Brenda Bad Vibes Releases Gigs Lyrics Comments

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Robyn Hitchcock
According to our records, Robyn has played this song 3 times, most recently at Brewery Arts Center on January 25, 2020. He first performed it at Columbus Theatre on November 17, 2018, 1 year and 2 months earlier.

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Notes from Robyn on Patreon in 2020.
Songs often appear in my head like commercials or public safety announcements: they’re posted by my subconscious into my mouth and...I sing them. Brenda herself is no stranger to me - she can appear anywhere, any time at the snap of a dismal finger and a grim thumb. She manifested in this song around 2017 as the mood in Britain and the US darkened still further from the sombre anxiety that had gripped our guts the year before.

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Don't walk away
Don't see me cry
Look at all those people
Sitting down to die
Brenda bad vibes

There's a little house
By a tiny brook
Who will be the salmon
Thrashing on your hook
Brenda bad vibes

There's a little bird
Sitting on a egg
Who will break it to her
She's got scaly leg ?
Brenda bad vibes

Wha, wha, wha, wha, wha
Brenda bad vibes

There's a tiny flame
Flickers in the wind
Who will be the downfall
To distinguished men
Brenda bad vibes

1968
Was a crucial year
You just kept on turning ?
And you wound up here
Brenda bad vibes

She's the kind of person
You don't ever want to be
When you're turning into her
You say "that's not, that's not me"
"That's not me"

Wha, wha, wha, wha, wha
Brenda bad vibes