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Scott Walker

Tar

Release date: 3rd December 2012

From Bish Bosch
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About This Track

"Tar" is a track by Scott Walker, from the album Bish Bosch, released 3rd December 2012. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Scott Walker

Scott Walker

Lyrics

Tar

[Chorus 1]

Flat nose whistle goes up ahead

Up ahead on the El Greco grunt

[Verse 1]

God creates man and then animals

Bilge!

God creates animals and then man

Jackaroo in the slew

Let its tinnitustic needles sew back shadow

[Chorus 2]

She holds a baby made of towels all up ahead

Up ahead on the baleen bronchial

[Verse 2]

Jacob's offspring in Egypt totalled seventy

Hogwash!

Jacob's offspring in Egypt totalled seventy five

Contritio/Attritio

Let the leashes strain sustain those jaw-joints surging

[Verse 3]

Aw-shucks, aw-gee

The Porter sticks with the Porter's dreams

Shoot to a wing-tip pawing the ground

I wouldn't trust him

Not to dance a drachma across his knuckles

Twenty-seven inches from heel to heel

Lardie, Lardie, Lardie

While every skin is raised

While every eye was grazed

[Chorus 3]

Thrushy-tongue lolling all up ahead

Up ahead on the sarcomere stump

[Verse 4]

The women came to the tomb at dawn

Booty chatter!

The women came when the sun had risen

Laps/Relapse

Let this throat's Colombian necktie choke that Franglais

[Chorus 4]

Flat nose whistle goes up ahead

Up ahead on the Pilates punk

[Verse 5]

The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree

GTFO

The righteous shall perish and no man layeth it to heart

I swerved away into the dark

[Outro]

Forty-five inches from heel to the heel

Forty-five inches from heel to the heel

There but for the grace of God goes God

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From Bish Bosch

2012
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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Scott Walker
    Lyricist
    Scott Walker
    Composer
    Scott Walker
    Producer
    Peter Walsh, Scott Walker
    Engineer
    Peter Walsh
    Drums
    Ian Thomas (Drummer)
    Keyboards
    Mark Warman, Peter Walsh
    Vocals
    Scott Walker
    Baritone Guitar
    Hugh Burns
    Bass Guitar
    John Giblin
    Electric Guitar
    Hugh Burns
    Mastering Engineer
    Alex Wharton, Peter Walsh, Steve Rooke
    Mixing Engineer
    Peter Walsh, Scott Walker
    Music Director
    Mark Warman
    Percussion
    Alasdair Malloy
    Recording Engineer
    Peter Walsh
    Sound Effects
    Mark Warman, Peter Walsh
    Technician
    Adam Miller (Engineer), Angie Teo, John Prestage, Liam Nolan, Paul Norris, Scott Knapper, Xavier Stephenson
    Tuba
    Pete Long
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