BOY CHILD Scott Walker

BOY CHILD (Engel) You'll lose your way A boy child rides upon your back Take him away Through mirrors dark and blessed with cracks Through forgotten courtyards Where you used to search for youth

Mrs. Murphy Scott Walker

Hello Mrs Murphy That's a lovely dress you're wearing Is it new Why, thank you Mr Wilson But I've had that same old dress about a year or two Upstairs in bed, the tall boy stretched just like a cat Put

Black Sheep Boy Scott Walker

I'm the family's unknown boy Golden curls and envied hair Pretty girls with faces fair See the shining Black Sheep Boy. If you love me, let me live in peace.

PLASTIC PALACE PEOPLE Scott Walker

PLASTIC PALACE PEOPLE (Engel) Over the rooftop sails Billy A string tied to his underwear Through cobbled stone streets a child races And shouts "Billy, come down from there" "My mother's calling

MANHATTAN Scott Walker

MANHATTAN (Scott Walker) here you are boy here you are here you are boy here you are here you are boy here you are I tip to Bengal tip tp Somal i tip to Burmese tip Kenyanese See them sliding through

Manhattan Scott Walker

MANHATTAN (Scott Walker) here you are boy here you are here you are boy here you are here you are boy here you are I tip to Bengal tip tp Somal i tip to Burmese tip Kenyanese See them sliding through

REUBEN JAMES Scott Walker

mind The faded skirt the weathered brow The calloused hand up on the plow I loved you then and I love you now Reuben James Flora James, Reuben James Gray, a gossip of Madison County died with child

COPENHAGEN Scott Walker

Copenhagen, you're the end, Gone and made me a child again. Warmed my feet beneath cold sheets, Dyed my hair with your sunny streets.

A Lover Loves Scott Walker

turned into whores Gardens with fountains where peacocks had strutted Where dead children were born The splendor of tigers turning to gold in the desert Pale meadows of stranded pyramids Sonny boy

SONS OF Scott Walker

SONS OF (Jouanest/Brel/Shuman) Sons of the thief, sons of the saint Who is the child with no complaint Sons of the great or sons unknown All were children like your own The same sweet smiles,

THE WAR IS OVER (sleepers) (epilogue) Scott Walker

THE WAR IS OVER (sleepers) (epilogue) (Scott Walker/Ady Semel) Everything still everything silent as after the rain We lie here listening to night close down Stare like a child wait for

JOANNA Scott Walker

away Goodbye you, you long lost summer leaving me behind you Repeating words for lovers that may find you I still hang on to every word that day You passed my way Joanna You made the man a child

Such a Small Love Scott Walker

shouted you had gone in her ear That summer was stolen away Such a small love Such a little tear You would laugh so loud If you could see us here With my one suit Badly pressed and worn Like a child

THANKS FOR CHICAGO MR JAMES Scott Walker

began I've always been a changin' train And when you think on this Toy might forgive me then Thanks for Chicago Mr James And all the shiny suits And all the shiny names The things a country boy

JEAN THE MACHINE Scott Walker

JEAN THE MACHINE (Semel/Walker) Whatever happened to Jean the machine She used to live down the hall from me And all the boys in the band Miss her so bad now Ain't it pitful She made her way

HERO OF THE WAR Scott Walker

Reiley seems the girl next door is nowhere to be found Once you couldn't keep that boy from hangin' 'round Never mind dear, you're with your mum once more He's a hero of the war Like his dad he gave

JOE Scott Walker

JOE As old Joe sat a dyin' The baby down the hall was cryin' Somebody had a party goin' on The fat boy you told tales to Moved away the other day To think with no goodbye He could have gone

THE PLAGUE Scott Walker

THE PLAGUE (Engel) I spent many a night laying on my back Waiting for the dawn to pierce a crack in the ceiling Hanging from the sky And I envied the boy who grabbed the toy And ran away and

Sky Walker Miguel, Travis Scott

Quick to dead the bull like a matador Quick to dead the bull like a matador Bull, bull, bull like a matador Quick to dead the bull like a matador Cap and a stem, catch a wave on us (splish) Take a...

IF YOU GO AWAY Scott Walker

IF YOU GO AWAY (Brel/Shuman) If you go away On this summer day Then you might as well Take the sun away All the birds that flew In the summer sky When our love was new And our hearts were high An...

SPEAK SOFTLY LOVE Scott Walker

SPEAK SOFTLY LOVE (Rota) Speak softly love, and hold me warm against your heart I feel your words, the tender trembling moments start We're in a world, our very own Sharing a love that only few ha...

I THREW IT ALL AWAY Scott Walker

I THREW IT ALL AWAY (from the movie 'To Have And To Hold') (Bob Dylan) Once I held her in my arms She said she would always stay But i was cruel i treated her like a fool I threw it all away On...

30 CENTURY MAN Scott Walker

30 CENTURY MAN (Engel) See the Dwarfs an' see the Giants which one would you choose to be And if you can't get that together here's the answer, here's the key You can freeze like 30 century man...

EASY COME EASY GO Scott Walker

EASY COME EASY GO (Green/Hayman) Easy come, easy go That's the way if love must have its stay Then ours, it came- Let it go No remorse, no regret We should part exactly as we met Just easy come,...

DEALER Scott Walker

DEALER (Scott Walker) The windows are ringing shaking Night-nites for angels rattling throats up and down on a beam.

RAWHIDE Scott Walker

RAWHIDE (Scott Walker) This is how you disappear out between midnight, called up under valleys of torches and stars.

GET BEHIND ME Scott Walker

GET BEHIND ME It's the signs as we see them There's no thresholds at all There's no vows to be broken As we rise, or we fall There's no noise high above us As the moon turns in space Just the fac...

USE ME Scott Walker

USE ME (B. Withers) My friends feel it's their appointed duty They keep tryin' to tell me All you really wanna do is use me Hey, but my answer to all that 'use me' stuff I wanna spread the news...

LOSS OF LOVE Scott Walker

LOSS OF LOVE (Mancini/Merrill) Love is storm and wind, then tide All the tears your heart can hold But I look back after loss of love And find the days were gone I see only shattered skies Not a...

WE CAME THROUGH Scott Walker

WE CAME THROUGH (Engel) We came through We came riding through like warriors from afar Our black horses danced upon the graves of yesterday's desires Haunted by our visions framed in fire I greet...

MAN FROM RENO Scott Walker

MAN FROM RENO If I could lose If you could Choose For this next Dance You might choose me I ain't no pussy With the blues Just step out on The floor And see Can't follow A man from Reno Foll...

MATHILDE Scott Walker

MATHILDE (Brel/Jouanest/Shuman) Momma, do you see what I see On your knees and pray for me Mathilde's come back to me Charley, don't want another beer Tonight I'm gonna drink my tears Mathilde's c...

LITTLE THINGS Scott Walker

LITTLE THINGS (That keep us together) (Engel) It's on days like these When your brother falls You can read it all in the Times How a moving car Stole a movie star Little Things that keep us toge...

ALWAYS COMING BACK TO YOU Scott Walker

ALWAYS COMING BACK TO YOU (Engel) What was it like when we were young Sleeping in eachothers arms Walking in eachothers dreams Was it only yesterday I've forgotten anyway What was it like to hea...

WE HAD IT ALL Scott Walker

WE HAD IT ALL (D. Fritts/T. Seals) I can hear the wind a-blowin' in my mind Just the way they used to, through the Georgia pines You were there to answer when I called You and me- Lord knows, we ...

ON YOUR OWN AGAIN Scott Walker

ON YOUR OWN AGAIN (Engel) Wasn't it a good year Wasn't filled with talking It still moves through my heart From time to time City after city Granite gray as morning Heroes died in subways left be...

NO EASY WAY DOWN Scott Walker

NO EASY WAY DOWN (Goffin/King) Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky, love But now it must fall to the ground And your sad eyes reveal just how badly you feel Andthereisnoeasy way down The vie...

IF SHE WALKED INTO MY LIFE Scott Walker

IF SHE WALKED INTO MY LIFE (J. Norman) Did she need a stronger hand? Did she need a lighter touch? Was I soft, or was I tough? Did I give enough? Did I give too much? At the moment that she need...

SUNDOWN Scott Walker

SUNDOWN (G. Lightfoot) I can see her lookin' fast in a faded dress in a room where you do what you don't confess Sundown, you better take care If I find you've been creepin' round my back stairs...

THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM Scott Walker

THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM (Leigh/Darion) To dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foe To bear, with unbearable sorrow And run where the brave never go To write the unwritable wrong To lo...

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS Scott Walker

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS (M.London/Dan Black) Best Of Both Worlds, That's what you want All your on way, That's not my way And I won't share you, I couldn't fare to It's time for you to choose Which ...

ROSARY Scott Walker

ROSARY (Scott Walker) I'll string along I'll string along oo whaoo whaoo whaoo Come mornings my beads on a face A thread A thong oo whaoo whaoo whaoo We can save it We can change it

WHAT ARE YOU DOING THE REST OF YOUR LIFE Scott Walker

WHAT ARE YOU DOING THE REST OF YOUR LIFE (Bergman/Bergman/Legrand) What are you doing the rest of your life? North and South and East and West of your life I have only one request of your life Th...

DELTA DAWN Scott Walker

DELTA DAWN (Alex Harvey) She's forty-one, and her daddy still calls her baby All the folks 'round Brownsville thinks she's crazy 'Cause she walks downtown with a suitcase in her hand Waitin' to me...

WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG Scott Walker

WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG(Gerard/Vannier/Mercer)It isn't by chance I happen to be A boulevard deer, the toast of ParisFor over the noise, the talk and the smoke I'm good for a laugh, a drink or a j...

COUNTRY GIRL Scott Walker

COUNTRY GIRL (Robert Farnon) Country girl Country girl I beheld her in meadowland Longing and reaping And singing a refrain Oh, what a melancholy strain The valley echoed with the ring No nightin...

COWBELLS SHAKIN Scott Walker

COWBELLS SHAKIN (Semel/Walker) Andrea turn to me and hear what I'm sayin' And why must you always be kneelin' and prayin' Though hard as I run I can't overcome The things that this city has taken

STORMY Scott Walker

STORMY (Buie/Cobb) Cyril Shane Music Ltd ___ You were the sunshine, baby Whenever you smiled But I call you Stormy today All of a sudden That ole rain's fallin' down And my world is cloudy and g...

WINDOWS OF THE WORLD Scott Walker

WINDOWS OF THE WORLD (Bacharach/David) The windows of the world are covered with rain Where is the sunshine we once knew Everybody knows when little children play They need a sunny day to grow st...

THE SEVENTH SEAL Scott Walker

THE SEVENTH SEAL (Engel) Anybody seen a knight pass this way I saw him playing chess with Death yesterday His crusade was a search for God and they say It's been a along way to carry on Anybody ...