Leon Rosselson 1966
Rosselson adapted the text from Déjeuner du Matin, a verse by French poet Jacques Prévert. 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
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 sea
And an empty cup where my heart ought to be
And nobody, nobody looking at me