Jesse Lyrics - Drift - Scott Walker

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