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

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

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

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

The Amorous Humphrey Plugg Scott Walker

Hello Mr.

Cossacks Are Scott Walker

Corneas misted psst psst psst psst color high psst psst psst Motionless psst psst psst psst for seconds at a time A hand that is cold in another colder psst psst psst And everything psst psst psst

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.

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?

ANGELICA Scott Walker

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 do, for

My Death Scott Walker

My death is like a swinging door a patient girl who knows the score whistle for her and the passing time My death waits like a bible truth at the funeral of my youth weep loud for that and the passing

MY DEATH (LA MORT) Scott Walker

MORT) (Brel/Shuman) (French words: Jacques Brel) (English words: Mort Shuman and Eric Blau) (Music: Jacques Brel) My death is like a swinging door a patient girl who knows the score whistle for

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

THE SUMMER KNOWS Scott Walker

her summertime Tells the moon to wait, and the sun to linger Twist the world 'round her summer finger As you see The wonder of it all And if you've learned your lesson well There's little more for

TWO RAGGED SOLDIERS Scott Walker

looking glass women And they took the detours that scattered the way They departed from summer like two ragged soldiers Dragging their heels through their fantasies There were meals in the missions for

BLANKET ROLL BLUES Scott Walker

I took a few provisions some for comfort, some for cold but I took nobody with me not a soul.

Chicago James Brown

Chicago, Chicago, that toddling town Chicago, Chicago, I'll show you around, I love it Bet your bottom dollar, you'll lose the blues in Chicago Chicago, the town that Billy Sunday couldn't shut down

WE CAME THROUGH Scott Walker

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 you, for

GLORY ROAD Scott Walker

GLORY ROAD (Diamond) Wearin' my high boots Got all my wordlies here in a sack Looking for something Knowing that it ain't here where I'm at I'm comin' back - I'm comin' Ride by thumbin' Get

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

FRISCO DEPOT Scott Walker

When you're alone, you ain't got much reason for livin' But while you're alive, you just got to live with your pain Unless you've been alone for so long, there's no-one left for giving And you find

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 IMPOSSIBLE DREAM Scott Walker

To love, pure and chaste from afar To try, when your arms are too weary To reach the unreachable star This is my quest, to follow that star No matter how hopeless, no matter how far To fight for

DUCHESS Scott Walker

Rembrandt swells Your children alive and still breathing And your look of loss when you're coming across Makes me feel like a thief when you're bleeding Duchess Duchess Light up your candles for

The Gentle Rain Scott Walker

We both are lost And alone in the world Walk with me In the gentle rain Don't be afraid Either hand for your hand And I will be your world For a while I feel your tears As they roll down your face They

TIME OPERATOR Scott Walker

TIME OPERATOR (Semel/Walker) Moon breathin' in thru' my window Curtains are sighing dust of the day Still I'm not alone like all my neighbours say Chorus: Time Operator Take the time to

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.

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

FUNERAL TANGO Scott Walker

valentine The old women are there Too old to give a damn They've brought along the kids Who don't know who I am They're thinking about the price of my funeral bouquet What they're thinking isn't nice For

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

THE GIRLS FROM THE STREETS Scott Walker

With rapturous delight Earthquaking the sawdust ground He grabs my arm and out into the famished night Now two blazing leaves burning up ground The tiny waltz of a merry go round Cascading lights for

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

OLD FIVE AND DIMERS LIKE ME Scott Walker

and dimers like me She stood beside me letting me know she would be Something to lean on when everything ran out on me Well-fenced yards ain't old cars, and I guess not never will be The reason for

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

BOY CHILD Scott Walker

BOY CHILD (Engel) 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

Brando (Feat. Sunn O)))) Scott Walker

I took it for Wild One And then for my sin I took it from Lizbeth again and again. Ah, The Wide Missouri Dwellers on the bluff Across The Wide Missouri Never enough No, Never enough.

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

BUTTERFLY Scott Walker

BUTTERFLY (Engel) There's a butterfly circling the beach Searching the rocks where you are He chooses your hair, and that's where he belongs For he's lost like a star Head down, reluctant and

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

WHERE LOVE HAS DIED Scott Walker

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 be gone, and gone for

Jolson and Jones Scott Walker

A moving aria for a vanishing style of mind A noble debut tackling vertiginous demands Has absence ever sounded so eloquent so sad I doubt it With an arm across the torso Face on the nails

DEALER Scott Walker

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

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

Such a Small Love Scott Walker

one suit Badly pressed and worn Like a child left In the world alone He speaks I don't hear a word he's saying Hang on to the pine trees and the snow Reach out grab the memories that are left for

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

COME NEXT SPRING Scott Walker

(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 Still waiting for

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

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

IF YOU GO AWAY Scott Walker

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 And the day was young And the night was long And the moon stood still For

Jesse Scott Walker

Ja da ja da ja da ja da jing jing jing Wrapped in blankets then in blankets Hear the germs pinging on the night wind Cross the west coast to the west coast to the west coast The angelus begins Eye for

COUNTRY GIRL Scott Walker

melancholy strain The valley echoed 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