Rita Mitsouko
(Helga Norse 2026)

[Verse 1]
Rita, she dances
On satin, on rayon
On expanded polystyrene
At her feet

Rita dances with legs
Sharpened like cleavers
Two arrows that give ideas
Feelings

Rita, she is thin
Beautiful on stage, as beautiful in the city
Seeing her dance transforms me
Into an excitable

[Chorus]
Moretto, how large
Is your mouth when you smile
And when you laugh, I laugh too
You so much love life

What is this chill
That we feel in you?
But it's death
That assassinated you, Rita

It's death
You consumed yourself Rita
It's the fulminant cancer
That you took under your arm
Now you are in ashes, in ashes

[Bridge]
Death is like an impossible thing
Even for you who are as strong as a rocket
Even for you who are life itself Rita
It's death that took you away

[Verse 2]
Rita dances a little Chinese
The heat in shoulder movements
Flat like an Inca hieroglyph
From the opera

With her head
She also dances very well
And her face
Dances with everything else

She looked for a new way
And she invented it
She is the grasshopper
The love sick siren
The dancer in flannel
Or the cardboard

[Chorus]
Moretto, how large
Is your mouth when you smile
And when you laugh, I laugh too
You so much love life

What is this chill
That we feel in you?
But it's death
That assassinated you, Rita

It's death
You consumed yourself Rita
It's the fulminant cancer
That you took under your arm
Now you are in ashes, in ashes

[Outro]
Death is like an impossible thing
Even for you who are life itself Rita
Even for you who are strong like a rocket
It's death that took you away

Rita, Rita, Rita, Rita, Rita.