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The Raging Muse

from Shufflemania! by Robyn Hitchcock

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Songs come to me alive and flickering, fresh from the lake of my subconscious. I’m a compulsive writer. “The Raging Muse” was written in Nashville in 2020. It began life as a sketchy home recording, just me and and my old Telecaster - the same guitar I played on ELEMENT OF LIGHT back in 1986 - this time around faithfully engineered by Tubby and Ringo. Once I had the bones of the song, I sent it to my friend Davey Lane in Melbourne, who fleshed it out with spiky lead guitar and then onto Charlie Francis in Cardiff, who added the melodramatic piano and bagpipes. The fish in the grass in this song are one of my many recurring dreams, I’m sure they’ll appear again soon.

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The raging muse got me locked up inside
The raging muse so owns me
The raging muse with her head open wide
My heavenly bride

I look at my feet
And there’s fish in the grass
The grass is so green
And the fish are alive
It’s getting to lunchtime
And the fish are all shimmering

They curl like numbers
In the bright green blades
Those fishes are feelings
Yeah those fishes are thoughts
And they never get caught

I look into my depths
And there’s fish in the grass
Under the glass
Those fishes will pass
This way and that
The cod and the sprat
Constellation of the fishes

I look in your eyes
And there’s fish in the glass
Swimming in bowls
Of perfect red eyes
It’s getting to teatime
And the fish are all hungry
And the fish are all shuddering

Ready to slither
Back into the pond
To ungrow their legs
And writhe on their fins
Like their ancestors did

Those fish in the grass
How slowly they pass
For your own sake
Never step on them

The raging muse got me locked up inside
The raging muse so owns me
The raging muse with her head open wide
My heavenly bride

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from Shufflemania!, released October 21, 2022

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Robyn Hitchcock London, UK

Robyn Hitchcock is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist.

After leading The Soft Boys in the late 1970s and releasing the influential Underwater Moonlight, Hitchcock launched a prolific solo career.

He lives in Nashville, TN with the singer-songwriter Emma Swift.
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