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More Or Less

from Before You Wandered In by Tess McKenna

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about

The album’s closing statement contains the line that gives the album it’s title…inventive and cinematic the coda leads us to a major shift and to the microscopically detailed remains of an unfamiliar, post-sex, bedroom floor. ‘books that were popular, jeans and binoculars, were lying on his floor’ (T. McKenna).

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MORE OR LESS

They bought a house in Dutson Downs
I packed my car and moved to town
Before it all got thrown away
It took each hill but then it died
And once we’d crossed the Great Divide
We left it there for salvaging

Ooh Ooh Hey Hey

On the day that it all came down
We all just lay there on the ground
Too scared and stoned to move
Then I found it in the bin
I didn’t know that I put it in
They turned the whole place upside down

Ooh Ooh Hey Hey
That’s more or less the way. Hey

I got a job in the Café
I lost the impetus to play with them
And started up another band
And when we heard that he had drowned
In the sea but he wasn’t found
We all waited on the news and then cried for him

Ooh Ooh Hey Hey
That’s more or less the way. Hey

She wrote a message on the door

And dropped the needle on the floor
And fell asleep on Table One
They looked for someone new to blame
And caught us kissing in the lane
Beside The Esplanade

Ooh Ooh Hey Hey
That’s more or less the way
That’s more or less the way it went for me

He poured the Mescal in
We drank it at the bar
Before you wandered in
We’d finished off two more
So I left the car in Johnston Street
Just like I’d done before
And we went to your friends place
Instead of fucking in the hall

Books that were popular
Jeans and binoculars
Were lying on his floor

Written by TESS MCKENNA

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from Before You Wandered In, released March 1, 2019
Track 08: More Or Less written by Tess McKenna
Artist: Tess McKenna
Album Title - Before You Wandered In (2019)
Album Duration: 45:24mns
Track 07: The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll written by Bob Dylan. Published by Special Rider Music
Produced by Tess McKenna and Roger Bergodaz.
Recorded and mixed by Roger Bergodaz at Union Street Studio, Brunswick, Australia
Musicians (all tracks): Ashley Davies drums, Karen Rush bass/vocals,
Tess McKenna vocals/guitars, Michael den Elzen guitars (tracks 1, 5 and 8).
Mastered by Amy Marie, Nashville, Tennessee

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Tess McKenna Melbourne, Australia

Tess McKenna is an independent artist based in Melbourne, Australia.
Tess has performed her songs at festivals, concert halls and pubs across Australia and overseas, from the Byron Bay Blues Fest (NSW, AUS) to Austin’s SXSW (Texas, USA).
She has played guest supports for Lucinda Williams and Nick Cave
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