What Can You See If You Listen Very Quietly? Gigs Lyrics Comments

Improvised

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Author
Robyn Hitchcock
Robyn has only performed this song once, at Maxwell's, on October 18, 2000.
Venue Billed As City State Country Date
Maxwell's Grant Lee Hitchcock Hoboken New Jersey US 10/18/2000

Comments

Think this is an improvised song, as I don't think anyone would sit and write this!

Lyrics

What can you see if you listen very quietly?
There's nothing inside if you get up close
But if you listen hard you can hear it
Where is it?
It's inside you, listening quietly
It's inside you, listening quietly

What can you do with the bubble in your skull when you prick your skull with a bubble and you're just Walt Disney?
Left your head to posterity but not your body, Walt
Inside your dreams is a black and white mouse coming for you
Don't call me that fucking mouse, Walt
'Cause I'm down here and you are a severed head in a vault
And when you get out the dollar will not be worth anything
We'll just hit you with a bill for 5 million yen and cut your body up again
Don't call me that fucking mouse, Walt

La la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la

It's a world of kids
It's a world of kids
It's a world of kids
It's a small world after all
That's what you hear when you listen very quietly, Walt