| Scott Walker – Jolson And Jones Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "For many centuries the exact content of curare remained a mystery to Western observers; not until 1800 did Alexander Von Humboldt witness and document the preparation of curare by the Indians from the Orinco River. In 1814, an explorer named Charles Waterton injected a donkey with curare. Within ten minutes, the donkey appeared dead. Waterton cut a small hole in her throat and inserted a pair of bellows, then pumped to inflate the lungs. The donkey held her head up and looked around. Waterton continued artificial respiration for two hours until the effects of curare had worn off. Curare was found to block the transmission of nerve impulses to muscle, including the diaphragm muscle, which controls breathing." | |
| Scott Walker – Buzzers Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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About Yugoslovian conflicts and the horrors of violence? "Steppes"- A dry forest, but not dry enough to be a desert. "Kad Tad": Croatian, it loosely means 'when thereupon' "my second stomach through the trees" "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 " - Perhaps he's describing the carnage of inflicted upon the human body from bombs |
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| Scott Walker – Psoriatic Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Bougie": a slender, flexible instrument introduced into passages of the body, esp. the urethra, for dilating, examining, medicating, etc. "Thimble Rigger": A person who controls the game of thimble rigging, in which he/she hides a small object underneath one of three nutshells, thimbles, or cups, then shuffles them about on a flat surface while spectators try to guess the final location of the object. "Ja-da ja-da ja-da ja-da jing jing jing": Possibly a reference to an old 1919 Arthur Fields song. He also was one of the few white artists to work with black artists of this time period. He also served in World War I. "Wrapped in blankets then in blankets Hear the germs pinging on the night wind Cross the west coast to the west coast to the west coast The angelus begins" - I think that this is referring to someone being in a trench in World War I. Although it could have multiple meanings, the reason I see this is the line "Hear the germs pinging on the night wind". Notice how germs could also mean 'Germans' in this situation, 'Pinging" meaning the sound of gunshots. |
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| Scott Walker – The Escape Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I feel like these two parts of the song "Rabbi crater keyed for action hits the marks I wish I was in Dixie Sleet switches silence to the shredding of larks" "Wind blown hair in a windowless room" is talking about suicide bombing Not sure what the link between obscure Kabbalah references and Donald Duck is though. I almost feel that the "What's up, Doc?" line is not accurate since that was something Bugs Bunny said, but I do think that the voice at the end is supposed to convey Donald Duck. "sticks in gullets" "shredding of larks" "A lifeline of knuckles waddles into the afternoon" Being persecuted by the Israel army? I'm absolutely clueless |
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