Born on the Wind Releases Gigs Lyrics

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Author
Robyn Hitchcock
According to our records, Robyn has played this song 6 times, most recently at Coolidge Corner Theater on March 01, 2010. He first performed it at WRSI on July 09, 2008, 1 year and 7 months earlier.
Title Artist Label Type Year
Sex, Food, Death... and Insects Robyn Hitchcock A&E Home Video Video 2008
Propellor Time Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Sartorial Records Album 2010
Venue Billed As City State Country Date
WRSI Robyn Hitchcock Northampton Massachusetts US 07/09/2008
Iron Horse Robyn Hitchcock Northampton Massachusetts US 07/09/2008
The Turning Point Robyn Hitchcock Piermont New York US 07/16/2008
World Café Live Robyn Hitchcock Philadelphia Pennsylvania US 07/18/2008
Research Vessel – Grigory Mikheev Cape Farewell Disko Bay Expedition Disko Bay Greenland 09/25/2008
Coolidge Corner Theater Robyn Hitchcock Brookline Massachusetts US 03/01/2010

Lyrics

Mira’s got a job tonight
Keeping someone up
Handing them their lemonade
In a sharkskin cup
Mira wants to leave the crowd
Sail to where things crack
Where steam and ice go hand in hand
And nobody comes back

Born on the wind
Born on the wind

Mira was an accident
That couldn’t be reversed
"Think of how you’d feel" she said
"If you could feel this cursed
I’m going where the streets are seas
And down beneath my keel
The seaweed flows through the ventilation shafts
And that’s the way I feel"

Born on the wind
Born on the wind
Born on the wind

"We live in a pornocracy" she said
"Where people fan their flames
Desire is your only judge
And god has many names
One of them is Mr. Spinks
And one of them is God"
Mira fishes from the rocks
For the da Vinci cod

Born on the wind
Born on the wind
Born on the wind
Born on the wind

(FedEx man knocks and enters)