Scott Walker - Farmer in the City

Começa como um arrepio em surdina que nos faz vibrar, arrepiar talvez.
Quando a voz de Scott ecoa remete-nos para algo fúnebre, um mundo espectral, sombrio, um misterioso limbo vocal que nos agarra e retém.

Farmer in the City é uma homenagem a Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Na letra, a insistente alusão ao número 21 refere-se à idade com que um protegido de Pasolini, Ninetto Davoli, foi recrutado para o exército italiano onde mais tarde desertaria.

Esta canção atrai-me como uma traça para a luz. Ou neste caso, ausência dela.

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