TZU (pronounced Tee Zed Yoo) are an Australian hip hop group, originating from Melbourne, Victoria. They are known for live shows with significant crowd involvement,[citation needed] at festivals such as Big Day Out, Falls Festival, MS Fest and the Meredith Music Festival, in addition to smaller shows. TZU differs from typical hip hop groups because they use instruments in their performances. The use of guitars, keyboards and drums gives their shows a rock infused vibe.
The group formed in 1999 as a side project, combining members of the groups Curse ov Dialect and Pan. The name TZU is taken from the Chinese Philosopher Lao Tzu. The band originally called themselves Tzu (pronounced tsoo) but changed their name due to the public pronouncing it as T-Z-U. In 2005 keyboard player Duzy What was added to the group's lineup. They have received regular Triple J airplay of Position Correction and Smiling at Strangers. In early 2006, they won Yahoo! Music's "Who's Next" monthly music poll.
Cover up motel is an anagram of Computer love, it features all of the tracks from Computer love remixed by the favorite Aussie artists and producers of the TZU members. Including the likes of M-phazes, hermitude, plutonic, trials (from funkoars), Blue King brown and more.
Sun Wu (simplified Chinese: 孙武; traditional Chinese: 孫武; pinyin: Sūn Wǔ), style name Changqing (長卿), better known as Sun Tzu or Sunzi (simplified Chinese: 孙子; traditional Chinese: 孫子; pinyin: Sūnzǐ; pronounced [swə́n tsɨ̀]), was an ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher who is traditionally believed to be the author of The Art of War, an influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy. Sun Tzu has had a significant impact on Chinese and Asian history and culture, both as an author of The Art of War and through legend.
Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Tze or Sun Wu in other translations, was a historical figure whose authenticity is questioned by historians. Traditional accounts place him in the Spring and Autumn Period of China (722–481 BC) as a military general serving under King Helü of Wu, who lived c. 544–496 BC. Modern scholars accepting his historicity place the completion of The Art of War in the Warring States Period (476–221 BC), based on the descriptions of warfare in the text, and on the similarity of text's prose to other works completed in the early Warring States period.
Ooooooh
I am ugly as I word and I'm unnecessarily blue
And I am only notched for food, but it unnecessarily you
And I've got nothing left to lose, I'm unnecessarily blue
And I don't want you but I do and that's unnecessarily true
I'm a sailor on the moon, when I'm unnecessarily blue
I need savoir and its true it's not necessarily you
Please excuse me I'm confused, I'm unnecessarily blue
I've got one thing left to do, I'm gonna make everything new
Oooooh
I'm unnecessarily blue
I'm unnecessarily blue
I'm unnecessarily blue
I'm unnecessarily blue
I'm unnecessarily blue
I'm unnecessarily blue
It's easy to say when it's far from my view
From the night and the day
Something never plays through
It's easy to say but it's harder to do
That all of these lies are only partially true
Let get drunk and talk for eons
Verbally re-route the course we'd be on
Never find a man but just keep on soaking up the tenants from the dark salon
I'll do this and i'll do that
We'll move over there i'll show you the stats
Take this aspect and flip on end
Sample this percussion, time stretch and bend it
Cause time lets a man ponder and consider
conjure and configure the sums and the position
It's all bubblegum and chicken, ballzack ignition
Talk crap forever but you never really listen
Folk smoke dope but artistically invision
Folk can't cope and watch television
At the cost of how they're living in a box-like prison
Act now freaky mumma because it's all beneficient
Repeat chorus x 2
These days I'm up I'm looking for a brand new thing
It's a brand new beginning and
I get stuck head and my head trips, head held high
But it's hard in these times we are living in
I need aspirin, Nurofen, medicine
some kind of anything to take the edge off
Kids throw your hands up high in the sky
If you've looked at the world
And you've felt a little ripped off
Cause the blind still lead the blind
With these empty words from empty lines
And it makes headlines in the 6 o'clock news
And we all know the words to the new pop tunes so
Sing a melody, remember the memory
Make more out of every dependable remedy
and (fuck that)
Talk straight not just for talk's sake
Cause I need a little honesty now for God's sake
I got the letter that you wrote and it was typically distant
While I read it I retraced your footprints
searching for signs in your words and lines but,
time has since severed ty's that bind
Maybe you only get one shot and maybe I missed it
I miss you, I wish you were here with me now
I remember my time with you, in you, all that we have been through
These memories are something I still cling to
I catch glimpses in the faces of strangers, the strange thing I face is
the same thing on all of their faces like
we're all wearing a mask
and everyone has got a someone who haunts their past
This track is just a chronicle concerning us
co-authored in each other call it love call it trust
I'll recite it in my sleep when I dream you back to me
whether or not your in my arms
I will always set you free.
Reminiscing walking down these streets
These days we don't even speak
I think about you when I'm on my own
I think about how much I've grown
I'll kill the memory if you do to
You hold me back like I do you
Another break in this space and time
all it does is just remind me of.
Since we last spoke I think I wrote a novel
Let me sum it up, it goes babe I miss you
I could say it in a million ways
write a million songs on a million albums
it will always come out wrong
If I told you I was drowning
would you throw me out a rope
Even if I said don't I'd prefer to drown
Would you hold your ground
while I scrambled for mine
would you dive in with me
just to spend some time
You were my refuge when it rained
I would run to you for shelter
when the weather pressure built up
I would hide inside your cellar
The sunnier the days became
the more we tried to run
till it happened that we both struck out and killed the sun
For what it's worth the world is yours
and all that's in it
If I give you space can I one day come and visit
If it's not to much to ask
can I reserve a piece of sky in your heart
just a part, you can set the limit.
Reminiscing walking down these streets
These days we don't even speak
I think about you when I'm on my own
I think about how much I've grown
I'll kill the memory if you do to
You hold me back like I do you
another break in this space and time
You might be on the street with a
Feeling that's got you beat and you
Can't wake and cannot sleep ever
The pain is burning
Deep, Deeper now
But don't you worry
Hey, yeah,
I'm burning up I'm burning up
One more time, yeah,
Just burning up just burning up
One more time, I'm,
I'm burning up I'm burning up one more time
Over there
Yeah burning up yeah burning up one more time
Stand up if you hear me
All you have is what you need and the
Light is on now don't you see ever
Just wake up from your sleep brother
Get off that mercy seat
When you fall you'll find your feat coz I
Know you got something beating up, beating up
Got something burning deep in ya
Can you feel that fire heating up?
I feed the fire with the fuel of my words
I hold a match to my lips so i can sit and watch it burn
Your burden is mine man I've seen when you shine
But now i can't recognise nothing in you
I called you up to pursue you just brushed me off
I don't judge the drugs i just need you to stop
The cost is the people you've lost and for what
You got burnt chasing dragons from the madness they breathe
You're murdering dreams and that's just simple and plain
And it's the saddest thing to watch you nodding off on a train
And everyone who loves you feels they are to blame
And now we watch on as you fade (as you fade)
I wanna shake every dealer and slap him in the face
I wanna take away your craving for just one more taste
I wanna see you get your life back on track and win
Cause if you conquer this you can do anything
Well it's a fine fine line
It's a fine fine line
everytime
you'll all forgive him for all the people he's hurt
for every unkind word for every turn for the worse
Well it's a fine fine line
And it's hard to define, but don't you worry
Hey, yeah,
I'm burning up I'm burning up
One more time, yeah,
Just burning up just burning up
One more time, I'm,
I'm burning up I'm burning up one more time
Over there
Yeah burning up yeah burning up one more time
I am the voice of the people that you let down
I am the noise in ya head that don't make a sound
The cold sweats and the walls that you crawl around
The light shining on you when you're in your dark hour
I am the gunpowder that you start the fire with
The fire burning in your chest there beneath your ribs
I am the differences that you're now forgiven for
The hard worn lesson learnt that regret taught
I am the tympani the strings in your symphony
The things you do differently the things you'll do eventually
I am the dignity of overcoming pain
I am the flame and the blaze and the ash that remains
I am you and my name is change
It's a fine fine line
And it's hard to define, but don't you worry
Hey, yeah,
I'm burning up I'm burning up
One more time, yeah,
Just burning up just burning up
One more time, I'm,
I'm burning up I'm burning up one more time
Over there
Yeah burning up yeah burning up one more time
Yeah,
I'm burning up I'm burning up
One more time, yeah,
Just burning up just burning up
One more time, I'm,
I'm burning up I'm burning up one more time
Over there
Yeah burning up yeah burning up one more time
I'm burning up I'm burning up
One more time, yeah,
Just burning up just burning up
One more time, I'm,
I'm burning up I'm burning up one more time
Over there
Yeah burning up yeah burning up one more time
Joelistics Verse 1
Twin towers, new police powers, petrol in the bowsers
we all fall down
Big liars, new world messiahs, political survivors
we all fall down from
new concern, bird flu's and phantoms strike back at random
we all fall down like
idea's and pop stars careers and fear of the fact that we all fall down like
Kids playing games, smacked up veins
we all feel pain and we all fall down like
Rodeo riders or lovers intertwined
We all climb high then we all fall down
How long do we have to wait
before we realise it's too late
How long most we sing this song
Before we know something is wrong.
Joelistics verse 2
Flag waving, chest pounding, war waging
we all fall down
Race riots, proud violence, big silence
we all fall down
Old hatreds, drunk celebrations, confrontation
we all fall down like
Mark Latham, Pauline Hanson or Skase in his mansion
we all fall down
Misused authority, refused apology's, world wide economy's
We all fall down
Resource robbery, third world poverty, hushed up atrocity
We all fall down
How long do we have to wait
before we realise it's too late
How long most we sing this song
Before we know something is wrong.
How long do we have to wait
before we realise it's too late
How long most we sing this song
First verse is a volley of words
and I'm sorry if it hurts but my anger burns
A conservative curse covers the land
I'll be a spanner in the works of your fucked up plans
Mr prime minister explain once again
why our country is at war but we all feel ashamed
Tell me what you'd say to all the parents of the dead,
of the soldiers who have fallen or the civilians bathed in red
This ain't a just war, it's just war and business
the aggressive pursuit of financial interest
the sycophantic pandering to US foreign policy
don't confuse this issue with our economy
Call me unpatriotic if I get this off my chest
I'm as Australian as political protest,
agitators, immigrants, misfits and underdogs
and you know what? That's the Australia I'm proud of
Being wary is good...
Australians all let us recoil
For we have no idea
We go to war for wealth and oil
Our home is girt by fear
Our land abounds in growing rifts
Dividing rich and poor
In histories page this is the age
Of fair justice ignored
(yeah)
Now the rulers they measure the indifference
can you live with this history blistering
like Coober Pedy opal images
Social conditions, no one will openly visit
the atrocious revisions of our forefathers decision
that cast a shadow like a desert oak but through my periscope
I can see the descendants hoping for a better sentence yo
Listen close up to the hum of the land
wheat belt sort of thirsty for some sustenance and
the indelible scars from years of pastoralists hands
I can't understand the land marks of the man
Grandson and grandfather, a real rift between them
The generation gap is gradually receding
leaving only but a trace of what wars where faced
and what thoughts where paced in courts and states
and what locked doors erase soft spots from lost wars
and faith is a word we don't give enough weight
(these days) I'm on the train and I'm feeling kind of sad
(these days) I want the rain just to nourish up the land
(these days) I'm looking for a song to sing under my breath
'cuase traditional colonial jigs they don't represent me
Australians all let us recoil
For we have no idea
We go to war for wealth and oil
Our home is girt by fear
Our land abounds in growing rifts
Dividing rich and poor
In histories page this is the age
get rowdy and raucous we're on the attack
from the front to the middle to the people up the back
there ain't nothing to it i do it to see you smile
and if I forget my lyrics, fuck it I'll freestyle
i rock a beat while you get down
while the soundman's checking the sound (one check!)
this track's like pow - bang - smack
onomatopoeic from front to back
to make a crowd react, bend and twist
whether you getting juiced or smoking a spliff
whether youre paid up or on the guest list
whether or not you know it its a good time hit (know that)
its a beauty when we're rocking the beat (come out)
time to party stand up on your feet (my shout)
I'll meet you at the bar later for a drink
rock the house and the bar man will give em for free
hands up stand up feel the rhythm now
tzu's going to drop the funk on em
back to front, front to back, right to left
everybody in the house crazy fresh
front to back, back to front, right to left
cats in the house go wo-ah
yeah, move to the skin of the drum
get the blues out and give it some sun
move around like thingamajings or protons and neutrons
scribble on the page of the picture that you drew on
the backwater tinny and were throwing the hooks out
cats on the jetty that are throwing us looks now
flirt with the pretty girls glowing in kimonos
they like us so much they start taking photos
I met them with the who, take them with the ha
we all get together thats the sound of the groove back
move back or step in with us
we got a few love songs and a few rippers
Ive said it once before but we are the bold diggers
so charismatic like 20 ben stillers
were off the wall like 70s flick
with us get down with us jam with us shout with us bounce with us
count down for the run, were are the sound givers
put your hands up if you really want to bounce with us
wow yeah...!
drums!
I know a girl whose laughter makes the whole world feel like it's brand new again
My lover and then my best friend and when
We talk on the phone she makes my heart groan
Like medicine or Thomas Eddison
She gives me lessons in how to lighten up
My baby but she's one crazy slut
And that ain't no disrespect, that's a compliment (true!)
She's angelic a smart Alec and dynamic
All havoc, making me manic a mad panic
Got me going full throttle like my name was Aristotle
I'm enamoured by the damage that she's doing causing trouble
And a damn fool's how I feel I admit it
Whatever you want sweet girl I'll go and get it
For the minute I think I've said enough
One more thing, girl I like you heaps and stuff.
She gets up to rock 'n' roll
Gets down with plenty of soul
Is cool and in control
And she warms my bones when the night gets cold
Sweet song got me on my knees
My sins are all redeemed
And it feels like when I'm here with her
Sweet music baby that's the word.
She's the kinda girl whose got more finesse
She ace every test and she demand respect
She's got the kinda body that was built for sex
An intellect to match and then smarter than that
She's one of a kind and when she dance she grinds
She don't wear much make up but she makes up her mind
The decisive type she'll have you in a flash
Do you like a car crash and put you out with the trash
And when she's comes well she's loud in the ears
A thousand tears because she's older than time
A big behind and no career in mind
She'll give you goosebumps, send a tingle up your spine
I find I'm in step with her when I get next to her
Blow a kiss to her, baby, you're my cold cure
I could go on you're all that and more
J'appelle mon ami, je t'adore!
She gets up to rock 'n' roll
Gets down with plenty of soul
Is cool and in control
And she warms my bones when the night gets cold
Sweet song got me on my knees
My sins are all redeemed
And it feels like when I'm here with her
Sweet music baby that's the word.
She gets up!
She gets down
She gets up!
She gets down
She gets up!
She gets down
She gets up!
She gets down
We go together like stiff drinks and hangovers
We go together like accidents and blood donors
We go together like we should go together, be together, stay together from now until forever
We go together like coffee and cigarettes
We go together like dogs, cats, and vets
We go together like day going into night
Like if we did get together it would be alright
Well you disarm me and charm me too
I wanna wake up every single morning with you
I know it's weird, it's a strange idea
It's the thing with fear, we said we'd never take it serious
But look at us both happy and delirious
The pair of us, yeah it's really quite hilarious
We have a good time and make a good team
And I'm keen if you're keen if you know what I mean!
She gets up!
She gets down
She gets up!
She gets down
She gets up!
She gets down
She gets up!
Who's Bad?
Who's Cool?
Joelistics verse 1
Yeah I take it easy like Allakazzam
like a poker player playing with a devilish hand
Stress don't impress me that ain't part of the plan
It don't do nothing at all like boobs on a man
I do what I can to push and make it better
combat dilemma with a cool calm collected thought
I gotta brand new walk like a hovercraft
I gotta band and we're all fans of entourage
We got game like summer rain
like some lovers who break then come again
shoot like a sun of a gun
never run of the mill
we at the top of the bill and until
we hit the peak and pass out
baby it's time now
to stay up late until it's time to lie down.
Life is so good I'm catching a buzz
They tell me it's S.A.C. what's that?
Sweet As Cuz.
I won't let this world get me down
Speak my truth and hold my piece of ground
Keep your head when the whole worlds losing theirs
Some things you can change and some you can't
And mamma said “son learn to tell them apart”
Take it easy, Take it easy
Take it Easy. (Just believe)
Count Bounce verse 2
So step up here and get the whole place ready
kick up dust with in the camp like Kelly
On the dance floor where you feel so steady
medicine for your heart beet remedy puncture
let the air seep out the junction
decompress complete delete function
Try to get by like said a McCartney
wake up the neighbours with a hell of a party
shake the zombies bring on the Klingons
Hey DJ you got anything we can sing on?
and take us down a track that we never ever been on
cause I can feel it. I do hear it.
I can not see but I do not fear it
I do hope soon we can all be near it
So lord give me grace and a good sound system
or just a few good friends chillin in the kitchen.
I won't let this world get me down (sing it sister)
Speak my truth and hold my piece of ground
Keep your head when the whole worlds losing theirs
Some things you can change and some you can't
And mamma said “son learn to tell them apart”
Take it Easy, Take it Easy
Take it Easy (Just believe)
Take it Easy (Just believe)
Take it Easy (Just believe, come on)
We Got The Feeling
Hey you guys ...
Good morning people
it feels so good don't it?
Joelistics verse 1
Back once again with the third instalment
bubblin away we been lying dormant
Took a bit of time off we didn't want to force it
TZU still feelin' awesome
In the spirit of Henry Lawson
with a bit of Hendrix distortion
Me and Pip are like rhyming Mormons
door to door man going back and forth and
South to Northern like body contortion
Push a boundary to break the boredom
with our music and rhythmic talkin'
and the feel is all important
Naturally high like a rush of endorphins
get with it stay with it and warm it
Feel good, real fine and fortunate
You're tuning in from your hidden co-ordinate
to TZU now sing the chorus...
We got the feeling again
That good old feeling my friends
He's got the feeling and
She's got the feeling and we got the feeling again
Yeah.
Count Bounce verse 2
We been on an island isolated
In the studio on a regular basis
We been prepared for the feeling we got
cause it's bean along time but yeah we made it
Basic, complex, change the concepts
Inflect the rhythm to inject the bomb threat
Still clear in your ear, still on this track
incredible when the beat crack
We the same fear man with a few more scars
A few more debts is the same old bars
A new concept like a jet to the stars
And if we walk this path will you follow
or jam in complete disregard for tomorrow
We come this far and I hope that you want to
Join up for the ride cause we got the feel you on the same side.
We got the feeling again
(feel that way) (X8)
We have come so far from where we started from
and we go on and on and on and on and on...
(we got the feelin') We have come.
(we got the feelin') So far from where we started from
(we got the feelin') and we.
(we got the feelin') Go on and on and on and on and on...
(Joelistics talking shittles over the top)
We got the feeling again
(Yes ladies and gentlemen
you tune back into TZU)
That good old feeling my friends
(We had a bit of a beak but now we're back
with that old familiar feeling)
He's got the feeling and
(Straight out of Melbourne
We're gonna take it out from here)
She's got the feeling and we got the feeling again
(We got all your familiar your faces
Mr Paso Bionics, Mr Yeahrock, Cow Patch and Joelistics)
Yeah.
(Yeah, it's a beautiful day)
We got the feeling again
That good old feeling my friends
He's got the feeling and
She's got the feeling and we got the feeling again
I got the letter that you wrote and it was typically
distant
While I read it I retraced your footprints
searching for signs in your words and lines but,
time has since severed ty's that bind
Maybe you only get one shot and maybe I missed it
I miss you , I wish you were here with me now
I remember my time with you , in you , all that we have
been through
These memories are something I still cling to
I catch glimpses in the faces of strangers , the
strange thing I face is
the same thing on all of their faces like
we're all wearing a mask
and everyone has got a someone who haunts their past
This track is just a chronicle concerning us
co-authored in eachother call it love call it trust
I'll recite it in my sleep when I drea you back to me
wheather or not your in my arms
I will always set you free.
Reminiscing walking down these streets
These days we don't even speak
I think about you when I'm on my own
I think about how much I've grown
I'll kill the memory if you do to
You hold me back like I do you
Another break in this space and time
all it does is just remind me of..
Since we last spoke I think I wrote a novel
Let me sum it up , it goes babe I miss you
I could say it in a million ways
write a million songs on a million albums
it will always come out wrong
If I told you I was drowning
would you throw me out a rope
Even if I said don't I'd prefer to drown
Would you hold your ground
while I scrambled for mine
would you dive in with me
just to spend some time
You were my refuge when it rained
I would run to you for shelter
when the weather pressure built up
I would hide inside your cellar
The sunnier the days became
the more we tried to run
till it happened that we both struck out and killed the
sun
For what it's worth the world is yours
and all that's in it
If I give you space can I one day come and visit
If it's not to much to ask
can I reserve a piece of sky in your heart
just a part , you can set the limit.
Reminiscing walking down these streets
These days we don't even speak
I think about you when I'm on my own
I think about how much I've grown
I'll kill the memory if you do to
You hold me back like I do you
another break in this space and time
all it does is just remind me of you.
I got a head full of drunk and a dick full of horny
So high my behaviour's appalling
It's somewhere between 3 and 4 in the morning
And my feet and my legs are unsteady on the floor, I'm a
Start drawing conclusions and walls with my dinner
If I don't stop drinking now
I got a sinking feeling I'm sinking down
In the back club where the music's too loud
I move round just to talk more shit
With the fellas at the bar and we all laugh loud
All scared that we'll never find the love of our life
But prepared to accept some love for tonight
I got friends in relationships who don't pay for kicks
Who don't deal with this
I wish sometimes I was just like them
Til then well I'm single again and...
I see you standing there, tryna play it cool
Tryna make a fool of all the boys who run around ya
I'm not gonna play your games, I'm gonna do my thing
I'm gonna do nothing cause I won't get played like that.
You got a body that could stop traffic
I think you know it by the way that you carry it
By the way I've been checking your tactics
Something about you reminds me of plastic
Lipstick packed on, looking the part
Perfume on the neck and it's hitting the mark
More weaponry than you'd ever find in Iraq
Your smile fixed on like a kabuki mask
You're at the bar and you're holding your glass
All the men crowd around like a school of sharks
You're trapped in glass like you're on display
We're the prey in this state of play
So yeah, I admit it I was checking you out
Staring at you, girl tryna figure you out
I've got my doubts let me spell them out
It's to you that I'm singing to now
I see you standing there, tryna play it cool
Tryna make a fool of all the boys who run around ya
I'm not gonna play your games, I'm gonna do my thing
I'm gonna do nothing cause I won't get played like that. [x2]
You remind me of the pretty girls in high school
Brain like a brick but a body like a rifle
Such an eye full of beautiful curves
But not so hot at trying to string together words
Such a pretty girl such a pity girl
You're the centre of attention in your own little world
Your body's hot but your heart's stayed frozen
You've had boyfriends but never got to know them
The curse of the beautiful girl who knows it
And every guy in this room's a possible opponent
Yeah, I'm not gun laugh at your jokes
When they ain't that funny I ain't like other blokes
When they giggle and laugh, well it's all too apparent
You're as fake as the {something} in the {something}
I won't jump down, myself just to get in your pants
I'm not Mr Smiley or Mr wild's filey
Girl, be my guest do whatever you please
Make a mess to provide your needs
I won't read another script in your movie scenes
And I ain't playing that cause it just ain't me
I see you standing there, tryna play it cool
Tryna make a fool of {all the boys who run around ya} (backwards I think)
I'm not gonna play your games, I'm gonna do my thing
I'm gonna do nothing cause I won't get played like that.
I see you standing there, tryna play it cool
Tryna make a fool of all the boys who run around ya
I'm not gonna play your games, I'm gonna do my thing
[Chorus:]
Every planet that we come across
Is empty and there's only us
Fall down, then we get back up
Hard wired for computer love
Computer love, computer love
Computer love, computer love
Hard wired for computer love
[Joelistics:]
I'm a modern day +Blade Runner+, take cover
Code breaker with a stun gun called a microphone
Take an upper and a painkiller brother
Insane how we suffer on this planet that we call home
Time travelling through the universe
Third stone from the sun on battleship Earth
Hunt down all the +Replicants+, clones in the tenements
Probe this planet for intelligence
Is there life on Mars or on any other stars?
Is there anybody out there or are we all alone?
Call on the telephone, only get a dead tone
Maybe this is all that there is right?
Send a satellite out into the dark night
Knowing that the whole time it might be lifeless
Split an atom with a drum pattern
These are the impressions of a planet in crisis
[Chorus]
[Seed MC:]
Yo, computer love
Jump in cortex brain response
Limbs shake, this bass is way beyond
On this ball we all dance upon
Stratosphere, atmosphere and love
Up in the cosmic octave
We chase down alien life to rock with
And back on Earth we just got this
Hot piece of rock that we call the shots with
We're just a blister in the sun
In the infinite distance up above
You go fathom universal forces
Oh shit, I think I just lost my orbit
But fear is a fact that I forfeit
So I walk where the eye of the storm is
Let your mind spin right off course
Into a black hole full of soul, so gorgeous
[singing: Seed MC]
I'm a crazy thinker, oh
Know how to paint a picture, oh
So if you catch where I'm drifting, oh
Then you're a crazy think too
Colour and light [Repeated softly in background]
Cascade landscape
Midnight gotta lock, translate
Kick back, light shift
That's how I control my spaceship
Colour and light [Repeated softly in background]
I'm a crazy thinker, oh
Know how to paint a picture, oh
So if you catch where I'm drifting, oh
Then you're a crazy think too
Colour and light [Repeated softly in background]
Snow crash, dot dash
Jigsaw got 'em all crosshatched
Cause of that I jump back
And I leave them, fall away
I'm a crazy thinker, oh
Know how to paint a picture, oh
So if you catch where I'm drifting, oh
Then you're a crazy think too
Crazy thinker
Paint a picture
Of you crazy thinkers
[Chorus: Joelistics]
The city is on acid
The city is on... fiyaah!
The city is on acid... fiyaah!
[Joelistics:]
Paint a picture with language and memory
Beaten into shape with the rhythm and melody
My performance more like therapy
Translate poetry to punishable heresy
And so you know it, cliche's the enemy
Freestyle skill level more like telepathy
Word play grey matter designed for damaging
Down for chaos, getting up to anarchy
And I'm managing, heart beat galloping
And I'm actually gravity's mannequin
And I'm back again, there in the front
Tryna make sense but sense don't come
It don't matter, tonight I'm brave
My behaviour strange and depraved
I stay awake for days on end
With an MPC and a mic and a pen
I got a problem with space, there's lots of it
In the city, I can't get enough of it
I like the touch of it, infinite rush of it
In life, we stand on the cusp of it
In death, we dress in the best of it
That's the promise that we keep when we borrow from it
It takes a body and a heart to stay solid
You got a heart, tell me what you get from it
[Chorus]
[Seed MC:]
City got reception, cross interference
Speed through tunnels, rap feel got the clearance
Slack on the beat like smack on the dealers
Watch the beat drop, street got heat
Not one of them on me, fear not, I'm fearless
You can fake fantasy but can't fake the realness
Cause the dumpsters got the landfill in it
And the waste of the city, some stealing it
And these words are a back alley deal and it
Ain't that hard for you to tell who's feeling it
Cause mama got a gun and she's holding it
Hip Hop interrogator still not solving it
Dropout demonstrator, finger on the pulse
Can't ever take the heart or the soul from it
Drunk, sober, the night ticks over
As the rays of the sun draw closer
Shed light on the ugliness running this
In a cipher outside the pub and shit
Magic, ignite like matchstick
Still pumping out smoke with the factories
Plug into the feed, now fantasy
No game, now to play all reality
No switch for you to go and rerecord it
Move foreword, the future calls
And all four walls are like Mediatronic
Snow crash the brain, no trees for the forest
The streets in chaos, are the demons upon us?
Or are we the beings who be bringing on the ruckus?
[Joelistics:]
Language is a virus that breeds in the silence
Feeds on the minds of people who devised it
Books and the poems and the slang that designed it
Reality defined by the words we assign it
We gave a name to the apple and the diamond
Dive in the depth in the realm of Poseidon
Speak with a breath that ring like the horizon
Meaning has a melody that rings like a siren
Sings like a siren, spins like a DJ
Playing for the players in the Arkham Asylum
Now hit the replay and analyse timing
And look what I made harnessing lightning
To battle the right-wing and travel the day
This is the story of a girl and boy who fell in love
And then love kicked them both in the groin
It all began when they were both young fresh out of high school
clutching at their hearts like a soldier does a rifle
She was on a holiday, He was on a road trip
They both arrived up North like postage
He was from a working class suburb of Sydney
She was from a European Family of privilege
and then they met and suddenly there's romance
They took the ride like look ma no hands
Six million human beings living on the planet
These two managed to meet and make magic
French Chorus
she said she saw him for the first time outside
dancing in the rain to the rhythm of a swing band
He said his memory of meeting her was vague
he claimed that his friend introduced them on the boulevard
They had a chemistry like lightning and kite flying
They both recognised fate in the fine print
He had a quick mind and she had a sharp wit
They used to make love and both feel their heart's skip
They lived together on an island on a river
coconut diet fresh fish caught for dinner
Naked in the morning when they bathed and washed
They were happily lost like time had stopped
they were first time lovers in an endless summer
sleeping in a hammock with no need for covers
Hearts full of courage reminiscing of thunderstorms
Learnin how to love like it had never been done before
French Chorus
Reminisce
It makes me sad when I think about it now how
they fought hard when they made it to the third round
mistrust crept in and they both dropped the ball
neither one read what was written there on the wall
Eventually she left and she flew back home
to start a new life in a different time zone
he got a phone call 5 years down the road
maybe they could meet, have a drink and maybe say hello
They had dinner and compared their memories
had a little cry about all their petty jealousies
he didn't blame her and she didn't blame him
first time love is such a delicate thing and still,
since then they've become good friends
they talk about their new lovers in the present tense
and as a monument to what had come and gone
They sat down together and they wrote a sweet love song
Damn!
I beat my fist on the table again
my convictions are the fort that I fail to defend
you just pillage and pillage, woman you won't give in
It's only so many times that I'll keep trying to swim
well I can get funky over this here beat
singing "expand the format!" and all that
but you just treat me like a doormat, no more rockstar or nice guy
I'm just getting thrown off the horse back
I could keep it cool and pretend I'm unaffected
Emotionally stable, no flaws detected
Except I got this addiction to addiction and lust
baby I'll obey you just say you'll make me your must
Make me your bubba, guru goodoo child and crush
chilli vanilla, silly gorilla, I'll do what I must
Keep me informed, Im nearly appalled at my behaviour
No I wont, okay I will, oh will I won't, danger danger!
CHORUS:
Hey OK alright I know I'll do what you say x4
Yeaahhh
Hey OK alright I know I'll do what you say
Hey OK alright I know I'll do it cause you got me babe!
Everytime we fight we aggravate each other
get loud, push back, make war, melt butter
I'ma let you know how it really is momma
it's a bonfire burning in the middle of Summer
I stick it to the drama in the B-boy stance (yup)
I'll burn up the page with a pen in my hand
but baby I've got plans to rip this hip hop mask off
kick up, cast off the shackles of doubt
cut the beat, i wanna kill the crap
I'm emotionally retarded I just happen to rap
this whole album is testament to that
in fact every song is like dejavu
It's my kind of music, it's my kind of blue
alright okay okay its true alright okay okay!
I'm all ears, all yours, all fears, all flaws
All fired up feeling in the whole ninth room
Too many people wonder what goes on inside my mind
Is that because I don't say much they think I got a lot to hide?
The opinions ricochet across my point of view
I just put my blinkers on and do what I gotta do (come on)
Don't stop, change gears
Nobody gonna get in my way
Don't stop, check your rear
Know I got the right of way
The right of way. The right of way. (Yeah)
The right of way. The right of way. (Yeah)
Count Bounce verse 1
(Gimme the keys, let's go. We're late.) Yeah
You can feel it - when we're steering the vessel
and movin down the street foot flat to the pedal and
We makin tracks like old desert Bedouins swag man adventuring
back on the road again.
Crack the bitumen, haters we gear shifting them
lovers we give em rhythm to blast out they're system with
You ain't feelin em cool we still delivering
brilliant chassis shimmerin grinnin the wheels spinnin em out.
In your Datto or your Kingswood or your Beamer'
or your skateboard made of wood
There's no stress, there's no hurry
It's all about the road trip moon buggy
So put your luggage in the back my friends
We'll go round bends and shatter the tachometer
cause hundreds of kilometers be clickin while you rock with us
Too many people wonder what goes on inside my mind
Is that because don't I say much they think I got a lot to hide
The opinions ricochet across my point of view
I just put my blinkers on and do what I gotta do
Don't stop, change gears
Nobody gonna get in my way
Don't stop, check your rear
Know I got the right of way
The right of way. The right of way. (Yeah)
The right of way. The right of way. (Yeah)
Joelistics verse 2
Well you can see it when we drive up the highways
back on the beat like a week of Fridays
and you can tell it's a superior design
we transform your thoughts like Optimus Prime
And people wanna know what kind of fuel we drive with
How we get from A to B clockin up mileage
We move like a stylus no fear for rejection
what's the new sound, what's the new direction and
Is it outrageous to smile at strangers?
Do you have a concept for all of your changes?
The truth of the matter we don't drive with a map
we don't know where we're going
we only know where we're at
So we check for road signs, know when to go signs
roads with no signs, we're out on a limb and we
use our own minds, treat em like gold mines
so we got the right of way when we're doing our thing
c'mon.
Don't stop, change gears
Nobody gonna get in my way
Don't stop, check your rear
Know I got the right of way
I got to be number one, gotta be number one
Come on, yeah
Count Bounce verse 1
Love and politics, sex and sadness
step by step all tryna be the baddest
When the storm come better check your ballast
I and pray that the wind blow dust upon your canvas
Reach for the stars, pray not for failure
when you're stuck in the pit with all the other gladiators
Lookin for more meaning reason to keep living
climb to the top cause the race needs winning
Want to be a radiant sun that shines forever
through better or worse we gotta keep things spinning
Fame, recognition, purpose and vision
with a small little snake in your ear cold hissing
Want to hear the music? Go buy tickets
but kick it on the street with the freaks in the village
Feelin too green, soak up the spillage
Who is the number one champion in your village?
I got to be number one
Wanna be number one? Gotta beat on your drum like this
Gotta be number one
like that, close your eyes and imagine how it feels to be like that
I got to be number one
Wanna be number one? Gotta beat on your drum like this
Gotta be number one
like that, and the whole world's going along with your act
Yeah Yeah
Joelistics verse 2
Said the world's obsessed with the competition winner
but all that glitter's not gold, (no)
The trophy and the cheddar don't define a man's measure
man you gotta get it in your soul.
And you can heed the pressure or turn your back
Follow your own path or follow the pack brother
Go discover what you love in life
The aim of the game is to love your life
And if daddy don't tolerate loser's in the family
You tell him he can stick his sausage in the pantry
If he gets hot headed then pull a funny face
kick him in the shins and choke him with a shoelace
cash athletics. You commin last?
Become an academic, give your life to the arts
You'll get more girls and have more fun
and anyway the mainstream's for suckers and chumps.
I got to be number one
Wanna be number one? Gotta beat on your drum like this
Gotta be number one
like that, close your eyes and imagine how it feels to be like that
I got to be number one
Wanna be number one? Gotta beat on your drum like this
Gotta be number one
like that, and the whole world's going along with your act
Everybody now
everybody now
She's sitting right in front of me
I'm caught up in a fantasy
She's taking all my mind away
And she's sitting right in front of me
It's all in your mind don't get contorted
This type o' lady bend you back and forward
Got the effect of something that you snorted
Everybody rockin to the way her body orbits
Round and round she looks so awesome
Maybe I could-
"Nah thats just your endorphins"
We gotta work together act with caution
"She'll pick you up and drop you like porcelain"
We'll go and get a coffee I just want to get to know her
I'll write her a rap
"man she'll wrap you like a boa
Look, just go home and write a lament
go and listen to your INXS live cassette
a suicide blonde"
well my pride is strong
"uh uh, she can make any guy reform"
She's sitting right in front of me
I'm caught up in a fantasy
Yeah, she's sitting right in front of me
I can't believe her company
She's taking all my mind away
And she's sitting right in front of me
Right there in front of me I think her name's Kylie
Real intellectual she works in a library
Damn she's sexy
"Man your Keen"
What should I say?
"I don't know, tell her you read"
I'ma tell her that I rap in the hope that she likes me
"She'll think your a freak"
Nah, she'll think I'm exciting
Chicks these days have a soft spot for hiphop
"Nah, she only likes olt country and folk rock"
I'll tell her I'm a balladeer with a career
a guitar and a car and I breathe clean air
"She'll only want you for your money"
That's funny, I'm as broke as a third world economy buddy
"It doesn't matter Mr. rapper you connect like hippies do"
What she likes the inner me?
"Yeah, she likes the inner you"
She's sitting right in front of me
I'm caught up in a fantasy
She's sitting right in front of me
I can't believe her company
She's taking all my mind away
[Joelistics:]
Alarm bells and ringing and I'm up and out of bed
Coffee's in the pot, it's on the go, it's on the boil
Six in the morning and I'm jumping on the train and
Once again it's Groundhog Day
And I catch a glimpse of the man I am
My life did go according to plan
I went to high school, university and then a steady job
Two kids and a divorce I got burnt from
I pay my tax like everyone else
And I can't relax like anyone else
And I can't believe that it's coming around
So I brace myself for a nervous break down
Quick step, I ain't got time to think
More stress every single time I blink
The nine to five lullaby worldwide
Day to day grind got me asking if there's more to life, c'mon
[Chorus:]
Wake up on Mondays, uh oh
Making my coffee, uh oh
Day's fall like dominoes
That's just what I know
All I need to know, uh oh
[Seed MC:]
All I need to know
Lunch break coming and I need a pickup
I got nothing but some emptiness inside of my gut
I got rubbing eyes crazily, I'm vaguely lost
I've got automatic pilot on the albatross
When you take a good look and see it piling up
An order will be executed by the robots
Cause they running the show, yeah they calling the shots
And every Monday morning we just want to call it all off
But even in the thick of it different trials are lost
In a court that we thought would never suffer a loss
I'm taking a long walk, no I ain't taking a bus
I need a minute to configure or I'm gonna combust, so wake up
[Chorus]
[Bridge:]
We walk into the walls like ghosts that haunt the night
Almost dead before we die
And this ain't no kind of lie
Takes more than all of these long days to make me face up
To the fact that nothing changes
What is this that keeps me running?
What is this that keeps me running?
What is this that keeps me running?
[Joelistics:]
Newspapers talking bout war in the Middle East
I don't see it so I leave it to the war chiefs
Murder one gunman in the city streets
I don't feel it cause it's just another news brief
To get my wage I've lost lots of days
I've locked up my rage for the money that I'm paid
And my attitude is do what you need
But what will it mean next century?
And I'm daydreaming that today will be my last day
I'll either leave or throw grenades in my work place
And would I even know if the world explodes?
I'm a quit my job, pack my bags and go
[Chorus: x2]
Step with the pressure like...
They say something and we say it better
They do nothing and we stay fed up
Everyday pressure, gonna ease up never
Step to the rhythm or fall back forever
[Joelistics:]
From my early days of having this rapping inside my Adam's apple
Crashing computers from all the data I done babbled
Travelling, I saddled up subject to catalogue
Push a bit to battle on, knowing what goes on
Pressured with the everyday wrestle and navigate
I focus and I hope for the best and try and get it straight
My map made from ice age provisions
And time-space continuums, tirades in rhythm
My highlight conditions of folk, hard living, who won't
Start sinking, they float and keep swimming, they know
They're on a mission from God like Blues Brothers
And man we're all brothers and damn we all suffer like
Goddamn sinners, we all stand together
We all face the pressure, all laced with melancholy
It ain't metaphoric, man it's really meteoric
And this rap is for him, her and everybody
[Chorus x2]
[Seed MC:]
From the first episode in the embryo
Every step upon the world got it's ebb and flow
Things figure, well some you never know
You can feel the tension like a cello doing tremolo
We forward and back, cause we caught in a trap
We all walk on and you know we never know when we gonna get back
Somebody open the latch and let me speak like "ahh, breath catch"
Well I read about the capitals pedestalling the valuable resource
But is actual fact it's just a chaperone
And I can see the neon flashing and creeping into the future
Just to deepen all the damage done
And every citizen riddled within ambivalence
Gazing into the distance at a Babylon
But every human in the place, any familiar face
We got a long track to travel on
[Joelistics:]
Get up, come on [x2]
Don't get stuck
[Seed MC:]
Get up, get up [x4]
[Seed MC:]
I got a good fan, a valuable lady
And we used to live close, then she moved away yeah
She was having a sea change, then she met a man
With working hands and a bitter can
What can you do? You give 'em your blessings and give a damn
Well hold up, a couple months later
It turns out her man is something of a hater
So far away from us was an emotional cripple sounding dangerous
Well I said "Get out" and she said "Hold on"
And the tone went dead on the telephone, c'mon
[Chorus: Seed MC (Joelistics)]
Get up, get up
(Pack up your bags and move on)
Get up, get up
(Don't let this madness go on)
Get up, get up
(Pack up them bags and move on)
Get up, get up
(Don't let this madness go on)
[Joelistics:]
He was a young man out to get what he could man
A prodigal son who would never let anyone inside his head
Never the less he'd captured this girl
With a head full of dreams under her curls
She'd changed his world but couldn't sustain it
Complicated that was his life it seems
He wasn't all bad, he dreamt of a fam
He never had anything to do with his dad
Quick to get mad and raise up his fists
And fuck with the things he treasured the most
Treating his girl like property
Never been taught how to love properly
Jealously burning his brain
A poisonous venom, aggression, he's making no sense
Preventing her leaving and seeing her friends
Telling her things that sounded like threats
No one could guess why she was with him
Tomorrow he's gonna be different, is he?
[Chorus]
[Bridge: x2]
He gets you down
He gets you down
Just look around, I know it
Always seems so hard to get out
[Seed MC:]
It just hit the season, everyone breeding
Slap on my face, elevate my breathing
I just gotta see her so I'm off and leaving
Tracks wind back to the coliseum
The villagers and aristocrats uneasy
Horde for the spectacle, they want to see me
The sun done shine as they take their seating
Arms in the air, wave around like seaweed
And nothing be as good as you chick
We got a special unique loose fit
And everything we do is to prove we tuned in
We sticking to each other like paper to glue stick
Reminds me of kittens and newspaper
Slipping in and out of it all like two vapours
Intertwined and we smoke ring crusaders
Caught in a crux, I'm calling it love or
All that above and below the surface
This contact sport got me sort of nervous
Bliss, with an itty-bitty sort of purpose
Likely to cause all sorts of hurt, let's go
[Chorus: Seed MC]
One thing that I really want to do
Get close and personal with you
That's one thing I just got to do
Eh, eh, eh
Caught deep in the deepness of the blue
I'm sick from the sweetness of ah you
You're one thing I just got to do
Eh, eh, eh
[Joelistics:]
You got class like red wine and soul tunes
And when you laugh, you can light up a whole room
You play your mind like a beautiful instrument
Cut a fool down to size with your intellect
Yeah I know you're kind of scared of getting intimate
We both hold back from really getting into this
Well let's risk it, see what come
Because we fit together like bass line to bass drum
I know you got a lot to do love
We all do love, looking for true love
And ain't it just like love to get you confused love
Win and lose love, well then we'll make new love
We all run from something so strong
We give up, then we get back on
We both get busy with a lot to do
But if you'd like, well I'd like to do a lot with you, so c'mon
[Chorus: Seed MC]
[Chorus: Both]
[Seed MC:]
Sometimes it's early in the morning
Outside the sun is shining
So we just stay in bed
The world is ours, we can pretend
Sometimes it's late into the evening
We are silent, we ain't speaking
Because nothing can be said
Round and round it goes again