A Skull, a Suitcase & a Long Red Bottle of Wine - Robyn Hitchcock

And in the evening when you fade away

The same thing happens every single day

'Cause when your dreams come true

They pretty soon decay

There’s nothing you can do to change your mind

You’re disappearing or you’re going blind

And when you’re gone there won’t be anything behind

Except a skull, a suitcase and a long red bottle of wine

A skull, a suitcase, and a long red bottle of wine

You’re disappearing in a purple fog

It’s a machine and you’re its faithful cog

You love your woman but you just don’t love her dog

Which means you get a skull, a suitcase

And a long red bottle of wine

A skull, a suitcase, and a long red bottle of wine

There you go putting up no resistance

You just wander off through the town

Lock yourself out and drown

But when you’re gone, does it make any difference

If there’s nobody else around?

The only way up is down

The giant sun sets red behind the haze

Like a balloon that has just lost it’s way

You never dreamed that stuff would get you in it’s sway

Give me a skull, a suitcase and a long red bottle of wine

Gimme a skull, a suitcase and a long red bottle of wine

Give me a skull, a suitcase, and a long red bottle of wine

Give me a skull, a suitcase, and a long red bottle of wine

Red bottle of wine, red bottle of wine

Red bottle of wine, red bottle of wine

Red bottle of wine, red bottle of wine

Red bottle of wine