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Robyn Hitchcock – Mad Shelley's Letterbox (2017) | Track profile | Dork

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Mad Shelley's Letterbox

Release date: 21st April 2017

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About This Track

"Mad Shelley's Letterbox" is a track by Robyn Hitchcock, from the album Robyn Hitchcock, released 21st April 2017. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Robyn Hitchcock

Robyn Hitchcock

Lyrics

Mad Shelley's Letterbox

Time is written on your face

And the cold white arms of memory embrace you

Love is all we lay to waste

Now it’s only lips of loneliness that taste you

Oh god you were beautiful

Oh god you were beautiful

Oh god...

Mad Shelley’s letterbox is full of birthday cards

Me, I never left the room

The lightbulb that shone down on me was gloomy

I could read you by the moon

The way you looked at me I thought you knew me

Oh god you were beautiful

Oh god you were beautiful

Oh god...

Mad Shelley’s letterbox is full of birthday cards

Mad Shelley’s letterbox is full of birthday cards

(Special delivery from mad Shelley)

What could anybody say?

Except in hindsight this was bound to happen

When two souls collide this way

There’s no compartment they can find a map in

I don’t know what your mind is thinking

Your mind’s not in your heart

Oh god you were beautiful

Oh god you were beautiful

Oh god...

Mad Shelley’s letterbox is full of birthday cards

Mad Shelley’s letterbox is full of birthday cards

Mad Shelley’s letterbox is full of birthday cards

Ahhhh

Ahhhh

Ahhhh

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—Virginia Woolf
—Detective Mindhorn
—I Want To Tell You About What I Want
—Sayonara Judge
—Raymond and the Wires
—Time Coast
—I Pray When I'm Drunk
—Mad Shelley's Letterbox
—Autumn Sunglasses
—1970 in Aspic

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