'Avant Gardener' is taken from Courtney Barnett’s album ‘MTV Unplugged (Live In Melbourne)’ out now!

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MTV Unplugged (Live In Melbourne)

Recorded live at Howler (Brunswick, Melbourne) on Tuesday 22nd October 2019

1. Depreston
2. Sunday Roast
3. Charcoal Lane (featuring Paul Kelly) - written by Archie Roach
4. Avant Gardener
5. Nameless, Faceless (featuring Evelyn Ida Morris)
6. Untitled (Play It On Repeat)
7. Not Only I (featuring Marlon Williams) - written by Seeker Lover Keeper
8. So Long, Marianne - written by Leonard Cohen

Courtney Barnett - Guitar, Vocals
Dave Mudie - Drums, Backing Vocals
Bones Sloane - Bass, Backing Vocals
Lucy Waldron - Cello, Backing Vocals
Paul Kelly - Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica
Evelyn Ida Morris - Piano, Vocals
Marlon Williams - Guitar, Vocals
All songs written by Courtney Barnett except Charcoal Lane written by Archie Roach
Not Only I written by Sally Seltmann, Sarah Blasko & Holly Throsby (Seeker Lover Keeper)
So Long, Marianne written by Leonard Cohen

Gina Hanlon - Monitor Engineer
Thomy Sloane - Guitar Technician
Ernie Rose - Audio Director
Nick Bojdak - Broadcast Engineer
John Hall, Gordon Wood, Jarrod Mitchell - Audio Technicians
Jackson McIvor - Stage Technician
Brandon Thomas, Lucy Nettlefold, Simon Bates and all the crew at MTV
MTV Unplugged created by Robert Small and Jim Burns
Luke Shave - Producer
Craig Borg - Production Manager

This concert took place on Wurundjeri land. It always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

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Avant Gardener

I sleep in late, another day
Oh, what a wonder, oh, what a waste
It's a Monday, it's so mundane
What exciting things will happen today?
The yard is full of hard rubbish, it's a mess and
I guess the neighbours must think we run a meth lab
We should amend that, I pull the sheets back
It's forty degrees and I feel like I'm dying
Life's getting hard in here so I do some gardening
Anything to take my mind away from where it's supposed to be
The nice lady next door talks of green beds
And all the nice things that she wants to plant in them
I wanna grow tomatoes on the front steps
Sunflowers, bean sprouts, sweet corn and radishes
I feel proactive, I pull out weeds
All of a sudden

I'm having trouble breathing in
I'm having trouble breathing in
I'm having trouble breathing in
I'm having trouble breathing in

My hands are shaky, my knees are weak
I can't seem to stand on my own two feet
I'm breathing but I'm wheezing, feel like I'm emphysem-ing
My throat feels like a funnel filled with Weet-Bix and kerosene and
Oh no, next thing I know they call up triple-0
I'd rather die than owe the hospital 'til I get old
I get adrenaline straight to the heart
I feel like Uma Thurman post-overdosing kick start
Reminds me of the time when I was really sick and I
Had too much pseudoephedrine and I couldn't sleep at night
Halfway down High Street, Andy looks ambivalent
He's probably wondering what I'm doing getting in an ambulance
The paramedic thinks I'm clever 'cause I play guitar
I think she's clever 'cause she stops people dying
Anaphylactic and super hypocondriactic
Should've stayed in bed today, I much prefer the mundane
I take a hit from an asthma puffer
I do it wrong, I was never good at smoking bongs

I'm not that good at breathing in
I'm not that good at breathing in
I'm not that good at breathing in