Elimatta Hotel

by Cathy Diver

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Elimatta Hotel is Cathy Diver's sophomore single, released through the Canberra-based label, Undine Records, on Friday, 21st May, 2021.

The track marks Diver’s first release under the label she co-founded in 2020, Undine Records, and was supported by the ACT Government’s Homefront arts funding program.

lyrics

Elimatta Hotel

With your stockings swung over the sea wall
And your light having just gone out
But you won’t turn to leave ‘til the rest of the colours bleed from the west
And the last of the blue fishing boats rush through the rivermouth

The roaring forties surely ain’t for the faint hearted
Pushed through the Elimatta’s heavy doors against your will
To see with a Keno card in between his teeth leaning over the bar in mock disbelief that you’d
wanna come around here still

Or wind up ‘neath the porch light splashed through the salmon blinds
Down on your knees, a block back from the beach
Helpless as a tourist watching the pearl you dive for all your life roll underneath the couch and
out of reach

Back-to-work-safety-training Monday morning
The company rep’s on the step ladder pointing at his feet
Well don’t count but it’s not yet 9:45, won’t be til 1
You get your good ten minutes out in the sun
To read whatever, reply to your mother and eat

‘Til you’re back beneath the store light
Fingering the ticket price gun on your knees, hours from the beach
Helpless as a tourist watching the pearl you dive for all your life roll underneath the counter and out of reach

credits

released May 21, 2021
Cathy Diver (vocals, guitar); Tim Douglass (guitar); Joel Davy (piano, cello, mellotron); Beth Monzo (bass); and Jono Warren (drums).
Recorded and mixed by Louis Montgomery at Hume Regional Conservatorium, Lawrenny Studio, Infidel Studios and Myall St Studio.
Mastered by Steve Smart.

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Cathy Diver Canberra, Australia

lutruwita/Tasmanian raised folk & alt-country, writin' about stuff I see round here

Co-founder and artist on Undine Records !

profile pic cred: Claire Warren

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