Scott Walker - Clara

Amazing piece of music by Scott Walker, named "Clara", which is on "The Drift" CD.

Drink a few beers at night while sitting in a dark room and listen to this piece of music with your eyes shut. Have fun!


More about Scott Walker:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Walker_%28singer%29



The Drift:

http://www.amazon.com/Drift-Scott-Walker/dp/B000EZMPEU



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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 while 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
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

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[PunkDandy]

When I think we should wait for many years to have a new Scott Walker's album, it gets me sad ;-)

[MoonTribe]

@PunkDandy It's always a surprise with Scott.

[spiderjerusalem100]

I listen to a lot of extreme metal, i mean REALLY heavy music and i have to say most of it doesn't sound as intense as Scott Walker's last 2 albums.

[MoonTribe]

@spiderjerusalem100 Yeah, I have the same experience. I listened a lot to various metal genres, but music like this brings intensity and obscurity to an other level. Scott is an innovative musical genius.

[phreestylesk8r]

its official. I AM BUYING THIS ALBUM. then im gona play it while im sitting in the dark at night with the door closed and by the end of the album i will see how badly soiled my pants are

[MoonTribe]

@phreestylesk8r You have some good ideas!

A friend and I once listened The Drift at night in a foggy forest. I also recommend listening this music through quality headphones like sennheiser. The Drift will surround your state of mind and it won't let you go the first days after.

[Astronaughty03]

I'm literally in love with 4:43 and the next 15 seconds, I could have listened to that forever if I had to all the aimlessness comes together for a moment. If only the song felt as full as that short period.

[LadyAri737]

@TheScrewOnHead I said the EXACT same thing! :)

[asSwanski]

Once you've been through this, you're no longer the same person. And I think that's the biggest compliment you can make to a songwriter.

[TheScrewOnHead]

Why the fuck is "Top 6 Nazi Commanders" a related video?

[hotlovenrockets]

this sounds like the flu

[vrusimov]

...a real walk on the dark side...this...hysterical, maniacal, treacherous and oppressively dense...to borrow a phrase from earlier work..."the sun ain't gonna shine anymore."...if it ever really has for Scott...

[SquishypuffDave]

I want this to play at my funeral.

[PunkDandy]

@drstrangelight Yes, I went to Walker's Wikipedia page and i saw that after reading your comment. But we ignore when he'll finish recording this new album (we all know it can take many years. Walker's very perfectionist !). He'd also prepare an opera for 2012 !

[drstrangelight]

@PunkDandy I thought he was in the studio these days?