NASA Clapping Releases Gigs Lyrics

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Author
Robyn Hitchcock
According to our records, Robyn has played this song 25 times, most recently at O2 Academy Islington on April 20, 2010. He first performed it at Largo on June 19, 1998, 11 years and 10 months earlier.
Title Artist Label Type Year
Jewels for Sophia Robyn Hitchcock Warner Brothers Album 1999
Circuit (4) Robyn Hitchcock QuickBand Album 1999
Venue Billed As City State Country Date
Largo Robyn Hitchcock Los Angeles California US 06/19/1998
Largo Robyn Hitchcock Los Angeles California US 06/20/1998
Aladdin Theater Robyn Hitchcock Portland Oregon US 06/25/1998
Crocodile Cafe Robyn Hitchcock Seattle Washington US 06/26/1998
Mercury Lounge Robyn Hitchcock New York New York US 11/20/1998
Southbank Centre - Queen Elizabeth Hall Robyn Hitchcock London England UK 11/30/1998
Estragon Robyn Hitchcock Bologna Italy 02/10/1999
ABC2 Robyn Hitchcock Glasgow Scotland UK 02/07/2009
O2 Academy Newcastle Robyn Hitchcock Newcastle upon Tyne England UK 02/08/2009
Brudenell Social Club Robyn Hitchcock Leeds England UK 02/10/2009
Union Chapel Robyn Hitchcock London England UK 02/12/2009
The Met Robyn Hitchcock Bury England UK 02/13/2009
South Hill Park Arts Centre Robyn Hitchcock Bracknell England UK 02/14/2009
Komedia Robyn Hitchcock Brighton England UK 02/16/2009
The Junction Robyn Hitchcock Cambridge England UK 02/17/2009
The Fleece Robyn Hitchcock Bristol England UK 02/18/2009
Piazza Sasdelli Robyn Hitchcock Casola Valsenio Italy 08/14/2009
O2 ABC Robyn Hitchcock Glasgow Scotland UK 04/08/2010
Club Academy Robyn Hitchcock Manchester England UK 04/11/2010
O2 Academy Liverpool Robyn Hitchcock Liverpool England UK 04/12/2010
Carling Academy Oxford Robyn Hitchcock Oxford England UK 04/14/2010
The Fleece Robyn Hitchcock Bristol England UK 04/16/2010
O2 Academy Birmingham Robyn Hitchcock Birmingham England UK 04/18/2010
Komedia Robyn Hitchcock Brighton England UK 04/19/2010
O2 Academy Islington Robyn Hitchcock London England UK 04/20/2010

Lyrics

Who's gone and been a greedy boy?  Me!
I've gone and eaten what I love -- You!
I've stuffed the rats' tails in the black slot provided in the letterbox

Buzz Aldrin took me by the arm
And said one day that I'd be rich
I think he meant that I was gonna be your lover in his lifetime

And I thought I heard, I thought I heard NASA clapping
And I thought I heard, I thought I heard NASA clapping

There'll be a golf course on the moon
And we can sleep in lava tubes
And we can bask in solar winds
And lunar flares will do you nicely (nicely)

And there'll be cows and there'll be jails
And sewage to comfort the vegetables
As we contaminate the sky the moon becomes a shrieking skull

But I thought I heard, I thought I heard NASA clapping
I thought I heard, I thought I heard NASA clapping

The universe is made of bees
And they're all buzzing 'round your chart
If you would penetrate the bees, you've got to number them politely
Oh, yes

And I thought I heard, I thought I heard NASA clapping
I thought I heard, I thought I heard NASA clapping
I thought I heard, I thought I heard NASA clapping

Buzz buzz