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Artist/Band: Robyn Hitchcock
Lyrics for Song: Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus
Lyrics for Album: I Wanna Go Backwards [2007]



OK, one, two, three, four



I have seen the sleeping knights of Jesus

Gazing out across the open sea

I have seen the sleeping knights of Jesus

And they look extremely tired to me



Dying of starvation in the gutter

That is all the future holds for me

Or alcoholic poisoning in the toilet of my choice

That's all there is as far as I can see



Fried to death in seconds by the Russians

Or if you're lucky, just a sudden stroke

A lingering death from fallout

As your teeth and hair fall out

And certain death from cancer if you smoke



But I have seen the sleeping knights of Jesus

Gazing out across the open sea

I have seen the sleeping knights of Jesus

And they look extremely tired to me



Put your faith in God, He won't expect you

Put your faith in death because it's free

If you believe in nothing, honey

It believes in you

For God's sake, don't waste any faith on me



When He comes to judge us in His glory

Then we'll see how old a man can get

He must be feeling ancient up there

On the rim of space

Two thousand years and He ain't been back yet



But, I have seen the sleeping knights of Jesus

(Rub their eyes) Rub their eyes and gape at what they see

I have seen the sleeping knights of Jesus

(And it looks as though) And it looks as though they've noticed me

And it looks as though they've noticed me


Album Lyrics: I Wanna Go Backwards [2007]


Robyn Hitchcock
"I Wanna Go Backwards [2007]"


1. The Man Who Invented Himself
2. Do Policemen Sing?
3. The Lizard
4. Meat
5. I Watch the Cars
6. Out of the Picture
7. City of Shame
8. Love
9. Cynthia Mask
10. Queen Elvis
11. Flesh Cartoons
12. Executioner
13. Linctus House
14. Sweet Ghost of Light
15. Transparent Lover
16. Beautiful Girl
17. Raining Twilight Coast
18. Clean Steve
19. Agony of Pleasure
20. Glass Hotel
21. Satellite
22. Aquarium
23. Queen Elvis II
24. It Was the Night
25. Cathedral
26. Uncorrected Personality Traits
27. Sounds Great When You're Dead
28. Flavour of Night
29. Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus
30. Winter Love
31. The Bones in the Ground
32. My Favourite Buildings
33. I Used to Say I Love You
34. This Could Be the Day
35. Trams of Old London
36. Furry Green Atom Bowl
37. Autumn Is Your Last Chance
38. I Often Dream of Trains
39. All I Wanna Do Is Fall in Love
40. It's a Mystic Trip
41. She Reached for a Light
42. August Hair
43. Take Your Knife Out of My Back
44. Fiend Before the Shrine
45. Birdshead
46. Victorian Squid
47. You've Got
48. Captain Dry
49. Point It at Gran
50. Vegetable Friend
51. Surgery
52. I Got a Message for You
53. If I Could Look
54. Nothing
55. Stranded in the Future
56. The Abandoned Brain
57. September Cones
58. Trash
59. Let There Be More Darkness