Farmer in the City (Tilt 1995 ) Scott Walker video by Bill Zachos

Описание

The "Tilt" (1995) is the first part of his final trilogy, including The Drift (2006) and Bish Bosch (2012). If you want to know about his work ask " David Boyd" The opening track, "Farmer in the City", is subtitled "Remembering Pasolini". A few of the lyrics are appropriated from Norman Macafee's English translation of Pier Paolo Pasolini's poem, "Uno dei Tanti Epiloghi" ("One of the Many Epilogs"), which was written in 1969 for Pasolini's friend and protégé, the scruffy young nonprofessional actor, Ninetto Davoli. Throughout the song, Walker's chant of "Do I hear 21, 21, 21...? I'll give you 21, 21, 21...", may be a reference to Davoli's age when he was drafted into (and subsequently deserted from) the Italian army.


"Farmer In The City"

Do I hear
21
21
21

I'll give you
21
21
21

Do I hear
21
21
21

I'll give you
21
21
21

This night you
are mistaken

I'm a farmer
in the city

Dark farm
houses
against the
sky

Every night
I must wonder
why

Harness on the
left nail keeps
wrinkling wrinkling

Then higher above
me - e e so o
e e e so o o

Can't go by
a man from
Rio

Can't go by
a man from
Vigo

Can't go by
a man from
Ostia

Hey Ninetto

Remember that
dream

We talked about
it
so many times

Do I hear
21
21
21

I'll give you
21
21
21

Do I hear
21
21
21

I'll give you
21
21
21

And if I'm not
mistaken
We can search
from farm to
farm

Dark farm houses
against our eyes

Every night I
must realize

Harness on the
left nail

Keeps withering
withering

Then higher above
me - e e so o
e e e so o o

Can't go by
a man in
this shirt

Can't go by
a man in
that shirt

Can't go by a man
with brain
grass

Go by his long
long eye
gas

And I used
to be a
citizen

I never felt
the pressure

I knew nothing
of the horses

Nothing of the
thresher

Paolo
take me with
you

It was the
journey of
a life

Do I hear
21
21
21

I'll give you
21
21
21

Do I hear
21
21
21

I'll give you
21
21
21