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Robyn Hitchcock : Spooked
2004

  1. Television
  2. Everybody Needs Love
  3. English Girl
  4. Demons And Fiends

  5. Sometimes A Blonde
  6. We're Gonna Live In The Trees
  7. Full Moon In My Soul
  8. Welcome To Earth
  9. Flanagan's Song

Television

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Bing a-bong a-bing bong, bing bong Bing a-bong a-bing bong, bing bong
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Television, say you love me Television, say you care Loneliness is my profession Show me those that are not there Television, murmur to me Deep inside my room tonight You're the devil's fishbowl, honey I undress before your light
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Your light Your light Television, open to me My remote is in my hand I can dim you to a red light Honey, try to understand I'm there So there Bing a-bong a-bing bong, bing bong Bing a-bong a-bing bong, bing bong Television, I'm so sorry If I turned you off back then I'm so small in your dimension My kid will look like you, I swear I swear Oh I swear Bing a-bong a-bing bong, bing bong Bing a-bong a-bing bong, bing bong Bing a-bong a-bing bong, bing bong See through me See through me

Everybody Needs Love

Some people are mad One listen and you can tell why they're sad Some people are lost They wake up covered in oil and permafrost But everybody needs love Some people are maimed They're not as worth it as the label on 'em claims But everybody needs love Yes, everybody needs love Some people won't mend They're angry and they wonder why they've got no friends No friends at all But everybody needs love Yes, everybody needs love (Here it comes!) Love... pa pa pa pa Love... pa pa pa pa Love... pa pa pa pa Love... Some people are straight Don't lean too hard on them or think they're a gate Some people are nice Lean even less hard on them and always take their advice But everybody needs love Yes, everybody needs love Yes, everybody needs love

English Girl

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Years ago in a silent world
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I fell in love with an English girl
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Her skin was clear and her mum wore pearls
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I fell in love with an English girl
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She asked me for an almond whirl
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I was obliged to the English girl
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When I found her one, she curled
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All round my neck, did the English girl |
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| But when the wrapper she unfurled "It's a little bit off," said the English girl Though disappointed, round she twirled Poise was a must for the English girl The sweet she binned, it was not hurled Slow motion for the English girl "How disappointing, wanton earl" Said the diamond mouth of the English girl "I hope for more," said the English girl |
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So haggard, and I don't mean Merle I wilted before the English girl And like a minx from Ronald Searle She flitted away, did the English girl Years ago in a silent world I fell in love with an English girl |
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Demons And Fiends

Steppin' off to higher glory All around is demons and fiends Ooh, ooh Movin' out towards the kingdom All I see is hobgoblins and ghouls Ooh, ooh Headin' up beyond salvation All I tread is of nostrils and skulls Ooh, ooh Gettin' out across the heavens All I see is fungus and bones Ooh, ooh Lookin' up, I saw the fury All around is tattered black sails Ooh, ooh In the hedge there's a rustlin' sound A man come out and he staggers around He grins and offers some of it to me So I close my eyes and dream a little harder Close my eyes and dream a little harder Close my eyes and dream a little harder of you

Sometimes A Blonde

And ghosts walk in the bodies of children With their own guns, proud to be on video Young enough to feel like the skin grows back, yeah And ghosts walk in the shadows of an obsolete scene Plum straw plum light-blue plum straw plum Ask for Colin and he'll eat you And time only comes around again At the end And ghosts walk in the ambulations of hound dogs Bonbons, cinemas, and matelots Make your number seven walk the wrong way round, yeah And they walk in the twenty-first century And you are gonna get yourself together now, aren't you I know you're a blonde sometimes I know you fade Heavenly nightshade Heavenly nightshade And ghosts walk in the fire of angels Honeycombs and principals, ocelots and meerkats Catch you looking stupid but you just don't care When your sights are on infinity, you don't fire blanks, no I know you're a blonde sometimes I know you fade You fade, and you're gone sometimes I met a shape-shifter I let her fade Heavenly nightshade Ooh, heavenly nightshade Ooh, heavenly nightshade It's where you came from

We're Gonna Live In The Trees

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Guess what, I've spoken to Norm
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We're gonna live in the trees
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Didier will be transformed
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We're gonna live in the trees
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We're gonna live in the trees I bring you a fat, juicy worm I bring you millipedes Open your beak and close your eyes We're gonna live in the trees We're gonna live in the trees Norm tells me you're ready to fly We're gonna live in the trees You're that much closer to the sky We're gonna live in the trees We're gonna live in the trees You either take off or you don't You can't fly by degrees But fly an inch and you'll fly a mile We're gonna live in the trees We're gonna live in the trees Now thanks to Norm there's a nest up there We're gonna live in the trees With air and air and air to spare We're gonna live in the trees We're gonna live in the trees Virginia Woolf had a troubled mind She was never at ease But you're my children, you'll be fine We're gonna live in the trees We're gonna live in the trees We're gonna live in the trees We're gonna live in the trees Guess what, I've spoken to Norm We're gonna live in the trees

Full Moon In My Soul

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The water wheel goes round and round
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Stick with me baby, you'll be glad that I'm the one you found
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I've got that full moon in my soul I want to see you now But down the telephone, it's me that's calling anyhow I've got that full moon in my soul Your skin is smooth, your eyes are closed You're breathing deeply, what you're thinking about no one knows I've got that full moon in my soul I love you madly The past is over and the present will be, sadly I've got that full moon in my soul |
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From the darkness inside you
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Comes the light that will guide you I'm out of here, I'm taking off You can have my cigarettes, and mister, you can have my cough I've got that full moon in my soul
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From the darkness inside you Comes the light that will guide you everywhere Osiris, transform us Take us where them sunny southern winds are gonna warm us
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I've got that full moon in my soul, oh yes
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I've got that full moon in my soul

Welcome To Earth

Welcome to Earth, home of the great women and men We are animals that have ideas Maybe cats and ravens have ideas too, but they keep them to themselves Travellers from the whole galaxy throng to our luscious planet With its evolution-friendly climate and nourishing minerals Take time to locate the exit nearest you Press one for Famine, two for Pestilence, three for Condoleezza, and four for Death Please note that Pestilence closes at six

Flanagan's Song

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All the young girls look like ravens
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As they flock around the pool
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And they peck at their reflection
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In the shadows of men's drool I could look out there forever Forever has no holes Through the windows of eternity You can glimpse the passing souls
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This party's over
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The bells are ringing themselves
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I'm going home She was standing on the table With a message on her skin I'm a look right in her eyes But I could not see in I have loved you from a distance Loved you from up close Like the tiny frog that breathes I can nestle in your cloak This party's over The bells are ringing themselves And I'm going home I was always in a hurry But I never knew what for Paranoia chased me out And then time just closed the door Now the party's over The drugs are taking themselves And I'm going home