The Afterlight Releases Gigs Lyrics

Details

Author
Robyn Hitchcock
Performances
25

Releases

Title Artist Label Type Year
Sex, Food, Death... and Tarantulas Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 Yep Roc Album 2007
Sex, Food, Death... and Insects Robyn Hitchcock A&E Home Video Video 2008
Propellor Time Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Sartorial Records Album 2010

Gigs

Billed As Venue City State Country Date
Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Loppen Copenhagen Denmark 07/04/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Rockefeller Music Hall Oslo Norway 07/06/2006
Robyn Hitchcock Daikanyama: Bob Dylan Summit Tokyo Japan 10/09/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 The Basement Sydney New South Wales Australia 10/18/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Sellersville Theater Sellersville Pennsylvania US 11/14/2006
Robyn Hitchcock Maxwell's Hoboken New Jersey US 11/19/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Crocodile Café Seattle Washington US 11/25/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 The Zodiac Oxford England UK 01/07/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Fleece and Firkin Bristol England UK 01/12/2007
Robyn Hitchcock KUT Austin Texas US 03/16/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Smith's Olde Bar Atlanta Georgia US 03/20/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 40 Watt Club Athens Georgia US 03/21/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Cat's Cradle Carrboro North Carolina US 03/23/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 World Café Live Philadelphia Pennsylvania US 03/26/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Knitting Factory New York New York US 03/28/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Iron Horse Northampton Massachusetts US 03/29/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 TT the Bear's Cambridge Massachusetts US 03/30/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Spaceland Los Angeles California US 04/12/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Handelsbeurs Gent Belgium 06/09/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Tivoli de Helling Utrecht Netherlands 06/11/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Debaser Stockholm Sweden 06/13/2007
Robyn Hitchcock Blend Bar Ridgewood New Jersey US 07/12/2008
Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift Robyn and Emma's house London England UK 09/25/2020
Robyn Hitchcock Robyn and Emma's house London England UK 08/18/2021
Robyn Hitchcock Robyn and Emma's house London England UK 12/28/2022

Lyrics

It’s a down beat, the beat comes down
And rides the Monarch out of town
The Monarch is a butterfly who’s built the same as you and I
He wears blue jeans with a wine belly
He’s secreting royal jelly
Which his consort loves to cook
And then they peer in the cooking book

I’m gonna see you in the afterlight
I’m gonna see you in the afterlight

Everyone is made of meat
They’re full of life and life is sweet
Sweet as honey to the bear
He'll tear you into bits of hair
And if they cut him open after
He has eaten all your laughter

I’m gonna see you in the afterlight
I’m gonna see you in the afterlight
I’m gonna see you in the afterlight

Hello tiny madam, can I comfort you tonight
When the priest has gone? Oh, right -

I’m gonna see you in the afterlife, a-hooo

Welcome to our living room
Where the iguanas loom
They gaze out at the giant leaves
Magnolias that brush the eaves
It’s always coming to an end
It’s always dark around the bend
But I will stay with you beyond
Everything that’s been and gone…

I’m gonna see you in the afterlight
I’m gonna see you in the afterlight
I’m gonna see you in the afterlight

Hello tiny madam, can I comfort you tonight?
With the tiny world so bright -

I’m gonna see you in the afterlight
I’m gonna see you in the afterlight
I’m gonna see you in the afterlight a-hoo
A-hooo