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Robyn Hitchcock
According to our records, Robyn has played this song 26 times, most recently at Claypath Delicatessen on August 19, 2023. He first performed it at The Drake Hotel on September 04, 2013, 9 years and 11 months earlier.

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Notes from Robyn on Patreon in 2020.
Two more songs from Charlie’s attic in Cardiff, in August 2013: demos for ‘The Man Upstairs’.

I wrote ‘Recalling The Truth’ feeling desolate that I might not see Emma again. We had only just met. She was based in Nashville and I was extricating myself from my life in London. Who knew that only 7 years later we’d both be in lockdown together in Tennessee with a pair of Scottish Folds? This version is a tad less somber than the one I recorded later that year with Joe Boyd.

I love outtakes: they have all the potential that finished, produced, tidy versions seem to lack. I see all my records as blueprints, really. Now with Patreon you can assemble an infinite number of my albums any way you want, and I could be sitting opposite you at a table, in need of a toothbrush. Like Bowie when all he could afford was instant coffee, and coming up with gems like ‘Quicksand’.

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Recalling the truth
The way that it seems
The way that it falls
Between you and your dreams
The way you said "yes"
As you followed me in
You been gone
So long

Recalling the truth
Now what could that be?
The truth can just change
Like the tide on the sea
When the river runs out
And the mountain grows still
You've been gone
So long

A kiss on the stairs
A heartbeat embraced
A kiss in the morning
On the side of your face
Recalling the truth
A window of bliss
That opens just once
For the price of a kiss
If the price is too high
Then to pay it's a sin
You've been gone
So long

You hide from yourself
But it’s tracking you down
It was me that was lost
And it's you that I've found
Recalling the truth
Whatever that was
It doesn't last long
Whatever does?
Do the men always end
Where the women begin?
You've been gone
So long
You've been gone
So long
You've been gone