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Artist: Robyn Hitchcock
Canonical path: /hitchcock-robyn/transparent-lover
Related lyric paths: 6
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Transparent Lover
Read Transparent Lover lyrics by Robyn Hitchcock on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Transparent Lover
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On the horizon of the gulls and plovers
She saw the outline of transparent lovers
In a hotel room underneath the covers
Who should I see but the transparent lovers
Why is she built that way I soon discovered
Try to embrace her your transparent lover
Try to belong to her you won't recover
See your reflected in your transparent lover
Gone lord, gone, gone
Fade boy, fade
Gone lord, gone, gone
Faintly above the cliffs they held each other
Wan as the angels, the transparent lovers
You're going to lose her like you lost your mother
But you'll remember your transparent lover
All men are killers or they're killers' brothers
I'm going to die for my transparent lover
My transparent lover
Gone lord, gone, gone
Fade boy, fade
Gone lord, gone, gone
Summery phantom as she fades she hovers
I'm going to find her my transparent lover
My transparent lover
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Robyn Hitchcock performs "Transparent Lover", and this lyric page sits inside the Robyn Hitchcock catalog on LyroVerse.
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