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Flower Of Flesh And Bone

by Jak Locke

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1.
Canto XXVIII 04:45
Dirty electric sunrise gold Dreams of nothing stained and cold Revival pyres in the sun again, she never feels the slivers She makes it so easy to lie when she always asks you to forgive her Liquid black on the river bank, the cyanide of a lover's tear Ask of truth and when I answer, listen to the wind and pretend you can't hear Sister you can't hear Scream another lullaby to me Comfort in the false reality Addiction Autumn breeds sweet carrion Rejected pale beautiful sin Her tongue is cold on my skin Veinblossom wet with real joy You always were my favorite toy The air is different out here tonight, heavy with a taste of soured dreams Promises wrote and forged to my name, she cuts herself on the broken edge The casualties reach the heavens, who couldn't see this come and go? Turnabout taken to the tenfold but irony is not a word you'd ever know So much you'd never know Out from the sky Cut your losses now and say goodbye Forget my name If I promise that I'll do the same
2.
Copperhead 04:26
Lies paint the panorama of the young Optimistic splatters on an effervescent canvas The melodies of sirens I was sung Return today in echoes of abortion lullaby stanzas Seek nothing find nothing It's all prepackaged for you from the self-proclaiming wise Liberty whispers of the past How she buckles agony's grasp on me Find nothing speak nothing Dwell on all the nothing let the weight preclude a rise Passionless surfeit fills up my veins Preyed on by hollow deities that rain on me rain on me No guarantees but for the whispers of the stones On these trails of absolutely no direction we struggle to ascend The silence screams, the innocence of her languid tones Her raven hair that plays among the dead wind Seek nothing find nothing It's all prepackaged for you from the self-proclaiming wise Liberty whispers of the past How she buckles agony's grasp on me Find nothing speak nothing Dwell on all the nothing let the weight preclude a rise Passionless surfeit fills up my veins Preyed on by hollow deities that rain on me rain on me Suffered by the past, no more to linger or last Lover thinks I've something to defend Exhaustion for emptiness once before my eyes From here on I paint my own suns to rise
3.
Let's drink from the Lethe in my hands, baby, baptize me in hell Feel my lips as if there's one more nothing in there for me to tell Don't you feel the lustful majesty in every shadow behind the lies I'm betraying an angel for you so lay back baby and watch it die Keep it with yours above the dying embers of the sun The butchered sky calypso dreams and bleeds on everyone I reap hopeless melodies of broken splintered notes We carve our own epitaphs of forbidden verse we wrote Blindly we shriek at the nothing if only to hear echoes crying Sleeping we suckle the hemlock if only to know that we're dying My love my love my dead love Now the hangmen kick the dead leaves and idly wait for dawn This deception like auroras only realized when they're gone Now angel's in the Bowery, my hands are drenched with guilt And you and I are running like children toward the suicide we built Codeine dreaming, black soil scars the blue Suck my vengeance, nobody knows for who Just like my angel, swallowing every lie A crystalline facade I'm growing weary holding high Keep it with yours above the dying embers of the sun The butchered sky calypso dreams and bleeds on everyone
4.
Repetition breeds security Glazed in the afterbirth of Ouroboros tears These are the walking dead among us Condition instinct to the insect drone nobody hears This is your paragon of progress This is your civilized hive Take our souls we don't need 'em I've learned that hunger is freedom To starve is to be alive Protracted suicide redeems us Exchanged for silver for to gild up the cage Submission dictates your survival Living to work to exist to work to exist and age This is your paragon of progress This is your civilized hive Fuck our souls we don't need 'em I've learned that hunger is freedom To starve is to be alive I've learned that hunger is freedom To starve is to be alive, alive
5.
Mass graves I bring myself to the ground In the sun no one sees you no one can be found Weren't you always my dark little cloud in the sky? Dark little cloud in the sky? We breathe quickening the night She lies, love me kill me either way's all right Weren't you always my dark little cloud in the sky? Dark little cloud in the sky? On my knees Weren't you always my dark little cloud in the sky? Dark little cloud in the sky?
6.
Cambodia '73 03:11
Destroy destroy Meet your maker Delivered by god, I am your god I am omega...death Hail the wreckage, this is where it all ends Let the holy winds cleanse you Nothing left now to fear I never wished death on anyone... ...quite so strong before I bring you one last sunset, last dawn Now your god is come to take you home Now your god is come to take you home
7.
I know I'm seeing the end Crawling into the never The sky's forever brass behind the ashes We will live and die right here forever With smiles painted like dolls With smiles painted like dolls Oh can't you hear this death? Your god don't come around here Yeah, I can hear this death Comin down down like Satan's tear I know I'm seeing the end Crawling into the never Your god don't come around here We will live and die die die right here forever Rain on, rain on, rain on, rain on I still hear voices from the throats of the dolls Baby's got a hymnal authored straight from the walls Television Christ got something to say Hemlock in the glass but we drink it anyway Run run run run run run run run run run run run run Run run run run run run run run run run run run run Everybody run run run for your cold Golgotha Everybody watch the sky descend, but I know I know It's only fallout baby, it's only fallout baby It's only fallout baby, it's only fallout baby Sweet death angel come and cleanse us in his light Want to make love in the ashes while the embers still glowing bright And the way to hell is open to all today And the way to heaven will get you there anyway
8.
I'm not gonna stop myself this time Gonna let it break on through No heart to hold me back Wanna soak my hands in crimson black I realize now that all I knew was just facade Rabid and rehearsed again Parasites that crowd the way Violent stupidity viral bleeding through the clay Meaningless and sanctified Words you never have to speak: "Time to break the silence now Show your love through gasping shrieks Scream for me scream for me scream for me Scream now my dying love Show me what exquisite pain is Scream for me, your god above Scream for me scream for me scream for me Scream now my dying love Show me what exquisite pain is Scream for me your god above I won't destroy myself, much better to take it out on you My favorite parasite, choke it down til you can't take it I can't control myself, won't stop until I've had my fill Gonna force it deep inside, take it all Take take it all Take it all Take it all until I'm through" She tells me "this is suicide...but I'm not through"
9.
We cry masqueraded nothings Black rainbows silhouette the sky We sleep the electromanic carnival Heard our murder like a murmur in the night Oh-ooo don't you know the world is gonna end right here? This light like a thousand sunsets Dust of bones the saints forgot to bless Rain is falling, dead railmen sing in harmony Hymns that comfort on a broken gospel train Oh-ooo don't you know the world is gonna end right here? Pale September carrion love Vacant dying floods from above Drained immobile blades of grass bleed Angel's bed now the wide open sea Sister got a brand new hangman Wet with christening an agonized facade Now I'm holding hands with dead limbs Let the oceans fall and drown us with our god
10.
the mirror doesn't match my face she cries vivid pain in the throes of dead love she never understood i never understood things were better then corruptible as killers watching my cold air in the violent streetlight midnight destructive lover breathed a seventh farewell in the backseat where promises of dying resound under drones of deathbirds in the sky wandering hangmen waiting for someone anyone anyone anyone at all i was lying paling in the mausoleum vineyards surrounded by chalk outlines of the martyrs sifting through spoiled grapes and counting blades of grass you sat breathing audibly and visibly in the cold frost pale arms and painted claws regaling me of what i've seen before and again and again we pick the carcass of the dreams that rot we turn the knife like cannibals to stab our dying meat complacent riding the rail from beginning to beginning i have seen the creation watching the rain dry on the stones that await to be conglomerated to my headstone pale carrion in the silent bayou midnight codeine dreams of violation and depravity in drag swallowing rosestems tear me open and let the dead leaves fall as i wake whisper a socratic hymn to my ears a funeral dirge in minor tones of ironic clairvoyance we drift along the black rivers destroying everything so beautifully beyond any grave shadow i see now shadows are dead without the sun i want to see liquid grey and splintered spines i was picking the feathers off your discarded wings my dead seraphim my beautiful lucifer angel

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released October 7, 2008

All music and lyrics written, performed, mixed, mastered and produced by Jak Locke
Front album art photography by StudioJN - model: Loreli Bergeron
Inside and back album art by Jak Locke
Recorded by Jak Locke at Total Sonic Chaos, New Orleans, LA, June - Sept 2008
www.JakLocke.com
©(P) 2008 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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