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.

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

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,

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

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

Hero Josey Scott

Hero Josey Scott I am so high, I can hear heaven I am so high, I can hear heaven Whoa, but heaven...no, heaven don't hear me And they say That a hero could save us I'm not gonna stand

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?

Rhymes Of Goodbye Scott Walker

I've come from far from chains, From metal and stone, From makeshift designs, And seeking a star To grab for the truth, To keep myself warm, I turn and it's gone, You smile and it's born.

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

LIGHTS OF CINCINNATI Scott Walker

LIGHTS OF CINCINNATI (MacAulay/Stephens) I remember still, I guess I always will That winters day I took the west bound flight, As I looked down from the plane You were standing in the rain, You waved

AMSTERDAM Scott Walker

AMSTERDAM (Brel/Shuman) In the port of Amsterdam There's a sailor who sings Of the dreams that he brings From the wide open sea In the port of Amsterdam There's a sailor who sleeps While the riverbank

A Lover Loves Scott Walker

As the grossness of spring lolls its head against the window As the grossness of spring lolls its bloodied head Curare Curare Curare brogue cries from the street Curare Curare As the grossness of spring

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.

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

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 RHYMES OF GOODBYE Scott Walker

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 fly I

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

Next Scott Walker

me next, next I was still just a kid When my innocence was lost In a mobile army whorehouse Gift from the army, free of cost Next, next Me, I really would have liked A little touch of tenderness Maybe

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

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

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

DEALER Scott Walker

DEALER (Scott Walker) The windows are ringing shaking Night-nites for angels rattling throats up and down on a beam.

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

THAT NIGHT Scott Walker

THAT NIGHT (Schifrin/Gimbel) The snow was on the hill The fields were soft and white We touched and time stood still On that hill, on that night Your glances said 'begin' Begin this strange

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

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

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

Jolson and Jones Scott Walker

A moving aria for a vanishing style of mind A noble debut tackling vertiginous demands Has absence ever sounded so eloquent so sad I doubt it With an arm across the torso Face on the nails

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.

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

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

RAWHIDE Scott Walker

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

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

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

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

Psoriatic Scott Walker

knows this room She can navigate it in the dark She 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

MY DEATH (LA MORT) Scott Walker

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 time My death waits like a witch at night and surely

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

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

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.

JEAN THE MACHINE Scott Walker

JEAN THE MACHINE (Semel/Walker) Whatever happened to Jean the machine She used to live down the hall from me And all the boys in the band Miss her so bad now Ain't it pitful She made her way

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

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

The Girls And The Dogs Scott Walker

The girls Are as fast as a game Are as bright as a flame And you're always to blame The girls Are as pink as the light And as dark as the night And they're always right The girls Are as cold as the sphinx

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

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.

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

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

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