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?

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.

SOMEONE TO LIGHT UP MY LIFE Scott Walker

SOMEONE TO LIGHT UP MY LIFE (De Moraes/Jobim/Lees) Where shall I look for the love to replace you?

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

SPEAK SOFTLY LOVE Scott Walker

that only few have ever known Wine coloured days, warmed by the sun Deep velvet nights, when we are one Speak soflty love, so no-one hears us but the sky The vows of love we make will live until we die My

WHERE LOVE HAS DIED Scott Walker

Owen) If my years were less, and my shoes were new I'd pack my things and I'd leave you Hitch myself to some westbound train You'd never see me here again If I could dream as I once could I'd

COWBELLS SHAKIN Scott Walker

COWBELLS SHAKIN (Semel/Walker) Andrea turn to me and hear what I'm sayin' And why must you always be kneelin' and prayin' Though hard as I run I can't overcome The things that this city has taken

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

MATHILDE Scott Walker

back to me Go ask the maid if she heard what I said Tell her to change the sheets on the bed Mathilde's come back to me Fellas, don't leave me tonight Tonight I'm going back to fight Wretched Mathilde's

COPENHAGEN Scott Walker

Follow me into just one more Spring. Copenhagen, you're the end, Gone and made me a child again. Warmed my feet beneath cold sheets, Dyed my hair with your sunny streets.

JUST ONE SMILE Scott Walker

There's nobody to notice it Can't I cry if I want to? No-one cared Why can't I pretend That you loved me again?

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 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

SCOPE J Scott Walker

Engel) (from Ute Lemper's 'Punishing Kiss' album [Decca 4664732]) The Russians are going The Russians are going Departing like merchants dragging the contours into the never settling snow Behold not a

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

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

SUNDOWN Scott Walker

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 Sundown,

Psoriatic Scott Walker

The breasts are still heavy The legs long and straight The upper lip remains short The teeth are too small The eyeside is green The hair long and black Still coming through Still coming through She

BOY CHILD Scott Walker

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 Old gets a new life

THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM Scott Walker

unbearable sorrow And run where the brave never go To write the unwritable wrong To love, pure and chaste from afar To try, when your arms are too weary To reach the unreachable star This is my

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

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

Clara Scott Walker

splintering white bone Teeth shaken out with a stroke Brain running down along spear from the wound in the eye hole Stones pounding in past the screens past the shields I felt the nail driving into

THE GIRLS FROM THE STREETS Scott Walker

Shouts don't look sad Things aren't so bad They're just more wrong than right His brandy brim voice whispers Come with me I hold the key The city's ours tonight Heys the barmaid slaps her ass She

TRACK SIX Scott Walker

TRACK SIX (Scott Walker) Say it got late on that one. That life-giver one. Hanging weightless from the wound in a half-light. Taken up I could hold him when all falls away.

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.

THE BIG HURT Scott Walker

) 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, day after day This is my

SUNSHINE Scott Walker

Newbury) Sunshine - You may find my window, but you won't find me Sunshine- I've got my frind, the darkness, here tonight to hide me Sunshine- As far as I'm concerned, I'm where I want to be Sunshine

WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG Scott Walker

in a room, a party or ball "Come sit over here", somebody will call "A drink for Monsieur, a drink for us all"But how many times I stop - and recall Ah, the apple treesBlossoms in the breezeThat we walked

Jolson and Jones Scott Walker

chilling exploration of erotic consumption With an arm across the torso Face on the nails With an arm across the torso Face on the pale monkey nails Cossacks are charging in Charging into

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

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?

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO SATURDAY NIGHT Scott Walker

Finding a sweetheart and holding her tight She said: "Tell me, oh tell me- was I alright?" Whatever happened to Saturday night?

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

The Lady Came From Baltimore Scott Walker

Lady came from Baltimore All she wore was lace Didn't know that I was poor She never saw my place I was there to steal the money Take her rings and run Then I fell in love with the lady Got away with none

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

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

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

"Milosevic couldn't care less if Bosnia was recognized" a laughing Dr. Karadzic later told a television interviewer.

LADY CAME FROM BALTIMORE Scott Walker

LADY CAME FROM BALTIMORE (Tim Hardin) Lady came from Baltimore All she wore was lace Didn't know that I was poor She never saw my place I was there to steal the money Take her rings and run

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

A Lover Loves Scott Walker

its bloodied head Curare Curare Curare brogue cries from the street Curare Curare As the grossness of spring rose a tumor balloon to squeak against the window With the grossness of spring staining into

WHO (WILL TAKE MY PLACE)? Scott Walker

WHO (WILL TAKE MY PLACE)? (Aznavour/Kretzmer) Who, when my life is through Who will know the joy I have known with you?

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

Tar Scott Walker

She holds a baby made of towels up ahead. Up ahead on the baleen bronchial Jacobs offspring in Egypt totalled seventy. Hogwash! Jacobs offspring in Egypt totalled seventy five. Contritio/Attritio.

OLD FIVE AND DIMERS LIKE ME Scott Walker

Shaver) I've spent a lifetime makin' up my mind to be More than the measure of what I thought others could see Good luck and fast bucks are too far and too few between Cadillac buyers and old five

ONLY MYSELF TO BLAME Scott Walker

ONLY MYSELF TO BLAME (Music: David Arnold, Lyrics: Don Black) I뭭e walked way past midnight, I뭭e driven for days I뭭e tried to forget in so many ways I뭭e held other arms, but they don뭪 feel the same

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

COUNTRY GIRL Scott Walker

with the ring No nightingale could ever sing So plaintively as the country girl I was spellbound and curious Why such a sad song Perhaps love passed her by No hope for rainbows in the sky Maybe she

It's Raining Today Scott Walker

"It's raining today And I'm just about to forget the train window girl That wonderful day we met She smiles through the smoke from my cigarette It's raining today But once there was summer and you And