Sounds Great When You're Dead
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Author: Robyn Hitchcock
Released on 9
records:
Gotta Let This Hen Out!, 2001 (DVD) Visionary VISDVD004
I Often Dream Of Trains, 1995 (CD) Sequel Records RSA CD 821
I Often Dream Of Trains, 1995 (CD) Rhino Records R2 71822
The Hooded One, 1988 (Vinyl LP) Feg You Records FEG 3-28-86
I Often Dream Of Trains, 1986 (Vinyl LP) Relativity Records 88561-8082-1
I Often Dream Of Trains, 1986 (CD) Midnight Music CHIME 00.05 CD
Gotta Let This Hen Out!, 1985 (Videotape) Jettisoundz JE 139N
Gotta Let This Hen Out!, 1985 (Videotape) Jettisoundz JE 139
I Often Dream Of Trains, 1984 (Vinyl LP) Midnight Music CHIME 00.05 S
Lyrics:
Your mother is a journalist
Your father is a creep
They make it in your bedroom
When they think you're fast asleep
The scenes that they're enacting now
Beside your little bed
Are never in you consciousness
But always in your head
Baby, it might sound dodgy now
But it sounds great when you're dead
It sounds great when you're
Your sister is a butterfly
Your brother is a drunk
You gaze at him reclining in
Formaldehyde: a trunk
He lives and breathes on systems
That nobody can supply
And you're immune to everything
Except the butterfly
Yeah
Baby, it might sound dodgy now
But it sounds great when you're dead
It sounds great when you're dead
Baby, you're incredible
I think that you're the most
I've searched around for everything
Like you from coast to coast
Your name, engraved in diamond
Is written in my heart
We're at our most together
When we're at our most apart
Baby, it might sound dodgy now
But it sounds great when you're dead
Baby, it might sound dodgy now
But baby, let me assure you
It sounds great when you're dead
The way their bodies integrate 5a
Beside your narrow bed 6a
Your brother's always drunk 13a
She draws a yellow circle 'round 14a
His body on a trunk 15a
He sinks down to the bottom and the fishes eat his eyes 16a
And you're immune to everything except for butterflies 17a
Your father is an alchemist, your mother is a creep 1b
Beside your feather bed 6b
Your sister is an embryo 12b
You chalk around his outline while 14b
He's sleeping in a trunk 15b
Your name, engraved in diamonds 28b
Baby, this might sound dodgy now 32b
[17 Feb 85]
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Known to have been
played live at 38 gigs:
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Ronnie Scott's (London, England UK), 4/21/1985 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Maxwell's (Hoboken, New Jersey US), 8/1/1985 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Irving Plaza (New York, New York US), 8/2/1985 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Jonathan Swift's (Boston, Massachusetts US), 8/3/1985 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Electric Screen Cinema (London, England UK), 9/6/1985 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: 9:30 Club (Washington, DC US), 11/9/1985 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Blind Pig (Ann Arbor, Michigan US), 11/13/1985 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: 7th Street Entry (Minneapolis, Minnesota US), 11/16/1985 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Ronnie Scott's (London, England UK), 2/2/1986 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: I-Beam (San Francisco, California US), 3/17/1986 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Berkeley Square (Berkeley, California US), 3/19/1986 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Starry Night (Portland, Oregon US), 3/21/1986 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: 1st Avenue (Minneapolis, Minnesota US), 3/26/1986 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: 9:30 Club (Washington, DC US), 3/28/1986 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Paradise Centre (Reading, England UK), 6/2/1986 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: The Ritz (New York, New York US), 11/1/1986 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Paradise (Boston, Massachusetts US), 11/2/1986 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Nectarine Ballroom (Ann Arbor, Michigan US), 11/10/1986 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: 9:30 Club (Washington, DC US), 11/13/1986 with Peter Buck (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Founder's Hall Haverford College (Haverford, Pennsylvania US), 11/15/1986 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: One Step Beyond (Santa Clara, California US), 11/18/1986 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: 1st Avenue (Minneapolis, Minnesota US), 11/23/1986 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Maxwell's (Hoboken, New Jersey US), 11/26/1986 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Tartan Bar (Leeds, England UK), 1/24/1987 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: MyWay (Piacenza, Italy), 2/10/1987 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Stereodrome (Bologna, Italy), 2/11/1987 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Stereodrome (Bologna, Italy), 2/12/1987 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock: McCabe's (Santa Monica, California US), 5/25/1990 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock: Great American Music Hall (San Francisco, California US), 5/30/1990 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock: 12 Bar Club (London, England UK), 5/24/1996 with Otis 'Horns' Fletcher on sax (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock: 12 Bar Club (London, England UK), 2/3/1998 with Kimberley Rew (Concert) w/Kimberley
Robyn Hitchcock: Largo (West Hollywood, California US), 6/18/1999 guesting with Jon Brion & co. (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock: Largo (West Hollywood, California US), 8/26/1999 and the Café Largo Bunch (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock: Two Bells (Seattle, Washington US), 9/4/1999 Grant Lee Phillips (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock: G2 (Glasgow, Scotland UK), 9/30/1999 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock's ROCK ARMADA: Cactus Café (Austin, Texas US), 10/24/1999 (Concert) [add Kimberley]
Robyn Hitchcock's ROCK ARMADA: Iron Horse (Northampton, Massachusetts US), 10/31/1999 (Concert)
Robyn Hitchcock: Largo (West Hollywood, California US), 2/19/2000 with Jon Brion and Friends (Concert)
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