Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl Lyrics

Lyric discussion by foreverdrone 

Cover art for Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl lyrics by Robyn Hitchcock

"wreck" is from the live version (on the Gotta Let This Hen Out! LP)

on the original studio track (from I Often Dream of Trains) it goes "so I could..." [Robyn makes a peculiar sort of self-muffling sound] "...myself in the shower."

the effect suggests he's refraining from singing what he's thinking.

he was wondering what it's like to have a clitoris. pulsing "massage" shower heads were becoming commonplace, at the time the song was written.

in contemporary interviews--referring to the all-acoustic recording, which required little collaboration--Robyn remarked on how you can get a "reality check" from fellow human beings. but when isolated, previously hidden peculiarities emerge:

Been on my own so long I can't tell right from wrong...