DESCRIPTION:
Memphis was always going to struggle to live up to the standard of Nashville that I was naively in love with. It’s a pretty poor place, and we seemed to be hustled in the street at least once on every journey that wasn’t on Beale St.

hey Mr Memphis why you walkin so slow?
hey Mr Memphis it’s that time don’t you know?
hey Mr Memphis you been talked up you been spoilt and it’s starting to show

hey Mr Memphis motel funeral home
you tell your pusherman to leave me alone
he’s got his eye on my backpocket $20 and a cellular phone

hey hey have a lucky day
hey hey have a lucky day

hey Mr Memphis did you happen to hear?
you’ve been asked to be the man of the year
hey Mr Memphis better get yourself a haircut before you disappear

hey hey have a lucky day
hey hey have a lucky day

hey Mr Memphis did you get my last text?
that’s not the kind of thing we’ve come to expect
from some poor boy truck driver wondering what you’re gonna do next

hey hey have a lucky day

“I wake at an unknown time – in fact I’ve been up/awake a few times on guard for creepy crawlies. My phone will no longer switch on so I have no personal, portable way of telling the time without relying on the iPhone users, who are asleep. I wander out of the stale room to the street outside heading to some kind of early open shop with a clock to find out if it’s acceptable for me to be in the room making noise."

"A homeless man begins to walk with me… He asks me where I’m going, I say I’m just walking about looking for the time (he doesn’t have it). We walk for about 6 blocks, moving in circles (squares) for the most part in silence. Looking back it is quite a memory, us walking side-by-side, both too bleary-eyed to make much of an effort to either hustle or shake off. At one point he asks me do I like to get high. I laugh and say no."

"After a pause he asked out of curiosity because I was sniffing as I walked. There was no way I was giving him a twenty, so he had to settle for 4 quarters. He put up some protestation but not much. I said, on crossing the road away from him, 40% sarcastic, 60% genuine: “have a lucky day”.”