Hand Me Ups Scott Walker

What do Seoul andSudan 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 ...

It's Raining Today Scott Walker

was summer and you And dark little rooms And sleep in late afternoons Those moments descend on my windowpane I've hung around here too long Listenin' to the old landlady's hard-luck stories You out of me

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

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

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

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.

Black Sheep Boy Scott Walker

If you love me, let me live in peace. Please understand, That the black sheep can wear the golden fleece, And hold a winning hand.

Cowboy Scott Walker

So much love That's all I come to give Emperor Selassie I show dem love And yet still dem nah wah live Chorus:So Babylon give dem ah toy See dey inna dem hand Dem turn cowboy Babylon say destroy So anytime

WHO (WILL TAKE MY PLACE)? Scott Walker

Who, when the day is done Who will hold the hand of my only one? Who will climb the heights, finding in your nights All those wild delights, only I have known?

REUBEN JAMES Scott Walker

colored man Who would steal anything he can And they always laid the blame on Reuben James Reuben James, you still walk furrowed fields on my mind The faded skirt the weathered brow The calloused hand

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

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

BLACK ROSE Scott Walker

tall-grown sugar cane Lived a simple-headed man and a diamond neck ta him And a rose of a different name Well, the first time I felt lightnin' I was standin' in the pourin' rain With a tremblin' hand

THE SONG IS YOU Scott Walker

Hammerstein II) I hear music when I look at you A beautiful theme of every dream I ever knew Down deep in my heart, I hear it play I feel it start, then melt away I hear music when I touch your hand

It's Over Scott Walker

not a moving thing And I could make it stay This hour of love we share Would always be There'd be no coming day To shine a morning light And make us realize our night is over When you walk away from me

FRISCO DEPOT Scott Walker

a full day from home, when you can afford to fly But it might as well be to the moon, when you're as broke as I Here I sit, with my head in my hands, and watch the trains roll by Lord, the helping-hand

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.

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?

IF YOU GO AWAY Scott Walker

you stay I'll make you a day Like no day has been Or will be again We'll sail the sun We'll ride on the rain And talk to the trees And worship the wind Then if you go I'll understand Leave me

PLASTIC PALACE PEOPLE Scott Walker

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" his voice whimpers A string clutched in his tiny hand

THE SEVENTH SEAL Scott Walker

Death My life's a vain pursuit of meaningless smiles Why can't God touch me with a sign Perhaps there's no one there answered the booth And Death hid within his cloak and smiled This morning I

Clara Scott Walker

stroke Brain running down along spear from the wound in the eye hole Stones pounding in past the screens past the shields I felt the nail driving into my foot while I felt the nail driving into my hand

I THREW IT ALL AWAY Scott Walker

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 Once i had mountains in the palm of my hand

THE ROPE AND THE COLT Scott Walker

ever know that I loved you so was the reason why guitar solo The days are dust and the nights are black but oh my darlin' if I get back I'll trade my gun for a weddin' ring and I'll turn my hand

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

HERO OF THE WAR Scott Walker

Reiley get his medals Hand them 'round to everyone Show his gun to all the children in the street It's too bad he can't shake hands or move his feet He's a hero of the war You can see his picture

Such a Small Love Scott Walker

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 your hand

DELTA DAWN Scott Walker

DELTA DAWN (Alex Harvey) She's forty-one, and her daddy still calls her baby All the folks 'round Brownsville thinks she's crazy 'Cause she walks downtown with a suitcase in her hand Waitin' to meet

Jesse Scott Walker

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 hand

USE ME Scott Walker

USE ME (B.

Psoriatic Scott Walker

doll This morning in my room a little swallow was trapped It flew around desperately until it fell exhausted on my bed I picked it up so as not to frighten it I opened the window Then I opened my hand

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

MATHILDE Scott Walker

MATHILDE (Brel/Jouanest/Shuman) Momma, do you see what I see On your knees and pray for me Mathilde's come back to me Charley, don't want another beer Tonight I'm gonna drink my tears Mathilde's come

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

OLD FIVE AND DIMERS LIKE ME Scott Walker

OLD FIVE AND DIMERS LIKE ME (B.J.

SUNSHINE Scott Walker

Newbury) Sunshine - You may find my window, but you won't find me Sunshine- I've got my frind, the darkness, here tonight to hide me Sunshine- As far as I'm concerned, I'm where I want to be Sunshine

LOW DOWN FREEDOM Scott Walker

Shaver) Longhaired young girl, here beside me Fittin' my body, warm my mind Sleeping quiet, never knowin' That tomorrow should be one more thing I'm gonna leave behind Like them big wheels, I'll

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

GLORY ROAD Scott Walker

Say fiend, I've got a heavy load And I know Glory Road's waiting for me" Caught me a pick-up down from Seattle to L.A.

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.

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 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

RIDE ME DOWN EASY Scott Walker

RIDE ME DOWN EASY (B.J.

JOE Scott Walker

A kind of desert place Where old folks dry away You gazed out through the window At the wonders of the sky As if it were the first time every day Chorus: There ain't no-one left alive to call me

BLANKET ROLL BLUES Scott Walker

BLANKET ROLL BLUES (Tennessee Williams/Kenyon Hopkins) When I crossed the river with a heavy blanket roll I took nobody with me not a soul.

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

Whip-poor-will Whip-poor-will Scissoring high, in the trees, A beating would do me a world of good Sneakin by Sneakin by I am down on my knees A beating would do me a world of good.

THE PLAGUE Scott Walker

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 found the joy While I stood in the shadows wondering why Flying towards me

Jackie Scott Walker

every night And talk about virility With some old grandmother 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

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

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