Bathtubs I've Known [demo] (bonus track)
from The Lotus Eaters (The Night Terrors Tour Edition) by Jennifer Kingwell
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This song was written in response to a songwriting challenge that became part of the Night Terrors residency that Plum and I held at the Wesley Anne in November 2015. The challenge was first suggested by Joel Stibbard and I leapt at the idea... without consulting Plum first (sorry, Plum). The idea was that each week, a random audience member would be selected to come up with a theme - a word, a concept, whatever - and one of us would write a song about it, to be performed at the following week's show. Throughout the residency, we were challenged to write songs about curtains, bathtubs and 'frog clocks'... whatever the hell that even is. This is 'the bathtub song', suggested by MJ. It was written in about an hour the day it was first performed.
lyrics
This is an ode to the bathtubs I've known
Whether in company or alone
Sometimes bubbles and other fun things are blown
Sometimes it's just shuddering tears on my own
First was a bucket in a top north backyard
Then dolphin toys and bubble bath while mother stood guard
Razzle dazzle afternoons in a sequined leotard
Washed away in a tubful of fake tan façade
Bathtub embrace me
Make me clean and pretty
Let the glitter settle and get gritty
Behind my knees
A balcony with smooth glass and bubble jets
Shared joints, pointed looks and whispered regrets
Secrets told just for you to forget
It's safer that way even though we just met
Claw feet and porcelain
Hard to feel awful in
But I'm stubbornly maudlin 'n
I'll give it a try
Bathtub embrace me
Make me clean and pretty
Let the glitter settle and get gritty
Behind my knees
I'll pretend I can breathe
Underwater and under siege
Someday it'll do me good to let go
Woodfired bush bath under starry sky
Rainwater toast to a love now gone by
Took ages to coax the flames nice and high
Then it cooled down so fast while we sat side by side
Claw feet and porcelain
Hard to feel awful in
But I'm stubbornly maudlin 'n
I'll give it a try
Bathtub embrace me
Make me clean and pretty
Let the glitter settle and get gritty
Behind my knees
Whether in company or alone
Sometimes bubbles and other fun things are blown
Sometimes it's just shuddering tears on my own
First was a bucket in a top north backyard
Then dolphin toys and bubble bath while mother stood guard
Razzle dazzle afternoons in a sequined leotard
Washed away in a tubful of fake tan façade
Bathtub embrace me
Make me clean and pretty
Let the glitter settle and get gritty
Behind my knees
A balcony with smooth glass and bubble jets
Shared joints, pointed looks and whispered regrets
Secrets told just for you to forget
It's safer that way even though we just met
Claw feet and porcelain
Hard to feel awful in
But I'm stubbornly maudlin 'n
I'll give it a try
Bathtub embrace me
Make me clean and pretty
Let the glitter settle and get gritty
Behind my knees
I'll pretend I can breathe
Underwater and under siege
Someday it'll do me good to let go
Woodfired bush bath under starry sky
Rainwater toast to a love now gone by
Took ages to coax the flames nice and high
Then it cooled down so fast while we sat side by side
Claw feet and porcelain
Hard to feel awful in
But I'm stubbornly maudlin 'n
I'll give it a try
Bathtub embrace me
Make me clean and pretty
Let the glitter settle and get gritty
Behind my knees
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from The Lotus Eaters (The Night Terrors Tour Edition),
released January 15, 2016
Vocals/piano: Jennifer Kingwell
Written and composed by Jennifer Kingwell
Produced by Myles Mumford and Jennifer Kingwell
Recorded at Headgap Studios
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Myles Mumford at Headgap and Bakehouse Studios
Vocals/piano: Jennifer Kingwell
Written and composed by Jennifer Kingwell
Produced by Myles Mumford and Jennifer Kingwell
Recorded at Headgap Studios
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Myles Mumford at Headgap and Bakehouse Studios
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Jennifer Kingwell Adelaide, Australia
Adelaide based, Darwin born, Jennifer Kingwell is a musician and performer of ‘delicious contrasts’, crafting songs from
punk ukulele anthems and sultry piano ballads to epic alternative pop.
Possessing a voice described as ‘dynamite’(T-Squat) and ‘ranging from silver tongued angel to gruff pirate’, Jennifer Kingwell is nothing short of ‘a formidable powerhouse’ (Herald Sun).
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