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If you'd like to know about the inspiration behind this song, there's a blog post that came out when the album was first released: anthonytoner.net/anthonys-blog/2011/5/26/10-days-10-songs-east-of-louise.html

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East of Louise

We all know that she’s bright,
but sometimes she just doesn’t pay attention.
The stuff you talked about last night,
she’ll look like it’s a subject you just mentioned.
She stops outside the station, and
she ponders for a minute –
there’s a train that’s leaving soon,
she wonders if she should be in it,
and decisions such as these,
happen slightly to the East of Louise.

And she tells herself she’s lonely,
an isolated queen in a city castle.
She was somebody’s one and only,
but somehow it just wasn’t worth the hassle.
But hey, relationships can wither,
the least said, the soonest mended –
she wrote it in a letter, but she
never got it sended.
And love is like a breeze that passes
somewhere to the East of Louise.

And I think I’m falling for her
I lay my pearls of wisdom before her
but after ten minutes, they just bore her
back to tears.

While she struggles with her laptop,
I make coffee and I offer my suggestions.
She says she’s lost a thousand emails,
from potential lovers, asking the same questions.
And I tell her, ‘love’s another virus,
it can eat your heart alive-’
and she takes it off the desktop, but
it stays there on the drive.
And the instructions are Chinese,
and that’s just too far to the East of Louise.

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from A Light Below the Door (2011), released September 14, 2021

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Anthony Toner Belfast, UK

An independent singer songwriter and guitarist, based in Belfast.

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