Lyrics Scott Walker

Scott Walker

Tar

Flat nose whistle goes up ahead

Up ahead on the El Greco grunt

God creates man and then animals

Bilge!

God creates animals and then man

Jackaroo in the slew

Let its tinnitustic needles sew back shadow

She holds a baby made of towels up ahead

Up ahead on the baleen bronchial

Jacob's offspring in Egypt totalled seventy

Hogwash!

Jacob's offspring in Egypt totalled seventy five.

Contritio/Attritio

Let the leashes strain sustain those jaw-joints surging

Aw-shucks, aw-gee

The Porter sticks with the Porter's dreams

Shoot to a wing-tip pawing the ground

I wouldn't trust him

Not to dance a drachma across his knuckles

Twenty-seven inches from heel to heel

Lardie, Lardie, Lardie

While every skin is raised

While every eye was grazed

Thrushy-tongue lolling up ahead

Up ahead on the sarcomere stump

The women came to the tomb at dawn

Booty chatter!

The women came when the sun had risen

Laps/Relapse

Let this throat's Colombian necktie choke that Franglais

Flat nose whistle goes up ahead

Up ahead on the Pilates punk

The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree

GTFO

The righteous shall perish and no man layeth it to heart

I swerved away into the dark

Forty-five inches from heel to heel

Forty-five inches from heel to heel

Forty-five inches from heel to heel

There but for the grace of God goes God.