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Prismatic Static

by Jak Locke

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1.
Ravenhair 00:50
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Ravenhair
2.
Day 7979 02:00
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Wooden cane helpin me stand Got nothin but this red guitar in my hand Holdin a green pick and strummin it all day long Makin up things off the top of my head, I can call em songs And I'm smokin cigarettes with a red plastic lighter And I'm gettin high and I'm about to get much higher And then I lay back down on the wall with the plastic wallpaper fallin on my head Make me wonder sometimes if I woke up dead And if there's some place I should rather be instead but I'm not sure I tell myself it's all in my head And I'm smokin lead It was about 11 at night and we showed up in Terrytown But Nick was nowhere around We went into his house, we grabbed all his stash We sold it on the black market for some cash And we went and we got some McDonalds and it was good A Big Mac and fries just like we knew we should Nutritional value: zero, but we don't really care Good day roll call: Drugs, sex, booze Trying to talk to Diana now It's not gonna work, you'll blow your chance somehow (no, it won't work)
3.
Writhe 02:26
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There's no reason why Moon shining A killer's smile remains on my lips I'm not particular Euphoric, tearing at my own flesh As the children squeal with delight Playing with their own scissors And cutting each other's eyelids off To stare at the sun with no hope of betrayal Sliding, sliding as I put on my shades I writhe, oh baby I writhe I writhe I'm a snake cut straight from Medusa's head I'm a snake I bet you wish I was dead I'm a snake that tells you to eat the apple Cuz you cut me and I spawn I spawn anew
4.
A Church 02:09
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To me I could care less, everything to me is new And new things have never been seen before So why don't you take yourself so I don't see you no more out the door Get away from me yeah, let me hear the sound of you walkin out the door And walkin down the street Talkin to all the sorts of people that you never thought you'd meet Electronic, plastic, paper, everything is fake You're talkin about things and you're steppin on a rake And it flies up and the handle hits you in the face You're goin around and you're tryin things just to see the taste You can't see flavor, you can't even hear it So go on back down and talk to your holy spirit You wanna tell me things that I already know All down into you, you're lovin it You're likin life and you're hatin yourself Goin plugged into my sockets up inside of my eyes and my irises And if you don't like it, then I don't want to hear it that you never really knew You wanna talk about it, don't talk to me, go talk to you
5.
Donuts 02:05
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Donuts is what connect the whole world I ain't never met nobody that don't like donuts, did you? I didn't think so You give everybody a donut, everybody be friends Cuz they'll have something to talk about They can talk about which donut is their favorite And they don't care what the other favorites is Cuz if they have their own favorite, they still together Cuz they all like donuts Even if somebody likes a donut that you don't like, I bet you still like a some type of donut And that's where it's at Cuz you can have all the donuts in the world Connect the whole world together It'll be good for everyone Take Ariel Sharon and Yassir Arafat, Prime Minister Blair And uh, Jiang from China and Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush And Vicente Fox and all the others You put em together and you give em a box of donuts And they'll eat it and they'll like each other And they don't care about the economies or the war or Jenin or any of that stuff no more Cuz they'll be talkin about the world donut trade (Donuts, donuts, donuts, donuts With the powdered sugar and the glaze Chocolate covered, chocolate glaze Cake donuts, grape donuts, jelly donuts Cream-filled donuts (cough cough) and uh... Raisin donuts, mayonnaise and ketchup donuts And um... soda donuts, water donuts Electrical donuts Donuts in the yard DOnuts gettin old and gettin hard Donuts gettin stale Donuts fillin up the jail Donuts, the inmates all eat em and I eat em too Donuts, I could be an inmate and so could you Donuts, they're good and they taste like... donuts)
6.
Leech 02:35
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No time for resting, no time to clean No time for loving, no time to be lean No need for sleeping, no need to be loose No need for a phone call, I got the juice No leaves in the mattress, no coins in the can No cold in the icebox, no cash in my hand Oh ripped me a new one shootin pool at the bar Yeah the sewer hole's callin me, run me down with a car Wrap my head up in clingwrap, put my hands in the towels Spell my name on a quarter without using no vowels
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St. Mary Street, Downtown 03:31
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No don’t think I'll be back there no more I couldn’t even last time get through the door All my friends were there, I just put my head down They asked me what a smile looked like, I gave em a frown They said that's not a smile is it raining outside? I said nothing I didn't want to give up none of my pride They talked to me afterwards out by the car They said you're doin pretty good for yourself so far And I said "Yes", it was the first thing I had said all night And then I stopped talking, didn’t want to cause a fight And a fight did not start, not one that I had any part in Man, but inside the bar a guy wasn't appreciating his friend They say alcohol'll do that to a man if he ain't careful enough Make him think he's five times as big and twice as tough So I lit myself a smoke and I didn't know what to do When you started coughin I said "Man, you smoke too, that ain't like you" You looked up at me and you said "No man, it's not that I was just tryin not to laugh at the girl walking down there who's fat" I said "Yes, she’s quite fat but then again you’re not exactly small" Then he turned around and walked away and I started talking to the wall "Well hello good day to you," I intoned to the bricks Man, the bricks looked at me and said "I don’t like you, go talk to that pile of sticks" So I went and talked to the pile of sticks, didn’t hear me so I got a little closer And I still had my cigarette in my mouth and they started to roast and Then they caught on fire and they went up in flames I looked at them I looked at the wall, I looked at my friend's back, they're all the same Now you might ask where I come from and what it is that I like to be That ain't none of your business sir and trust me it's a mystery to me Yeah, you don't believe me, ask the mirror
8.
The Beer 00:59
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Hey baby I want some beer You can be nice and give it here Or you can just tell me where I can find some If you don’t have any, be a friend Go to the store and spend Your money on me and my beer Give me beer Give me beer Get the beer where’s the beer
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Oedipus Shades 03:51
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Mangled, suffocated Nauseous, lick the air filter Open up the electric wire Go down with the sickening choir I punched a priest in the testes Finally where I can rest easy Put on Oedipus shades To where I can find it easy to see Make myself a corset with a guitar string, yeah
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Trespassing Mirage 02:45
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The tortoise shell like shimmer glint from Sophia's necklace shines To prisms of the eyes of god which constantly strike me blind And kissing bags of seasick oyster plankton from the swamp My liege comes strolling vicariously with circumstance and pomp Sophia knows her place quite well, she wears it on her arm As wedding bells and carnivals announce her righteous charm But me, I'm rolling in the carpet from the trial yesterday And trying to forget about the debt that I must pay The fifteen dollar sacrifice is goin up for sale To Louis the Fourteenth and Apostle Paul in jail You can't find truth in fiction like Sophia always says Now I'm walkin to Arabia and I can't find my fez The terrapin and Uncle Remus riding on his back Make light of all the cargo loads that the tired sailors stack So I perforate my clothing and my alabaster face And wait here for Sophia to show me to my place Yeah, yeah, yeah

about

well so now what
i mean eventually it goes how it will
in the meantime
and then and then and then and then
or is that everything
hm.

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released April 29, 2002

Jak: everything

original release: April 29, 2002
remastered release: September 6, 2019

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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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