Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Herod 2014 , by - Scott Walker. Song from the album Soused, in the genre Release date: 19.10.2014
Record label: 4AD
Song language: English
Herod 2014 |
| She’s hidden her babies away |
| Their soft, gummy smiles |
| Won’t be gilding the menu |
| The deer fly, the sand fly |
| The tsetse can’t find them |
| The goon from the Stasi |
| Is left far behind them |
| Their delicate derma |
| Won’t witness a ray |
| She’s hidden her babies away |
| She’s hidden her babies away |
| No 'Raindrops on roses.' |
| 'Whiskers on kittens.' |
| They refuse to be blinded |
| By Rubens or Poussin |
| They’ll hardly be boarding |
| The 12:10 to Tucson |
| Is she shaking them hard |
| In dry run cabaret? |
| She’s hidden her babies away |
| Ho, ho, watenay |
| Ho, ho, watenay |
| Ho, ho, watenay |
| I’m closing in, I’m closing in |
| She’s hidden her babies away |
| And why bring them out |
| With no shelter on offer? |
| The nurseries and creches |
| Are heavily with lush lice |
| Bubonic, blue blankets |
| Run ragged with church mice |
| The Havana has died |
| In the clam-shell ashtray |
| She’s hidden her babies away |
| She’s hidden her babies away |
| From posed, high pelvic bridges |
| Pearly bone mountain ridges |
| No hiccupy silence |
| To finger their traces |
| No colicky moon |
| Shines bright pain on their faces |
| She has slipped through the dark |
| Like a mother moray |
| She’s hidden her babies away |
| Ho, ho, watenay |
| Ho, ho, watenay |
| Ho, ho, watenay |
| I’m closing in, I’m closing in |
| I’ve come searching from far and away |
| A reaching, long armed vet ape |
| Feeling hard for a breech birth |
| I gaze up at the night |
| At the asterisk’s blazing |
| Til they straighten and like |
| Tiny spines, fall to earth |
| I bite down on this |
| As I dance and I pray |
| She’s hidden her babies away |