Scoot Walker

[fox69]

"Bolivia '95"

"Bolivia '95"


Doctorie
give me a C
for this
babaloo

opiate me
with that
key doctor
babaloo

Please
Don't you
laugh doc

Manos arriba bien

With springs tickling
less than two feet
from your chin

Lemon Bloody Cola
Lemon Bloody Cola
Lemon Bloody Cola

gonna sponge you down
gonna sponge you down

Save the crops
and the bodies
from illness
from pestilence
hunger and war
I journey each
night like a Saint
to stand on this
straw floor
our uniforms
are loose
they look
flimsy night
black shadows
under the peaks
of our caps
shaved up to
Augost I still
hear them singing

babaloo
babaloo

Lemon Bloody Cola
Lemon Bloody Cola
Lemon Bloody Cola

gonna sponge you down
gonna sponge you down

Hey you
hey you

This isn't through

Opiate me
just for me
with my
babaloo

please don't
you laugh?

Manos arriba bien

again and again
again and again

Lemon Bloody Cola
Lemon Bloody Cola
Lemon Bloody Cola

gonna sponge you down
gonna sponge you down

I journey tonight
I'm a saint
to stand on this
straw floor

The tiles speckling
darker and darker

around my feet

 

[fox69]

"Bouncer See Bouncer..."

"Bouncer See Bouncer..."


Spared

I've been
spared

all the nickling
all the dimeing

Spared

I've been
spared

all the powder
on a trumpet
of Gabriel

Don't play
that song
for me

you won't
play that
song for
me

The riff
with the
swaddling
hair

Those sisters
who never
broke
us

The link
missing
at the
rear

and the
halo
halo of locust

Mama danced
four feet
away
Papa danced
four feet
away

in the rubbing
and fusing
the sealing
and pivoting

gotta dance
four feet
away

Spared

I've been
spared

All the handles
a body
could handle

Spared

I've been
spared

All the powder
on a Magdalene
Mary

Don't play
that song
for me

you won't
play that
song for
me

Those threads
you would
never wear

The sobbing
that just
might choke
us

Those tooth
fairies
wait till
they get
here

and the
halo
halo of locust

I love this season
without its cleft

left hook to
the right foot
right cross
to the left

I love this season
this very night

right cross to
the left foot
Left hook to
the right

Mama danced
four feet
away
Papa danced
four feet
away

in the rubbing
and fusing
the sealing
and pivoting

gotta dance
four feet
away

 

[fox69]

"Boy Child"

"Boy Child"


You'll lose your way
A boy child rides upon your back
Take him away
Through mirrors dark and blessed with cracks
Through forgotten courtyards
Where you used to search for youth
Old gets a new life
Reach out you can touch it's true
He's not a shadow of shadows
Like you, you see
Hearts hold on holding
If you stay one, you'll stay free

Go seek the lady
Who will give, not take away
Naked with stillness
On the edge of dawn she stays
Night starts to empty
That's when her song begins
She'll make you happy
She'll take you deep within
Window lights for wanderers
Hide hard in your swollen eyes
Echoes of laughter
Hide in the cities thighs

Love catch these fragments
Swirling through the winds of night
What can it cost
To give a boy child back his sight
Extensions through dimensions
Leave you feeling cold and lame
Boy child mustn't tremble
'cos he came without a name

 

[fox69]

"Brando"

"Brando"


(Dwellers on the bluff)

Ah, The Wide Missouri

Dwellers
on
the bluff

Across
The Wide Missouri

Never enough
No,
Never enough.

Whip-poor-will
Whip-poor-will

Scissoring high,
in the trees,

A beating
would do me
a world
of good
Sneakin by
Sneakin by

I am down
on my knees

A beating
would do me
a world
of good.

I took it
from
Saxon.

I took it
from
Dad.

From
Fat
Johnny Friendly.

From
3 vigilantes.

I took it
for
Wild One
And then
for
my sin

I took it
from
Lizbeth
again
and
again.

Ah, The Wide Missouri

Dwellers
on
the bluff

Across
The Wide Missouri

Never enough
No,
Never enough.

Whip-poor-will
Whip-poor-will

Scissoring high,
in the trees,

A beating
would do me
a world
of good

Sneakin by
Sneakin by

I am down
on my knees

A beating
would do me
a world
of good.

 

[fox69]

"Butterfly"

"Butterfly"


There's a butterfly circling the beach
Searching the rocks where you are
He chooses your hair, and that's where he belongs
For he's lost like a star
Head down, reluctant and warm
You give your thoughts to the sea
Dark rivers your eyes belong to no-one
Like a star
Like a butterfly

 

[fox69]

"Buzzers"

"Buzzers"


"Milosevic couldn't care less if Bosnia was recognized" a laughing Dr. Karadzic later told a television interviewer. He said, "Caligula proclaimed his horse senator but the horse never took his seat."

Polish the fork and stick the fork in him
Polish the fork and stick the fork in him
Shinier still and stick the fork in him
He's done boys
he's done boys
Where will you sleep my stomach
My second stomach through the trees
Handicapped
Buzzing out on the steppes
Spooking yourself in the breeze
Somebody dies
Somebody don't shave
Ruminating the slimy stars
Polish the fork and stick the fork in him
Kad Tad -- Kad Tad -- Kad Tad
Polish it more and stick the fork in him
Kad Tad -- Kad Tad -- Kad Tad
Shinier still and stick the fork in him
He's done boys
He's done boys
Faces of the grass go lenghtening (oor)
The lengthening faces through the ice and sun (ooor)
Faces lengthen go lengthening faces
Into lengthening faces from the branch to the grass
With buried heads they stand in full view
Eyes sliding of the faces up and up
Slide up the faces and up the sun
And up the faces go lengthening faces
Eyes are sliding above the tall and peaceful grass
Polish the fork and stick the fork in him
Kad Tad -- Kad Tad -- Kad Tad
Polish the fork and stick the fork in him
Kad Tad -- Kad Tad -- Kad Tad
Shinier still and stick the fork in him
He's done boys
He's done boys

 

[fox69]

"Clara"

"Clara"


Birds
Birds
This is not a cornhusk doll
Dipped in blood in the moonlight
Like what happen in America
This is us
Our eyesides snagged
Dipped in mob in the daylight
Like what happen in America
The breasts are still heavy
The legs long and straight
The upper lip remains short
The teeth are too small
The eyeside is green
The hair long and black
Still coming through
Still coming through
She knows this room
She can navigate it in the dark
She entered the Palazzo at night by a side door
To ascend to a lift in the upper floor
She lies on the bed
Looking up not yet seeing
The signs of the zodiac painted in gold
On the blue vaulted ceiling
His enormous eyes as he arrives
Coming nearer in the surrounding darkness
His strange beliefs about the moon
Its influence upon men of affairs
The danger of its cold light on your face
While you were sleeping
She'll eclipse it with her head
Stroke him 'til he sleeps
Until he has nothing to do among men of affairs
Sometime before dawn
Her bare feet cross the floor
She gazes from the window
At the fountain in the courtyard
Sometimes I feel like a swallow
A swallow which by some mistake
Has gotten into an attic
And knocks its head against the walls in terror
This is not a rabbit skinned
With a body of silver
Like what happen in America
This is not a terrapin
With its shell torn away
Like what happen in America
The breasts are still heavy
The legs long and straight
The upper lip remains short
The teeth are too small
The eyeside is green
The hair long and black
Still coming through
Still coming through
The mood soon changed
In the clear morning air
A man came up towards the body
And poked it with a stick
It rocked swiftly
And twisted around at the end of the rope
Finer than a hair from every side
Finer than a hair
Birds
Birds
This is just a cornhusk doll
Dipped in blood in the moonlight
This is just a cornhusk doll
This morning in my room
A little swallow was trapped
It flew around desperately
Until it fell exhausted on my bed
I picked it up
So as not to frighten it
I opened the window
Then I opened my hand

 

[fox69]

"Come Next Spring"

"Come Next Spring"


Come Next Spring
When all the world is new
And fresh
And green
And fair
Then I'll come home
And I'll carry in my heart
Just one prayer
That I'll find room
Still waiting for my arms
We'll meet
We'll kiss
We'll cling
And then once more
Love will blossom as before
Come
Come on next spring

And then once more
Love will blossom as before
Come next
Next spring

Come next spring

 

[fox69]

"Come Saturday Morning"

"Come Saturday Morning"


Come Saturday Morning
I'm going away with my friend
Will Saturday spend more than half of the day?

Just I and my friend
We'll wander for miles
In our Saturday smiles
And then we'll move on
But we will remember
Long after Saturday's gone

Come Saturday morning
I'm going away with my friend
We'll wander for miles
In our Saturday smiles

Just I and my friend
Dressed up in our rings
And our Saturday things
And then we'll move on
But we will remember
Long after Saturday's gone

 

[fox69]

"Copenhagen"

"Copenhagen"


Hope for me, I hope for you,
We're snowdrops falling through the night.

We'll melt away before we land,
Two teardrops for somebody's hand.

Follow me into just one more Spring.

Copenhagen, you're the end,
Gone and made me a child again.
Warmed my feet beneath cold sheets,
Dyed my hair with your sunny streets.

Children aren't afraid to love
And laugh when life amuses them.

And our love is an antique song
For children's carousels