Jolson and Jones Scott Walker

A moving aria for a vanishing style of mindA noble debut tackling vertiginous demandsHas absence ever sounded so eloquent so sad I doubt itWith an arm across the torso Face on the nails With an arm...

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

When You Get Right Down To It Scott Walker

Doesn't all the hurt you ever felt disappear Holding you, touching you, girl Know that the magic just can't last forever but then When you get right down to it Don't you wanna relive the moment Again and

OLD FIVE AND DIMERS LIKE ME Scott Walker

OLD FIVE AND DIMERS LIKE ME (B.J.

THE BRIDGE Scott Walker

THE BRIDGE (Engel) I've watched her from the river banks I knew her when she danced with dreams White doves were there to dress her hair And so was Madelaine At night the people's faces danced

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

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.

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

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.

Cue Scott Walker

stick the fork in him Polish the fork and stick the fork in him Shinier still and stick the fork in him He's done boys He's done boys Where will you sleep my stomach My second stomach through the trees

Buzzers Scott Walker

Polish the fork and stick the fork in him Polish the fork and stick the fork in him Shinier still and stick the fork in him He's done boys he's done boys Where will you sleep my stomach My second stomach

THE RHYMES OF GOODBYE Scott Walker

THE RHYMES OF GOODBYE (Engel) 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

COME NEXT SPRING Scott Walker

COME NEXT SPRING (Adelson/Steiner) Come Next Spring When all the world is new And fresh And green And fair Then I'll come home And I'll carry in my heart Just one prayer That I'll find room

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

AMSTERDAM Scott Walker

port of Amsterdam There's a sailor who sleeps While the riverbank weeps With the old willow tree In the port of Amsterdam There's a sailor who dies Full of beer, full of cries In a drunken down fight And

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

WHAT ARE YOU DOING THE REST OF YOUR LIFE Scott Walker

North and South and East and West of your life I have only one request of your life That you spend it all with me All the seasons and the times of your days All the nickels and the dimes of your

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.

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

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

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

WHERE DOES BROWN BEGIN Scott Walker

thing they ought to Some folks say the world ain't ever gonna change but in my heart I believe the other folks who got to- who can't afford not to The daytime's bright, the nighttime's wonderful- and

THROUGH A LONG AND SLEEPLESS NIGHT Scott Walker

THROUGH A LONG AND SLEEPLESS NIGHT (Gordon/Newman) Through a long and sleepless night I whisper your name Through a long and sleepless night Of who is to blame Can't help but wonder If you're

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO SATURDAY NIGHT Scott Walker

Leadon) Seems like a dream now, it was so long ago The moon burns so bright and the time went so slow And I swore that I loved her, and gave her a ring A bluebird was high on the wing Whatever

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

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

INDECENT SACRIFICE Scott Walker

INDECENT SACRIFICE Took the model And the murder Weapon Took some throttle And the place I slept in Took it all And now saying Goodbye In the morning Took the wallet With the coral

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

COME SATURDAY MORNING Scott Walker

Just I and my friend We'll wander for miles In our Saturday smiles And then we'll move on But we will remember Long after Saturday's gone Come Saturday morning I'm going away with my friend We'll

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

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

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

BIG LOUISE Scott Walker

BIG LOUISE (Engel) She stands all alone You can hear her hum softly From her fire escape in the sky She fills the bags 'neath her eyes With the moonbeams And cries 'cause the world's passed

ONLY THE YOUNG Scott Walker

apple on a tree, just waiting to be shaken Only the young don't care what tomorrow may bring Today is a merry-go-round with a big brass ring We both can't stay young as a morning in May A warm and

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

WE CAME THROUGH Scott Walker

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 freeze upon their knees And

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 IMPOSSIBLE DREAM Scott Walker

THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM (Leigh/Darion) To dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foe To bear, with unbearable sorrow And run where the brave never go To write the unwritable wrong

WHEN JOANNA LOVED ME Scott Walker

WHEN JOANNA LOVED ME (Wells/Segal) Today is just another day Tomorrow is a guess But yesterday Oh what i'd give for yesterday To relive one yesterday And its happiness When Joanna loved me

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.

ONLY MYSELF TO BLAME Scott Walker

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 And

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

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

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

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

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

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

ANGELICA Scott Walker

Tomorrow there'd be time There'd always be another spring Time to make her laughter ring Time to give her everything Angelica, my Angelica There's so much you never knew So much I always meant to say And

THIS WAY MARY Scott Walker

THIS WAY MARY (Barry/Black) This way Mary, come Mary Share the world with me Make this moment our moment And our memories This way Mary, come Mary Let me warm your heart Take this love I

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