It’s been a while but we are finally back with another Jack’s Music Box, the best Music/English teaching blog series available this side of the Guadalquivir. This week we are looking at Depreston by Australian singer songwriter Courtney Barnett.
Originally a guitarist in Australian bands like Rapid Transit and Immigrant Union before becoming a solo star, Barnett first garnered international attention with the release of her 2012 EP I’ve Got A Friend Called Emily Ferris along with her 2013 double EP A Sea of Split Peas.
Barnett went onto achieve widespread critical attention with her debut album Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit in 2015.
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I chose Depreston for this week’s song as it is a good introduction to Courtney Barnett’s unique style as she often sings in her typical Australian accent in a very conversational way.
The song is about buying a bungalow in Preston, a dreary suburb of Melbourne.
Enjoy!
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Interesting Vocabulary
Percolator: A pot used for brewing coffee
Bungalow: A one storey house.
Cul De Sac: A dead end residential street.
It’s Going Pretty Cheap: It’s selling for pretty cheap.
Deceased Estate: A dead person’s house.
The Lyrics
You said we should look out further, I guess it wouldn’t hurt us
We don’t have to be around all these coffee shops
Now we’ve got that percolator, never made a latte greater
I’m saving twenty three dollars a week
We drive to a house in Preston, we see police arresting
A man with his hand in a bag
How’s that for first impressions? This place seems depressing
It’s a Californian bungalow in a cul-de-sac
It’s got a lovely garden, a garage for two cars to park in
Or a lot of room for storage if you’ve just got one
And it’s going pretty cheap you say, well it’s a deceased estate
Aren’t the pressed metal ceilings great?
Then I see the handrail in the shower, a collection of those canisters for coffee tea and flour
And a photo of a young man in a van in Vietnam
And I can’t think of floorboards anymore, whether the front room faces south or north
And I wonder what she bought it for
If you’ve got a spare half a million
You could knock it down and start rebuilding
If you’ve got a spare half a million
You could knock it down and start rebuilding
If you’ve got a spare half a million
You could knock it down and start rebuilding
If you’ve got a spare half a million
You could knock it down and start rebuilding
If you’ve got a spare half a million
You could knock it down and start rebuilding
If you’ve got a spare half a million
You could knock it down and start rebuilding
If you enjoyed the song check out our Teachify Courtney Barnett playlist below!
See you again for another installment of Jack’s Music Box.
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