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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WE HAD IT ALL Scott Walker

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 had it all Remember how I

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

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

TWO RAGGED SOLDIERS Scott Walker

TWO RAGGED SOLDIERS (Engel) They spoke transparent phrases to looking glass women And they took the detours that scattered the way They departed from summer like two ragged soldiers Dragging their

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

We Could Be Flying Scott Walker

There's a few that comes in the spring A touch of hope, a new beginning Times racing by, I know But as it crossed my mind I thought we all would end up winning Love is rising like a summer sun Caught in

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?

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?

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

JUST ONE SMILE Scott Walker

All I've had has been taken from me Now I'm cryin' and my tears don't become me Just one smile - the pain's forgiven Just one kiss - the hurt's all gone Just one smile to make my life worth living

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

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

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

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

MY DEATH (LA 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

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

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

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 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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

ALL HIS CHILDREN Scott Walker

ALL HIS CHILDREN (Mancini/A&M Bergman) When you're standing alone With the mountain and the ski When the arms of the world open wide Well, the trick is that plain as a falling rain And you're

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

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