My Death Scott Walker

My death is like a swinging door a patient girl who knows the score whistle for her and the passing time My death waits like a bible truth at the funeral of my youth weep loud for that and the passing

MY DEATH (LA MORT) Scott Walker

MY DEATH (LA MORT) (Brel/Shuman) (French words: Jacques Brel) (English words: Mort Shuman and Eric Blau) (Music: Jacques Brel) My death is like a swinging door a patient girl who knows the score

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

THE ROPE AND THE COLT Scott Walker

THE ROPE AND THE COLT (Hassein/Shaper) I seek the man who killed my friend and when we meet my life may end my life depends upon my gun and my gun spells hope in the land where the rope and the

THE BRIDGE Scott Walker

At night the people's faces danced Like pearls colliding on the breast Of fat Marie whose thunder laugh Was just a thread from crying Her sailors stained her cobblestones With wine and piss and death

Rhymes Of Goodbye Scott Walker

Surrounds us with fire and friends, And roaring through darkness, The Night children fly, I still hear them singing the rhymes of goodbye There's nothing within, but within says a voice, That's still my

THE RHYMES OF GOODBYE Scott Walker

There's nothing within, but within says a voice That's still my Empire, And I've got a choice It's healers of death,It still got a fire And I keep it burning, with hands of desire The bells of

LITTLE THINGS Scott Walker

Going to fly It's on nights like these That your neighbor dies 'Cos he put a gun to his head He was so alone He had nothing left Little things that call for a drink That bury a soldier's death

SONS OF Scott Walker

All of the children ran from your arms Through fields of gold, through fields of ruin All of the children vanished too soon In tow'ring waves, in walls of flesh Among dying birds trembling with death

Sky Walker Miguel, Travis Scott

Don\'t sleep, you gotta stay up (splish) Don\'t, don\'t sleep, you gotta stay up Yeah, yeah, yeah I\'m outstandin\' so I stand out (stand out) Got more babes than a bathhouse (yo) Top Gun, on my

FACE ON BREAST Scott Walker

FACE ON BREAST (Scott Walker) Swan you glide above the thrashing Release the catches strain your wings behind your back Paint his eyes it'll never lick those eyes Smear the mouth all across

JUST ONE SMILE Scott Walker

All I've had has been taken from me Now I'm cryin' and my tears don't become me Just one smile - the pain's forgiven Just one kiss - the hurt's all gone Just one smile to make my life worth living

WHO (WILL TAKE MY PLACE)? Scott Walker

WHO (WILL TAKE MY PLACE)? (Aznavour/Kretzmer) Who, when my life is through Who will know the joy I have known with you?

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 come

SOMEONE TO LIGHT UP MY LIFE Scott Walker

SOMEONE TO LIGHT UP MY LIFE (De Moraes/Jobim/Lees) Where shall I look for the love to replace you?

LOW DOWN FREEDOM Scott Walker

Shaver) Longhaired young girl, here beside me Fittin' my body, warm my mind Sleeping quiet, never knowin' That tomorrow should be one more thing I'm gonna leave behind Like them big wheels, I'll

COME SATURDAY MORNING Scott Walker

COME SATURDAY MORNING (Karlin/Previn) Come Saturday Morning I'm going away with my friend Will Saturday spend more than half of the day?

MAY WAY HOME Scott Walker

MAY WAY HOME (Engel/Semel) "I Still See You" single B-side (Philips 6006-168 [1971]) My Kentucky friend Dance a song for me Make it high and heard Above the rain That's falling so free We've

Jackie Scott Walker

And if one day I should become A singer with a Spanish bum Who sings for women of great virtue I'd sing to them with a guitar I borrowed from a coffee bar Well, what you don't know doesn't hurt you My

WE HAD IT ALL Scott Walker

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 had it all Remember how I

TIME OPERATOR Scott Walker

TIME OPERATOR (Semel/Walker) Moon breathin' in thru' my window Curtains are sighing dust of the day Still I'm not alone like all my neighbours say Chorus: Time Operator Take the time to

Any Day Now Scott Walker

Any Day Now, I will hear you say goodbye my love And you'll be on your way Then my wild beautiful bird You will have flown old Any day now, I'll be all alone, Wooo Any day now, when your restless eyes,

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?

GLORY ROAD Scott Walker

GLORY ROAD (Diamond) Wearin' my high boots Got all my wordlies here in a sack Looking for something Knowing that it ain't here where I'm at I'm comin' back - I'm comin' Ride by thumbin' Get

LONG ABOUT NOW Scott Walker

LONG ABOUT NOW (Semel/Walker; sung by Esther Qfarim) Long about now He's heading home Back from the rain Burned to the ground His ashes will rise black butterflies Tapping at my window pane

THROUGH A LONG AND SLEEPLESS NIGHT Scott Walker

night I whisper your name Through a long and sleepless night Of who is to blame Can't help but wonder If you're lonely too As I lie here and toss about So alone, so without you How I wish, my

THE HILLS OF YESTERDAY Scott Walker

THE HILLS OF YESTERDAY (Webster/Mancini) Compass Music Ltd ___ Once we sprawled the hills of yesterday We were young on those hills those days Through the good times and bad My heart is very

Lullaby (Feat. Sunn O)))) Scott Walker

Tonight my assistant will pass among you His cap will be empty Hey non-e non-e The most intimate personal choices and requests central to your personal dignity will be sung non-e non-e Why don't minstrels

All My Love's Laughter Scott Walker

All my love's laughter And all my love's faces She comes in the morning, her cloak in her arm She's following after The king of all places And your tendress warming Will bruise all her charms Don't lose

WAIT UNTIL DARK Scott Walker

and grey The day may be Wait until dark And we'll be warm Our place of love Is where we face our dreams Together Where our fantasies take form When I can't feel your nearness In the night My

FUNERAL TANGO Scott Walker

hankerchief And blowing me a kiss Discreetly asking how How came he died so young Or was he very old Is the body still warm Or is it already cold All doors are open wide They grope around inside At my

SPEAK SOFTLY LOVE Scott Walker

that only few have ever known Wine coloured days, warmed by the sun Deep velvet nights, when we are one Speak soflty love, so no-one hears us but the sky The vows of love we make will live until we die My

It's Over Scott Walker

could make it stay This hour of love we share Would always be There'd be no coming day To shine a morning light And make us realize our night is over When you walk away from me There is no place to put my

THE LOOK OF LOVE Scott Walker

THE LOOK OF LOVE (Bacharach/David) The look of love is in your eyes A look your smile can't disguise The look of love is saying so much more than words could ever say And what my heart has heard, well

Next Scott Walker

Naked as sin, an army towel Covering my belly Some of us blush, somehow Knees turning to jelly Next, next I was still just a kid There were a hundred like me I followed a naked body A naked body follwed

Clara Scott Walker

splintering white bone Teeth shaken out with a stroke Brain running down along spear from the wound in the eye hole Stones pounding in past the screens past the shields I felt the nail driving into my

ANGELICA Scott Walker

flower shop Lord knows I meant to stop But I said tomorrow Perhaps tomorrow Tomorrow there'd be time There'd always be another spring Time to make her laughter ring Time to give her everything Angelica, my

WHAT ARE YOU DOING THE REST OF YOUR LIFE Scott Walker

silent wish you make Those tomorrows waiting deep in your eyes In the world of love that you keep in your eyes I'll awaken what's asleep in your eyes It may take a kiss or two Through all of my

TRACK THREE Scott Walker

TRACK THREE (Scott Walker) Delayed in the headlong Resembled to breaking-point I swear you never slept at night when the growing is slow.

THE SONG IS YOU Scott Walker

THE SONG IS YOU (Kern/Hammerstein II) I hear music when I look at you A beautiful theme of every dream I ever knew Down deep in my heart, I hear it play I feel it start, then melt away I hear

REUBEN JAMES Scott Walker

REUBEN JAMES (Etris/Harvey) Reuben James, in my song you live again And the phrases that I rhyme Are just the footsteps out of time From the time when I knew you Reuben James Reuben James all

THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM Scott Walker

unbearable sorrow And run where the brave never go To write the unwritable wrong To love, pure and chaste from afar To try, when your arms are too weary To reach the unreachable star This is my

COPENHAGEN Scott Walker

Warmed my feet beneath cold sheets, Dyed my hair with your sunny streets. Children aren't afraid to love And laugh when life amuses them.

COME NEXT SPRING Scott Walker

COME NEXT SPRING (Adelson/Steiner) Come Next Spring When all the world is new And fresh And green And fair Then I'll come home And I'll carry in my heart Just one prayer That I'll find room

USE ME Scott Walker

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 that if

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

Brando (Feat. Sunn O)))) Scott Walker

Whip-poor-will Whip-poor-will Scissoring high, in the trees, A beating would do me a world of good Sneakin by Sneakin by I am down on my knees A beating would do me a world of good.

The Amorous Humphrey Plugg Scott Walker

That old smile's come back And I kiss the children good night And I slip away on the newly waxed floor I've become a giant I fill every street I dwarf the rooftops I hunchback the moon Stars dance at my

SUNDOWN Scott Walker

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 Sundown,

THANKS FOR CHICAGO MR JAMES Scott Walker

And all the shiny suits And all the shiny names The things a country boy can't grace Without the look of shame Upon a city face And you needed more Than the smile I wore You picked me up on my