Scott Walker, born Noel Scott Engel on January 9, 1943, to German parents, is an American musician and former lead singer of The Walker Brothers. Despite being American born, Walker's chart success has largely come in the United Kingdom, where his first four solo albums reached the top ten. Walker has lived in the UK since the 1960s. He continues to release solo material and is currently signed to 4AD. [read more] - We Came Through
We came throughWe came riding through like warriors from afarOur black horses danced upon the graves of yesterday's desiresHaunted by our visions framed in fireI greet you, for you still believe in what's behind a...
- Two Weeks Since You've Gone
Two weeks since you've goneAnd I feel like the trampPicking dutbins in the alley.He looks up as I passClutching rags from a city's restless nightI could read all my sadnessIn faces I knewDown at Kelly's bar last...
- It's Raining Today
It's raining todayand I'm just about to forget the train window girlThat wonderful day we metShe smiles through the smoke from my cigaretteIt's raining todayBut once there was summer and youAnd dark little roomsAnd...
- Come Next Spring
Come Next SpringWhen all the world is newAnd freshAnd greenAnd fairThen I'll come homeAnd I'll carry in my heartJust one prayerThat I'll find roomStill waiting for my armsWe'll meetWe'll kissWe'll clingAnd then once...
- If You Go Away
If you go awayOn this summer dayThen you might as wellTake the sun awayAll the birds that flewIn the summer skyWhen our love was newAnd our hearts were highAnd the day was youngAnd the night was longAnd the moon stood...
- Funeral Tango
Oh I can see them nowClutching a hankerchiefAnd blowing me a kissDiscreetly asking howHow came he died so youngOr was he very oldIs the body still warmOr is it already coldAll doors are open wideThey grope around...
- Winter Night
You're like a winter nightYour thoughts are frozenYou kiss your loversIn the snowToo many icy tearsGlisten for someoneYou watch the leavesAs they shiver your lonelinessYour eyes are lanternsGrowing dimI hum inside...
- 30 Century Man
See the Dwarfs an' see the Giantswhich one would you choose to beAnd if you can't get that togetherhere's the answer, here's the keyYou can freeze like 30 century manlike a 30 century manI'll save my breath and take...
- Copenhagen
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.Follow me into just one more Spring.Copenhagen, you're the end,Gone and made me a...
- Two Ragged Soldiers
They spoke transparent phrases to looking glass womenAnd they took the detours that scattered the wayThey departed from summer like two ragged soldiersDragging their heels through their fantasiesThere were meals in...
- Butterfly
There's a butterfly circling the beachSearching the rocks where you areHe chooses your hair, and that's where he belongsFor he's lost like a starHead down, reluctant and warmYou give your thoughts to the seaDark...
- Big Louise
She stands all aloneYou can hear her hum softlyFrom her fire escape in the skyShe fills the bags 'neath her eyesWith the moonbeamsAnd cries 'cause the world's passed her byDidn't time sounds sweet yesterday?In a world...
- Sons Of
Sons of the thief, sons of the saintWho is the child with no complaintSons of the great or sons unknownAll were children like your ownThe same sweet smiles, the same sad tearsThe cries at night, the nightmare...
- Rosemary
Voices from a photographLaughed from your wallScreamed through your dreamsWake up Rosemary and wipe your teary eyesRise and cross the cold bare floorAnd watch the moon through frosted glassDamn that photographI'll...
- When Joanna Loved Me
Today is just another dayTomorrow is a guessBut yesterdayOh what i'd give for yesterdayTo relive one yesterdayAnd its happinessWhen Joanna loved meEvery town was ParisEvery day was sundayEvery month was mayWhen Joanna...
- The Big Hurt
Now it begins, now that's you've goneNeedles and pins, twilight till dawnWatching the clock till you returnLighting that torch and watching it burnNow it begins, day after dayThis is my life, ticking awayWaiting to...
- Always Coming Back To You
What was it like when we were youngSleeping in eachothers armsWalking in eachothers dreamsWas it only yesterdayI've forgotten anywayWhat was it like to hear your nameWhere's the girl that I once knewRunning home thru...
- My Death
(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 her and the passing time My death waits like a...
- The Lady Came From Baltimore
Lady came from BaltimoreAll she wore was laceDidn't know that I was poorShe never saw my placeI was there to steal the moneyTake her rings and runThen I fell in love with the ladyGot away with noneLady's name was...
- Through A Long And Sleepless Night
Through a long and sleepless nightI whisper your nameThrough a long and sleepless nightOf who is to blameCan't help but wonderIf you're lonely tooAs I lie here and toss aboutSo alone, so without youHow I wish, my...
- Amsterdam
In the port of AmsterdamThere's a sailor who singsOf the dreams that he bringsFrom the wide open seaIn the port of AmsterdamThere's a sailor who sleepsWhile the riverbank weepsWith the old willow treeIn the port of...
- You're Gonna Hear From Me
Move over sunAnd give some skyI've got me some wingsI'm eager to tryI may be unknownBut wait til I've flownYou're gonna hear from meMake me some roomYou people up thereOn top of the worldI'll meet you, I swearI'm...
- Mathilde
Mama, do you see what I seeOn your knees and pray for meMathilde's come back to meCharley, don't want another beerTonight I'm gonna drink my tearsMathilde's come back to meGo ask the maid if she heard what I saidTell...
- Angelica
Each night I meant to sayI missed her through the dayBut I'd forget itI never said itI passed the flower shopLord knows I meant to stopBut I said tomorrowPerhaps tomorrowTomorrow there'd be timeThere'd always be...
- Such A Small Love
Mist falls and his voice cracks from the morningFlowers and my body feels like leadSomeone should have stopped the birds from singing todayHammers from striking nails into clayHer face penetrates the blue gray...
- Montague Terrace (In Blue)
The little clock's stopped ticking nowWe're swallowed in the stomached rueThe only sound to tear the nightComes from the man upstairsHis bloated belching figure stompsHe may crash through the ceiling soonThe window...
- The World's Strongest Man
As the morning turned my waySee birds flying through this hazy faceAnd I came back here to replace your place in my lifeAnd didn't you know that I'm not the world's strongest manWhen it comes to you and your world I'm...
- Angels Of Ashes
The Angels of Ashes will give back your passionsAgain and againTheir light shaftswill reach through the darknessand touch you my friendThey'll fly in a mind danceand blind you with wingswrapped in flameIf you're down...
- The Old Man's Back Again
(Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime) I seen a hand, I seen a visionIt was reaching through the clouds, To risk a dreamA shadow cross the skyAnd it crushed into the ground, Just like a beastThe old man's back...
- Duchess
It's your bicycle bells and you Rembrandt swellsYour children alive and still breathingAnd your look of loss when you're coming acrossMakes me feel like a thief when you're bleedingDuchess DuchessLight up your candles...
- Boy Child
You'll lose your wayA boy child rides upon your backTake him awayThrough mirrors dark and blessed with cracksThrough forgotten courtyardsWhere you used to search for youthOld gets a new lifeReach out you can touch...
- On Your Own Again
Wasn't it a good yearWasn't filled with talkingIt still moves through my heartFrom time to timeCity after cityGranite gray as morningHeroes died in subways left behindfar behind like our loveYou're on your own...
- The Seventh Seal
Anybody seen a knight pass this wayI saw him playing chess with Death yesterdayHis crusade was a search for God and they sayIt's been a along way to carry onAnybody hear of plague in this townThe town I've left behind...
- Rhymes Of Goodbye
I've come from far from chains, From metal and stoneFrom makeshift designs, And seeking a starTo grab for the truth, To keep myself warmI turn and it's gone gone, You smile and it's bornThe rhymes of our women's, A...
- Hero Of The War
He's a hero of the warAll the neighborhood is talkin' 'bout your sonMrs. Reiley get his medalsHand them 'round to everyoneShow his gun to all the children in the streetIt's too bad he can't shake hands or move his...
- Get Behind Me
Get Behind Me It's the signs as we see themThere's no thresholds at allThere's no vows to be brokenAs we rise, or we fallThere's no noise high above usAs the moon turns in spaceJust the face of a ladyWho we loved for...
- Blanket Roll Blues
When I crossed the riverwith a heavy blanket rollI took nobody with menot a soul.I took a few provisionssome for comfort, some for coldbut I took nobody with menot a soul.
- Rawhide
This is how you disappearout between midnight,called up under valleys of torches and stars.Foot, knee, shaggy belly, facefamous hindlegs,as one of their ownyou graze with them.Cro-magnon herderswill stand in the...
- Sleepwalkers Woman
In the time of an exilefrom the jails of anotherwhere soundings are takenraw to his eyes.I have walked the way from himdown to splintering bone asheswith your voice shining seain his fractures and skys.There are no...
- Track Five
It's a starving reflectionif he dies in the nightlistening to the increase.It cuts out your likenessin blood circulationssuspended beneath a release.A low volume force feedlower than pityslips across under the...
- Track Six
Say it got lateon that one.That life-giver one.Hanging weightless from the woundin a half-light.Taken up I could hold himwhen all falls away.Prayed into each otheryou stood in the airand the ceiling are risingand...
- Dealer
The windows are ringingshaking Night-nites for angelsrattling throats up and down on a beam.Cooling the heartscooling the plasmakeeping ice junkies packed hard on a seamThe other side of a prowlerthe dead still search...
- Track Seven
Stump of a drowner.The delta holder.Lowered up from his boulderand riding painssteady blowout.All those arms in the gullyschewed through at the wrists.All that won't flood awake--all that listens and liftsDeserting...
- Track Three
Delayed in the headlongResembled to breaking-pointI swear you never slept at nightwhen the growing is slow.After me I'm no man's sonrun out of recognize.The blood of oursplit back without his prisonerthe distance...
- The Girls From The Streets
Suffocating eyes and fast hellos and last good-byesSurround the night of meMustache large like smoke from his cigarCoughs up a joke and laughs a net of soundSwallowing the pinwheel clownsConsuming all the womenLike a...
- Wait Until Dark
Who cares how cold and greyThe day may beWait until darkAnd we'll be warmOur place of loveIs where we face our dreamsTogetherWhere our fantasies take formWhen I can't feel your nearness In the nightMy disappointments...
- Next
*** as sin, an army towelCovering my bellySome of us blush, somehowKnees turning to jellyNext, nextI was still just a kidThere were a hundred like meI followed a *** bodyA *** body follwed menext, nextI was...
- Windows Of The World
The windows of the world are covered with rainWhere is the sunshine we once knewEverybody knows when little children playThey need a sunny day to grow straight and tallLet the sunshine throughThe windows of the world...
- Jackie
And if one day I should becomeA singer with a Spanish bumWho sings for women of great virtueI'd sing to them with a guitarI borrowed from a coffee barWell, what you don't know doesn't hurt youMy name would be...
- Plastic Palace People
Over the rooftop sails BillyA string tied to his underwearThrough cobbled stone streets a child racesAnd shouts "Billy, come down from there""My mother's calling" his voice whimpersA string clutched in his tiny...
- The Amorous Humphrey Plugg
Hello Mr. Big ShotSay, you're looking smartI've had a tiring dayI took the kids along to the parkYou've become a strangerEvery night with the boysGot a new suitThat old smile's come backAnd I kiss the children good...
- Black Sheep Boy
Here I am back home againI'm here to restAll they ask is where I've beenKnowing I've been West.I'm the family's unknown boyGolden curls and envied hairPretty girls with faces fairSee the shining Black Sheep Boy.If you...
- The Girls And The Dogs
The girlsAre as fast as a gameAre as bright as a flameAnd you're always to blameThe girlsAre as pink as the lightAnd as dark as the nightAnd they're always rightThe girlsAre as cold as the sphinxAlways dreaming of...
- Best Of Both Worlds
Best Of Both Worlds, That's what you want All your own way, That's not my way And I won't share you, I couldn't fare to It's time for you to choose Which one you'd rather loose Could you love me, And forget me Are you...
- The Bridge
I've watched her from the river banksI knew her when she danced with dreamsWhite doves were there to dress her hairAnd so was MadelaineAt night the people's faces dancedLike pearls colliding on the breastOf fat Marie...
- Joanna
JoannaI can't forget the one they call JoannaWe owned the summer, hand in hand JoannaAnd now she's always just a tear awayGoodbye you, you long lost summerLeaving me behind youRevealing things for lovers that may find...
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