Robyn Hitchcock

When she said, "Don't waste your words, they're just lies," I cried she was deaf. And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes, Then said, "What else you got left?" It was then that I got up to leave But she said, "Don't forget, Everybody must give somethi...

Sucking on a tap that never dries Could you take it right Between your eyes? Bending blood, bending blood The father stood, the father's hood Black shadow on an acid bird that etched Her way across a field So long ago Walking through the fields In sum...

in agony of pleasure i crumble to my knees i lick your frozen treasure you cup my furry bees but one bee bubbles over your fleshy brimming cup it falls into the clover and lands all downside up it crawls across your stomach not far above the food tha...

And in the element of light The sun reflected from the waves Inshore it spangles The child of air is borne upon the wind That blows across the sea And in the element of summer The cliffs suspended in the heat The air in columns The tiny figures of th...

Where do you live?Where do you eat? Do you still live on Semaphore Street? The children we were have grown into us You in a car and me in a bus How do you know you'll recognize me? I'm not too clear, but I'm easy to see Moving alone through the fossilized cro...

She's just another bubble Another and she's not the first She'll only bring you trouble Don't touch her or, you know, she'll burst I say oh-whoa, baby I know She's only an illusion Shimmering inside your heart She's only a delusion But she can tear y...

in the aquarium you stroked a greasy ray just at the end of day way down in monterey in the aquarium the fish went through the trees the planes went through the seas and you were still with me everything revolves around the sun you know i'm gonna miss...

Maybe tonight you're aching For someone you're dreaming of Wait till the dawn is breaking Into the arms of love Maybe tonight you're crying Like a poor wounded dove Any time now you're flying Into the arms of love Maybe tonight you're falling For so...

Somewhere in the autumn sea The kind of love you are to me I stole you From a very special friend So the friendship had to end And how You can't kill relationships Watch them drown like sinking ships Around you But to live is to betray Every second e...

Baby let me follow you down, baby let me follow you down Well I'll do anything in this godalmighty world If you just let me follow you down. Can I come home with you, baby can I come home with you ? Yes I'll do anything in this godalmighty world If you just l...

I've got a bad case of history Obsessing me, caressing me but I'll never stop I've got a deep side memory Infesting me, it's best to see I'm over the top In the blackness of decay I can't give myself away I've gotta blind handed destiny Exiting...

You walk into the room With your pencil in your hand You see somebody naked And you say, "Who is that man?" You try so hard But you don't understand Just what you'll say When you get home Because something is happening here But you don't know what it is Do yo...

I was walking up Sixth Avenue when Balloon Man came right up to me He was round and fat and spherical With the biggest grin I'd ever seen He bounced on up toward me But before we could be introduced He blew up very suddenly I guess his name was probably...

i'm in love with a beautiful girl yes i'm in love with a beautiful girl well i thought i knew all about everything but i'm in love with a beautiful girl and she's staring through a crack in the sky yes she's staring through a crack in the sky well i thou...

We head downhill Our hands fly back Our fingers freeze Our hair falls out, our hair falls out Our fingers freeze Our hair falls out The iron piston pumps and spouts The steaming air as hot as sprouts Ah, all aboard Brenda's iron sledge All aboard...

Do you wonder like I do What goes on inside of you? In the cathedral of the mind All the worshipers are blind Like a toilet from outside A cathedral from inside There behind your open face Lies an awful lot of space And if I ever look into your open...

(she's certainly clickot) (she's certainly cruel) she was tapering to a point in a corona of foam i had one chance to stop her eggs pronounced 'eggs' or 'brad' but although inches from her column i started falling out dover, get undressed, this car is...

man next door came round one night to ask me for a drink i said i didn't anymore he said, 'that's what you think' a tendril curled around his leg as he got up to leave he said, 'a friend of yours was here but we all call him steve' clean steve clean s...

Napoleon Wore a black hat Et lots of chicken And conquered half Europe Napoleon Was caught by the British Imprisoned on Elba He died on the phone Chamberlain Came crawling from Munich With one piece of paper He waved at the camera Peace in our tim...

They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in...

That's what happens accidentally when you're in the mood For a bit of nothing much or even just some food That's what happened every day between "you say" and between "you do" That's what happens every second to you That's what happens unintentionally whe...

Egyptian cream, she loves to smear She loves to smear it everywhere On her face and on her hands 'Til she feels like she's a man And when the change comes and the hair Grows all over her skin She's a natural, she's part of The body she's in In the Sa...

don't wait up any longer i'm not coming home you know you're always stronger when you're on you're own you said the sweetest things that's what you said here's a relationship with a gun to its head i'm the executioner of love our love has been found g...

Look at the cloud above the bus stop It's in the shape of you and I Swarming around us in an ever-shifting circle In the sky Look at me down there on the viaduct Covered in grease and lime and scales Murmuring, "Thank you, thank you," to the Romsey grav...

linda ryan in the sky i've seen her laughing but i've never seen her cry she took a fireman it was a half empty flight he brought his hose and everything just turned out right i'm just watching german leather a german tongue lapping pleasure when h...

There's a house burning down On the radio, but We're in luck, we don't mind We're as far as I can tell Everyone worries so much About themselves There's nothing happening to you That means anything at all There's a plane crashing down On the studio,...

There's a justice in this world And I know just what she's called She's called Elaine There's a dead man in your heart And he takes up too much room And I know just what he's called He's called Steve There's a farmer in the clouds And he's sowing gol...

Furry green eye In a furry green hole It's a furry green atom bowl Furry green eye In a furry green bowl It's a furry green atom bowl Spread-dud-dust, spread-dud-dust Spread-dud-dust in a reaching way As the dead bug flares, dead bug flares Dead bug f...

Glass is all we're really made of and Glass is all we'll ever be Nothing there to be afraid of, We're both transparent, can't you see? Glass is rising all around us, It shines and shines into the air When somebody thinks they've found us, Turn sideways...

seems like you were in a glass hotel seems like, seems like seems like there was someone else as well seems like, it seems seems like you were in your glass hotel seems like, seems like it seems like everything was going well it seems like a dream well...

I can't understand, She let go of my hand An' left me here facing the wall. I'd sure like t' know Why she did go, But I can't get close t' her at all. Though we kissed through the wild blazing nighttime, She said she would never forget. But now mornin's clear,...

I feel beautiful Because you love me I water the tomatoes and I think of you No one's ever watered me the way you do I feel beautiful Because you love me I feel like a creature that is sleekly groomed Not some poisoned soul that is alone and...

I often dream of trains when I'm alone I ride on them into another zone I dream of them constantly Heading for paradise, or Basingstoke or Reading I often dream of trains when I'm awake They ride along beside a frozen lake And there in the buffet car I...

I saw Nick Drake At the corner of time and motion I caught his eye and he caught mine I said, "You're tall," He said, "No taller than tommorow's oceans," I saw Nick Drake And he was fine. And we're in bloom. I saw Nick Drake As we were carrying the...

I something you As the nights get older I something you As if you couldn't see In the best years of my life At least I haven't got a wife I something you You whatnot me I something you As the dead things moulder In Leicester Square That's the pla...

I used to say I love you It wasn't really true I wanted to believe it And now I almost do I used to say I love you I said it as a threat Or maybe as a promise To see what I could get But my heart doesn't break anymore But my heart doesn't ache anymor...

If you were a priest I would wait at least Up unto confession time And crawl into your box Breathing like a fox Hunting for obsession time and I've thrown a lot of time away To be with you So please don't look away your eyes If you were a nun I woul...

Well, I ride on a mailtrain, baby, Can't buy a thrill. Well, I've been up all night, baby, Leanin' on the window sill. Well, if I die On top of the hill And if I don't make it, You know my baby will. Don't the moon look good, mama, Shinin' through the trees?...

You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last. But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast. Yonder stands your orphan with his gun, Crying like a fire in the sun. Look out the saints are comin' through And it's all over now, Baby Blue....

When you're lost in the rain in Juarez And it's Eastertime too And your gravity fails And negativity don't pull you through Don't put on any airs When you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue They got some hungry women there And they really make a mess outa you Now i...

Here is a knife Here is a pointy daggery knife Here is a knife And it's pointing to you Here is a life Here is a tender trembling life Herre is a life And it's quivering under you Here is a dream Here is a sweet and terrible dream Here is a dream An...

Once upon a time you dressed so fine You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you? People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall" You thought they were all kiddin' you You used to laugh about Everybody that was hangin' out Now you don't talk so...

you know i used to call my baby up and we'd get real close just like the telephone was a sofa and our thoughts would mingle and we'd leave our minds wide open like a big window in the evening air and we'd say, 'hey baby, come on in and help yourself to...

Is this love? Is this love? Is this love? Lost Madonna of the Wasps I wonder where we crossed I wonder why she lost me Lost Madonna of the Wasps She's dying in the frost I wonder what she cost me Is this love? Gone Madonna of the swans She waves...

My wife lies down in a chair And peels a pear I know she's there I'm making coffee for two Just me and you But I come back in with coffee for three Coffee for three? My dead wife sits in a chair Combing her hair I know she's there She wanders off to...

Shadows are falling and I’ve been here all day It’s too hot to sleep, time is running away Feel like my soul has turned into steel I’ve still got the scars that the sun didn’t heal There’s not even room enough to be anywhere It’s not dark yet, but it’s ge...

Did you ever hover in the distance? Did you ever swoop down from the sky To the bright green rocks All draped with seaweed And the deep blue ocean rolling by? Maybe I will find today Maybe I will lose tomorrow Gonna rock on to the oceanside Did you e...

In the tower, the lover sighs "Good sir knight, please take my eyes I've used them." "Doctor, Doctor, I'm on fire!" "Oh, I'm sad to hear that, squire We're closing." She snuffs you out like silk And pours you out like milk But just before the dawn appea...

Down the street the dogs are barkin' And the day is a-gettin' dark As the night comes in a-fallin' The dogs'll lose their bark An' the silent night will shatter From the sounds inside my minds For I'm one too many mornings And a thousand miles behind. From th...

people get what they deserve time is round and space is curved honey, have you got the nerve to be queen elvis? see that man who mows his lawn he'll hang in drag before the dawn some are made and some are born to be queen elvis it could break your moth...

i'm on a raining twilight coast sending out postcards to the one i love and the rain falls, up from the ground no one sees it, 'cos there's no one around just one thing baby, you forgot my heart just one thing baby, you forgot my heart and i remember whe...

It's a Raymond Chandler Evening At the end of someone's day And I'm standing in my pocket And I'm slowly turning grey I remember what I told you But I can't remember why And the yellow leaves are falling In a spiral from the sky There's a body on the...

You don't have to go anywhere You don't have to see anyone All you gotta do in this world Is ride All you gotta do is ride It's the end of a long, hard decade And before the next long, hard decade By the end of which a billion creatures yet unborn Wil...

every day the satellite seems to be the door of someone's reach every day the satellite seems a little further on the beach satellites and stags i'm growing betsy in a bag and she don't mind as long as things are round every day the satellite jerky li...

Serpent at the gates of wisdom Curling 'round a tree With your eyes so dark and empty Looking straight through me How did you get so unwinding? Do you know my sins? When you're so close to the answer Why don't you go in? Serpent at the gates of wisdom...

I used to ring you And put down the phone Once wore a hole in your dress Even tried voodoo Right outside your home But these days I just couldn't care less She doesn't exist anymore She doesn't exist anymore I let her go like the fool that I was Tho...

I see the birdies in the trees I see the fishes in the seas And perching on the garden wall I see the man that made it all I see the sand, I see the stones I see right through into your bones Your skeleton can dance all night And caper 'neath the swayin...

So you think you're in love Yes, you probably are But you wanna be straight about it Oh, you wanna be straight about it now So you think you're in love Yes, you probably are But you wanna be straight about it Oh, you wanna be straight about it now Ca...

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl So I could wreck myself in the shower Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl So I could wreck myself in the shower Been on my own so long I can't tell right from wrong Bloody red bats squelching awful Foaming mutilati...

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One, two What? Three four! Superman, superman, crunchy little superman Found you in a Corn Flakes box Nourished you in privacy Touched the parts you couldn't reach You improved immediately She's a squeaking head on a pleasure box And the boys don't u...

Sweet ghost of light When you appear You fall around me Everywhere I see your face As you pass by As fragile As a dragonfly You jab me in The kidneys like A compass Or an iron spike But I can't help Believing you Because I love The things you do...

Swirling takes up all my time Makes me know that I'm Above you Swirling, curling up in smoke It started as a joke, but Love you Moss Suspended on a grave And growing in a cave Where I can carve your name Love you Swirling occupies my life And i...

Ted, Woody and Junior Stand in the bath together And cover each other with soap Cover each other with soap Ted, Woody and Junior Stand in the frosty garden They can feel their sinews harden So they cover each other with leaves Cover each other with le...

Something is crawling Yes it's crawling Out of a dark place Into a light place Something is spawning Yes it's spawning Out of a damp place Into a dry place Something is swarming Yes it's swarming Out of a flaky place Into a scented place I see the...

Yesterday it seemed so cool and everything was fabulous Built of brick and made for an eternity Give an inch and take an inch and what you've got is where you were The universe is based on sullen entropy It falls apart as it goes on Yesterday I saw the D...

He came bursting out of nowhere Like a spear into the sky And he cast his light on everything It was like he'd never die And he landed right on target But the target rolled away And it left him pointing nowhere You could hear the children say "He's t...

I'm the man with the lightbulb head I turn myself on in the dark I'm the man with the lightbulb head I turn myself on for a lark And how's about you, my pretty one? Do you still roll and dream of bees? How's about you, my pretty one? Do you still dream...

This could be the day I've waited for all my life And it's coming true This could be the day I've waited for all my life And it looks like you Bells of fire hissing through The dark and tropical night, thrown by Nubian slaves This could be the night I'v...

Don't wanna lose it Don't wanna lose your love Don't wanna lose this Don't wanna lose your love Something in you that just Isn't in anyone else Something in you that just Isn't in anyone else Something in you that just Isn't in anyone else This is...

Trams of old London Taking my baby into the past in it Trams of old London blow my mind Ludgate, Fenchurch, Highgate Hill Rolling slowly up there still, uh-huh Waterloo and Clerkenwell Out to Aldgate East as well, uh-huh On a clear night you can see Wh...

on the horizon of the gulls and plovers she saw the outline of transparent lovers in a hotel room underneath the covers who should i see but the transparent lovers why is she built that way i soon discovered try to embrace her your transparent lover try...

Every night I vibrate internally That's my form of prayer And the angels signal me "Come over here, mister Stretch out your glove..." You've got to nail it down You got to nail it down I got to nail it down That ultra unbelievable love Every morning...

Uncorrected personality traits That seem whimsical in a child May prove to be ugly in a fully-grown adult. Lack of involvement with the father or Overinvolvement with the mother Can result in lack of ability to relate to sexual peers And in homosexual l...

Oh the veins of her Majesty the Queen They're so regal and serene How I'd love to say I'd been Down the veins of her Majesty the Queen Tunnel down their beauteous sheen And tell everything I'd seen Oh the Queen (Oh yes the Queen) And her cellar full of...

Cross-legged on the bed She gazed across the town Her shadow climbed the wall Until the sun went down She bought a china pug It lay there on the bed And in the paper bag She could just see its head She was vibrating She was vibrating She was vibrat...

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it Lights flicker from the opposite loft In this room the h...

People flocked like cattle to Seattle After Kurt Cobain And before him the rain Hendrix played guitar just like an animal That's trapped inside a cage And one day he escaped Do you want to pay for this in cash? Viva Seattle Tacoma, viva viva Sea-Tac...

Are ya comin' baby? I know you're gonna give me All your love Looks like we're gonna Get it together this time Just step up those stairs, baby Love on ya baby, she a wafflehead The syrup drips across her hips And obviously, then I flips Love on ya,...

Son, there are mirrors here -- watch your performing little whales Or snip your harness off and take another walk around the bay The way the English say: "We only mustn't grumble in the end," A needle in your back, an arrow in your heart, you smile Is you...

You might have been a villain With a capital V You might have had a plane to catch And left your family (Chorus) It doesn't matter what you was It's what you is And what you is Is what you are You might have been a midwife Trying to help some...

One by one by one we saw the stars One by one by one they closed the bars And one by one we all went back to Mars From Winchester One by one the evening shadows fell One by one by one we heard the bell And I remember more than I can tell From Wincheste...

It's the darkest time of year Crystal branches everywhere As the colours drain away You alone are far away Leaves of frost upon the trees Lovers falling on their knees Curtains parting in the night Let me in your sweet delight Where the garden used t...

I have seen the sleeping knights of Jesus gazing out across the open sea I have seen the sleeping knights of Jesus and they look extremely tired to me Dying of starvation in the gutter that is all the future holds for me or alcoholic poisoning in the t...