Four tracks on the album have numerical titles, this being the third. In a TV interview Walker explained the songs were complete and that titles might ‘lopside’ or ‘overload’ them, giving artificial weight to one line of the lyric over others. As such, the informal title of these tracks, shown on th...
[Verse 1]
Say it got late on that one
That life-giver one
Hanging weightless from the wound
In a half-light
[Verse 2]
Taken up I could hold him
When all falls away
Prayed into each other
You stood in the air
[Chorus]
And the ceilings are rising and falling
The ceilings are shining and slow
Peeling tongues from the ice hums
And letting it go
And the ceilings are rising and falling
The ceilings are shining and slow
Peeling tongues from the ice hums
And letting it go
Track Six was written by Scott Walker.
Track Six was produced by Scott Walker & Peter Walsh.