Scoot Walker

[fox69]

"Jesse"

"Jesse"


Nose holes caked in black cocaine
Pow! Pow!
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?
Pow! Pow!
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

 

[fox69]

"Joe"

"Joe"


As old Joe sat a dyin'
The baby down the hall was cryin'
Somebody had a party goin' on
The fat boy you told tales to
Moved away the other day
To think with no goodbye
He could have gone
A postcard from Sun City
Was found layin' by your side
A kind of desert place
Where old folks dry away
You gazed out through the window
At the wonders of the sky
As if it were the first time every day

There ain't no-one left alive to call me Joe
You used to say
No-one left alive
To call me Joe.

You've been beyond the boundaries
Understood it all
And thought of nothing
The ultimate was simple to your eyes
Just watch the world make madness
As the youth cried their replies
An old man knows far better than to try.
They say towards the end
You hardly left your shabby room
Where once you loved to go
Walkin'
Thru' the day
Sit back and watch a spider
Weave your window
'Cross the moon
And meals on wheels
Laughed kindly
When you'd say

There ain't no-one left alive to call me Joe
To call me Joe
No-one left alive to call me Joe.

 

[fox69]

"Joe Hill"

"Joe Hill"


I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night
Alive as you or me
Says I: "But Joe, you're ten years dead"
"I never died", said he
"I never died", said he

"The copper bosses killed you, Joe
They shot you Joe", said I
"Takes more than guns to kill a man"
Says Joe: "I did not die"
Says Joe: "I did not die"

Standing there as big as life
And a-smiling with his eyes
Says Joe: "What they can never kill
Went on to organize
Went on to organize."

"From San Diego up to Maine,
In every mine an' mill
Where working men defend their rights,"
It say: "You'll find Joe Hill
It's there you'll find Joe Hill
It's there you'll find Joe
Joe Hill, Joe Hill"

 

[fox69]

"Jolson And Jones"

"Jolson And Jones"


As the grossness of spring lolls its head against the window
As the grossness of spring lolls its bloodshot head
Curare! Curare! Curare!
Brogue cries from the street
Curare! Curare!
As the grossness of spring rose
A tumor balloon to squeak against the window
With the grossness of spring staining into the walls
The chair had been shifted ever so slightly
Say five feet or two centimeters
The prints of my fingers dusted from doorknobs
A lamp had been dimmed
Some sawdust where a ring had been
Where nice girls were turned into whores
Gardens with fountains where peacocks had strutted
Where deaf children were born
The splendor of tigers turning to gold in the desert
Pale meadows of stranded pyramids
Sonny boy
such a sonny boy
There's a song in the air
Curare! Curare! Curare!
But the fair senorita don't seem to care
Curare! Curare! Curare!
As the grossness of spring lolls its head against the window
As the grossness of spring lolls its bloodshot head
I merely got up so slowly
Shuffled across the floor
Closed the door on the landing
Descending the stairs
Dipping into the street
The paralysed street
Brogue says "Good afternoon!"
I say "Good afternoon!"
"It's a lovely afternoon"
"Yes, it's a lovely afternoon"I
Into pockets unstitching so weighted with pins
Into eyes imploding on mazes of sins
The puddle beneath the cork
Bobbing on a mild chop that rolled in
Off the river Dix and the open water beyond
Brogue says
"I'LL PUNCH A DONKEY IN THE STREETS OF GALWAY"
Then me
"I'LL PUNCH A DONKEY IN THE STREETS OF GALWAY"
Brogue
"I'LL PUNCH A DONKEY IN THE STREETS OF GALWAY"
"I'LL PUNCH A DONKEY IN THE STREETS OF GALWAY"
Sonny boy
Such a sonny boy
In her voice, there's a flaw
Sonny boy
Such a sonny boy
E-e-aw and e-e-aw

 

[fox69]

"Just One Smile"

"Just One Smile"


Can't I cry a little bit?
There's nobody to notice it
Can't I cry if I want to?
No-one cared

Why can't I pretend
That you loved me again?
All I've had has been taken from me
Now I'm cryin' and my tears don't become me

Just one smile - the pain's forgiven
Just one kiss - the hurt's all gone
Just one smile to make my life worth living
A little dream to build my world upon

How I wish I could say
All the things that I wanna say
If some way you could see what's in my heart
I don't ask for much - a look, a smile, a touch
Try to forget, Lord knows I'm tryin'
But it's hard to forget when your whole world is dyin'

Just one smile - the pain's forgiven
Just one kiss - the hurt's all gone
Just one smile to make my life worth living
A little dream to build my world upon

One smile - all forgiven
One kiss - the hurt's all gone
Just one smile to make my life...

 

[fox69]

"Little Things (That Keep Us Together)"

"Little Things (That Keep Us Together)"


It's on days like these
When your brother falls
You can read it all in the Times
How a moving car
Stole a movie star
Little Things that keep us together
While the war's going on
It's on days like these
When your childhood cries
And you see it all on the news
Little children starve
Growing tired of born
Little things that keep us all close and warm
While the war's going on
Find a place you can hide
And take what you can
The time will arrive
When you need a friend
Stop looking at us
We're waving good-bye
There's a man
Shouting he's with me
When that morning comes
I can't wait to see
Just how high his eagle
On color screens
Is gonna fly
Going to fly
It's on nights like these
That your neighbor dies
'Cos he put a gun to his head
He was so alone
He had nothing left
Little things that call for a drink
That bury a soldier's death
It's on days like these
When your sister cries
And your brother falls from your hands
Jumbo jets can die
Killing 81
Little things that help us get by the why
Why the war's going on
Why the war's going on
Why the war is going on
why the war is going on
why the war's going on
why the war's going on

 

[fox69]

"Long About Now"

"Long About Now"


Long about now
He's heading home
Back from the rain
Burned to the ground

His ashes will rise black butterflies
Tapping at my window pane

He'll want to rest within my design
All the way to the end
Lighting my skies all up inside again

Dimming Summer

Long about now
He's headin' home
Drowning the games
That steel a man

Long about now
He'll shrug and sigh and need me again

 

[fox69]

"Loss Of Love"

"Loss Of Love"


Love is storm and wind, then tide
All the tears your heart can hold
But I look back after loss of love
And find the days were gone

I see only shattered skies
Not a ray of light to find
But I look back after loss of love
And sunlight blinds my mind

Songs were sung with words as young as May
But in the mist of summer, winter came
A chill blew out the flame

Now the words have haunted suns
Ring as clear as they did then
Still I look back after loss of love
And learn to love again

Songs were sung with words as young as May
But in the mist of summer, winter came
A chill blew out the flame

Now the words have haunted suns
Ring as clear as they did then
Still I look back after loss of love
And learn to love
Again...

 

[fox69]

"Low Down Freedom"

"Low Down Freedom"


Longhaired young girl, here beside me
Fittin' my body, warm my mind
Sleeping quiet, never knowin'
That tomorrow should be one more thing I'm gonna leave behind

Like them big wheels, I'll be rolling
Like them rivers, I'm gonna flow to sea
'Cause I'd rather leave here knowing
That I made a fool of love before I made a fool of me

Low down freedom, you done cost me
Everything I'd ever lose
You're as empty as my pockets
From the top of where you start down to the bottom of my shoes

Open highway, lonesome windblow
Tell me something I don't know
Wrap them woman's arms around me
Tell me why I'm gonna be where I don't really want to go

Low down freedom, you done cost me
Everything I'd ever lose
You're as empty as my pockets
And you're colder than the water that keeps runnin' down my shoes

 

[fox69]

"Lullaby"

"Lullaby"


Tonight
my assistant
will pass among
you

His cap will
be empty

Hey non-e
non-e

The most intimate
personal choices
and requests
central to your
personal dignity
will be sung

non-e
non-e

Why don't minstrels
go from house
to house
howling songs
the way they
used to?

Because

In vain I
bind another
foot

In vain and
now the other
foot

Because because

I lullaby
la la

you can tell

My sweet little
darling
My comfort and
joy

lullaby
la la

you can tell

In beauty surpassing
are princes of
Troy

Some are born
to it

you can tell

some are made
to do it

some allowed

When I

lullaby
la la

lullaby
la la

Fa la la
Fa la la

In ameri-
such a-
meri

Fa la la
Fa la la
Fa la la
Fa la la
Fa la la

In ameri-
such a-
meri

Fa la la
Fa la la
Fa la la

Tonight my assistant

will hear
the canals
of Mars

His cap will
be empty

non-e
non-e

The most intimate
personal choices
and requests
central to your
personal autonomy
will be sung

non-e
non-e

Why don't painters
paint their cloudy
spines
chiaroscuro
the way they
used to?

Because

In vain I
douse another lamp

Because because

I lullaby
la la

you can tell

My sweet little
darling
My comfort and
joy

I lullaby
la la

you can tell

In beauty
surpassing
are princes of
Troy

Some are born
to it

you can tell

some are made
to do it

some allowed

When I
lullaby
la la

lullaby
la la

Tonight
my assistant

will pass
among you

His cap will
be empty

The most intimate
personal choices
and requests
central to your
personal dignity

will be sung.