Some Sort of Beautiful Racket
written by: Jak Locke
written by: Jak Locke
version 1:
from The Wreckage, The Yield, And A Place I Can Crawl Up From (August 17th 2018) (4:09)
Never mind your long lost lover, you can always find another
We never found a reason to stay, happy endings always bored us anyway
I can see the song before us, verse for now, tomorrow, chorus
There's a sickness in seeing it through, maybe someday something I'll relate to
And if it's not, I'll at least have heard it through to the end, two, three, go
Never mind your long lost lover, you can always find another
There's a sickness in seeing it through, maybe someday something I'll relate to
It's too late to, it's too late to, it's too late to, it's too late to
All my thoughts keep drifting toward
(Twenty steps from being free)
Every road that I ignored
(Tomorrow's never reaching me)
But for now we should resume
(This is what we're meant to be)
Singing to our empty room
(And if it's not then don't tell me)
But if it's not I'll at least have heard it through to the end
How cruel, how cruel, how cruel, how cruel
We never found a reason to stay, happy endings always bored us anyway
I can see the song before us, verse for now, tomorrow, chorus
There's a sickness in seeing it through, maybe someday something I'll relate to
And if it's not, I'll at least have heard it through to the end, two, three, go
Never mind your long lost lover, you can always find another
There's a sickness in seeing it through, maybe someday something I'll relate to
It's too late to, it's too late to, it's too late to, it's too late to
All my thoughts keep drifting toward
(Twenty steps from being free)
Every road that I ignored
(Tomorrow's never reaching me)
But for now we should resume
(This is what we're meant to be)
Singing to our empty room
(And if it's not then don't tell me)
But if it's not I'll at least have heard it through to the end
How cruel, how cruel, how cruel, how cruel
version 2:
from Loud As Me (September 28th 2020) (4:41)
Never mind your long lost lover, you can always find another
We never found a reason to stay, happy endings always bored us anyway
I can see the song before us: verse for now; tomorrow, chorus
There's a sickness in seeing it through-ooh, maybe someday something I'll relate to
And if it's not, I'll at least have heard it through to the end, two, three, go
Never mind your long lost lover, you can always find another
There's a sickness in seeing it through-ooh, maybe someday something I'll relate to
It's too late to, it's too late to, it's too late to-ooh, it's too late to
All my thoughts keep drifting toward
(Twenty steps from being free)
Every road that I ignored
(Tomorrow's never reaching me)
But for now we should resume
(This is what we're meant to be)
Singing to our empty room
(And if it's not then don't tell me)
I dream of when this song won't speak to me again, til then
How cruel, oh how cruel, how cruel, oh how cruel
We never found a reason to stay, happy endings always bored us anyway
I can see the song before us: verse for now; tomorrow, chorus
There's a sickness in seeing it through-ooh, maybe someday something I'll relate to
And if it's not, I'll at least have heard it through to the end, two, three, go
Never mind your long lost lover, you can always find another
There's a sickness in seeing it through-ooh, maybe someday something I'll relate to
It's too late to, it's too late to, it's too late to-ooh, it's too late to
All my thoughts keep drifting toward
(Twenty steps from being free)
Every road that I ignored
(Tomorrow's never reaching me)
But for now we should resume
(This is what we're meant to be)
Singing to our empty room
(And if it's not then don't tell me)
I dream of when this song won't speak to me again, til then
How cruel, oh how cruel, how cruel, oh how cruel
earliest live performance: April 11th 2015