Scott Walker - Mathilde Lyrics






Mama, 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 back to me
Go ask the maid if she heard what I said
Tell her to change the sheets on the bed
Mathilde's come back to me
Fellas, don't leave me tonight
Tonight I'm going back to fight
Wretched Mathilde's in sight

My heart, my heart, stop beating so
Just make as if you didn't know
That Mathilde's come back to me
My heart, I don't want you to say
She's lovelier than when she went away
Mathilde, who's come back to me
My heart, stop beating overjoyed
Remember you were once destroyed
By Mathilde, who's come back to me
Fellas, please don't go away
Tell me that I mustn't stay
Mathilde's coming back today

My hands, you'll start to shake again
When you remember all the pain
Mathilde's come back to me
You'll want to beat her black and blue
But don't do it, I beg of you
Mathilde's come back to me
My hands, remember all the years
Remember when you caught my tears
Mathilde's come back to me
My hands, you'll want to touch her now
But please try and be strong somehow
Mathilde's here, she's coming now, now

Mama, can you hear me yell
Your baby boy's gone back to hell
Mathilde's come back to me
Charley, champagne right away
I know you've been saving it for the holiday
But Mathilde's come back to me
Go ask the maid if she heard what I said
Tell her to put the best sheets on the bed
Mathilde's come back to me
My friends, don't count on me no more
I've gone and crashed through heaven's door
My sweet Mathilde's here
Once more, once more





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  1. T.... C....

    There is truly no other song which adequately conveys the full range of emotions that one feels, when someone comes back into your life, someone who you loved completely, someone who broke you. You have finally rebuilt yourself and then... they return. This is all that you feel.

  2. w.... j....

    Beautiful man beautiful voice ❤️ RIP Scott 💔 Tonight I’m gonna drink my tears😢

  3. B.... G....

    Good stuff! I like this.

  4. D.... P....

    RIP guvnor

    D.... P....

    a legend has left us

  5. L.... W....

    Wow, i can hear how much this chap influenced Marc Almond(Great Singer)! Walker is a genius!

  6. J.... E....

    Only one who can Brels songs great

  7. g.... ....

    It's a shame that so few Americans know anything at all about this American singer who had to go to England to make it big somewhere.

    g.... ....

    Im friends with the son of the Drummer from the Walker brothers. Literally got no royalties whatsoever.

    g.... ....

    We knew him better as Scott Engel when he was on the Eddie Fisher and Red Skelton Shows trying to make it as a teen idol, until he joined John Maus and Gary Leeds and they transplanted themselves in England as The Walker Brothers. A friend of mine was his manager while he was living in Texas. Scott was 13 or 14 at the time.

    g.... ....

    Literally every american band had to do that in the 60s and 70s.

  8. D.... V....

    [email protected]

  9. P.... W....

    Still love it.

  10. G.... S....

    Hmm- I wonder if Carly Simon had heard this song before she wrote "Jessie" ? Lyrically, they are quite similar.

  11. m.... b....

    Brass some say, well, Brel has not the thrust this Mathilda has. Crass and brass and thumping to the sublime

  12. D.... P....

    Holy shit. This is fantastic.

  13. M.... H....

    My name is Mathilde

  14. s.... ....

    I heard this tune for the 1st time on the BBC Radio broadcast from England hooked up to my desk top computer and I phone and BOSE SPEAKER  in great reception here in the upper Midwest in the U.S.A. about a month ago.

  15. r.... ....

    So over-the-top dramatic. I love it.

  16. M.... L....

    Gracias FG. I believe I will recover.

  17. W.... S....

    I love Walker's versions of the Brel songs!
     ...... the Orchestrations are  awesome!

    W.... S....

    Agreed the music is like film scores...

  18. l.... 8....

    superbe chanson

  19. B.... ....

    Cette version en anglais est inaudible je trouve, aucune poésie, aucune émotion.

  20. s.... ....

    Walker's version is much better than Brel's

  21. 1.... ....

    Great cover and great translation.

  22. Q.... R....

    The original version can be still the best because Brel was a poete ! You can't compare both !! I don't say that this cover is not good, but just it's not the same kind of music, so you can't choose the best one !

  23. H.... ....

    @JHANNAH6 when you caught my tears?

  24. M.... ....

    Sometimes I think to myself what a luck we had to live and grow up with such good music - the Beatles... and the Walker Bros. As if afterwards the music had lost something essential, something that never came up again, although there wer e beautiful songs coming along as well. Mathilde is a very good example - a superbe composition, combined with a unmatched singer -such an intense feeling is seldom to be found.

    Thanks for the upload

  25. M.... ....

    Thank you so much for uploading all these great Scott Walker songs. He was 'head and shoulders' above any male singer of the 60's, and a great song interpreter. Wonderful to hear these great songs again!

  26. c.... ....

    epic!!

  27. B.... M....

    I love Scott singing Brel

  28. U.... ....

    One of the best covers ever, and a brilliant translation!

  29. F.... ....

    Thank you!

  30. m.... ....

    wow, there's a scott walker channel out here on youtube? oh, i'm soo subbing you :) thanks for uploading man