The lines are from The Waterboy, released today, the first taste of new music from You Am I’s forthcoming 11th studio album. You Am I fans know how many great songs Tim Rogers has written since the band released their debut album Sound As Ever in 1993. This one is right up there with them.

The Waterboy is a song about inspiration, being lifted by a song, wondering if and how there was still a way to find a way forward in music. The conclusion is there for all to hear in the song – “Ventricle, aorta, muscle and blood / Building a heart in four places”.

Rogers says: “On the Waterboys album Modern Blues I found a Mike Scott song called I Can See Elvis. It just killed me. I couldn’t stop listening to it. Mike is a big-hearted person, he really puts it all out there, and I like that. I was on the New South Wales south coast listening to a Scottish guy living in Ireland singing about Elvis, which led to the four places line.”

With their Enmore Theatre Sydney show confirmed for Thursday, April 15, the band is understandably excited about playing live again after a Covid induced layoff of some 18 months or more. As Rogers says, “Who wants solo fingerpicking when you have thunderous friends? Not this ol’ showgirl. I felt my heart being replaced. In all four places. 3000 plus shows, and there’s a lotta memory, but the reason you wake up is for the NEXT one. I’ve daydreamt and night tussled thinking about this show in ways that have ruined three sets of linen. We want to be together. Come join the band.”