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Robyn Hitchcock
Robyn has only performed this song once, at Robyn & Emma's house, on September 22, 2025.

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From Robyn on Patreon in 2025
Here’s a new song that I pretty much read off the autocue. It floated before my eyes as I sat with the guitar a couple of months ago, and all I had to do was sing it. I assume it’s a rewrite of some other country-type song, or a hybrid of several. If I wrote songs for other singers to cover, this would be one of them. It doesn’t feel like me at all, so I can’t see myself putting in on a record. I guess it’s a by-product of living in Nashville. It seems to be about delirious routine in accelerating times - something I’m sure folks can relate to across the board…

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It can take you forever
To climb this whole mountain
Climb this whole mountain
To shepherds delight
To a hole in the sky
That bleeds like a fountain
Everyone's counting
And nobody's right

It can take you forever
To swim this whole ocean
Swim this whole ocean
To a red setting sun
To a hamburger stand
On the sand by the ocean
Put your ham in the lotion
And you're having some fun
Are you having some fun?

I'm a working on Monday
Just to save it for Tuesday
You can build a new Wednesday
To keep your Thursday free
If you reach out to Friday
Tell him Saturday's hungry
Hungry for Sunday
But that's Monday for me

It took me forever
To get kinda nowhere
To get kind of nowhere
But I know where I am
In a green foreign land 
But there's places to go there
Faces I know there
And I'm holding your hand
Holding both of your hands

I'm a working on Monday
Just to save it for Tuesday
We can build a new Wednesday
To keep your Thursday free
If you reach out to Friday
Tell him Saturday's hungry
Hungry for Sunday
But that's Monday for me

Oh yeah
Monday for me