if it be your will: best of 2022 • Courtney Barnett

Dec 2, 2022

“Sunfair Showdown” show Barnett’s strengths: riffs and toplines married to a wryness as chronic as a scowl.

Oh, what a day, and congrats on the keys to your place

You've escaped the rat race, as they say

Now you're settling in for the stay anyway

You got a blank slate to renovate

Take it all

Yeah, you reap what you sow and so it goes

What you put in the ground comes around

When you don't really know what you're missing at all

In a daze, I can picture you whittling away

With such care, with such patience and grace

And I smile when you say that you'll build me a table one day

Well, I'd be so grateful

Sometimes it's hard, getting lost, you say is a fine art

Put the map down and follow the stars

Shall we leave? Are you sure?

Let me grab my bag, we can sneak out through the side door

In the dark, are you scared?

Did you hear those dogs bark?

And do you ever wonder what sets you apart?

Shine the torch on the path, darling, please don't let go of my arm

When you sleep, are you warm? Can you feel my cold feet?

Are you good? Are you making ends meet?

At the end of the day, you're awake with your thoughts

And I don't want you to be alone

Yeah, I don't want you to be alone

And I don't want you to be alone