As mentioned previously I love Scott Walker and his music and this song is one of my favourites. I bought a collection of Scott Walker songs on a compilation album entitled ‘Boy Child – The Best of Scott Walker 1967-1970’ and this song stood out from the rest as possibly one of the weirdest things that I had ever heard (and as you are probably beginning to realise by now I like weird things and no one does weird quite like Scott!)
I had previously been to see an exhibition of paintings by Marc Chagall whose works are often characterised by pictures of people levitating or flying in the air and this song with its lyric ‘Over the rooftops sails Billy, a string tied to his underwear’ somehow made me think of Chagall and his paintings (which I might add are also wonderfully colourful and vibrant and a bit weird too) and what a joy it would be to be able to fly and look down on our wonderful world.
The chorus is so also fantastic in that it seems so divorced from the rest of the song and the concept of ‘Plastic Palace Alice’ who blows ‘gaping holes to store her fears inside her lover’s head’ is so totally strange and bizarre I couldn’t help but be drawn in…
Now listen to the song….
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