Scott Walker - The Old Mans Back Again Chords

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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I seen a hand, I seen a vision
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It was reaching through the clouds to risk a dream
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A shadow crossed the sky and it crushed it to the ground
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Just like a beast
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The old man's back again, the old man's back again


[Verse 2]
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I seen a woman standing in the snow
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She was silent as she watched them take her man
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Teardrops burned her cheeks
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For she thought she'd heard the shadow had left this land
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The old man's back again, the old man's back again


[Verse 3]
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The crowds just gather, their faces turned away
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And they queue all day like dragons of disgust
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Older women whispering
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Wondering just what these young hotheads want of us
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And 'entrez vie' he cries with eyes that ring like chimes
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His anti-worlds go spinning through his head
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He burns them in his dreams
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For half-awake, they may as well be dead
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The old man's back again, I see he's back again


[Verse 4]
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I see a soldier, he's standing in the rain
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For him there's no old man to walk behind
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Devoured by his pain, bewildered by the faces that pass him by
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He'd like another name, the one he's got's a curse, these people cry
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Why can't they understand?  His mother called him Ivan, then she died
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The old man's back again, the old man's back again
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I can see him back again


[Outro]
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Vocal Jazz to fade