Jesse - Scott Walker

Nose holes caked in black cocaine

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No one holds a match to your skin

No dupe

No chiming

A way off miles off

No needle through a glove

Famine is a tall tower

A building left in the night

Jesse are you listening?

It casts its ruins in shadows

Under Memphis moonlight

Jesse are you listening?

Six feet of foetus

Flung at sparrows in the sky

Put yourself in my shoes

A kiss, wet, muzzle

A clouded eye

No stars to flush it out

Famine is a tall tower

A building left in the night

Jesse are you listening?

It casts its ruins in shadows

Under Memphis moonlight

Jesse are you listening?

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In the dream

I am crawling around in my hands and knees

smoothing out the prairie

All the dents and the gouges

And the winds dying down

I lower my head

Press my ear to the prairie

Alive, I’m the only one

Left alive

I’m the only one

Left alive

I’m the only one

Left alive

Alive

I’m the only one

Left alive

I’m the only one

Left alive

I’m the only one

Left alive