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Voyager

by Joelistics

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1.
SEAMANS LULLABY All we are, all we are All we could be All we know, all we know All that we see All we are, all we are All we could be All we know, all alone All out at sea I've traveled over land and sea Trying to find the meaning to the riddle But the riddle runs deep And everywhere I've been / Everything I've seen It only adds to the beauty of the beat The heartbeat, the drum beat, the beat we keep The questions we ask and the answers we seek Whatever you are, what a thing to be Wake up, sleep and do it all again and again And if you're not happy where you're at pack your backpacks Travel on a level all over the map You've got a life going, live it, give it everything you've got 'Cause one day the beat will stop The truth is in a hundred years it won't matter So use your head and heart like a rudder And then sail through the day, make a mark on the page Blaze a path through the waves 'cause the only thing That won't change is change All we are, all we are All we could be All we know, all we know All that we see All we are, all we are All we could be All we know, all alone All out at sea This is all there is now, generate the vision Every single day get busy on the beat There's nothin they can tell you that you haven't heard before So keep your head high when you walk through the world Everybody talks a lot but few people are listening Speak your own truth, let love be the guide Trust that everything falls into place And if you get lost then follow the baseline Most of them really don't mean you any harm But some of them might wanna fuck with your program Pay em no mind, don't let em waste your time Haters have a habit of acting like quicksand Cherish all the sunlight when it gets dark Build yourself a fire and burn down the area No excuse just to fuzz a life not lived A life unexamined or a sheep mentality Read a lot, see a lot, break down reality Investigate the goings on inside, outside Whatever you choose to put your time into Make sure you give it every single fibre of your being 'Cause life is but a moment, life is but a dream And sure enough all of us will have to move along So here's a few thoughts for you to mull on, come on You are not the first, and you won't be the last All we are, all we are All we could be All we know, all we know All that we see All we are, all we are All we could be All we know, all alone All out at sea Come Come when it calls Run From nothing at all Come Come when it calls Run From nothing at all
2.
GLORIOUS FEELING It's a glorious feeling I'm up on my feet again [x2] God gave up on the human race He said based upon the data that I've had to face You've really made a mess of the place that I've made for you And then you turn around and you ask me to save you Jews blame the Christians, Christians the Muslims Atheists admitted they were wrong but right The pope said, well, I guess that's that then Collectively we all breathe out a sigh All of the damage that religion had done Was put into perspective underneath the sun And God said faith is a beautiful thing, But it's time for you to take responsibility kids Cause I don't know what you've been told, But the streets of heaven aren't lined with gold, You don't know what you've got till it's gone It's a glorious feeling I'm up on my feet again [x4] The human race gave up on god, And said it's high time that we all got along. The arguments about who the hell she loved best Were seen for what they were and laid to rest And politicians stopped using God as an excuse To commit the most blatant abuse of power Loud like ringing in the ears The sounds of the prayers of the cheers From the people released All baptized at the miracle of life Without the regrets and the guilt and the threats Sex was celebrated, life was embraced The basic thing was maintain respect And I don't know what you've been told, But the streets of heaven aren't lined with gold, You don't know what you've got till it's gone On the streets of the cities of the world you find them People of all types who climb the horizon Fresh newborn's and the fresh new morning Lovers in the night who fly and then fall The march of survivors, designers, tyrants, messiahs, limousine drivers Colonels, brigadiers, sergeants, privates The scientists smashing particles together The junkies, the tradies, the gentlemen, the ladies, the babies The aged and infirm, the hermits, the perverts, the servants, the surgeons The insurgents killing in the name of god The slow and the steady who were ready for anything, The war on the menacing, and even center-link And the ones who were pedaling stories Of the grace and the glory It's a glorious feeling I'm up on my feet again [x4]
3.
The People 03:32
THE PEOPLE at cha Ladies and gentlemen Apologies for the loudness Let's begin J to the O to the E to the L-I-S-T-I-C-S in your stereo (Stereo) Cool costume, cape and the belt and I'm saving the world in the cliff-hanger episode In the daytime I'm mild mannered, In the night-time I fight crime at the disco With the bomb track and the bomb rap I'm the cool one line walk on Stan Lee cameo (hey) And my thought bubbles gotta lotta what's up (sup) Hidden power with the hype the crowd up From the ground up Bring the sound up Ready for the take-off job done then I take the cape off Then it's back to the horned rimmed glasses lonely apartment and secret identity I didn't ask for the gift to be given to me But with great power bring great responsibility (Yes) Evildoers take heed Joelistics has got whatcha need To the last scene when the credits roll And I leave this planet with a girl through a wormhole I hit 'em up with a beautiful lyric And something sweet just to boost up their spirit And I don't need no proton pill But I still stay ill when the reels are real Where the hell are all the ninjas at? Where the hell are all the robots (robots) Where the hell are all the zombies at Where the hell are all the people? (People?) Where the hell are all the cyborgs at? Where the hell are all the androids (Robots) Where the hell are all the aliens? Where the hell are all the people? (People?) The people People I am not a rapper I'm a Time Lord And this is not a song it's a passport I can give you everything you ask for If everything you ask for is a good groove and some fine thought And ill play with the themes, the form with the freedom to roll on the rhythm and lead from the barricade Well dressed in black latex with a J on the chest and I'm on another campaign And reality is well drawn anime Hit it with a gamma ray Play it from a speaker Loud like Tetsu while riding on a motorcycle Into ya Tokyo yelling out Hi-yah! But I'm just another product of my era Part time superhero Full time dreamer Looking for a part to play And the phone to slay While agents slow decay But that's okay man, that's alright Still got the right to party all night With a long face On a Sunday Looking for the best way to travel through space and time And I battle with the rabble and the riddle and the everyday struggle And I must be getting older My allegiance swings in between all the heroes and the villains that are sitting on my shoulder Where the hell are all the Hip hop heads Where the hell are all the Purists (Robots) Where the hell are all the Ravers at? Where the hell are all the people (People) Where the hell are all the Art kids at? Where the hell are all the Bogans? (Robots) Where the hell are all the Communists Where the hell are all the people (People) People People People People Where the hell are all the ninjas at? Where the hell are all the robots (robots) Where the hell are all the zombies at Where the hell are all the people? (People?) Where the hell are all the cyborgs at? Where the hell are all the androids (Robots) Where the hell are all aliens? Where the hell are all the people? (People?) People People
4.
HEAD RIGHT I don’t trust a motherfucker who makes generalisations based on what a person looks like or where they come from. It ain’t nothing new or nothing to run from, it’s just another bigot with his head screwed on wrong. I’d wave a wand or write a better song if I could make them think or even make them turn their brains on. We ain’t all blonde or from Summer Bay and some fellas really give the flag a bad name, and it’s a damn shame when it’s in the campaign, they use a scapegoat to fire up the race flame and hard hearts stay hard cause they so afraid, dog whistle politics manipulating bad brains. Hey brother get your head right. Hey brother, get your get your head right. Hey brother get your head right. Hey brother, get your head straight. Is it human nature, strange behaviour? Is it hard wired in to the way we’re all made up? Is it made up or made of bad luck, is it what raises a country’s flag up? Is it less offensive if you’re putting your hand up with a disclaimer like they’re Al Qaeda and they don’t care for the lord our saviour and we’re all done for cause we’re all at war if we don’t shut doors protecting our own shore, they gonna come here and probably take yours and blah, blah, blah, blah. That ain’t cool, that’s just racist dude! Hey brother get your head right. Hey brother, get your get your head right. Hey brother get your head right. Hey brother, get your head straight. I am half Caucasian, still very Asian, a mad variation on what you call Australian. When I’m on the pavement, treated like an alien, cop a little racism, this is what I say, Consider me the face of the Asian horde, the yellow peril menace threat from the North. My people immigrated over here on boats yeah we came to steal your jobs and your women folk – JOKES! Well I’m sick and tired of racism, it’s fucking with my head. See the ignorant defend it but their heads are filled with lead. So if you feel to change the world there’s something you must learn, it’s embedded in this system so this systems got to burn. You keep them away with the hatred you be spinning winning only what you steal like their innocence and freedoms, still you’re coming in pretending that ya caring but you tell a tale. Hatred is a deadly sin but still you never let them in. So people when I say Fiyah, make a run out, and when I’m telling you Higha! Raise your fists up! You know the future is brighter when we run town. We take you higher like Kyah, never come down. Hey brother get your head right. Hey brother, get your get your head right. Hey brother get your head right. Hey brother, get your head straight.
5.
Days 04:02
DAYS I never did it for the money, I did it because I had a lot of time on my hands, Now I've got plans, to make more plans, All of my friends grew up and push prams, It hits you like bam, what's it all for? Music was my life then life got ignored, Then I lost hope, then I got broke, Then all I wrote came out as old folk, There goes my genius, blink and you missed it, Loop up the chorus, learn how to whistle it, If ya get an idea try not to fist it, It's like god whispered something insisted, Try not to block it, try not to drop it, When you get your grubby little paws on it, You gotta rock it, You gotta rock it, You gotta rock it to the moon get on it, And it might not mean that much to you, It means a lot to me, and it's got to be, Something strange and familiar I still wanna feel it, I still wanna feel the music. As the days go by... My boys said? you redefine dope, Plus you had the presence of mind to rock the boat, Plus you had some hits from the rhymes in your folder, Had a bit of shine, and fell into a coma, Get back out there and do it all sober, Milk that shit until the cow falls over, Do it for the music, do it for the moment, Even if it never blows up, own it, Kids these days want posters on their walls, Friends on facebook, and ironic rap quotes, Me, I've got bad jokes, personal anecdotes, Songs for perennial underachievers, You want a revolution, move to Beijing, You wanna get high and sing along then join in, It's all good, mad props, Truth of the matter salvation is ad hoc And it might not mean that much to you, It means a lot to me, and it's got to be, Something strange and familiar I still wanna feel it, I still wanna feel the music. As the days go by... It all breaks down to pride, A search for what makes the ride worthwhile, Look for the content, look for the star, Strap your shoes on and run that mile, Keep the fire inside alive, Cos the world gets cold and it can pass you by, You can pass on the risk, convince the hurt, But that's a real bad way for you to pass the time, I used to want to see my name in lights, I used to wanna be the one holding the mic, But these days man I've got nothing to prove, And it's evident it might mean nothing to you, But if I didn't do it I'd have nothing to do, I'd probably have nothing to do with you, So until the day, there's nothing more to say, I'm-a keep on singing the tune, As the days go by.... As the days say goodbye...
6.
Modern World 04:21
MODERN WORLD It all about status updates, sample drum brakes A hole in the head, and the lifelong Monday Baby bloomers and new computers Social networks, billion users Information, Infomercials Crop circles and trophy wives Hard drives and hate crimes State lies, free steak knives Right-wrong riots and rising tides Catalogs buy and a lord of brides Brand names and video games All it takes in minimum wage Wiki leaks in the world of police Secret files and cover up leads The hunger, the feast The church and the priest And the prelate facing the east (East!) This modern world Keeps me spinning around My god, my feet Don't touch the ground You can live life online You can live a life of crime You can live mine Whatever you want you can find You can get fined You can get filmed from behind It's a gold rush, let's get famous Act shameless, call it neighbors You can call it art You can call it us You can call it pop And watch it climb the charts High rollers and child soldiers Party people and jive holders Cash culture and clashed cultures Market crashes, atlas shrugs It's a leaky boat that we're all in And the privileged life is a-callin' Through the country's boarders you're pourin' Put your hands up now the sky is fallin' This modern world Keeps me spinning around My god, my feet Don't touch the ground This modern world Keeps me spinning around My god, my feet Don't touch the ground We are alive in desperate times The best of times, messed up times Build that fire, chase that prize Everybody wants a bigger piece of the pie These are the days of the disconnect Distant satellites intercept Warfare fought in infrared Everything you think is incorrect My intellect needs disinfectant Too much information Too hectic Twenty-first century I'm shipwrecked in it And we're all just tryin' to connect with it And oh my god where do I fit in Apocalypse now every now and then The world is a book with a cliffhanger plot And we all want to know how it ends This modern world Keeps me spinning around My god, my feet Don't touch the ground
7.
Madmen 03:46
MADMEN Woke up today and the world had changed. Checked myself but I wasn’t the same. I walked outside to investigate but the feeling only seemed to escalate. It’s weird, it’s strange, it’s fucking with my brain. Maybe I’m too paranoid and I make too much fuss Or maybe this is the way it is and I’m not paranoid enough It’s weird, it’s strange, it’s fucking with my brain
8.
ALL THE REBELS This madness raises the blood pressure up, shake that butt make a toast to the stuff. Scratch that itch let the sick mind spin, Pavlov's dogs come running when the bells ring. Make em yell things, hot water simmering, body keep quivering and shaking like a leaf and it don't cease until the beast feeds. Put your hands on it, get a grip then squeeze. When it leaves you, it leaves you breathless, caught in the vortex realm of the senses. Hide it, fight it don't let em find you entirely blinded and high off the fireworks. Rude boy, dot dot dash, storm breaker breaker an electric flash. Put your finger there, press play let it run. Now look what you've gone and done All the rebels on the mountaintop All the people dancing below They know something is going on up there They know it’s something but it comes and it goes This madness keeps the bed sheets ruffled; knees get buckled, desperate couples tussle, fumble, hustle, all in the name of a game called trouble. Levitate when it paints the canvas, violent, brash bold and candid. It intoxicates you, keeps you awake and it stimulates you and it beats in the blood and it loves the danger, begs no favor, rewarding the braver ones in amongst us who battle the rush, swimming in the sea when the seas are rough. Heartbeats pound, hands get shaky, you can't hear a thing and the sound starts breaking up, fuck this is crazy love, now look what you've gone and done All the rebels on the mountaintop All the people dancing below They know something is going on up there They know it’s something but it comes and it goes
9.
Burn 04:45
BURN I get fresh with friends who get gassed, who flash and flake out and talk with long gaps, words in their mouths like planes that crash, I only catch half but it's mostly trash. I'm too mashed lost without a map and there's no turning back cause I'm full of the stuff A one-way ticket and I get on the bus. I'm a wing tipped Icarus burning up. My tummy’s in a knot but I'm loving the rush full of a love made from chemical dust So I keep focus give in to the process. I pray for atonement and stay in the moment. Big smile, wide-eyed, cold heart, long nights Burn like a sun. Shine all day. Work and run, don’t throw it away Now the dance floors packed with bodies that attract, bodies that attack, bodies bend at the back, bodies get trapped, bodies fill in the gap, so many bodies move, now who's body's that? Hearts get open cracked with raw emotion, words get spoken corrupted by potions. Snap shot moments, back to slow motion, slick sugar coating over all of the commotion. Tomorrow, this'll be a memory in quick time cause we tricked time with a quick mind and like bats in the sky we fly blind. Swim through the night washed up in the sunshine. No sleep. Sad eyes. Black days. Good times. Help me get out of here. Burn like a sun. Shine all day. Work and run, don’t throw it away. Maybe we met at a party in the bathroom with Charlie; in the bedroom you were asking why the moon would hide its face. Box me up, put me down, tie me in, turn it round, throw me out, give it away, what was your name? Burn like a sun. Shine all day. Work and run, don’t throw it away.
10.
Last Night 04:05
LAST NIGHT She said last night she had a big night and the lights on the dance floor were real bright. The drinks kept coming and the more they came, the more she felt like herself again. Now, she got the binge drink blues with an instinct to try and make life all new and shiny, extract the slimy, the sleazy, the mean and win back a little more self-esteem. Still she got a story for the girls on Monday, the same damn story she told em last week. She hooked up, passed out, fell down, woke up and walked home carrying her heels and handbag. It’s too bad she broke up with him. She never used to get like that with him, still she won't call, won't text, won't ring, she don't want to be the one to give in. I mean, she's holding on to her pride and besides he's probably moved on, right? Last night I had a big night Now I feel a little shaky on the inside and there's no time like the present I'll stay in bed until eleven Tryna piece together all the things I did I can't believe some of the things I said All I need to get me through is sunlight, coffee and a picture of you All I need is you He said last he had a big night and now he's tryna re-call what it look like. And it's a long way down in the dim light when you can't think right and your Tryna crawl up an incline. And he's a got a little bruised up black eye and he's got a strong urge to have a big cry. Head like an egg when it's been fried up, He ain't too sure that he even had a good time. It never used to be like that with her. He never used to get so high around her, now every night out is a permanent blur with an explanation that’s beyond words. He sits on the couch, cotton wool mouth, watching the telly tryna dumb himself down. Telling himself it's time to pull his head in, but next weekend he's gonna do it again (again and again). Last night I had a big night Now I feel a little shaky on the inside and there's no time like the present I'll stay in bed until eleven Tryna piece together all the things I did I can't believe some of the things I said All I need to get me through is sunlight, coffee and a picture of you All I need is you Again ship wrecked inside my head
11.
HEART REMAINS The world gets fast and the tempo skips the mind plays tricks when the sunlight hits me i get a memory flash like a frisbee thrown from a thousand long miles away thoughts go deep but underneath the ground that used to be beneath me there's a restless need to indulge the senses just to see what the mind remembers dive in, swim through the maze hold your breath and let go of the reins caught in the rift and the current below mind got movement, mind got flow from where i stand the vision expands over the red sand, over the land over the city and the bush and beyond mind gallop over countless kilometres to the place of the oldest origins where the silent sleeping sorrow is the thriving creeping metropolis with a heart that was heavy as the wallaby's in a colony that paints the dreams with the glinted light of the harboured seas the flame trees and amongst the weeds the greenest greens and the rainforest valleys the undergrowth, solar flares sunsets spread through the sky like prayers the rarest flowers cover the ground illegal crops support the small towns house on stilts in a cane field an old windmill with a chain wheel insects hum in the afternoon like a thousand drummers in a tiny room there's a silver moon that'll rise tonight shine the light along the countryside beaches give way to rolling pastures wheat and barley wait for harvest fibre houses, peeling paint an old hill's voice and a rusty gate a garden path, a big backyard and a clapped out tire in the front and the languid heat makes sleepless nights lazy sleep, mosquito bites old timers who drive the road trains rolling cigarettes single handed outback pubs in the blazing sun fried up grub in the empty drums twelve apostles, hungry possums empty bottles, ancient fossils friendly blokes, racist jokes and everywhere you look there it goes lightning flash, thunder crack rain come down and the sky turned black and the fishing trawlers in majestic waters blistering winds on a shipwrecked shore neptune's wrath for the legible you're gonna pay for the fish that your fathers took families fear for the worst in storms but some folk weren't meant to live indoors and the horses run, eagles soar the carseat's hot, and the breeze is warm drive the cast out, follow the signs on highways carved into lonely coastlines move forward, sing the praise drive the days to watch climates change it's highly likely we'll sleep in the backseat with a rolled up pillow and a bed sheet and we drive with a mess on the windscreen and the bugs turn pasty at this speed and the road runs straight all the way to the west where the sea gets down with the sunset roadkill flesh, service stations drive with the bears and the birds outcast salt-pan legs, calm and vast colours explode under skies of glass snakes and lizards, red blood ribbons buried in the dust and the walk and the grass and the stars in the milky way transform the night in the darkened frame distant suns and constellations shooting stars and the skies blazing and the gods they must be crazy and the gods they must be crazy and the gods they must be crazy and the gods they must be crazy we are all spangled off on shifting fortunes channelling long dead spirits cling to the coast like ghosts and sunday roasts and english hopes giving way tied to an island and the tyranny of distance and the hearth and the golden persistence and it's hard to say what we'd like to say while matilda haunts us the night away through the blood and the sweat and the tears and the laughter the sun and the rain and the thunder and the creeks and the rivers and the reefs and the valleys and the fields and the beach i saw it all clear from a house on a hill in a country far away and i thought to myself till the day that i die "that'll be where my heart remains"
12.
SOONER OR LATER I believe I was born with the wanderlust made from a curiosity to see the whole world ever since I’ve been old enough to get around, I’ve been on the move never one to settle down. I got it bad, it’s a bad disease, travel light just in case I need to pick up and leave. Some might say I’m good at running away; it was the way I was raised, that’s how I know I am free. And my song lines travel on for years. I’m from a long line of radical ideas; Travellers and traders, musicians and sailors who moved through the ages to get me here. And there’s something out there that I’m trying to find, I left it behind when the moment arrived. I rewind and remember. Engraved in the memory, the memory of all of it, it’s called life. Sooner or later you’re bound to go. Now you’re drunk with the geezers singing on the metro looking for a coffee in the grey lit dawn, hanging on a bar stool, poems on a napkin, drinking in Paris, it’s a beautiful morning. Head full of cheap beer, ex-pat belligerence navigating traffic in a Shanghai taxi, two day train trip, eyes on the landscape, vast Mongolian hills roll past you. You learnt a lot of swear words, ate a lot of weird food, made a lot of friends considered close crew, slept in hostels dealt with some hostiles and climbed the Himalayas to appreciate the view. Now somewhere out there you are still travelling standing on a corner singing songs at the moon, clear headed crazy, night like a diamond, happy in your skin trying to take it all in. Sooner or later you’re bound to go. Cradled in the heartbeat, blood pump patchwork, soaked up bitter sweet mixed up epiphanies, still away from everything you came from, headphones on now you see the world differently. Far-flung degenerate waiting at an airport, empty back pocket but there’s stamps in your passport. And you are so raw, soul so well worn, would you even recognise who you were before? Transformed by all these strange events, tears in your eyes and you feel so blessed when the plane touch down, your feet touch ground, you finally get home you gotta savour that feeling. Sooner or later you’re bound to go.
13.
Sour 04:07
SOUR If it goes sour in the end, please don’t forget how it began. You can have the fairytale; I’ll keep the bills in my name, if it goes sour in the end. I will be your friend, and you can take what you need from me again. In my most delighted states, I still can’t help but contemplate, it might go another way baby. Come for me, come lay your head on me, if it goes sour in the end. I will be your friend and you can take what you need from me again.

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The TZU frontman penned the album whilst living and travelling across China, Mongolia and Europe.

Armed with a laptop, he wrote all the music on old headphones whilst riding the Trans-Mongolian railway, transiting through airports; and a winter in a one bedroom flat in the Montmartre district of Paris.

Joelistics has always drawn on influences from a wide variety of sources. As a solo artist his sound is grounded in the boom bap of hip hop whilst keenly revisiting his love of beat poetry, shoe-gazer electronica and folk to create an album that is both introspective and electrifying. Entirely self produced with few guests, Voyager concentrates on themes of travel, modern world paranoia and growing older

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released May 20, 2011

Written and Produced by Joelistics

Additional Instrumentation by Dustin McLean

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Joelistics Melbourne, Australia

Joelistics’ great gift is beats, melodies and the crafting of common language into evocative turns of phrase. As a rapper, writer, multi-instrumentalist and producer he is recognised as a unique voice in the Australian music scene.

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