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Lifelike Sounds

by Jak Locke

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1.
Still Feels Fine 03:05
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And it still feels fine if I can silence half my mind, my mind And I will in my way In my way I am all the time Still at it, someone tell me when I'm supposed to stop cuz I can't say Only getting back to me, fill me up til I can't stand Got a head for self-destruction and I found my promised land Borrowing tomorrow's joy, I can use it more tonight They say the devil always wins and it looks like they were right Oh son of mine, it's in your head Never cry if you can laugh instead, instead And I lean against that line And I say you know, it still feels fine, but I'm lyin Still at it, someone tell me when I'm supposed to stop cuz I can't say Only getting back to me, fill me up til I can't stand I got a head for self-destruction and I found my promised land Borrowing tomorrow's joy, I could use it more tonight They say the devil always wins and it looks like they were right
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Blind Anthems 03:10
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As another clutch of hours slips away, the shift and freedom trap is sprung Tomorrow's just another given, we will always be this young Though she don't know it yet every fracture's been set for every break to come Another spent to the descent, another stepping up that went where the end comes from Say we take it as it comes, marching to our broken drums, what's dividing us? Say we fight against the plan, take a number and a stand, who's that guiding us? Oh say can you see, we got some place to be where no one's ever been Save the anthems for the blind, they don't care and I don't mind, let them think they win Losing yourself in pointless scenes What did you think would happen? We could be anything while in between I need a new distraction As we throw another calendar away it's nothing that we haven't seen Yesterday dictates tomorrow, comfort bludgeons with routine Now what do we choose: having nothing to lose or something to defend? Villains set by others' goals, pick your story, play your roles Nothing ever ends
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In A Dream 01:49
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I came to talk to you in a dream I said I'd be leaving you in a dream You didn't understand what I mean You watched as I disappeared You left as waking up from a dream Careless and callously, so it seemed You didn't understand what it means When I'd be far far from here I'd take the beauty and the tears If I had had a say, you always got your way And as our ending ages here You're up another night, it's what you wanted right? I came to talk to you in a dream It all came flooding back in our dream You didn't understand what I mean Til I had long disappeared Now you can see it so clear Awakening after years Now can you live with it dear?
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The Null 03:32
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"Now climb inside of me", "Leave me alone forever" We don't forget just how that feels Everything ends, something else begins We watch it turning more unreal I say "I can't keep up" as I am slowing pace to let it go To be alone with all i know: I know I burned so many chances I know I'll blame the circumstances I know that I'll believe that til I can't Today I can't Body just a failing cage now, this soul is ready to fly If there's nothing after, what a sick joke it all was Better write another chapter, something more than the best way to die If my words don't run out before time does Does nothing thrill you anymore, nothing at all? Solitude does now, now and then But lately even disappearing is starting to grow old and weary Not that that could ever reach its end I just can't care if anyone connects with me ever again Troubles masquerade as friends Half the time I do believe that Half the time I'm lying to us Always with the feeling that they've all moved on without me where I can't Body just a failing cage now, this soul is ready to fly If there's nothing after, what a sick joke it all was Better write another chapter, something more than the best way to die If my words don't run out before time does Pride and hope, what's it matter? Does it last? Widen scope, insignificant so fast All we do, was it something that we meant? Something true, how else would our time be spent?
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The Still 04:58
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I'm visiting where I've been, it's been far longer than it seems If only I'd stayed back then but there'd be no more I could dream I can feel it fade around me, faster than my memory Another day I'll return and there'll be just the same for me It's coming apart again, I still remember all the seams It never did matter when the cycle's what propelled the stream I can be whatever I can dream up, only I can't sleep Another day I let slip, another promise I can't keep I have to find myself another echo, gotta find myself another echo Gonna find myself another echo, gotta find myself another echo Time to find myself another echo, gotta find myself another echo Gonna find myself another echo, gotta find myself another echo You can live every day to the fullest while you still have youth enough to enjoy it You can spend it all according to plan making sure nothing can ever destroy it Always smarter than I've ever been until the consequences tell me I was wrong again Always ready for the next barrage until it's here and everything I knew was hopeful mirage I'm visiting where I've been: a sacred void I won't release Too easy to say it when it's all that recollection sees I can be whatever I can dream up, only I can't sleep Another day I'll return and there'll be just the same for me
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100 Days of Trouble 02:27
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Back when I first met you How could I ever tell you and I would ever go this way? I was tryin to keep it simple and was doing quite well Grey sailing through my throwaway days But there's something that I'm seeing that I didn't before And it's awful and familiar and I'm wanting it more And I'm in a freefall dive now You're a hundred days of trouble and I want them all No road left here to drive now The end is comin hard so let's enjoy the fall The last time that it happened Now I swore I could never ever stand to live that again I could recite a thousand memories that I still regret But yeah I'd still be just as far from the end But here I am again and well I have to admit There's a thrill in gettin burned and never knowin to quit Yes I'm in a freefall dive now You're a hundred days of trouble and I want them all And they're going five by five now That thrill be worth the price until I hit the wall Oh, c'mon I'm in a freefall dive now You're a hundred days of trouble and I want them all And they're going five by five now That thrill be worth the price until I hit the wall And I'm in a freefall dive now You're a hundred days of trouble and I want them all No road left here to drive now The end is comin hard so let's enjoy the fall, oh
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The Lyrics 02:52
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No one reads the lyrics to the songs we're writing Words never matter if the tune's inviting We never listen anyway, wait til the next chorus plays Then it's time for the next song These are the lyrics to the song we're writing Meaningful for now before it's more reciting Droning through routine and then "Oh wait it's this song again?" And it never takes that long I can tell myself all the ways it'll go this time I will take my time ignoring all of the ways that it won't Maybe I can find another year I can disappear inside But could I hide from the phantom of the side of me that died when she cried: No one reads the lyrics to the songs you're writing Words never matter if the tune's inviting We never listen anyway, wait til the next chorus plays Then it's time for the next song These are the lyrics to the songs we're writing Meaningful for now before it's more reciting Droning through routine and then "Oh wait it's this song again?" And it never takes that long I can speak my mind and bare my soul to the void, don't I? Under the underground, can be as loud as I want When no one's watching it's okay to be blase with what you compose Yet still I spent hours' time to balance meter and rhyme of the part that goes, that goes: No one reads the lyrics to the songs we're writing Words never matter if the tune's inviting We never listen anyway, wait til the next chorus plays Then it's time for the next song These are the lyrics to the song we're writing Meaningful for now before it's more reciting Droning through routine and then "Oh God it's this song again?" And it never takes that long
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Scene Revenant 02:47
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Something's gone, I was lucky to have it The axis shifted, I never felt it go Ain't it the day you've been waiting for now Is it less than you might have dreamed? The view ahead mirroring behind you Spinning the wheel of the one man scene So when they told you take it as it comes Who's it coming from And did you ever think you'd take that fall now? If you're lucky, running out of time But you know that dying at this age ain't romantic at all Starting over but it's all the same A fiction destined for no one's eyes Spreading venom when they hear your name Until they think you could help them rise Do you remember when you started out? Zero cash, zero clout Nothing but a stage to bluff, now Never got what you were looking for Always wanted more because it's never high or far enough But wouldn't you have killed to be here not so long ago? This could be all you get, don't waste it on your low Something's gone, I was lucky to have it The axis shifted, I never felt it go Is it missing or was it eroded? The odds were loaded, as if I didn't know Something to prove for abandoned reasons Electric passion of the raw naive It's not the times or the youth we're missing Just the hope that we once believed
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Games 05:23
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I used to play this game where I'd call on a girl Who I still carried a torch for, try and ruin my world And talk about the way it ended and the lies I told her friends And skate around and round if maybe we could try it again I used to play a game, I'd pretend I'm in love Until the act of believing it was more than enough To make me feel that it was real and there'd be no way to repeal it Til I realize I'm still dealing with the last time I did Back when we were effortlessly beautiful with poison souls Trading promises of nothing that we'd ever dare uphold Memories can't hurt us, only all the things we never stole How could there be any regret since we'd never get that old? I used to play this game, I'd waste hundreds of days On dead end places and people since they always would stay Their petty dramas entertain from heights of curious disdain Until eventually remaining turns you into the same I used to play a game, I'd refuse I could fail And I'd talk down about everyone with zero details While I would do nothing at all, a rhythm bitter and banal Cuz staying low and thinking small means that there's nowhere to fall Back when we were effortlessly beautiful with poison souls Trading promises of nothing that we'd ever dare uphold Memories can't hurt us, only all the things we never stole How could there be any regret since we'd never get that old? When tomorrow landed, there was nowhere to run Don't count the casualties, you'll never be done So many games, now did you have any fun? When tomorrow landed, there was nowhere to run Nowhere to run, nowhere to run I never thought I'd be there when the stories ended The way I understood, I'll never understand it I gotta live this present, can't disown my wreckage It's all mine, what troubles my mind is I can't find any message I never thought I'd be there when the stories ended The way I understood, I'll never understand it I gotta live this present, can't disown my wreckage What troubles my mind is I can't find any message
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Lights Out 02:20
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I take a shot in the dark Not quite as sharp as the last One more can't leave too much of a mark Who's counting, nobody asked Hello, what's your name? Here's one of mine I'll never see you again Cast of a thousand, move down the line But all of them my "best friends" Well what do I have to lose? Some tired pride, some useless blues? Another night for the collection Will I remember at all? Head full of contradiction and doubt Fetish for dread and despair Two pints is all it takes to drown out Why would I ever stop there? Unfiltered poison poise that's on loan He walks and talks just like me Which one is the one I can own And which one's my enemy? Well what do I have to lose? Some tired pride, some useless blues? Another night for the collection Will I remember at all? Lit up, lights out Lit up, lights out Lit up, lights out Lit up, lights out
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Til Dawn 02:10
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I couldn't tell quite how long it was til dawn With the sun, it would all be gone Could we have known we touched the sky? Could we have seen we'd never seem to be that high again? Then: deep and fierce, a frantic love Now: something spent, far different that I think of I had to see the end of me This naive, I could not leave with all I used to be
12.
Falling Again 02:37
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So much I'd leave behind I couldn't say it hasn't crossed my mind If I don't believe in this, what's left but time to ruin? I was looking to lose myself and losing's what I'm doing And now I'm falling again Here I'm falling again Already know how it ends But could I even pretend That I could ever waste another chance to feel that Yes, I'm falling again I never could see the ends til they were far behind me Forgetting it all again, monotony reminds me Another time in another life not far from mine, I left it all there Any port in a storm I guess, but wrong's a better place than nowhere I can feel it taking all the best of me Maybe I can save some this time Nothing I haven't seen before, just chasing some sensation I was looking to lose myself, I'm losing my foundation Rounding another loop, forever in rotation (forever in rotation) Rounding another loop, forever in rotation (forever in rotation, forever in rotation) Oh oh I'm falling again Here I'm falling again Already know how it ends (forever in rotation) But could I even pretend That I could ever waste another chance to feel that (forever) Yes I'm falling again Oh I'm falling again Yeah I'm falling again And here I'm falling again
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Interval 03:36
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When the wheels have fell off a mile ago I can still drag what's left now back home And I don't even know how to give it up There's still too much I wanna see Even if it's only me alone Nothing that's never gonna go Everything temporary, that much is necessary What's there to miss if it ain't so? Too much ahead, too much behind, out of time I was designed to stay aligned out of time A history to sever, a mystery we never had a reason to think that before All the fair weather friendships that I have found Far further away than I appear I will know where my walls can open up Long before a consequence Gone before any defense should appear Never know who is gonna show Back from the past I'm sure it could be the last time What's there to miss if it ain't so? We'll get it right, maybe tonight, maybe not Nothing but heights ahead in sight I have got a vision to view clear I'm leaving my blues here, better ways i can feel I don't mind if I don't find my way back where I been again All I done adds up to one I'll bring it all until I hit the end Something I can't see ahead of me, but I know soon I'll be there Want to end up everywhere

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released November 30, 2023

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recorded May - November 2023

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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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