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Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl

Robyn Hitchcock
Track 2 on I Often Dream of Trains 
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Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl Lyrics

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl
So I could- urk! -myself in the shower
Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl
So I could- urk! -myself in the shower

Been on my own so long
I can't tell left from wrong
Bloody red bats squelching offal
Foaming mutilations in the kiss of death

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl
So I could- urk! -myself in the shower
Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl
So I could- urk! -myself in the shower

Been on my own all night
I can't tell left from right
Baby come back, give me fever
Cauterize this passion with a blood red kiss

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl
So I could- urk! -myself in the shower
Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl
So I could (stab) myself in the shower
Sometimes I wish I was a
So I could

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“I suppose I was imagining I was a man imagining I was a woman killed by a man pretending to be a woman. It’s a discreet form of sexual suicide" – Robyn Hitchcock, Rolling Stone 1995

Q&A: Robyn Hitchcock — Rolling Stone
Like his Rorschach-gone-awry music, Robyn Hitchcock speaks his mind but often lands in left field, yabbering. But it's nice yabbering -- eloquent and generally interesting.

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I Often Dream of Trains (1984)
Robyn Hitchcock
  1. 1.
    Nocturne (Prelude)
  2. 2.
    Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl
  3. 3.
    Cathedral
  4. 4.
    Uncorrected Personality Traits
  5. 5.
    Sounds Great When You’re Dead
  6. 6.
    Flavour of Night
  7. 7.
    Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus
  8. 8.
    This Could Be the Day
  9. 9.
    Trams of Old London
  10. 10.
    Furry Green Atom Bowl
  11. 11.
    Heart Full Of Leaves
  12. 12.
    Autumn Is Your Last Chance
  13. 13.
    I Often Dream of Trains
  14. 14.
    Nocturne (Demise)
  15. 15.
    Winter Love
  16. 16.
    The Bones in the Ground
  17. 17.
    My Favourite Buildings
  18. 18.
    I Used To Say I Love You
  19. 19.
    Chant / Aether
  20. 20.
    Heart Full Of Leaves (Alternate)
  21. 21.
    I Often Dream Of Trains (Demo)
  22. 22.
    Not Even a Nurse
  23. 23.
    Slow Chant / That’s Fantastic Mother Church
  24. 24.
    Traveller’s Fare
  25. Mellow Together
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