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 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 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

FARMER IN THE CITY Scott Walker

Dark farm houses against the sky Every night i must wonder why Harness on the left nail keeps wrinkling wrinkling Then higher above me - e e so o e e e so o o Can't go by a man

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

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

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

ALL HIS CHILDREN Scott Walker

falling rain And you're sure as the time and the tide You see, we're all His children, His next of kin- That's the way it began No matter were you're going, or where you been- You are the family of Man

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.

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

DELTA DAWN Scott Walker

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 meet a mysterious dark-haired man

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

JOE HILL Scott Walker

you or me Says I: "But Joe, you're ten years dead" "I never died", said he "I never died", said he "The copper bosses killed you, Joe They shot you Joe", said I "Takes more than guns to kill a man

THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM Scott Walker

for a heavenly cause And I know, if I'll only be true To this gloriuos quest That my heart will lie peaceful and calm When I'm laid to my rest And the world will be better for this That one man

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO SATURDAY NIGHT Scott Walker

The years round the railroad, it ran by my door Now there's boards on the windws and dust on the floor And she passes the time and another man sighed I passed the time with my pride Water tangled

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

WE HAD IT ALL Scott Walker

all I know that we could never live those times again So I let my dreams take me back where we've been And I stay with you, girl, as long as I can Oh, it was good- oh, so good When I was your man

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

Mrs. Murphy Scott Walker

whistling out of tune Fighting on the seas Dreaming of a thousand things he'd like to be Poor Mr Johnson being married to a wife who should be caged It's the child who will suffer And to think that young man

JOANNA Scott Walker

tear 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

LOST IN THE STARS Scott Walker

alone Then the Lord God hunted through the wide night air For the little dark star on the wind down there And he stated and promised he'd take special care So it wouldn't get lost no more Now a man

FRISCO DEPOT Scott Walker

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 Lord, the helping-hand mission man

JOE Scott Walker

You've been beyond the boundaries Understood it all And thought of nothing The ultimate was simple to your eyes Just watch the world make madness As the youth cried their replies An old man knows

REUBEN JAMES Scott Walker

that I rhyme Are just the footsteps out of time From the time when I knew you Reuben James Reuben James all the folks around Madison County Cussed your name just a no Count share croppin colored man

ANGELS OF ASHES Scott Walker

gone Let the great constellation of flickering ashes be heard Let them burn with a fire all it takes to confess is a word, just a word I can recommend angels I've watched as they've made a man

THE PLAGUE Scott Walker

When anguish strikes me like a fist My nakedness exposed, and I can't stand Still I try to remember lips on lips And hits on the hips, and ice and fire and gloom and glow When did they leave the man

LITTLE THINGS Scott Walker

us all close and warm While the war's going on Find a place you can hide And take what you can The time will arrive When you need a friend Stop looking at us We're waving good-bye There's a man

The Amorous Humphrey Plugg Scott Walker

behind our smile In Channing Way Oh to die of kisses Ecstasies and charms Pavements of poets will write that I died In nine angel's arms And they all were smiling Still seductive as sin in their eyes The man

Cowboy Scott Walker

Verse 2:Some skin 'bout to peel like Scalien Some ah dem cyah nyam dem meal, comfortable and strong Dis' de man whey fly de seal, done know yuh wrong Rastaman no try no deal, we no fear no wicked man Shipment

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

Psoriatic Scott Walker

straight The upper lip remains short The teeth still too small The eyeside is green The hair long and black Still coming through Still coming through The mood soon changed in the clear morning air A man

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...

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.

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...