'In My Room' With Georgia Mooney

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00:00 Hello, my name's Georgia Mooney and this is Rolling Stones In My Room, which today is

00:06 in my room. So welcome to my slightly mad living room. I'm going to play you three songs

00:12 from my debut album, which just came out. It's called Full of Moon. And I'm going to

00:17 play a couple on this lovely dulcimer and one on the piano behind me. And this first

00:23 song is called Nothing Is Forever and it is about how the patriarchy is surely doomed.

00:30 Okay.

00:31 [Music]

00:39 Break of day, shadows call and light betrays. Once you held all of the armies, but your

01:03 hero defied all the curses that be. Let me explain. Just release and you'll feel no

01:32 pain. Brace, bow your head, take a minute. Oh, you did it again. Lucky we're so forgiving.

01:53 You wouldn't know it. You wouldn't see it in his eyes. You wouldn't guess it. Oh, it'll

02:05 take you by surprise. Come right down. The bottom rung ain't as bad as the top. Come

02:34 right down. The bottom rung ain't as bad as it sounds. Strip. Hang up all of your hangers.

02:45 Here's your chance to restart. Is this as good for you as it is for me? You wouldn't

02:58 know it. You wouldn't see it in his eyes. You wouldn't guess it. Oh, it'll take you by surprise.

03:20 Nothing is forever. Nothing is forever. Nothing is forever. Nothing is forever.

03:49 You wouldn't know it. You wouldn't see it in his eyes. You wouldn't guess it. Oh, it'll

04:10 take you by surprise.

04:31 Quite worried. Not sure what to do in this silence. Oh, God, thank you. And hello to

04:39 my neighbours downstairs making dinner. This is a dulcimer, by the way, and it's a beautiful

04:46 folky instrument that nobody's ever heard of. And a lot of people stop me in airports

04:50 to ask where it's from. And I still haven't Googled that fully. But yes, beautiful, beautiful

04:56 folky instrument that is heard a lot in Appalachian folk music and all over the place. And I won

05:03 this in a raffle, if you can believe it. It was the best day of my life. So moving right

05:09 along, I'm going to do a song now, which is called What an Inconvenience. And it is, well,

05:16 a little bit about when somebody is already married.

05:35 With all the ice at last diverted, we slipped outside before they heard us. And at the time

05:58 your hand touched mine, we threw a rope across a great divide. Such a scene as a hearty fool,

06:13 you go as far as the ocean pool. You speak of dog and daughter. I put the roses in fresh

06:34 wavered eyes. What an inconvenience this was. A safety in what cannot be. There is freedom

06:57 in captivity. Enjoy the sound of every word. It can be truth, it can be blurred. When I

07:18 closed the door behind me, every creak and every turnkey, simplified and it was enough.

07:29 You caught me with the midnight knife. Brush away the dust. What an inconvenience this

07:50 was.

08:16 After a time, you learned your worth. Perhaps it is my role on earth. A fairy fool, your

08:35 matrimony. If only the job weren't quite so low-key. I feel the guilt, I feel the friction.

08:50 I hope it's not a lifelong affliction. Death by a thousand cuts. This nasty business we

09:02 call love. Brush away the dust. What an inconvenience this was. Brush away the dust. What an inconvenience

09:31 this was.

09:32 And a plane goes overhead. Thank you very much. I'm going to do one more song now and

09:50 through the magic of showbiz I will suddenly appear at the piano. Hi! Thank you for listening.

09:56 I've been Georgia Mooney. I'm going to do one more song for you and please check out

10:00 the album. It's called Full of Moon and it's a bit like this but with a thousand more instruments.

10:06 This song is called Consider it a Gift.

10:20 Nothing about this is going to make me look good. So consider it a gift. I don't ever

10:47 feel it out instead. Don't ever mock or even the vaguest thought of even soul. There's

11:03 something I wonder if you'd admit. You picked her out and you had a doubt. I helped you

11:14 even out.

11:15 Nothing you said or did was ever really a risk. I'm going to do one more song for you.

11:43 Consider it a gift. So consider it a miss. Perhaps it's my only redemption. Just when

12:01 I thought I had least to lose I lost the most of anyone. And I hope that you've settled

12:21 on the one that I'd like. Just not the way I'd like it. Take it or leave it. That's a

12:41 lonely choice. Be good to your ladies in waiting. Something to see solidarity in loving you.

13:10 Thanks Rolling Stone.

13:19 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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