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 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

Black Sheep Boy Scott Walker

I'm the family's unknown boy Golden curls and envied hair Pretty girls with faces fair See the shining Black Sheep Boy. If you love me, let me live in peace.

DUCHESS Scott Walker

DUCHESS (Engel) It's your bicycle bells and you 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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Jackie Scott Walker

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 time they called me "Jacky" If I could be for only

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 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 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

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

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

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

AMSTERDAM Scott Walker

swallow the moon That can haul up the sails And he yells to the cook With his arms open wide Bring me more fish Put it down by my side Then he wants so to belch But he's too full to try So he gets up and

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

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

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.

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?

Til The Band Comes In Scott Walker

Here on the outskirts of life It's a world with the voice of a caretaker's wife I'm leaving tomorrow don't let it bring you down Stick around and around and around and around.

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

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

THE SEVENTH SEAL Scott Walker

fear He needed to know He ran where he might feel God's breath And in the misty church He knelt to confess The face within the booth was Mr.

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO SATURDAY NIGHT Scott Walker

Leadon) Seems like a dream now, it was so long ago The moon burns so bright and the time went so slow And I swore that I loved her, and gave her a ring A bluebird was high on the wing Whatever

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

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

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

THAT NIGHT Scott Walker

THAT NIGHT (Schifrin/Gimbel) The snow was on the hill The fields were soft and white We touched and time stood still On that hill, on that night Your glances said 'begin' Begin this strange

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

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

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

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 BIG HURT Scott Walker

THE BIG HURT (Wayne/Shanklin) Now it begins, now that's you've gone Needles and pins, twilight till dawn Watching the clock till you return Lighting that torch and watching it burn Now it begins

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

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.

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

TRACK THREE Scott Walker

TRACK THREE (Scott Walker) Delayed in the headlong Resembled to breaking-point I swear you never slept at night when the growing is slow.

SCOPE J Scott Walker

Fingered but I won't be soiled I won't beg or lift my voice and I won't be soiled The sun will never rise but I will see it spilling down the slave ships cross the bay A tear will never fall but I will

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

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 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

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