THE HOUSE SONG Scott Walker

THE HOUSE SONG (Bannard/Stookey) This house goes on sale every Wednesday mornin' It's taken off the market in the afternoon You can buy a part of it if you want too It's been good for, it'll be

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

COPENHAGEN Scott Walker

COPENHAGEN (Engel) Hope for me, I hope for you, We're snowdrops falling through the night. We'll melt away before we land, Two teardrops for somebody's hand.

BOUNCER SEE BOUNCER Scott Walker

BOUNCER SEE BOUNCER (Scott Walker) Spared I've been spared all the nickling all the dimeing Spared I've been spared all the powder on a trumpet of Gabriel Don't play that song for me

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

SCOPE J Scott Walker

so the furside is the outside and the skinside is the inside oneside likes the skinside inside and the furside on the outside others like the skinside outside and the furside on the inside if you turn

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

THE BALLAD OF SACCO AND VANZETTI Scott Walker

THE BALLAD OF SACCO AND VANZETTI (Baez/Morricone) Father - yes, I am a prisoner Fear not, to relate my crime The crime is loving the forsaken Only silence is shame Blessed are the persecuted

Clara Scott Walker

pounding in past the screens past the shields I felt the nail driving into my foot while I felt the nail driving into my hand Rub a dub God and bring beat the band I tried I tried What when you

PATRIOT Scott Walker

PATRIOT (a single) (Scott Walker) ja '91 see how they run i brought nylons from New York some had butterflies some had specks i brought nylons from New York Hard flat butterflies some had

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

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

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

ANGELS OF ASHES Scott Walker

ANGELS OF ASHES (Engel) The Angels of Ashes will give back your passions Again and again Their light shafts will reach through the darkness and touch you my friend They'll fly in a mind

TRACK SEVEN Scott Walker

TRACK SEVEN (Scott Walker) Stump of a drowner. The delta holder. Lowered up from his boulder and riding pains steady blowout. All those arms in the gullys chewed through at the wrists.

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

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

HERO OF THE WAR Scott Walker

HERO OF THE WAR (Engel) He's a hero of the war All the neighborhood is talkin' 'bout your son Mrs.

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

A FACE IN THE CROWD Scott Walker

A FACE IN THE CROWD (Bergman/Legrand) Tomorrow is a face in the crowd A leaf in the wind A bend in the road We're travelling Tomorrow is a sky filled with dreams A gift from the moon A sea

RAWHIDE Scott Walker

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

FUNERAL TANGO Scott Walker

FUNERAL TANGO (Jouanest/Brel/Shuman) Oh I can see them now Clutching a hankerchief And blowing me a kiss Discreetly asking how How came he died so young Or was he very old Is the body still

It's Over Scott Walker

If time were not a moving thing And I 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

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

WHO (WILL TAKE MY PLACE)? Scott Walker

(Aznavour/Kretzmer) Who, when my life is through Who will know the joy I have known with you? Who will touch your face, sleep in your embrace Who will take my place, when I sleep alone?

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

THE BIG HURT Scott Walker

THE BIG HURT (Wayne/Shanklin) Now it begins, now that's you've gone Needles and pins, twilight till dawn Watching the clock till you return Lighting that torch and watching it burn Now it begins

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.

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

Psoriatic Scott Walker

Birds Birds This is not a cornhusk doll dipped in blood in the moonlight Like what happen in America This is us our eyelids snagged dipped in mob in the daylight Like what happen in America The

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?

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

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

WILL YOU STILL BE MINE Scott Walker

WILL YOU STILL BE MINE (Dennis/Adair) When lovers make no rendez-vous To stroll along Fifth Avenue; When this familiar world is through, Will you still be mine?

The Girls And The Dogs Scott Walker

Always dreaming of minks They drive you to drink The girls Are as soft as a sigh That whispers good-bye And leaves you to cry But the dogs Well, they're only dogs Just wagging their tails As they watch

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

Black Sheep Boy Scott Walker

Here I am back home again I'm here to rest All they ask is where I've been Knowing I've been West.

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

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

DUCHESS Scott Walker

DUCHESS (Engel) It's your bicycle bells and you Rembrandt swells Your children alive and still breathing And your look of loss when you're coming across Makes me feel like a thief when you're

Such a Small Love Scott Walker

Such a Small Love (Engel) Mist falls and his voice cracks from the morning Flowers and my body feels like lead Someone should have stopped the birds from singing today Hammers from striking nails