Somebody to Break Your Heart Releases Gigs Lyrics Comments

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Robyn Hitchcock
According to our records, Robyn has played this song 3 times, most recently at Robyn and Emma's house on January 12, 2022. He first performed it at Teatro del Arte on April 28, 2015, 6 years and 8 months earlier.

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Notes from Robyn on Patreon in 2021
I wrote SOMEBODY TO BREAK YOUR HEART in Joe Boyd’s flat in London. Joe had gone away for a while, and I was there, sitting at a table, eight years ago now. He was due to produce my upcoming album that autumn (which he did, with Jerry Boys engineering) and I was assembling material for it. The album we came up with was deliciously sparse - no double-tracking, no drums: only the essential ingredients, beautifully recorded by Jerry. But listening to these demos, they’re sparser still - even the lyrics haven’t fully congealed yet. Production serves a song up to you, but it can also distance it from you. For all its flaws, the original version is often the most intimate.

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True love
Is wasted on you
Skeletons lounge in the zoo
Look at you, your lips have come apart
You need somebody to break your heart

She turned up
In a bus from Madrid
And her skeleton was totally hid
Her attitude it pierced you like a dart
You need somebody to break your heart

She isn't the reliable kind
She's come to drive you out of your mind
From your mind is where you must depart
You need somebody to break your heart
Yes, you need somebody to break your heart

A break your heart
And tear your mind to pieces every day
A break your heart
And throw whatever's left of you away

She doesn't love you
She doesn't care
She reminds you of what isn't there
And what has never been there from the start
You need somebody to break your heart
You need somebody to break your heart
Yeah, you need somebody to break your heart