Details

Author
Robyn Hitchcock
Performances
28

Releases

Title Artist Label Type Year
Luxor Robyn Hitchcock Editions PAF! Album 2003

Gigs

Billed As Venue City State Country Date
Robyn Hitchcock KCRW Santa Monica California US 04/26/2002
Robyn Hitchcock Largo Los Angeles California US 04/30/2002
Robyn Hitchcock Largo Los Angeles California US 11/07/2002
Robyn Hitchcock Criminal Records Atlanta Georgia US 10/10/2003
Robyn Hitchcock Bottom Line New York New York US 10/31/2003
Robyn Hitchcock Music Millennium Portland Oregon US 11/12/2003
Robyn Hitchcock Easy Street Records Seattle Washington US 11/14/2003
Robyn Hitchcock Largo Los Angeles California US 11/25/2003
Robyn Hitchcock Maxwell's Hoboken New Jersey US 01/09/2004
Robyn Hitchcock Shank Hall Milwaukee Wisconsin US 11/05/2004
Robyn Hitchcock Music Saves Cleveland Ohio US 11/08/2004
Robyn Hitchcock Southpaw New York New York US 11/13/2004
Robyn Hitchcock World Café Live Philadelphia Pennsylvania US 11/15/2004
Robyn Hitchcock Arts Center Norwich England UK 12/09/2004
Robyn Hitchcock Great American Music Hall San Francisco California US 03/03/2005
Robyn Hitchcock Blender Balcony @ The Ritz Austin Texas US 03/17/2005
Robyn Hitchcock Rams Head on Stage Annapolis Maryland US 03/22/2005
Robyn Hitchcock Schuba's Chicago Illinois US 03/31/2005
Robyn Hitchcock El Rey Theatre Los Angeles California US 04/11/2008
Robyn Hitchcock Iron Horse Northampton Massachusetts US 07/09/2008
Robyn Hitchcock Blend Bar Ridgewood New Jersey US 07/12/2008
Robyn Hitchcock Eddie's Attic Decatur Georgia US 11/01/2014
Robyn Hitchcock One Longfellow Square Portland Maine US 04/19/2019
Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift Robyn & Emma's house Nashville Tennessee US 08/28/2020
Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift Robyn and Emma's house London England UK 03/10/2021
Robyn Hitchcock Robyn and Emma's house London England UK 03/30/2022
Robyn Hitchcock Starline Social Club Oakland California US 05/22/2022
Robyn Hitchcock Robyn and Emma's house London England UK 02/15/2023

Lyrics

When I saw you on the market, standing by the phone
With your hair as dark as this, how could you be alone
All the ghosts in love with you, they craned their sorry necks
Like a Viennese machine that's just discovered sex

When I saw you on the bridge, you had to look away
If I thought to follow you, I'd just get in the way
Reaching for eternity, reaching for a chair
Reaching for the woman who is never even there, boys
Never even there

When I saw your fingers folded round your albatross
Staring through the kitchen wall at everything you've lost
Losing comes so easily when you acquire the taste
Life is long and life is lost and life is such a waste,  boys
Life is just a waste

See the wrinkles in my hand, I am the lizard's son
Waiting for the alchemist to touch me with the sun
When I saw your photograph, I knew we'd never meet
You were called Idonia, and I stayed in the street, boys
I stayed in the street

When I saw your eyes were closed, that was the best thing yet
Then you drove a caravan across this flimsy set
Crushed beneath your wheels still, my heart goes beating on
Beating for Idonia and everything she's done, boy
Everything she's done

When I saw your pharaoh coming, handsome gypsy lad
With his memory still wet from all the fun he had
Funny how your ceiling is somebody else's floor
Feeling for Idonia beside a market store, boys
Who won't be back no more