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Nostromo feat. Wil Wagner

from Blue Volume by Joelistics

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lyrics

NOSTROMO

You taught me that anger could be useful
You taught me that pain was never my fault

The streets are empty as shit and we just ride em like ghosts in the place where we live we've got no where to go
push bikes on the road we take flight with the crows the night sky above and tarmac below us
The city lights are majestic off in the distance
over the roof tops we float.
Above the dreams of a suburban night
we snuck out while my parents slept to take a ride and we, We ride our bikes to the bay and take a walk on the wharf sit on the edge and light a ciggie like a torch
You turn and you talk to me I'm looking away
I'm listening to every single thing that you say
you say The futures bright man, tomorrow is ours
and there will come a day soon when we leave this town the clouds they start to gather so we get up and leave
and we're home before the dawn even touches the trees

I'm saying
It's more than with your own life you are playing
And I understand you
My friend, I've fucked up too
But I'm just saying, I'm just saying

We always said that these suburbs were like a cemetery You always said you'd escape that's what you said to me You got away not in the way that you thought
and now I walk along old tracks and I'm looking for yours and in the middle of similar looking scenes
as I step off from the gutter and gather the things I need midnights light makes life look life like
the antenna's and tennis courts
this town is menopause
and yeah_I know my way around_and I could play it down the streets are like the back of my hand
and memories abound
But now it's different, I'm different the difference is that I visit I don't stick around, I don't even miss it
I get a vision of a version of my high school days most weekends you would spend at my place
and your face is in these streets, it haunts me now that's why I struggle when I head homebound

I'm saying
It's more than with your own life you are playing
And I understand you
My friend, I've fucked up too
But I'm just saying, I'm just saying

You always had your own rhythm to keep the comedy coming you were as close as a brother man I think of you often
how you talked with a passion, how you rationed your cash you stood six foot tall above the rats
you had a habit of thinking you were the smartest motherfucker in the room and it was generally true
on the real you were a hero, a friend of the highest order
a companion when the girls that we chased were all we thought of
Who ever you are where ever you're from
we all get given time and then it's time to move on One day your in the midst of it, the next you are gone and if you think it's different to that you're wrong
life's an addiction we're all on the nod
and it's a beautiful dream so dreamer dream on breathe in, remember everything from the start
The end is the beginning the beginning is past
First thing I noticed was just how thin you'd got
How the powerful mind that you once held was lost and in the little corridor out of the corner of my eyes
I saw your eyes close, the tired lines on your face grow

I'm saying
It's more than with your own life you are playing
And I understand you
My friend, I've fucked up too
But I'm just saying, I'm just saying

credits

from Blue Volume, released June 20, 2014
Written and Produced Joelistics
Co-written by Wil Wagner

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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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