Entries tagged with “going places” from smudie

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

You told me places help to forget faces,
and I understood:
time to make my move.

You sat drinking coffee
when I got up to leave.
The old men by the bar
all had their eyes on me,
as if they thought
that I might just break down.

And if we were in a film,
a big production with big stars,
maybe I just might walk in slow-mo to the door
with feet of lead,
not this spring in my step.
But no, you don't know me,
no, not at all,
if you think that I'm going to break down.
You don't know me.
You don't know me
if you think that I'm going to break down,
down,
to break down.
I'm not going to break down.
I'm not going to...

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This song is performed by eliotE & the Ritournelles.