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Living Tomb
04:27
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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
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Masochist Sucker
02:56
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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
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3. |
Captain Call
02:58
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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
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Vacant
03:49
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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
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The Emperor Has No Clue
03:08
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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
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Minus One
03:24
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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
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High
02:52
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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
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Asylum
04:03
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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
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The Come Up
02:50
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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
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Shards
03:27
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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
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Time #7
03:36
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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
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12. |
Take It All
02:32
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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
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Horizon
02:53
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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?
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14. |
The Man Just Out Of View
05:55
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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
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Facade
03:52
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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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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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