crazy inclinations That I could disappear and find the pieces of the peace I threw away And I don't even know your name but you can tell them that you understood Maybe even tell them you believed in me Oh, better stay at home, better stay at home I broke the glass on my picture frame I made sure that it was shattered After all, it had my name I'd go down to the street fair but the devil's there (I'd go down to the street fair) And it's not a secret that I share that we're a perfect pair (But the devil's there) And he's got someone that I forgot's regards there waiting for me And one of these days some aroma will come around and let me remember who I could say regret won't shadow that day at all, at all, at all, at all (I could say regret won't shadow that day at all) But a promise like that is such a reckless thing to do Oh, better stay at home Better stay at home
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Losing The Plot 04:51
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We don't fit in here and that is beautiful as we've got nothing here to lose (Nothing to show from where we came) Nobody sees us, this world is ours to make, everything else is overused (Us versus them's all I can claim) It's three PM on a Monday, think I'll catch a ride downtown And I'll remember this one day, til I'm whoever that is, I'm underground And I know it'll be much better And don't you know it'll be much better Do you think it could be much better? All right There's somewhere elsewhere that I'm supposed to be, I've felt that everywhere I go In my dreams, we meet at ends of roads I did not take (did not take) In my dreams, I walk away If a dream's a door to other places that we could have been One of me's got to learn some day All that we ever want is something we can keep a claim to (but you can't) Impermanence is all we get I've learned it's best to crave the terror of the temporary, I'm not sure I believe that yet Like waking from a sleepwalk, learning what you've wrought Now everyone's so far away While I was chasing rainbow shadows, sculpting stories, forging glories I left my soul in yesterday Though I've locked a thousand doors, I've gotten back before I don't fit in here and that is beautiful as I've got nothing here to lose I'll get it right this time, don't you know it'll be much better

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JAK LOCKE -- THE WRECKAGE, THE YIELD, AND A PLACE I CAN CRAWL UP FROM

where we came from
it's later than you think
fire and forget
who will we be now?
eh. psh
that's for them to deal with

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released August 17, 2018

Jak Locke: everything
except "No Longer Last Spring" which features Mike Dorsey on some drums, some recording & some mixing

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

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