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Scott Walker

Jesse

Release date: 8th May 2006

From The Drift
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About This Track

"Jesse" is a track by Scott Walker, from the album The Drift, released 8th May 2006. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Scott Walker

Scott Walker

Lyrics

Jesse

[Refrain]

(Pow! Pow!)

(Pow! Pow!)

[Verse 1]

Nose holes caked in black cocaine (Pow! Pow!)

No one holds a match to your skin (Pow! Pow!)

No dupe, no chiming, a way off miles off

No needle through a glove

[Refrain]

(Pow! Pow!)

[Chorus]

Famine is a tall, 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?

[Refrain]

(Pow! Pow!)

(Pow! Pow!)

[Verse 2]

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

[Chorus]

Famine is a tall, 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?

[Refrain]

(Pow! Pow!)

(Pow! Pow!)

[Verse 3]

In the dream I am crawling around on 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

[Outro]

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

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From The Drift

2006
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    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Scott Walker
    Lyricist
    Scott Walker
    Producer
    Peter Walsh, Scott Walker
    Engineer
    Geoff Foster, Peter Walsh
    Bass
    John Giblin, Steve Pearce
    Drums
    Alasdair Malloy, Ian Thomas (Drummer)
    Guitar
    Hugh Burns, James Stevenson, Scott Walker
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    Brian Gascoigne, Mark Warman
    Vocals
    Scott Walker
    Assistant Recording Engineer
    Adrian Hall, Dom Morley, Iain Gore, Neil Tucker, Nick Pugh, Richard Wilkinson, Rohan Onraet
    Cello
    Philip Sheppard
    Concertina
    Andrew Cronshaw
    Conductor
    Mark Warman, Philip Sheppard
    Contractor
    Richard Nelson (Musician)
    Flugelhorn
    Derek Roy Watkins
    Harmonica
    Scott Walker
    Mastering Engineer
    Adam Nunn
    Mixing Engineer
    Peter Walsh, Scott Walker
    Orchestration
    Mark Warman, Philip Sheppard
    Percussion
    Alasdair Malloy, Mark Warman, Peter Walsh, Rohan Onraet
    Recording Engineer
    Chris Barrett, Geoff Foster, Matt Paul, Peter Walsh
    Saxophone
    Pete Long, Scott Walker
    Sitar
    Peter Walsh
    Sound Designer
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    Technician
    Jim Kelly, Simon Saywood
    Violin
    Thomas Bowes
    Woodwind
    Andrew Cronshaw, Mark Warman
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