Scott Walker - Always Coming Back To You Lyrics

Beautiful man beautiful voice ❤️ RIP Scott 💔 Always coming back to you and your outstanding creations of sound😢👏

A great songwriter....from the heart.....Rest in Peace....thank you Scott Walker 🌹🌹🌹🌹🎵🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵

My all time favorite singer is no more. RIP Scott Walker.

thanks you for the amazing work, good sir. rest easy.

Always coming back to your music, Scott.
Rest In Peace.

Rest in peace, Scott.

Genius. RIP Scott

Good bye my friend Scott

This was my favourite song for years! Hearing it again, I'm struck by how some of my recent work echoes it.

4 people need their ears syringing

a dream lo ve always hopes love will b e … the dream we ha d as a child … thinking lo ve would b e … the dream we dreamt lo ve would b e … for us ...

Does anyone on this forum like his albums after "Till the Band Comes In"? I must say I do not. Wish I could because I am a huge fan of his earlier work.

"The Seventh Seal" is actually the only song on Scott 4 that I feel IS (somewhat) mediocre. When you have epic songs like "The Old Man's Back Again" and "Get Behind Me" and beautiful tracks like "Duchess" and "Rhymes of Goodbye," who needs a five-and-a-half minute song about an art film in which a guy plays chess with Death? Good song, yes, but as opposed to the other tracks, it's skippable. Nothing about the rest of that album is "mediocre." The guy who keeps littering the comments with his shitty opinions needs to get his ears checked. Scott 4 is probably the best of the "Scott" albums, where he let go of his crutches and wrote all original material. Is "the Seventh Seal" the only track this guy actually listened to before dismissing the rest of the album as "mediocre?"

there's always one who's gotta be more hipster than the rest..

@JOHNNY GRAVES 😂😂😂

This brought me to tears.

The middle of this song floors me every time...

Love this 💜

God only knows the place he was at when this was written. It's an unusual piece with saddened overtones of lonliness and death. He was a master of  melancholy. 'I must search your eyes again - just to find that they are dead.' Beautiful in it's interpretation.

Panda Bear brought me here...

holy shit you're right

Take Pills!

Go overdose!

Nothing wrong with Melancholy

oh this sooo reminds me of my first wife, we were just kids when we met....

Spot on!

Such a wonderful voice and a great songwriter too.

Such a great observation. I listened to the album "Boy Child" during my college years so much that I wore grooves in it. (I know...such a bad joke that it's good).

What was the reason for Scott's country & green grass records? Were these his roots, or did he solely do them for the money? I hope he'll never do that again. I'm glad he also never fell for Motown & soul (save for the odd Walker Brothers venture, and they were good live concert material of course)

Scott 4 is far from mediocre, but after album 3 it sounds different. A bit hollow. When 'Till the band' came out he had returned to the chansons and the old production sound. The 7th seal is of course Epic, but I do not care about the rest of the tracks as I do with the other early albums.
Kudoos for the orchestrators from the 60s and early 70s too, (not only Scott's, the arrangers for Dusty, PJ Proby and Richard Harris were fantastic as well) they were magical. The synthesizer killed that.

dedeurs
What about the song ”Boy Child”? I have to disagree with you. S4 is every bit as good as S3 and in many ways S4 is the Great Leap Forward, pointing to his future work which many Scott fans consider superior to his ‘60’s work.

It makes me happy when they put Brel and Walker next to each other, Two of my very favourite singer-songwriters. It makes me feel as if there was some sense in my taste for music (:

Thank you for this intelligent comment.

Let's drink to that in the passing time!

Feel i know how you feel we saw Walkers X 3 at various venues in NW England early 60s

oh dear, presumably my comment about a certain president was not liked or did i not make myself clear, since the age of 11 probably 70% of the music I listen to is by Scott, unbeatable in everything he does.

Scott 4 is superb. Thank you Scott

I agree Scott 4 is amazing! But this is from a different album haha

Have just been looking through a few of the comments regarding this song and for some reason Scott 4 is mentioned. Did someone really refer to it as mediocre, Scott 4 mediocre? Its like saying George W was an intelligent president

Whether George W Bush was an intelligent President is a matter of opinion.

@saxontune
A beautiful description and so right.

The melodic structure is very interesting, although I'm not sure what exactly he did here. It's not so evident because the orchestra follows an almost mainstream melodic line, but it's a complicated structure, not easy to sing, and I feel he was quite ahead of his time with this sort of songs. Literary music. Yes, there is a Brel influence but he turned it into a very specified and unique Scott Walker style. Unfortunately he recorded just a few of these. Plastic Palace People f.i.

this is beautifull allways cud listen 4 ever and ever .

@guidofski Well said.

Magnificent song sung by one of the greatest troubadours ever. Beautiful, soulful, and heartbreaking.

@raceching I couldn't put it better myself. It's one of his more obscure songs, and one of his darkest as well. I love his darkness, I've felt like this in part of my life. He expresses it so well lyrically and sonically. Just a genius !!

@dedeurs Scott 4 contained possibly his greatest composition ever; Boy child. Surely you don't consider that banal or mediocre? Melancholia never sounded more beautiful!

...I now see that I reacted before, 8 months ago, oops.
I also missed mahaatman's answer to my post, sorry for that. But I also differ! Country may be Scott's roots, but it's basically banal music. Singalong stuff. And that's what songs like Always coming back to you and the Scott 3 material aren't.
OK, I admit that I would have liked to hear a lot more of his wonderful 'banal' Legrand/Bacharach ballads...

Very well arranged, and an unusual vocal structure. It's not an atonal song, but let's say that tonal and atonal meet halfway here.
A very emotional piece of music. And remember, this was 1967. As a popsinger, he was ahead of his time. Unfortunately, these days Scott Walker got so ahead of his time that he lost me.

Panda bear-take pills sample fo sho!

surely there's no substitute for company.... my mother's ripping off her hands one flake at a time.

cooooool

dedeurs: M'sieur, I beg to differ..Scott 4 is not mediocre, but misunderstood. On Yr Own Again, Duchess, and Rhymes of Goodbye are quintessential Engel. His "venture" into country, as you call it, was nothing more than an attempt to return to his roots..see his own comments on Stretch and We Had It All.

Oh yes, a true Poet of Melancholy - a modern, musical version of Keats or Byron. :)

This causes you pain when you listen to it, but you keep coming back for more. Like a lot of his tracks it's beautiful and full of melancholy. He was a natural successor to Brel. But, he had a far superior voice.

"we hold hands and watch the rain..."

Wow. I wish I had said that. Perfect description. Thanks so much.

my favourite of all of them. this song is devastating. this is youth, love, dreams, death and the passage of time wrapped in a simple, yet sizeable chunk of melancholy

Well, not quite... After the 4th he made the delightful urban album 'Till the band comes in'.

His own composition. It has an unusual structure, particularly for that period and for the Newman/Brel/Legrand/Bacharach genre he was into. His third album showed much more of the 'Always coming back' surrealism. It was then that his genius fully blossomed. And what happened next? He made the listless Seventh Seal album. Great title track, but the rest was mediocre. What went wrong?
It got worse. After the 4th album he ventured into country.

Amen to that! :)

best male vocalist ever. so clear and expressive.

lol, it's ok odoanna, trolls come with the territory...

yeah TAKE PILLS

One of my favourite ever. ever sond's totally black and inpenitrable !!
This is the GENIUS that is Scott Engel ! ! !

Delicious is what I call it. And Scott is delicious
as well. No wonder they call it god like genius.