The World's Strongest Man Scott Walker

As the morning turned my way See birds flying through this hazy face And I came back here to replace your place in my life And didn't you know that I'm not the world's strongest man When it comes to you

ALL HIS CHILDREN Scott Walker

ALL HIS CHILDREN (Mancini/A&M Bergman) When you're standing alone With the mountain and the ski When the arms of the world open wide Well, the trick is that plain as a falling rain And you're

JOANNA Scott Walker

JOANNA (Tony Hatch/Jackie Trent) Joanna I can't forget the one they call Joanna We owned the summer hand in hand Joanna And now she's always just a tear away Goodbye you, you long lost summer

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

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

The Escape Scott Walker

The car in front follows the long way around Prey moves predator moves Foreshortened angels hunting me down Halle halle halle Underkill sticks in gullets Overkill is personal too many bullets Rabbi

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

FRISCO DEPOT Scott Walker

Newbury) Frisco's a full day from home, when you can afford to fly But it might as well be to the moon, when you're as broke as I Here I sit, with my head in my hands, and watch the trains roll by

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

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

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

BLACK ROSE Scott Walker

Shaver) Way down in Virginia, 'mongst the tall-grown sugar cane Lived a simple-headed man and a diamond neck ta him And a rose of a different name Well, the first time I felt lightnin' I was standin

The Gentle Rain Scott Walker

We both are lost And alone in the world Walk with me In the gentle rain Don't be afraid Either hand for your hand And I will be your world For a while I feel your tears As they roll down your face They

FARMER IN THE CITY Scott Walker

FARMER IN THE CITY (Remembering Pasolini) (Engel) Do i hear 21 21 21 i'll give you 21 21 21 Do i hear 21 21 21 i'll give you 21 21 21 This night you are mistaken i'm

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

(Dwellers on the bluff) Ah, The Wide Missouri Dwellers on the bluff Across The Wide Missouri Never enough No, Never enough.

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 jokeI

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

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 WOMAN LEFT LONELY Scott Walker

A WOMAN LEFT LONELY (Oldham/Penn) A woman left lonelywill soon grow tired of waiting and soon she'll do crazy thingson lonely occasions A simple conversationwith a new man, now and then makes

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 have

Tar Scott Walker

Up ahead on the El Greco grunt God creates man and then animals. Bilge! God creates animals and then man. Jackaroo in the slew. -let its tinnitustic needles sew back shadow.

BIG LOUISE Scott Walker

BIG LOUISE (Engel) She stands all alone You can hear her hum softly From her fire escape in the sky She fills the bags 'neath her eyes With the moonbeams And cries 'cause the world's passed

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

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

The Me I Never Knew Scott Walker

The me I never knew Begin to stir sometime this morning The me I never knew Appeared without a word of warning You smiled and you uncovered What I had not discovered You made me, seethed me I never knew

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

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

MONTAGUE TERRACE Scott Walker

MONTAGUE TERRACE (In Blue) (Engel) The little clock's stopped ticking now We're swallowed in the stomached rue The only sound to tear the night Comes from the man upstairs His bloated belching

DELTA DAWN Scott Walker

a mysterious dark-haired man Delta Dawn, what's that flower you had on?

THE SUMMER KNOWS Scott Walker

THE SUMMER KNOWS (Legrand/A&M Bergman) The summer smiles, the summer knows And unashamed, she sheds her clothes The summer smoothes the restless sky And lovingly she warms the sand on which you

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO SATURDAY NIGHT Scott Walker

Leadon) Seems like a dream now, it was so long ago The moon burns so bright and the time went so slow And I swore that I loved her, and gave her a ring A bluebird was high on the wing Whatever

Montague Terrace (In Blue) Scott Walker

The little clock's stopped ticking now We're swallowed in the stomached rue The only sound to tear the night Comes from the man upstairs His bloated belching figure stomps He may crash through the ceiling

THIS WAY MARY Scott Walker

THIS WAY MARY (Barry/Black) This way Mary, come Mary Share the world with me Make this moment our moment And our memories This way Mary, come Mary Let me warm your heart Take this love I

ONLY THE YOUNG Scott Walker

ONLY THE YOUNG (Ahlert/Fisher) Only the young feel that love is a dream from which they'll never waken Their world is an apple on a tree, just waiting to be shaken Only the young don't care what

Hand Me Ups Scott Walker

What do Seoul and Sudan have in common Both start with an S Deep as a virus Little Mary little Mary From scratchless I ascend Stamps tongue swabbed now embark for the Ivory Coast chiming like mouse

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

LOST IN THE STARS Scott Walker

LOST IN THE STARS (Anderson/Weill) Before Lord God made the sea or the land He held all the stars in the palm of his hand And they ran through his fingers like grains of sand And one little star

TWO RAGGED SOLDIERS Scott Walker

TWO RAGGED SOLDIERS (Engel) They spoke transparent phrases to looking glass women And they took the detours that scattered the way They departed from summer like two ragged soldiers Dragging their

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

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

WHERE DOES BROWN BEGIN Scott Walker

Webb) To my mind, it all seemed a little strange that the people won't do the thing they ought to Some folks say the world ain't ever gonna change but in my heart I believe the other folks who got

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

THANKS FOR CHICAGO MR JAMES Scott Walker

THANKS FOR CHICAGO MR JAMES You always said I would'nt stay I guess you saw the way Before it all began I've always been a changin' train And when you think on this Toy might forgive me then

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

We Could Be Flying Scott Walker

There's a few that comes in the spring A touch of hope, a new beginning Times racing by, I know But as it crossed my mind I thought we all would end up winning Love is rising like a summer sun Caught in

THE GIRLS FROM THE STREETS Scott Walker

THE GIRLS FROM THE STREETS (Engel) Suffocating eyes and fast hellos and last good-byes Surround the night of me Mustache large like smoke from his cigar Coughs up a joke and laughs a net of sound

THE COCKFIGHTER Scott Walker

THE COCKFIGHTER (Scott Walker) IT'S A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT FROM HERE TO THOSE STARS feathers on the sides of my fingers IT'S A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT FROM HERE TO THOSE TREMBLING STARS and the feathers

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?

Til The Band Comes In Scott Walker

Here on the outskirts of life It's a world with the voice of a caretaker's wife I'm leaving tomorrow don't let it bring you down Stick around and around and around and around.

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