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EliotE: "Lo-fille + Jazz Riot Grrrl"

EliotE mostly writes her own lyrics in English. I help out with the odd phrase here and there - some of them very odd indeed, in keeping with her idiosyncratic style.

However, she does have two songs where the lyrics are wholly mine. For Floppy Fringe, she asked me to write a text which she could then set to music. For Going Places, I was supposed to help her with a lyric she'd already written, but my "help" ended up seeing me rewrite the whole thing!

• Going Places
• Floppy Fringe

"I saw you in a bookstore.
I liked your floppy fringe."
I scribble in a notebook,
grab my thoughts from the wind.
Some day I might make sense of them.
Some day I might make sense of them.

You mentioned that my stories
hint instead of tell.
I showed you a photograph,
a tumbledown hotel.
You read me "The Red Wheelbarrow".
You read me "The Red Wheelbarrow".

The radiator gurgles.
There's music in the pipes.
I wish that it was all that
kept me up for half the night.
Sometimes I'd rather read than write.
Sometimes I'd rather read than write.

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This song is performed by eliotE & the Ritournelles.