Leon Rosselson 1966
Rosselson adapted the text from Djeuner du Matin, a verse by French poet Jacques Prvert. Kerr: “I will always associate this with the 1966 album Love Loneliness Laundry, its somehow dystopian guitar riff, and Val Bailey’s wonderful vocals which are simultaneously stoic and enraged. Leon has observed that feminism ‘declared the personal to be political which seems to me to be a very good idea as far as songwriting is concerned.'”
Nancy Kerr: https://nancykerr.bandcamp.com/track/invisible-married-breakfast-blues
https://nancykerr.bandcamp.com/track/invisible-married-breakfast-blues
Nobody looking at me He puts the spoon in the sugar and the sugar in the tea And he unfolds his paper methodically And he stirs his tea and sips his tea Without looking at me He sips his tea without looking at me With an automatic gesture he taps his knee And he looks at his watch mechanically And he smiles at me across an empty sea Without looking at me He smiles at me without looking at me And his smile is as heavy as gravity And it falls on the table and the cups of tea And inevitably he kisses me Without looking at me He kisses me without looking at me And he turns at the door as if to see If there’s something he’s forgotten but it’s only me And he looks at me across an empty sea Without looking at me Bridge: Without looking at me, without looking at me Alone with my own invisibility And the tablecloth stained and staring at me And the sugar bowl floating in an empty And an empty cup where my heart ought to be And nobody, nobody looking at me