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This song used to be one of my favourites from Melbourne band Treehouse

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Words and music ©Matt Radford
Amy's Okay

© Matt Radford

Amy's very bored
She's skint and feeling so bad
Because she's unemployed
She wants to play bass in a real speed-metal band

Amy's got a new haircut
Didn't make her feel a whole lot better
When her boyfriend tried to break up
He couldn't say it to her face so he put it in a letter

Amy spends her day
Walking 'round St Kilda
Where she always says "g'day!"
To all the people that she meets that's why they think she's so peculiar

Chorus:
But she's so strong
When she gets her head together
But it hurts to see that sadness in her eyes
She's so strong
But she changes like the weather
And it's hard to find the confidence inside

Amy needs her friends
So she meets them at the Espy
In the small cafe at 10
Amy reads their future in their peppermint tea

Amy tells her friends
About her major new disaster
Well the guy's run off again
And her friends agree with her when she says all men are bastards

Repeat chorus

Amy wants to change
So she writes five affirmations
And she chants them every day
But her attempts at meditation always end up in frustration

Amy's sick of tears
And she's tired of all the fighting
Well, she wants to cut her fears
She hates playing the game, but it makes it more exciting

Repeat chorus

But Amy's okay, Amy's okay
Amy's okay, Amy's okay
Amy's okay, Amy's okay
Amy's okay, Amy's okay.

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from 'Archive': Demos, Out​-​takes and One​-​offs 1995​-​2000, released January 7, 2001
Vocals, guitar, stomp box - Penelope Swales

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Penelope Swales Boolarra, Australia

Penelope Swales has been articulating the human condition with passion and humour for 30+ years. She sings about politics, love, friendship, the unbreakable bond between us and dogs and the impact of the Internet on society. She won the 2019 Alistair Hulett Songs for Social Justice Award with “Cambridge Analytica”. “The Ides of March in Christchurch" was short-listed for the same award in 2020. ... more

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