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

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

WHERE DOES BROWN BEGIN Scott Walker

Webb) To my mind, it all seemed a little strange that the people won't do the 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

FRISCO DEPOT Scott Walker

Yes, Frisco's a mighty rich town and that ain't a lie Why, they've got some buildings that reach a mile into the sky Yet no-one can even afford the time just to tell me - why Is this world full of people

It's Over Scott Walker

eyes against the sun That rises over the land I watch you walk away Somehow I have to let you go Cause it's over If you knew just how I really feel You might return and yet There are so many times That people

USE ME Scott Walker

knew - you'd wish that you were in my shoes' You just kee usin' me Go on and use me all up Hey- use me all up Sometimes it's true, hey - you really do abuse me You get me in a crowd o' high class people

Plastic Pattern People Gil Scott-Heron

You may be plastic because you never meditate, about the bottom of glasses, The third side of your universe. Add on Alice Coltrane and her cosmic strains. Still no vocal on blue black horizons.

White Palace Clay Walker

Hello,my name is Alice" I'll be doggone if she ain't the prettiest thing I've ever seen in Dallas Her blue eyes they shine brighter Than the Aurora Borealis She looks like a queen Workin' in that white palace

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 a...

JOE Scott Walker

JOE As old Joe sat a dyin' The baby down the hall was cryin' Somebody had a party goin' on The fat boy you told tales to Moved away the other day To think with no goodbye He could have gone A pos...

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 high An...

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 ha...

JOANNA Scott Walker

JOANNA (Tony Hatch/Jackie Trent) Joanna I can't forget the one they call Joanna We owned the summer hand in hand Joanna And now she's always just a tear away Goodbye you, you long lost summer le...

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 On...

30 CENTURY MAN Scott Walker

30 CENTURY MAN (Engel) See the Dwarfs an' see the Giants which one would you choose to be And if you can't get that together here's the answer, here's the key You can freeze like 30 century man...

EASY COME EASY GO Scott Walker

EASY COME EASY GO (Green/Hayman) Easy come, easy go That's the way if love must have its stay Then ours, it came- Let it go No remorse, no regret We should part exactly as we met Just easy come,...

DEALER Scott Walker

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

RAWHIDE Scott Walker

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

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

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 fac...

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 Not a...

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 from Reno Foll...

MATHILDE Scott Walker

MATHILDE (Brel/Jouanest/Shuman) Momma, do you see what I see On your knees and pray for me Mathilde's come back to me Charley, don't want another beer Tonight I'm gonna drink my tears Mathilde's c...

WE CAME THROUGH Scott Walker

WE CAME THROUGH (Engel) We came through We came riding through like warriors from afar Our black horses danced upon the graves of yesterday's desires Haunted by our visions framed in fire I greet...

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 us toge...

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 to hea...

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 vie...

WE HAD IT ALL Scott Walker

WE HAD IT ALL (D. Fritts/T. 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 ...

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? At the moment that she need...

ON YOUR OWN AGAIN Scott Walker

ON YOUR OWN AGAIN (Engel) Wasn't it a good year Wasn't filled with talking It still moves through my heart From time to time City after city Granite gray as morning Heroes died in subways left be...

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 To lo...

SUNDOWN Scott Walker

SUNDOWN (G. 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...

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS Scott Walker

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS (M.London/Dan Black) Best Of Both Worlds, That's what you want All your on way, That's not my way And I won't share you, I couldn't fare to It's time for you to choose Which ...

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? North and South and East and West of your life I have only one request of your life Th...

ROSARY Scott Walker

ROSARY (Scott Walker) I'll string along I'll string along oo whaoo whaoo whaoo Come mornings my beads on a face A thread A thong oo whaoo whaoo whaoo We can save it We can change it

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 me...

COPENHAGEN Scott Walker

COPENHAGEN (Engel) Hope for me, I hope for you, We're snowdrops falling through the night. We'll melt away before we land, Two teardrops for somebody's hand. Follow me into just one more Spring...

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 nightin...

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 j...

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 foun...

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 st...

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 ...

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 and g...

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

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, the...

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 river...

WINTER NIGHT Scott Walker

WINTER NIGHT (Engel) You're like a winter night Your thoughts are frozen You kiss your lovers In the snow Too many icy tears Glisten for someone You watch the leaves As they shiver your lonelin...

WHERE LOVE HAS DIED Scott Walker

WHERE LOVE HAS DIED (J. 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 drea...

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? Someone to light up my life Someone with strange little ways Eyes like the blue morning haze Som...

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, ...