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Old St Charles

from Big City Howl by Georgie Fisher

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lyrics

One day I got an email from my manager in London
It said who the bloody hell is David Turner
And a smile came across my face
As I was taken back to the good old days
And I asked her how she even knew that name
She said that you had found her somehow
And asked her to give me your details
And a message to pass on to me
When is Georgie gonna write that song for me
The one she promised me, when we were seventeen
When is Georgie gonna write that song for me
The one she promised me, when we were seventeen

But the story starts when we were both just five years old
Running around with runny noses playing sticks and stones
The Italian kids would call us skips
And we sat across the table in year one
I think the teacher’s name was Miss Abrahams
But maybe I got it wrong
I didn’t know you had a crush on me
Til I was seventeen
I didn’t know you had a crush on me

And the walls of old St Charles
One day they will crumble and fall
But you will stay in my memory the same
Your smile will never go away

And then I saw you standing at West Ryde station
It felt like a lifetime later
I’d become a punk by then
And you were hanging around with your hip hop gangs
Listening to Tupac and Biggie
It was before Puff Daddy became P Diddy
And your favourite song was the one he ripped off The Police

But I preferred to listen to Nirvana
I had three pairs of Doctor Martens
All my clothes were ripped
I had those silly red extensions in my hair
But you didn’t care, you saw straight through it all
You knew exactly who I was
And in our teenage worlds
Ruled by subcultures
It didn’t make no sense
For us to be friends
But we started hanging around
Every day anyway
Hanging round the station
Bumming cigarettes from strangers
And I had that stoner boyfriend
I think his name was Paul
But you pulled me close to you that night
And we kissed behind the wall
He didn’t see us from the balcony
We were lucky, and so fucking cheeky
But we were only seventeen
Now suddenly it’s 2015
So I could easily just
Type your name into facebook
And I guess I’d find you instantly
And I could send you a little message saying
Hey stranger, how’ve you been
But that all seems so impersonal
And I thought that you deserved a little more
So instead I’m sitting down
To finally write this song
I know it’s kinda long
And I haven’t even covered half of it
But I hope it makes you smile
The way I do when I think of you
And most of all I hope you miss me too

credits

from Big City Howl, released September 28, 2015
Georgie Fisher - Guitar, vocals
Harry Charles - Guitar, backing vocals
Tomàs Peralta - Bass, backing vocals
Jens Baumann - Drums

Recorded and mixed by Alexander Ott at Paul-Lincke Studios Berlin
Mastered by Steve Massey at Freezabox London

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Georgie Fisher Sydney, Australia

GEORGIE FISHER’s unique style is characterised by rhythmic guitar playing and a voice that sounds like whiskey and tobacco dipped in honey. Steeped in blues and soul music, Georgie’s grooves and rhythms will get your feet moving and timbre of her extraordinary voice will give you goosebumps.
Based in Berlin and Sydney, Georgie performs regularly across the globe. ... more

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