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

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

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

IF SHE WALKED INTO MY LIFE Scott Walker

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?

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 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

RAWHIDE Scott Walker

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

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

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

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.

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.

USE ME Scott Walker

Withers) My friends feel it's their appointed duty They keep tryin' to tell me All you really wanna do is use me Hey, but my answer to all that 'use me' stuff I wanna spread the news that if

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

WAIT UNTIL DARK Scott Walker

WAIT UNTIL DARK (Mancini/Livingston/Evans) Who cares how cold and grey The day may be Wait until dark And we'll be warm Our place of love Is where we face our dreams Together Where our fantasies

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?

Psoriatic Scott Walker

Birds Birds This is not a cornhusk doll dipped in blood in the moonlight Like what happen in America This is us our eyelids snagged dipped in mob in the daylight Like what happen in America The

PLASTIC PALACE PEOPLE Scott Walker

" his voice whimpers A string clutched in his tiny hand Not till I've seen the sky's not lit up In tears, child try and understand Don't pull the string, Don't bring me down Don't make me land

WHO (WILL TAKE MY PLACE)? Scott Walker

(Aznavour/Kretzmer) Who, when my life is through Who will know the joy I have known with you? Who will touch your face, sleep in your embrace Who will take my place, when I sleep alone?

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

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

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, well

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

FACE ON BREAST Scott Walker

FACE ON BREAST (Scott Walker) Swan you glide above the thrashing Release the catches strain your wings behind your back Paint his eyes it'll never lick those eyes Smear the mouth all across

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

ONLY MYSELF TO BLAME Scott Walker

ONLY MYSELF TO BLAME (Music: David Arnold, Lyrics: Don Black) I뭭e walked way past midnight, I뭭e driven for days I뭭e tried to forget in so many ways I뭭e held other arms, but they don뭪 feel the same

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

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

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 Lover Loves Scott Walker

rose a tumor balloon to squeak against the window With the grossness of spring staining into the walls The chair had been shifted ever so slightly say five feet or two centimeters The prints of

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MY DEATH (LA MORT) Scott Walker

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 time My death waits like a witch at night and surely

FARMER IN THE CITY Scott Walker

FARMER IN THE CITY (Remembering Pasolini) (Engel) Do i hear 21 21 21 i'll give you 21 21 21 Do i hear 21 21 21 i'll give you 21 21 21 This night you are mistaken i'm

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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