Jamie Hutchings
Avalon Cassettes CD
(Laughing Outlaw 2011)
1. Invisible Coat
2. Slack Magic
3. Smoky Dawson
4. Ned Kelly Indoors
5. Man vs. Train
6. When It'll Blow
7. Gimme Failure
8. New Vagabond 04:31
9. Ways to Fall
10. Cicada Symphony
She hit me with an umbrella
She said “Is that you Harry?”
I thought-
‘Well surely this sad woman
She’s deranged!’
Carting several plastic bags
Blocking up the sidewalk
Whilst I stood feeling sorry for myself
A prime target for the rain
She said “Don’t you remember me?
Hey it’s Louise!
Back in 1973 after the war?
At Deakin university
I’d loved your principles
I recall you as a great man
Though I don’t quite remember what for”
I gazed into her watery eyes
It was around then I realized
That beneath this bag of bones
This wasted frame
Was a girl who’d filled me with such lust
Lust that’s long since turned to dust
For me I’m sixty nine years old
And I look like her
Well much the same
And then she grabbed me by the arm
Her putrid breath against my face
She said “We’ve got a lot of talking
yet to do”
While me I’d just got out of jail
I’d once been hard as nails
Oh but it’s funny
What a little bit of punishment can do
And my faded suit was getting wet
It was the only one I had left
As she dragged me
Down an endless flight of stairs
To a place made out of cardboard
covered junk
As the trains rattled above
Serenading us
With their broken voice
Down to our cold arthritic bones
She said “My heart it’s given out
I thought there was nobody left
There’s a fight that I just can’t keep
kicking on
Oh but now that you’ve arrived
I surely am alive well I knew
Somebody just like you would come”
credits
from Avalon Cassettes,
released April 15, 2011
Jamie Hutchings – vocal, nylon string
acoustic, field recordings, slide and
feedback guitar, typewriter
Reuben Wills – bass
Erin Hutchings – whispers