ONLY THE YOUNG Scott Walker

ONLY THE YOUNG (Ahlert/Fisher) Only the young feel that love is a dream from which they'll never waken Their world is an apple on a tree, just waiting to be shaken Only the young don't care what

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

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

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

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

Jackie Scott Walker

And talk about virility With some old grandmother That might be decked out like a christmas tree And no pink elephant I'd see Though I'd be drunk as I could be Still I would sing my song to me About the

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

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 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

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

DUCHESS Scott Walker

coming across Makes me feel like a thief when you're bleeding Duchess Duchess Light up your candles for me Duchess Duchess Put all your love back in me I come listening I touch touching With the

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

WILL YOU STILL BE MINE Scott Walker

When cabs don't drive around the park; No windows light the summer dark; When love has lost its secret spark, Will you still be mine?

LOW DOWN FREEDOM Scott Walker

Shaver) Longhaired young girl, here beside me Fittin' my body, warm my mind Sleeping quiet, never knowin' That tomorrow should be one more thing I'm gonna leave behind Like them big wheels, I'll

WHO (WILL TAKE MY PLACE)? Scott Walker

(Aznavour/Kretzmer) Who, when my life is through Who will know the joy I have known with you? Who will touch your face, sleep in your embrace Who will take my place, when I sleep alone?

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

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

THE SEVENTH SEAL Scott Walker

hear of plague in this town The town I've left behind was burned to the ground A young girl on a stake her face framed in flames cried I'm not a witch God knows my name The knight he watched with

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

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

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

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 have

FUNERAL TANGO Scott Walker

FUNERAL TANGO (Jouanest/Brel/Shuman) Oh I can see them now Clutching a hankerchief And blowing me a kiss Discreetly asking how How came he died so young Or was he very old Is the body still

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.

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?

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

SOMEONE WHO CARED Scott Walker

a chance You gotta give life a chance Tomorrow came and you saved it for no-one Yesterday's gone - you just threw it away You never gave life a chance You gotta give life a chance They're only

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

USE ME Scott Walker

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 that if

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jesse Scott Walker

Neath the bougie a thimble rigger slyly rolls the pea Bye the bye the bye the bye Red is patchy snows the silver Bye the bye the bye the bye Can't turn from a crotch in the darkness To turn to 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

Cue Scott Walker

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 through

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

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,

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

Psoriatic Scott Walker

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

Clara Scott Walker

Mend amend bring and rub beat the band I tried I tried Shrugged off the splintering white bone Teeth shaken out with a stroke Brain running down along spear from the wound in the eye hole Stones

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

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

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

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

DEALER Scott Walker

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

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