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Empty Rooms

by Jak Locke

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1.
Scratch 03:13
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Shootin pool on another lonely night Ain't no lady, ain't none of my friends in sight It's my break and broken's what I am It's your turn pal, say, tell me your name again Sunk the fourteen, well my soul is sinkin too Well I can't help wonderin if it's all because of you Eight ball, my shot, and down the cue ball went One more game pal, here's my last fifty cents
2.
Afterimage 02:33
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There will come a time after all's been said When a man can have reflection on the dead The years have passed him by and now he asks to know How come all has changed and where did the time go And we shall all cross this path somewhere along the way When it comes we will know if we lived for the day So now this man looks abck on his now fading past Nostalgia sets in to ask why it couldn't last His friends so far away, if only he'd said goodbye Pictures and memories will make him smile and cry And we shall all cross this path somewhere along the way When it comes we will know if we lived for the day And will we know what to do as those days begin to fade One day today will be the past so live before it goes away
3.
Don't You Ever Learn 02:35
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I finally learned my lesson I been wastin all my time and energy in pursuit of a thing called love I been trapped in that realm of questions I can never understand And breakin from it now, I've had enough But now that I don't want it anymore, love will come looking for me I look toward all my friends and see their problems multiply Because they got so much than they were bargained for And next thing that I know they’re wearing tuxes Steppin down the aisle, shovin their independence out the door Just cuz they didn't want it anymore, love went looking for them I'll never make the mistakes I made before I'm temptin fate, better knock the door It's made of wood, you know what I'm sayin My telephone is ringin so I pick it up, I say hello It's Lauren so I guess here we go again You see, I didn't want it anymore so love came looking for me And I guess it found me
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While My Love Sleeps 01:46
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While my love is sleeping stars shine brightly above Lamp glows golden for hours I spend here with my love Lights dimmed outside my window The shadows dispersed at the song My love lies quietly resting To hear it could not be too long While my love is sleeping stars shine brightly above Lamp glows golden for hours I spend here with my love
5.
Ten Lies Wrapped In Gold 03:32
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This feeling that I got completes my soul Cuz all it takes is a look and I am whole I can't mistake what I can't forsake My love is a gift, not an obligation that I make The memories that we have are so sweet I think of them constantly, began from the day we did meet I can't mistake what I can't forsake My love is a gift, not an obligation that I make I know what you want, I know what you need Every word that you say is a song to my heart But when we're not together it tears me all apart I can't mistake what I can't forsake My love is a gift, not an obligation that I make My love is a gift, not an obligation that I make
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Campus Ramblin Blues 03:28
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Woke up today in a strange room, full of empty gloom, could use a broom Empty cans, full ashtrays, terrible taste in decoration, must be a dormitory Got mosquitoes flying around Ain't roaches so it must be a good dormitory Took my ballcap off the bed, blue and red, right on my head It was backwards of course, everybody's gotta have a trademark look Well that's mine and about a thousand other people's on campus I walked to class and I looked around, ain't no sound, no one to be found Class was supposed to start at 8:55, it's 8:00 Close enough, so I left Walked along the twistin way, well look hey, the school cafe Lot of people in there talking, nobody eating I fill up a tray, find a corner and I eat up Oh. That's why Comin here was pretty dumb, these days a degree just makes you an alum Found a road, stuck out my thumb, wait for someone Here they come, it was a taxi cab I said "take me home" and he drove me back to the dorm Went to the fraternity, gee everybody's lookin at me They're all wearin the same shirt and the same cargo shorts Same Jerusalem cruisers, same bald fade haircuts, makin the same face at me Same heads, same brains Think I got somewhere else to be Well that afternoon they had a game, the band was lame and nobody came Not the other team or even our team either Now that I think about it, it was probably a band practice, they should work on that You might ask what I'm doing here after such a critique so severe Well there's a lot of beer And a lot of pretty girls here And they gave me a semester's worth of hours when I tested May as well get the other seven or eight or nine Ah, might be fun
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Harvey Locks 01:48
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Hey girl you look so lonely and still you actin like nothin's wrong Hey girl give me one reason that you stay with him I've seen you drowned in misery for way too long Oh girl if you know it why don't you just go I guess the history has currency I'll never know At least here it's just you and I and passing ships When you need a place to let it out then just say so
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100 Days of Trouble 02:30
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Well back when I first saw you I did not expect that you would ever look my way One thing to take your shot but when you're bound to reject it's a waste of time to even play But the way you shot your liquor well I have to admit That if I didn't try my luck then I'd be wishing I did Oh baby you got me goin You're a hundred days of trouble and I want them all And I'll take the ride while knowin The end is comin hard but think it's worth the fall The last time that I saw you I'd never have dreamed that I could stand to see you again The way it fell apart was such an evil scheme even knowing it would badly end But here we are again and well I have to admit There's a thrill in gettin burned and never knowin to quit Yeah baby you got me going You're a hundred days of trouble and I want them all Another ride I take while knowin The end is comin twice so let's watch it fall Baby you got me goin You're a hundred days of trouble and I want them all Another ride I take while knowin The end is coming hard but think it's worth the fall Baby you got me goin You're a hundred days of trouble and I want them all Another ride I take while knowin The end is coming twice so let's watch it fall oh
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Fork In The Road 02:57
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I'm walkin with roads that I've walked with for so many days And I know in my soul that the two of us soon will part ways Oh sure I'll be back but you know it won't ever be the same These same old cracked roads will soon be known as the place from which I came This I know so I look back on today already I look back at people I've known in my far distant past And I see all the memories we made though our time didn't last The forks in the road where they left off to pastures anew Well it just all depends if that I'm a fork in their road too This I know so I look back on today already I'm leavin for home it's a place I have not seen before And I think of the memories waiting behind that home's door As I look up the path I can see many will come and go And I see all the memories become a fork in your own road This I know so I look back on today already This I know so I look back on today already
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Times Like This 01:31
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Times like this I can see what they meant When they told me "boy, you better enjoy your youth" A funny thing to be saying this young But lately seeing more lies than could lie in the truth I want to do near everything Now my choices got me watching some doors being closed Try to find the point it declined And when I do there's always further back that I could go Times like this I can see what they meant When they told me "boy you better enjoy your youth" A funny thing to be saying this young But lately seeing more lies than could lie in the truth
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Glorious 03:21
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I don't know what the world's view is, I don't wanna know History proves itself right and wrong, it's such vertigo All false prophets and philosophers fill up the masses with meaningless words I can't explain and, no, I can't complain for insanity Even today when a phrase can't be without profanity Just looking on with millions in pain, playing your lute while your city's in flames What's the difference and what does it mean to the two of us No matter what we say it will go on in lieu of us I ain't no messenger sent from above, all I can do is ask where is the love War and peace and war once again it's forevermore Plumes of threatening breakers of fear crash back on our shore Trust is illusion, illusion departs, even one's friend can be Brutus at heart Allied together we fall at the feet of catastrophe Snowball effect, assassination turns to mobility We win the battles again and again but do our mirrors frame pictures of men?
12.
Llover 01:46
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Jak Locke: guitar, vocals, bass, drums
Wess Walker: lead guitar on tracks 1,2,4,5,7,8,10,12

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released October 29, 1998

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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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