The Asking Tree: A Robyn Hitchcock Catalog

Queen of Eyes Releases Gigs Lyrics

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Author: Robyn Hitchcock

According to our records, Robyn has played this song 765 times, most recently at Knuckleheads on March 22, 2025. He first performed it at Hope & Anchor on March 28, 1980, 44 years and 11 months earlier.

Releases

Title	Artist	Label	Type	Year
Underwater Moonlight	The Soft Boys	Armageddon Records	Album	1980
A Soft Boy No More	Robyn Hitchcock	Blue Lake Records	Bootleg	1988
The Queen Of Eyes	Nigel and the Crosses	Bucketfull of Brains	Other	1990
The Soft Boys 1976-1981	The Soft Boys	Rykodisc	Album	1993
Stand Back, Dennis!	Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians		Bootleg	1994
Where Are The Prawns?	The Soft Boys		Fan Club release	1994
Maxwell's, New York, 1980	The Soft Boys	Handmade Productions	Bootleg	1998
Inflatable Hitchcock	Robyn Hitchcock	[none listed]	Bootleg	2000
Inflatable Hitchcock 2	Robyn Hitchcock	[none listed]	Bootleg	2000
Sex, Food, Death... and Tarantulas	Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3	Yep Roc Records	EP	2007

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Gigs

Venue	Billed As	City	State	Country	Date
Hope & Anchor	The Soft Boys	London	England	UK	03/28/1980
The Africa Centre	The Soft Boys	London	England	UK	05/22/1980
The 80's	The Soft Boys	New York	New York	US	09/05/1980
Maxwell's	The Soft Boys	Hoboken	New Jersey	US	09/06/1980
Dingwalls	The Soft Boys	London	England	UK	12/07/1980
Onkel Pö	Robyn Hitchcock	Hamburg		Germany	02/17/1985
Ronnie Scott's	Robyn Hitchcock	London	England	UK	04/21/1985
Maxwell's	Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians	Hoboken	New Jersey	US	08/01/1985
Irving Plaza	Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians	New York	New York	US	08/02/1985
Jonathan Swift's	Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians	Cambridge	Massachusetts	US	08/03/1985

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Lyrics

Blinking on and off, it's the queen of eyes
With her carapace shell and her black lace thighs
I don't know why she never gets anywhere with you

Mucky the pig is out on a limb
He's looking for someone to investigate him
I don't know why he never gets anywhere with you

Here I am again, it's no surprise
Locked in orbit round the queen of eyes
All I ever got from her was lies

In this horrible age of abuse and decay
It's good to know that somebody's looking ok
I don't know why she never gets anywhere with you

Blinking on and off, it's the queen of eyes
With her carapace shell and her black lace thighs
I don't know why she never gets anywhere
I don't know why she never gets anywhere
I don't know why she never gets anywhere with you

<Alternates>
In this horrible age of decay and abuse     10a
It's good to know somebody's got an excuse  11a

I wish I was short, I wish I was long       10a
She only wishes you'd take her along        11a

I wish I was stoned, I wish I was straight  10a
She only wishes you'd jump on her plate     11a

I wish I was up, I wish I was down 10a
She only wishes she could throw you around 11a