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Insect Mother

Robyn Hitchcock
Track 38 on  While Thatcher Mauled Britain 
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Insect Mother Lyrics

Lift up your candle dress
Unweave your nylon spine
In velvet and in onions
You will soon be mine

I am your humble servant
Madam as you see
Tonight I am determined
You will lie along with me

You are an insect mother
With a black shiny head
That parts your cloak to open
Human you upon the bed

You are an insect mother
I your jammy son
And now we've found each other
There is nowhere else to run

Lift up your candle dress
Unweave your nylon spine
In velvet and in onions
You will soon be mine
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While Thatcher Mauled Britain (2007)
Robyn Hitchcock
  1. 1.
    She Reached for a Light
  2. 2.
    August Hair
  3. 3.
    Take Your Knife Out of My Back
  4. 4.
    Fiend Before the Shrine
  5. 5.
    Raymond Chandler Evening (demo)
  6. 6.
    Birdshead
  7. 7.
    Victorian Squid
  8. 8.
    You’ve Got
  9. 9.
    Captain Dry
  10. 10.
    Raining Twilight Coast (demo)
  11. 11.
    Point It At Gran
  12. 12.
    Vegetable Friend
  13. 13.
    Flesh Number 1
  14. 14.
    Surgery
  15. 15.
    I Got a Message for You
  16. 16.
    If I Could Look
  17. 18.
    Queen Elvis (demo)
  18. 19.
    Nothing
  19. 20.
    Stranded in the Future
  20. 21.
    Melting Arthur
  21. 22.
    The Abandoned Brain
  22. 25.
    September Cones
  23. 27.
    Dr Sticky (live)
  24. 29.
    Trash
  25. 30.
    The Pit of Souls (Country Version)
  26. 31.
    Mr. Deadly
  27. 32.
    Let There Be More Darkness
  28. 33.
    Listening to the Higsons
  29. 35.
    My Favourite Buildings (demo)
  30. 37.
    Sleeping Knights of Jesus (demo)
  31. 38.
    Insect Mother
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