Emotional Hernia Gigs Lyrics Comments

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Robyn Hitchcock
Robyn has only performed this song once, at Largo, on April 02, 1999.

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Title suggested by the audience (the audience member said "Emotional Hernia", but Robyn sang about an "Emotional Relapse"). The requested song style was 'late night Cream'.

Lyrics

Darling
I feel so bad

Please darling
I feel like my Dad
I've had an emotional relapse
Now I'm a four year old boy
But four year old girls are much better
They're just four year old girls

Why does everyone want to be young?
'Cause they'll only get old later
Everybody who stands must eventually fall

Darling
I feel so good
Because, darling
I'm made out of wood

Why does everyone say that they want to be old?
What's so bad about dying?
Well, just ask the dead

This emotional relapse
Man, it always feels good
It's emotional relapse
And it always feels

Cut, just a minute
You know, Jon
And Grant, hey, you know?
You know how so often you get stuck between chords?
Spur of the moment your just going to say to yourself
"I gotta get from, from A back down to E again"
Well, just then I went via G and I don't feel so good about myself because of that
So could yawl suggest something else that I could 'a done?
(A to F to B)
Yep
To E?
But after B back to E?
(You could 'a also gone A, ______ to E)
C sharp minor!
D major!
B flat!
F!
B major!
Don't loose country tempo
E major!
F major!
C!
and...

I just had me an emotional relapse
But I let the other guys figure out which chords to play
I just had me one emotional relapse
And I just gotta say this
Fuckin' A