Robyn Hitchcock
Robyn Hitchcock - Sleeping With Your Devil Mask lyrics
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and perching on the garden wall I see the man that made it all I see the sand, I see the stones I see right through into your bones your skeleton can dance all night and caper beneath the swaying light sleeping with your devil mask is all I want to do and when I stop it means I'm through with you yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah so welcome Mr. Dennis Forbes who's brought along his perspect orbs and they are full of leather peas that rattle like a slow disease I've got to have a nasty thought because of all the stuff I bought from sultry Mr. Garrick Hobbs who does a load of useless jobs and in the chapel after lunch they used to cluster in a bunch sleeping with your devil mask is all I wanna do and when I stop it means I'm through with you yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah it's all compulsion, there's no choice my mother's second name is Joyce and once when she was very young she saw a cellist being hung thirteen men with long black heads all came and stood around her bed and when the morning light came in she saw their heads had all caved in their rotting brains fell to the floor and crawled away towards the door sleeping with your Devil mask is all I wanna do and when I stop it means I'm through with you yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah the organism rapes itself as it gives birth upon the shelf and over where the magpie struts a flower billows from my guts some things go in some things go out and next time back I'll come back a trout