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The Gone

by Jak Locke

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1.
Living Tomb 04:27
Vain attempts of going back on a nameless ageless track Under a sick yellow light down a path of ceaseless night Windows darkened, curtains drawn, every light outside is gone Taken down another lane, shall I meet myself again? In a simple cured tone, it's too clear that it's alone Open for another day, closed as I go on my way Fields once lush, barren and stark in this darkened life of sin Like a moth who loves the dark I spin
2.
So hard to swallow words that you can't take back Too long you've followed the path that's lit in black I can't believe you, how selfish you have been You sure deceived you, unforgivable sin Oh so possessive, you boxed me in too tight You were so excessive, now you know that wasn't right You just thought of your needs, now you say that you don't anymore One chance and you'll see you can't be the one I'll adore So hard to swallow words that you can't take back Too long you've followed the path that's lit in black You just thought of your needs, now you say that you don't anymore One more chance and you'll see you can't be the one I'll adore anymore anymore anymore gimme more
3.
Captain Call 02:58
Open road to ecstasy, filmy recollection sea Sunset rocking chair abide washed in progress' rising tide Once so full of sunlit hopes held high on imagined ropes Short farewells of shallow meaning once to find the tombstone gleaming Scattered to a changeless wind, hopes to pass just one again Join the choir ever-spreading, see me off when life's done treading on me, on me
4.
Vacant 03:49
Sanity attached with paste, recollected bags of waste Recollections formed in haste on a blank square, on a blank square Gone again the feel and taste, there's a part that's been erased Oasis with poison laced when it's not there, when it's not there Roads of parabolic shape, sanity attached with tape Vacant holes of vacuum gape knowing not where, knowing not where I've seen you before, maybe Monumental failures climb innumerable, sublime Of the conflicts in a mind on a blank square, on a blank square On a blank square, on a blank square, on a blank square
5.
Isn't it easy to find someone who'll tell you what you want to hear? Another missing piece, a plastic replacement and a belt slipped off the gear Crack your mirrors and blame them on me with a phobia for coming back Your severed instance don't mean nothing to me so don't send me up your stack Vacant hallways in the pits of your thoughts where the closets hide the bones of your past You better lock them all again and again cuz I've heard that skeletons run fast Never mind the dust that collects in places where it's easiest to brush it away Final corridors that fall into pieces when your eyes see the light of day Where's your gown and crown that you always took the greatest pleasure in talking about? Circle rooms where you're looking for a corner and the echoes are so blessedly loud A black light shines in the face of an owl which asks about your identity A strange distortion that you perpetuated through which all but yourself can see
6.
Minus One 03:24
When the wind touches where you once had been, cold and lonesome yet I remember when You and I and the sunlight we were in, glare masking shadows waiting past the end Now the calendar don't turn a page at all, clock hand forever glued to the wall All out of time, now it doesn't even crawl, nothing left to hold now but what I recall Obsessed with the fall and wondering just where, though even if I knew it won't change this affair Filled up whole by the void in my care, moreso now that you're not, you're there A touch so soft leaves a pain this hard, I can't begin to know how far this scattered the shards I'll dream when I was yours while I tend to my scars, there's numbers less than zero, lower by far
7.
High 02:52
So full so right this fire lit night One soul, one thought, all else is naught All limits are gone and time's thrown out of care Here there's a scent of fire in the air So calm to wake, one push is all it takes No moon, no sun, this night of one All limits are gone and time's thrown out of care Here there's a scent of fire in the air I climb so high to leap the sky So much to see, take my hand and come with me All limits are gone and time's thrown out of care Here there's a scent of fire in the air
8.
Asylum 04:03
Things left alone will rot that way, eventually be forgotten When left alone we rot that way and wish it could be forgotten Whoever said love is just a game evidently never played it Her memory lives forevermore, for nothing will it be traded So here I sit in bonds of sorrow, it really never should have ended this way Isolated, there's no tomorrow, in this dark I can't tell night from day My asylum, my asylum Images surface in my eyes of times that are gone forever Her soft arms folded 'cross my chest, the days when we were together How I would look into her bright blue eyes and lose myself inside them But now she's gone and I sit alone in my inner asylum So here I sit, the key's been thrown away, forever locked inside this living death So far away yet still so close to me and she'll be here until my final breath My asylum, my asylum, my asylum, my asylum
9.
The Come Up 02:50
Golden chimes ringing over me took my place and became part of me Cast my mind far behind, threw me out of this reality Rejected all of someone else's chase, cast a hazy veil across my face Cover all as I fall toward a world where the sun has no place Wake me walkin down a lonely road away from all the dead and endless low Sing your song all day long, won't take me back til I've seen all that you can show In the heat of a dying star, everything I ever am finally far Lay right here, ringing clear, beautifully stranded where the shadows are Lets me drink the water from their wishing well, telling all the stories that they always tell Voices cease, gives me peace, temporarily free from the panic cell Take who I am and bring it to sleep, promise me all your promises you'll keep Take me there, anywhere, as long as I'm not there, no water is too deep
10.
Shards 03:27
Taken down another road of hope at which end lies one more hangman's rope The scaffolding of joy is all too plain, what's to lose if there's nothing to gain? And so it seems shattered dreams is all I know Still beyond the pain to be endured, beyond the roads of death so pure The shards of what was long ago stay to make a treacherous road Or so they say but that's okay, I'll still get by So they say, that's okay, I'll still get by
11.
Time #7 03:36
Lonely pathway, scattered stones cracked So much time there's some time to backtrack The pale reflection inside the lake renewed, renewed Final hour, sun has vanished Leaving dimness in a blanket of remorse, of remorse Simple pleasures, joy has vanished Leaves nostalgia in life's coming twilight, twilight One more visit to the grassy knoll There's no road left to be seen at all Only forms remain of what was once so new, what was new Crumbled rubble left behind To piece together once again when the time comes When the time comes Crumbled rubble left behind To piece together once again when the time comes When the time comes, when the time comes
12.
Take It All 02:32
If I draw not one more breath, if today I meet my death Lord you lay me down to rest as long as I see her once more Take me far across the seas, take me where there ain't no trees Lord as long as I can see my baby at my door Pull my guitar from my hand, cast my songs into the sands Make my voice as dissonance to be with who I adore Lord take anything you see just leave the love she gives to me If I have that til gone I be I'll ask for nothin more
13.
Horizon 02:53
Have you ever wondered when life begins? If left is wrong and good is sin? Whose point of view is right today and if your youth just gets in the way? Can you really tell the way that it should be? Can you really know what's right for you is right for me? Does a rising sun seem like it sets and do you deserve everything you get? Are you just waiting for a sign or is it planned and you just put it all on the line? Can you really tell the way that it should be? Can you really know what's right for you is right for me? Are you there waiting in the sun, knowing what you want awaiting it to come? Are you living for the day or does your youth stand in your way? Can you really tell the way that it should be? Can you really know what's right for you is right for me? Can you really tell the way that it should be? Can you really know what's right for you is right for me?
14.
There's a stranger in my mind, never before has he been to me unkind Foreign concepts in a realm of two if you don't watch out he'll be a stranger to you Yellow voices convalesce before me in a world which only I can see Make a road inside the dust of my life never more to feel the soft blade of his eye Anybody ever wanted to turn this way? Anybody ever wanted the break of day? As I walk upon the sunset horizon with the stranger even so I'm only one
15.
Facade 03:52
Golden city once stood so solid filled with sunlight of a dual star In a corner where joy knows no bounds given brilliance by a source not far Man of daylight walks through platinum streets paved with visions of a place in passion Crumbled stone in a disjointed reality wonders the source of hallucination Experiences of fabrication in orgasmic throes of what did fall From the candle which shown once brilliant, sick flourescence pales the skin of all Stony city asleep in silence lit so dimly by a moon of slate In a corner where joy has no business, asked salvation at a time too late Man of midnight walks through desolate streets paved with knowledge of a world so dismal Walks alone accompanied with memories of a place where life appeared to be full

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released July 25, 2000

"Asylum", "Captain Call", "Facade", "Masochist Sucker", "Minus One", "Take It All" and "The Emperor Has No Clue" feature Shane Padilla on some guitar and backing vocals
"High", "Living Tomb" and "Time #7" feature Gregg Dantin on trumpet, recorder and some backing vocals

and Shane took the picture for the cover, everything else by Jak Locke

Copyright © ® 2000 Jak Locke

original release: July 25, 2000
remastered release: November 16, 2018

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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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