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Action Packed Self Destruction

by Jak Locke

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1.
I picked the wrong one again Yeah I could kill for the end S-something's gonna have to break but for sweet good-goodness sake There's so much more I can take I'll suck it down til it bleeds And while I fail to succeed Oh there'll be plenty of time for Brother Sisyphus to climb Inside my my my my my my my my my mind Audience or not, I'm gonna sing my song, it say "no one ever wants to live that long" All the other pretty boys are so serene You know that nothing worth having ever stays so clean Keep her wanting more and she will be your slave I don't dig love, I just dig my grave But oh! She fakes it so well, just like me Between us we could make a fabulous tragedy Cuz they say pain's the quicker ticket to the depth you crave Don't you know? Yes I knew And I wasted all my time again, yes I did And I could trace it and I won't find a thing except "So you're with me now, are you with me now, you're not with me now" Love-lover I have to admit there's a thrill in watching it go down as deep as it can Oh make me more than a man, s-so much more I can stand Oh how could you never see there's got to be agony Tortured, bound to the floor and I'm still ready for more Oh lover, if you're gonna get reckless, what are you waiting for? Frankie had a dream she'd leave us all behind She had the mind of a child and a body so fine She said "if everyone's a star, then I want to be space" Oh baby maybe should have kept those words behind her face Now she makes a living in a ninth ward dive The good news is she's only nauseous when she's alive But oh! She fakes it so well, just like me All of the happiness I get from glimpses of her misery Cuz there's no better victory than watching someone writhe Don't you know? Yes I knew And I wasted all my time again, yes I did And I could trace it and I won't find a thing except "So you're with me now, are you with me now, you're not with me now" Oh, how time flies, and lately come to realize I've been singing this same song for much too long Yes, much too much i'd rather do and while I've learned a thing or two If this decade should pass to you here's the best that I can offer you: Boy, whatever you do, don't you let 'em see you cry And whatever you do, don't you let 'em see you cry I erased it and it came back again, yes it did So let's face it, it's time I find that I don't mind That I don't mind that I don't mind that I wasted all my time all my time All my time won't come back again It's time I find that I don't mind if you're with me now, if they're with me now They're not with me now
2.
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 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
3.
Dreamless 03:46
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 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
4.
Repeater 04:28
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 go nowhere Got the train comin at me and I just don't care 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" I got the train coming at me and I just don't care 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?
5.
Clock 04:45
I can't take anymore now no make up break up not this time One more time one last time hang up lights out two years all for nothing Now I've got nothing here but time Regrets are regression and I'm turning back the Clock is frozen nothing happens, there's an absence of everything I thought I'd find My days are mine now to do anything that I want, nothing comes to mind Don't want to get high with my friends Think I'll just way til the day ends just waiting on the clock No feeling, stare at the ceiling, waiting for a grief that will never come She's crying, I'm trying to accept that I'm completely numb Dead water that brought her fills up my lungs and I exhale No changes, what's strange is I'm fully aware it's the final nail 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4 Hang out, pretend everything's fine and what worries me is that everything is fine No agony, no remorse, save for the days that will never again be mine I hate to say what sounds so cruel I miss my time more than you New day, new play, she's on my lap and I'm finding it hard to get into this Resist, keep distance as a rule, can't afford another cycle of pointlessness Guess she's just my flavor of the week Wonder if there's more that I should seek than salvaging the clock No feeling, stare at the ceiling, waiting for a grief that will never come She's crying, I'm trying to accept that I'm completely numb Dead water that brought her fills up my lungs and I exhale No changes, what's strange is I'm fully aware it's the final nail No feeling, stare at the ceiling, waiting for a grief that will never come (I hate to say what sounds so cruel) She's crying, I'm trying to accept that I'm completely numb (I miss my time more than you) Dead water that brought her fills up my lungs and I exhale (Now I've got nothing here but time) No changes, what's strange is I'm fully aware it's the final nail (Regrets are regression and I'm turning back the) Somebody give me back my time Or make this all seem real to me Somebody give me back my time Or make this all seem real to me Somebody give me back my time Or make this all seem real to me Somebody give me back my time Or make this all seem real to me Somebody give me back my time Or make this all seem real to me Somebody give me back my time Or make this all seem real to
6.
The silence I craved scores the tragedies I used to wish for Midnight was always too early to have any depth All that I want now is what I refused to see All that I wanted was beautiful misery Taking my time til the time tells the tale tethered to me I should have known that the story would never end well We found our star but kept it far for fear of burning Our world was bright, no chance of night, til it kept turning Midnight was always too early but nothing cuts like too late Midnight was always too early but nothing cuts like too late
7.
Yes Yes 02:47
One time, two times, do it again The sound's not the siren, it's the way back when Convalescence, obsolescence rinse and repeat And I just wanna hear the rhythm of a trash can beat One track mind when the dawn starts to breakin Money man fakin, precious time takin Gotta keep it cold, gotta fit a mold, gotta quit the old Gotta get it sold, no matter what the cost is Lost this looking in the rearview all the time Tearin up the vinyl with a jackhammer mind The wreckage sets in when the walls start to rot Not a thing can be remembered until it's been forgot Yes yes y'all! Before my mothership lands Yes yes! I break it down until it's out of my hands Yes yes y'all! Time to get a brand new scene Yes yes y'all! Ridin on a crazy machine! Yes yes y'all! Before my mothership lands Yes yes! I break it down until it's out of my hands Yes yes y'all! Time to get a brand new scene Yes yes y'all! Ridin on a crazy machine! Throwback 8-track built to confuse Rock it like a mountain with the avalanche blues Static, drums, here it comes: Breakin off the knob so it comes through right I like when the room starts to pick up the notion That I broadcast out with my electrical motions Rejecting the vow of the hipper-than-thou Red-level loud before I take a bow Action packed, self-destruction to a beat Church of the lo-fi analog elite Cross the river, follow the noise Base 89 where the rhythm's deployed Yes yes y'all! Before my mothership lands Yes yes! I break it down until it's out of my hands Yes yes y'all! Time to get a brand new scene Yes yes y'all! Ridin on a crazy machine! Yes yes y'all! Before my mothership lands Yes yes! I break it down until it's out of my hands Yes yes y'all! Time to get a brand new scene Yes yes y'all! Ridin on a crazy machine! I got a hangover drinkin O.E. I got a hangover drinkin O.E. I got a hangover drinkin O.E. It was Scott's idea so now he owes me I got a hangover drinkin O.E. I got a hangover drinkin O.E. I got a hangover drinkin O.E. It was Scott's idea so now he owes me
8.
Riot Trip 02:56
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 for all of us there 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
9.
Sleazy Sexy 03:52
Aw yeah Everybody knows where the ladies are at this time of night They all with me baby, oh! That is, they all gonna be with me Because, because I got that special soft serve kinda love Kinda oozes all over the place? Yeah, you know what I mean I know how to make a woman scream Oh yes, women are screaming at me all the time My moms was yelling at me just the other day for leaving the TV tray out But enough about me. Haha. Let's talk about you. You and me. Now baby, tell me this Have you ever done it on the moon? Well, nobody has Because you need to wear spacesuits on the moon and that would be kinda awkward Kinda awkward, I kinda wish I hadn't said that Kinda awkward like the feeling you get when I say I want to be the man in your closet watching you undress I'm sleazy, you're sexy, they both start with an 's' And when you're trying to ignore me and my line of sight I tell my friends I was with you last Saturday night That's right And girl, when they ask why you're not talking to me I just tell them that's how I roll I've moved on to something else already And they don't need to know that I'm really talking about internet porn And I haven't really lied, you know, I was sitting at this same table last weekend watching you dance with your friends We were in the same room so provided we're going by Webster's definitions, I really was with you With you and all your friends at the same time I want to be the man in your closet watching you undress I'm sleazy, you're sexy, they both start with an 's' And when you're trying to ignore me and my line of sight I'm memorizing every part of you for later tonight That's right Yeah, all right, nuff nuff talk, time for some of my magical action, aw yeah Tonight i take my stand, I don't need no wingman No, I'm riding this solo, first class That girl in the grey, yeah the one who's looking this way Tonight I'm gonna stick it in her ooh ooh ooooooh ooh Have you ever been in a crowded room and were talking to one of your friends And the whole room goes quiet right before you say something you didn't necessarily want the whole room to hear Well, that just happened And now I'm that guy And so I try to play it off I say "can you believe he told her he wanted to stick it in her ass?" Aw, but it's too late, isn't it So now I'm really riding solo tonight But baby, it's all your loss I was just trying to do you a favor, share the wealth So yeah, you damn right I'll go fuck myself And lady, let me educate you on a little fact: I'm so good I bet you I don't even last thirty seconds So what you got to say now? Damn I want to be the man in your closet watching you undress I'm sleazy, you're sexy, they both start with an 's' And when you're trying to ignore me and my line of sight I'm memorizing every part of you for later tonight That's right Ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh
10.
Hannah 03:40
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 most pleasant girl that you've ever seen Isn't that great? Or she might have more issues than Time magazine Isn't that great? 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
11.
Letter 02:01
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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released June 14, 2014

All music and lyrics written by Jak Locke
All instruments and vocals performed by Jak Locke
(except "Repeater" which features Zach Dufrene on keyboard
and Eddie Gandolfi on lead guitar)
© 2014 Jak Locke

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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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