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 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

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

BOY CHILD Scott Walker

you used to search for youth Old gets a new life Reach out you can touch it's true He's not a shadow of shadows Like you, you see Hearts hold on holding If you stay one, you'll stay free Go seek the

Tar Scott Walker

-let the leashes strain sustain those jaw-joints surging. Aw-shucks. Aw-Gee. The Porter sticks with the Porters dreams. (Shoot to a wing-tip pawing the ground.)

MAY WAY HOME Scott Walker

MAY WAY HOME (Engel/Semel) "I Still See You" single B-side (Philips 6006-168 [1971]) My Kentucky friend Dance a song for me Make it high and heard Above the rain That's falling so free We've

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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.

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.

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

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 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

ANGELICA Scott Walker

ANGELICA (Weil/Mann) Each night I meant to say I missed her through the day But I'd forget it I never said it I passed the flower shop Lord knows I meant to stop But I said tomorrow Perhaps tomorrow

The Me I Never Knew Scott Walker

The me I never knew Begin to stir sometime this morning The me I never knew Appeared without a word of warning You smiled and you uncovered What I had not discovered You made me, seethed me I never knew

DELTA DAWN Scott Walker

Could it be your faded rose from days gone by? Did I hear you say, he was meetin' you here today To take you to his mansion in the sky?

Hand Me Ups Scott Walker

What do Seoul and Sudan have in common Both start with an S Deep as a virus Little Mary little Mary From scratchless I ascend Stamps tongue swabbed now embark for the Ivory Coast chiming like mouse

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

FARMER IN THE CITY Scott Walker

a farmer in the city Dark farm houses against the sky Every night i must wonder why Harness on the left nail keeps wrinkling wrinkling Then higher above me - e e so o e e e so o

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

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

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.

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

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

TRACK FIVE Scott Walker

TRACK FIVE (Scott Walker) It's a starving reflection if he dies in the night listening to the increase. It cuts out your likeness in blood circulations suspended beneath a release.

Herod 2014 (Feat. Sunn O)))) Scott Walker

She's hidden her babies away Their soft, gummy smiles won't be gilding the menu. The deer fly, the sand fly, the tsetse can't find them. The goon from the Stasi is left far behind them.

PATRIOT Scott Walker

PATRIOT (a single) (Scott Walker) ja '91 see how they run i brought nylons from New York some had butterflies some had specks i brought nylons from New York Hard flat butterflies some had

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

LONG ABOUT NOW Scott Walker

LONG ABOUT NOW (Semel/Walker; sung by Esther Qfarim) Long about now He's heading home Back from the rain Burned to the ground His ashes will rise black butterflies Tapping at my window pane

SOMEONE WHO CARED Scott Walker

You never gave life 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

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

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

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

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

RIDE ME DOWN EASY Scott Walker

Shaver) The highway, she's hotter than nine kindsa hell Rise are as scarce as rain When you're down to your last chuck, with nothing to tell An' too far away from the trains Been a good month's

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