Από το 1969 και το πέμπτο (παρά τον τίτλο) άλμπουμ του, ο Scott Walker σχολιάζει την προ ενός έτους εισβολή των ρωσικών αρμάτων μάχης στην Τσεχοσλοβακία, τη συντριβή της Άνοιξης της Πράγας (“σοσιαλισμός με ανθρώπινο πρόσωπο”) και την αντικατάσταση της κυβέρνησης Ντούμπτσεκ με μια φιλική προς το σοβιετικό καθεστώς. Μια ακόμα σημαντική συνεισφορά του stcigar στο αντιπολεμικό μας αφιέρωμα. 🔴 🔴 From the year 1969 and his fifth (despite the title) solo album, Scott Walker comments on the Russian tanks invasion of Czechoslovakia a year earlier, the crushing of Prague Spring (“socialism with a human face“) and the replacement of Dubček’s government with a regime friendly to the Soviet authorities. Another important input from stigar to our anti-war tribute.

Written by Noel Scott Engel Album Scott 4 Producer John Franz

I seen a hand, I seen a vision
It was reaching through the clouds, To risk a dream
A shadow crossed 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