A song about trying too hard to keep up with everyone else, failing and eventually accepting that you'll find your own way and that even you can never stop the ceaseless passing of time.

Keep Time

Painting By Numbers

Unaware

A song about growing up and realising nobody was really waiting for you in this big old world.

Big Fish

Stone

Easy Does It

Honey

Life of the Party

The Stuff Dreams are Made of

Twice as Clean

In The Taxi

Cake

My Toothpaste Ajar

To Make Me Good

I’m in Love with Falling in Love

Swarm Remix - Dilettante (Born2Fight) #becometheswarm

John (Teaser)

John, I didn’t mean to I didn’t mean to hurt you 
It’s just you’ve done me wrong 

John, my self esteem was my self esteem was brand new 
But didn’t take too long to lose it 

John, you didn’t mean to you didn’t mean to hurt me 
But drew on my my withdrawing nature 

John, you’re not a man and you’re a monster either 
I’ve seen your type before believe me 

There’s no need to dance and sing about it 
Can’t say that I’d like to make a habit 
Of this tawdry night champagne and damage 
Laughing makes it hurt less don’t you see? 

I didn’t like you, I never liked you either 
You just got me blind drunk you bastard 

John, I’ve got your card and I’ve got your dirty secret 
And stole ten pounds from your back pocket 

Hate that you’ve made me the other woman 
Pictures with your girlfriend smiling in them 
Do my best impression of a human 
Seeing as how I’ve brought this on myself 

Would you cry for me John 
Would you cry anyway 
Would it make you believe in love again? 

Did you cry for me John 
Did you cry anyway 
Did it make you believe in love again? 

Would she cry for me John 
Would she cry anyway 
Could she ever believe in love again? 

Should I cry for you John 
Should I cry anyway 
Will I ever remember your face again, face again?

 
Francesca Pidgeon - Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Saxophone, Piano 
Jack Mee - Drums, Cabasa and Tape Measure 
Aaron Collins-Wood - Synths 
Chris Mulligan - Production, Mixing + Mastering

(Cry For Me) John

Annie I sold your namesake
You’ve fallen to a new school of thought
Everyone’s got their camera
Primed and poised for the money shot

All dressed up in your new clothes
Stand up front and don’t even dance
When I’m a person of interest maybe
You’ll give me a second glance

Well it’s not the mother’s milk that drives you mad
It’s the singing of the fashionable and bad while I
Go to sleep through the 
Light and the heat

You’ve got no taste or talent
Queen of the standing room
You took all Annie’s edges left her
Nice and round for you to consume

Well you know there’s one success that’s ironclad
It’s the singing of the fashionable and bad and now
No one cares for what
Isn’t theirs

It’s so cool to care now, Your heroes will let you down
I don’t have a lot to prove, You’ll soon be the new old news
I don’t know when why or how, But words cut me deep somehow
I drink in the afternoon, And dream of that silver spoon

Well if you look close enough at your sycophant circle jerking
Desperately trying to understand the numbers
Middle of the night what do people like
They just don’t like me I think that
I could be anybody, anybody that you want
Annie in my ears and nobody is on my 
Side you’re a pretty thing such a pretty thing
Drown my sorrows cough up my
Sins with the could-have-beens
Sins with the could-have-beens

Vocals, Guitars, Sax, Piano + Synths by Francesca Pidgeon
Drums + Percussion by Jack Mee
Bass by Aaron Collins-Wood
Trombone by Tim Chatterton
Screams by Gina Walters, Jon Horner + Owen Lamont
Mixed, Mastered + Engineered by Chris Mulligan

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Dilettante (pronounced DILL-uh-tont) is the songwriting vehicle of multi-instrumentalist Francesca Pidgeon. Primarily a guitarist and singer but, owing to chronic introversion, she taught herself clarinet, sax and piano and bought a loop pedal in an attempt to avoid human contact.

However, this endeavour ultimately proved futile and she enlisted the aid of bassist Aaron Collins-Wood, drummer Jack Mee and guitarist/vocalist Rachel Rimmer.

FFO St Vincent, tUnE-yArDs, Dirty Projectors and Fiona Apple.

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