Old Man's Back Again (dedicated To The Neo Stalinist Regime) Lyrics - Scott 4 - Scott Walker

I seen a hand, I seen a vision 

It was reaching through the clouds, To risk a dream 

A shadow cross the sky 

And it crushed into the ground, Just like a beast 

The old man's back again 

The old man's back again 

I seen a woman, standing in the snow 

She was silent as she watched them take her man 

Teardrops burned her cheeks 

for she thought she'd heard, The shadow had left this land 

The old man's back again 

The old man's back again 

The crowds just gathered, their faces turned away 

And they queue all day like dragons of disgust 

All the women whispering 

Wondering just what these young hot-heads want of us 

And entres vie he cries 

with eyes that ring like chimes 

His anti-worlds go spinning through his head 

He burns them in his dreams 

for half awake they may as well be dead 

The old man's back again 

I see he's back again 

I see a soldier, He's standing in the rain 

For him there's no old man to walk behind 

Devoured by his pain 

bewildered by the faces who pass him by 

He'd like another name the one he's got's a curse 

These people cried 

Why can't they understand 

His mother called him Ivan then she died 

The old man's back again 

The old man's back again 

I can see him back again