Scott Walker - The Old Man's Back Again / 1969

Scott Walker - The Old Man's Back Again / 1969 (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime


Versuri/text:

[Verse 1]
I' seen a hand, I' seen a vision
It was reaching through the clouds to risk a dream
The shadow crossed the sky
And it crushed it to the ground, just like a beast

[Chorus]
The old man's back again
The old man's back again

[Verse 2]
I seen a woman standing in the snow
She was silent as she watched them take her man
Teardrops burned her cheeks
For she'd thought she'd heard the shadow had left this land

[Chorus]
The old man's back again
The old man's back again

[Verse 3]
The crowds just gathered, their faces turned away
And they queue all day like dragons of disgust
Older women whispering
Wondering just what these young hot-heads want of us
And Andrei V. he cries, with eyes that ring like chimes
His anti-worlds go spinning through his head
He burns them in his dreams
For half-awake, they may as well be dead