You and Oblivion Releases Gigs Lyrics Comments

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Author
Robyn Hitchcock
According to our records, Robyn has played this song 193 times, most recently at The Southgate House Revival-Sanctuary on March 01, 2025. He first performed it at Pub La Calle on January 07, 1995, 30 years and 1 month earlier.

Comments

After playing the song at the Aladdin Theater in 1999, Robyn dedicated the song to Rosemary Jean Rew (Kim's mum) and Raymond John Hitchcock - who, as Robyn notes, had the same initials. It's not known if Rosemary is the "ma" mentioned in the song.

Lyrics

All of the colors ran out
'Round mid-November-o
We was a-scuttle about
Do you remember-o
You left your radio on
With berries all over it
When all the music was gone
You were in mauve a bit

Something about you
You and oblivion
Something about you
You and oblivion

You held on tight to the rails
I held the other one
Seeking your personal grail
Just like your mother's one
Gliding past hedges and clocks
Off to infinity
I can remember your locks
And your virginity

Something about you
You and oblivion
Something about you
You and oblivion

Sitting alone by the tombs
Under the obelisk
Mixing up powders with brooms
You shoulda got a whisk
This is the month of the dead
Leaves on your Ouija board
Carry them 'round in your head
They've got free room and board, yeah

Right when the death train got your ma
Right when the death train got my pa
Let slip your hand on the platform
Said I must be going, yeah
"See you."--  "See you."

All of the colors ran out
'Round mid-November-o
We was a-scuttle about
Do your remember-o

Something about you
You and oblivion
Something about you
You and oblivion
You and oblivion
You and oblivion