Rawhide (Remastered 2006) - Scott Walker

This is how you disappear

Out between midnight

Called up under valleys

Of torches and stars

Foot knee shaggy belly face

Famous hindlegs

As one of their own

You graze with them

Cro-magnon herders

Will stand in the wind

Sweeping tails shining

And scaled to begin

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To where necks

Leave the air

Unpossesed

And giant heads lock

Constellations

A last grain of dust

Lands in the darkness

On tongues laid bare

And turning to chalk

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Freezing in red

Bent over his ice skin

The insomniac gnaws

In the On-Offs;

He is glazed

In the hooves

All round

It is losing its shape

Losing its shape

As the heat

In your hands

Carve the muscle

Away

And he grins

From a break

In a backflash

Delivers it up

On a break

In a backflash

Motionless brands

Burn into a hipframe

As a saviour

Loads sightlines

Backlit by fires

On the ridges

Of the highest

Breeder