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Afterimage Chaser

by Jak Locke

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1.
Went To The Bar 05:17
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Downin my coffee like there's no tomorrow Sittin in a joint with the temporary sorrow Semaphore lover in my distant past Smokin joes takin blows to my fixated ass Hippie lifestyle callin both my names Chain smokin chasers with no one to blame Tablecloth's messin with my black ink flow Like the watery coffee and the ashtray low Givin my lemons to my drummer's girl Thinkin of my seventeen different worlds Tall blonde waitress with the paycheck blues Fightin back time on a midnight cruise Two stone losers on my friendship list When you find love they get all pissed Example of timing evident at the diner One-time shot on the laid-off headliner Workin class stiffs two tables away Livin for the paycheck and never for the day It's a shame for a person to be so stuck My future's playin songs in the back of a truck Throwin out numbers of the local bars Phone book junkies who don't wanna be stars Stars are too common and come out too soon I make my wishes on a bright blue moon
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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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Wasteland 04:20
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A severed death's head guards the gate where the morning killers wait Steal a kiss and conjugate your final words Bats hesitant shed their manes, the clouds are pissing out their rains Seal the door and walk the lanes of hollow emptiness Given that a falsity comes between the destinies Veins are collapsed in the lake, give us one more blow to take Some yellow shade caressed the sky, putrid visions in your eye Devils sentence you to die in juried hearings Necrophiles and racist priests hunt you down like common beasts What! Given that a falsity comes between the destiny Veins are collapsed in the lake, give us one more blow to take Given that a falsity comes between the destiny Veins are collapsed in the lake, give us one more blow to take Necrophiles and racist priests hunt you down like common beasts Once the most and now the least as they love you
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Plastic Jug 02:49
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There's a plastic jug rolling down the road And the glowing sky's different from what I know And the toybox holds the cigarettes Everybody will be laid to rest And the way to hell is open for all today And the way to heaven will get you there anyway There's a decayed god dancing on the clock And the street's not safe anymore to walk The derelict titans are on their way There's no more years months weeks or days And your name will be up in rock And the streets are not safe for one to walk There's a plastic jug rolling down the road Carried by a death wind careless where it blows Violent, martyred but nobody cares Cut apart slowly beneath twilight's glare And the way to hell is open for all today And the way to heaven will get you there anyway
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Room 145 03:54
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May 11th 1999, 9 at night Couldn't afford a ride in Somebody was looking for a cop We passed around this huge vodka bottle, it tasted like water Past midnight The lights go out 2am, heroin Wait how did I get here? May 12th 1999, 12 noon
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401KT Bomb 01:42
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Hurry it up or you'll be late for the meeting Grey as the suit as the floor as the bore as the life that you're leading Buy in while you're young Twenty-one years spent in preparation Maybe what you need is some color coordination Grey as the suit as the floor as the life as the outlook you buy A plastic explosive might look good with that tie Buy in while you're young You're young and you're able at the back of the conference table Trading your time for the promises of the American fable Days into years into layoffs and start it again as the decades go by A plastic explosive might look good with that tie Buy in while you're young Sign my paycheck with skulls and bones
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Shallows 02:22
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One more night without promises to keep I heard you call again, I'll let you believe I'm asleep Don't need any other time of mine spoken for Can't even get control of your-own life now anymore Dive in the shallows, meet the bottom quick Swim with the sewage til it makes you sick How is it that you're still this bad at getting any clue I'd rather be alone than waste more time with you I just wish that I could get back some of the days I wasted on a fake and cheating angry stupid waste Don't need any other time of mine spoken for Never could get control of your-own life now anymore Dive in the shallows, meet the bottom quick Swim with the sewage til it makes you sick How is it that you're still this bad at getting any clue I'd rather be alone than waste more time with you I'm not answering that phone Please just leave me alone Tell them our story how you please I can't care anymore just go away, just go away from me
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Bad Day 02:28
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Having a bad bad day and I'm not feeling so great Started off at breakfast, I found a roach in my corn flakes, and it was already smoked I’m starting to get that feeling in my bed I shoulda stayed Well my car broke down out by the Manhattan traffic light I got myself a date with my favorite girl tonight, that's the one with the butt Now when we go to the movies we'll have to ride there on my bike, it's a two speed I guess my bike got jacked and my paycheck is spent, ain't gonna get another one My dog ate all my food stamps, my ex wants child support sent, I don't even remember having a kid with her Now I'm looking in my refrigerator, wondering where all my food went Take it Think I'll take me a walk two doors over to my bed Yes I'ma take me a walk so I can lay down on my bed See a letter in my room, repo man took my bed, now where am I sleepin, floor again, infomercials
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Sink 03:49
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There's a word for a place I've known But it's incorrect til I'm far from home Semi trucks pushing through a fucked-up brain 100 miles an hour with the gas tank drained Half hour up and down Something Drive Following the buses past the neon dives It's 8 in the morning which I'll try to ignore as I'm Kicking through the door before I fall on the floor There's no mind, I don't think No cares pissing in the sink Sex, alcohol, just watch me drink If I don't drown, you can watch me sink Pointless like a circle but I'm making it work Flying down the highway as if I was a jerk But the difference is I know about the Big Pretty Lie: One power failure, watch the culture die Carnival season throwing smokes away I know it all ends in a boring way Obnoxious like me who talk about everything I bend a paperclip and I'll make you a ring There's no mind, I don't think Who's there pissing in my sink Sex, alcohol, just watch me drink If I don't drown, you'll watch me sink Electric noise flies through the air Semitones blast and nobody cares They keep on talking like they seen it all They don't have any answers, just stupid gall Eighteen drugs still fresh on my tendons Five shots down, let's see how they blended Talking to a person that isn't real But really that's everybody with a plot they can steal There's no mind, I don't think I'm there pissing in my sink Sex, alcohol, just watch me drink If I can't drown, then watch me sink
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Desolate 05:48
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Any whispers fade to blue in this realm of me and you Severed from the source of light, left inside eternal night Gone again another friend they all keep leaving til the end Slighted in the final rain yet I pass this way again Where's the limit to this path, when's the ending's aftermath Never more again to fade underneath a sunlit glade Fazed to see another wall if there’s any bounds at all Kissed another fate goodbye with its remnant we will lie There's the path I've walked before, like a gate it's my youth's door If I only could forget, life might not be so desolate

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released May 6, 2000

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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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