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

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.

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,

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

SLEEPWALKERS WOMAN Scott Walker

SLEEPWALKERS WOMAN (Scott Walker) In the time of an exile from the jails of another where soundings are taken raw to his eyes.

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

Til The Band Comes In Scott Walker

'Til the band comes in And the clouds begin to open 'Til the band comes in And we hear them all as one I'll be back again If you promise that you'll write me 'Til the band comes rollin' in.

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 meet

Rhymes Of Goodbye Scott Walker

The rhymes of a woman's, A river that never ends The Rhymes of Dimension, Surrounds us with fire and friends, And roaring through darkness, The Night children fly, I still hear them singing the rhymes

The Amorous Humphrey Plugg Scott Walker

Big Shot Say, you're looking smart I've had a tiring day I took the kids along to the park You've become a stranger Every night with the boys Got a new suit That old smile's come back And I kiss the children

MAN FROM RENO Scott Walker

pussy With the blues Just step out on The floor And see Can't follow A man from Reno Follow a man From Zurich Follow a man From Italy Can't follow A man with Brain grass Follow his

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

TILT Scott Walker

TILT (Scott Walker) He was so strong he was so bold when they made him they broke the mold if he heads this way when the moon is slow Come over and pray they'll turn the buffalo they'll turn

THE RHYMES OF GOODBYE Scott Walker

and it's gone gone, You smile and it's born The rhymes of our women's, A river that never ends The Rhymes of Dimension, Surrounds us with fire and friends And roaring through darkness The Night children

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 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

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

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

COPENHAGEN Scott Walker

Children aren't afraid to love And laugh when life amuses them. And our love is an antique song For children's carousels

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

AMSTERDAM Scott Walker

dies Full of beer, full of cries In a drunken down fight And in the port of Amsterdam There's a sailor who's born On a muggy hot morn By the dawn's early light In the port of Amsterdam Where the sailors all

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.

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

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

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

A WOMAN LEFT LONELY Scott Walker

gets lonelyshe's thinking about her man He's taken her for granted'cause he just don't understand And the fevers of the night-they can burn an unloved woman And like a red hot flame-try to push 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

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

ALWAYS COMING BACK TO YOU Scott Walker

dreams Was it only yesterday I've forgotten anyway What was it like to hear your name Where's the girl that I once knew Running home thru winter parks Arm in Arm and heart in heart Now like children

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

WE CAME THROUGH Scott Walker

warriors from afar Our black horses danced upon the graves of yesterday's desires Haunted by our visions framed in fire I greet you, for you still believe in what's behind a door You've seen the children

RAWHIDE Scott Walker

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

TRACK FIVE Scott Walker

TRACK FIVE (Scott Walker) It's a starving reflection if he dies in the night listening to the increase. It cuts out your likeness in blood circulations suspended beneath a release.

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 his

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

Next Scott Walker

have liked A little touch of tenderness Maybe a word, a smile An hour of happiness But, next, next Oh, it wasn't so tragic The high heavens did not fall But how much of that time I hated being there at all

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.

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

Cue Scott Walker

Milosevic couldn't care less if Bosnia was recognized a laughing Dr Karadzic later told a television interviewer He said Caligula proclaimed his horse senator but the horse never took his seat Polish the

Buzzers Scott Walker

He said, "Caligula proclaimed his horse senator but the horse never took his seat."

Clara Scott Walker

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 can't hear the bleating all

A Lover Loves Scott Walker

my fingers dusted from doorknobs A lamp had been dimmed Some sawdust where a ring had been Where nice girls were turned into whores Gardens with fountains where peacocks had strutted Where dead children

JOE HILL Scott Walker

copper bosses killed you, Joe They shot you Joe", said I "Takes more than guns to kill a man" Says Joe: "I did not die" Says Joe: "I did not die" Standing there as big as life And a-smiling with his

THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM Scott Walker

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, torn and covered in scars Still strove with his

TWO RAGGED SOLDIERS Scott Walker

just turned away And on one road confusion, the other desire So they took to the road of their fantasies One would speak of a lake where he used to go swimming The other had no memories left for his

BOY CHILD Scott Walker

for wanderers Hide hard in your swollen eyes Echoes of laughter Hide in the cities thighs Love catch these fragments Swirling through the winds of night What can it cost To give a boy child back his

Psoriatic Scott Walker

entered the Palazzo at night by a side door to ascend in a lift to the upper floor She lies on the bed Looking up not yet seeing the signs of the zodiac painted in gold on the blue vaulted ceiling His

JOANNA Scott Walker

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 again so sweetly He breathed you smile lived in your eyes completely And on his

Hand Me Ups Scott Walker

swine Strain after strain after strain after strain Immunity Immunity Through the dormant wards and nurseries a flugleman moves In the lung smeared slides and corridors a flugleman moves And his