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Room 201

from The Tigers EP by Danny Barwick

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If I had to pick my favourite poem, it would be Charles Bukowski’s ‘The Crunch’. Particularly the harrowing lines: “An old guy in a cheap room, with a photograph of Marilyn Monroe. Many old guys in cheap rooms without any photographs at all”. When I first read it, the quiet loneliness of that scene struck me so much that I found myself imagining more about the old guy - why he was alone and what he was doing in that cheap room. In time that backstory turned into this song.

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An old man waits
In a hotel room
Eight paces to the window
Five to the bathroom

Money in his pocket
His eager heart beating
She knocks at the door
But all he can hear is

Goodnight my baby
Goodnight my baby

She lays him down
Then loses five buttons
His heart runs laps around her
The boy feels something

The islands of mould
Look down from the ceiling
She whispers some cliche line
But all he can hear is

Goodnight my baby
Goodnight my baby

credits

from The Tigers EP, released March 21, 2019
Chorus Vocal - Deidre Wright
Guitars - Luke Shields
Backing Vocals - Tiaryn Griggs

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Danny Barwick Melbourne, Australia

Danny Barwick is a producer, singer, and songwriter from Melbourne known for his heartfelt, textural, and vividly cinematic music.

In 2019, he moved to a small coastal town in the rainforests of northern New South Wales to write his debut album, ‘Iluka.'

He has spent the last 12 months backpacking through Latin America, and is now living in New York.
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