Hand Me Ups Lyrics - Drift - Scott Walker

Mend 

Amend 

Bring and rub 

Beat the band 

I tried 

I tried 

Shrugged off the splintering white bone 

Teeth shaken out with a stroke 

Brain running down along spear 

from the wound in the eye hole 

Stones pounding in 

past the screens 

past the shields 

I felt the nail driving into my food 

while I felt the nail driving into my hand 

Rub a dub 

God and bring 

beat the band 

I tried 

I tried 

what? 

When you can't hear the bleating all night 

Else he's strumming the springs of his cot 

When? 

What you can't see is 

her tiny mouth 

squealing and shrieking with laughter 

Dispensing 

with each little toe 

each little finger 

let them whirl away into the darkness 

The pee pee soaked trousers 

The torn muddied dress 

No ankles at the gates at dusk 

Ever caught the dawning 

The audience is waiting 

Its audience is waiting 

Its audience is waiting 

Its audience is waiting 

No Fado live from last year's winning country 

Twelve bunnies in a hutch for nine new weeks 

The audience is waiting 

Its audience is waiting 

Its audience is waiting 

Its audience is waiting 

And it will catch my toes 

It will catch my fingers 

The pee pee soaked trousers 

The torn muddied dress 

Forever and ever 

Forever and ever 

Forever and ever 

Forever and ever 

Mend 

Amend 

Bring and rub 

Beat the band 

I tried 

I tried 

Shrugged off the splintering white bone 

Teeth shaken out with a stroke 

Brain running down along spear 

from the wound in the eye hole 

Stones pounding in 

past the screens 

past the shields 

I felt the nail driving into my food 

while I felt the nail driving into my hand