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Rufus Wainwright
by Rufus Wainwright
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3.1707
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3.6000
Rufus Wainwright Lyrics
Lyrics
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- I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless
- I don't want to smell you and lose my senses
- And smile in slow motion
- With eyes in love
- I twist like a corkscrew
- The sweetness rising
- I drink from the bottle, weeping
- Why won't you last?
- Why can't you last
- So i will walk without care
- Beat my snare
- Look like a man who means business
- Go to all the poshest places
- With their familiar faces
- Terminate all signs of weakness
- Oh, all for the sake of a foolish love
- I will take my coffee black
- Never snack
- Hang with the wolves who are sheepish
- Flow through the veins of town
- Always frown
- Me and my mistress, the princess
- Oh, all for the sake of a foolish love
- So the day noah's ark floats down park
- My eyes will be simply glazed over
- Or better yet
- I'll wear shades on sunless days
- And when the sun's out, i'll stay in and slumber
- Oh, all for the sake of a foolish love
- All for the sake of a foolish love
- Cause i don't want to hold you and feel so helpless
- I don't want to smell you and lose my senses
- And smile in slow motion
- With eyes in love
- [Thanks to crucifymyself@hotmail.com for these lyrics]
- Your skin is cold
- But the sun shines within your hold
- Your hair is gold
- But you see through a goldfish bowl
- I feel old, sick, and tired
- We walk the streets
- Gently staring, wondering what to do
- The sun in sheets
- Pouring down those streets to eyes green and blue
- And a ship with eight sails could come round the bend
- Or a heard of bulls charging stoplights red
- I'd be blind
- You broke my heart, danny boy
- Not your fault, danny boy
- I was had at the doorstep
- Played, like a two to a four-set
- Had, like poor job in the bible by god
- Day comes, i wake
- I wake with a hard heartache
- I go down to your place
- We sit and chat about new york
- And trips to the bayou
- My smile, a trick
- Tricking me and trying not to scare you
- And a ship with eight sails could come round the bend
- Or a heard of bulls charging stoplights red
- I'd be blind
- You broke my heart, danny boy
- Not your fault, danny boy
- I was had at the doorstep
- Played, like a two to a four-set
- Had, like poor job in the bible by god
- [Thanks to crucifymyself@hotmail.com for these lyrics]
- Oh what a shame that your pockets did bleed on st. valentine's
- And you sat in a chair
- Thinking "boy i'm such a prince!"
- Well, life's a train that goes from february on
- Day by day
- But it's making a stop on april first
- And you will believe in love
- And all that it's supposed to be
- But just until the fish start to smell
- And you're struck down by a hammer
- Sure, you were swift
- When the handsome greek boys dropped by with gifts
- You are suave
- Thanks to ribbons that open sesame
- But in the stars and closer to home, in every planet
- It ain't hard for me and dear jo jo to see
- That you will believe in love
- And all that it's supposed to be
- But just until the fish start to smell
- And you're struck down by a hammer
- So let it all go by
- Looking at the sky
- Wondering if there's clouds and stuff in hell
- And you will believe in love
- And all that it's supposed to be
- But just until the fish start to smell
- And you're struck down by a hammer
- [Thanks to crucifymyself@hotmail.com for these lyrics]
- You gave me all your love in one day
- You gave it all and almost faded away
- I'm going to take this sad and unread issue
- In my arms tonight
- Looking at hospitals victorian
- Feeling as helpless as the elephant man
- Wish you were here
- To chain you up without shame
- In my arms tonight
- So if you should feel a bit out of place
- This vision not unlike a shooting star
- I have embraced
- Cause you gave me all your love in one day
- You gave it all and almost faded away
- I'm going to take this sad and unread issue
- In my arms tonight
- Looking at hospitals victorian
- Feeling as helpless as the elephant man
- Wish you were here
- To chain you up and without shame
- In my arms tonight
- I ain't a soft and saccharine wannabe
- Still i pray to god this song will end happily
- So i offer you a place to rest and forget yourself
- In my arms tonight
- A place to rest and forget yourself
- In my arms
- Tonight
- [Thanks to crucifymyself@hotmail.com for these lyrics]
- The boys and girls of millbrook are on a train from new york
- Wearing new hats
- Shooting the shit
- Deep in the heart of duchess county bounty
- And all the evening breakdowns will soon be washed from their hands
- The next very day
- As they make way
- Eating the apple to the chapel holy
- Don't even try
- They'll get away with murder
- Sure as the rain washes away
- And brings thunder
- Oh tell me can you see it?
- The gentle tower rising
- Over the pines, out of a book
- Zion mistaken for the state of Millbrook
- [Thanks to crucifymyself@hotmail.com for these lyrics]
- Nothing so bright
- Nothing so small
- Nothing so pure as my baby
- All of my life
- Days into nights
- All i did dream was my baby
- Until the day
- Darkness entwined with silver eyes
- Was my baby staring at me
- And since then
- I can't see straight
- And since then
- My smile's been fake
- Funny, i know the troubles i've seen
- But through one eye only that's clean
- If you bring along your needles
- Then i'll bring my sharpened pencils
- And draw one more comic tragedy
- So call up the child players
- From madame we'll rent the parlor
- And dance to death till i can't see
- My baby
- [Thanks to crucifymyself@hotmail.com for these lyrics]
- I never had it
- I never wanted it
- I never had your beauty mark
- Nor did i have your black hair
- And hazel eyes
- My early childhood was not as simple
- As yours set in the country
- No i did not have a fear of nuns who dressed in black
- But i do have your taste
- I had no radio show
- Nor did i have home-made clothes
- Home-made curtains of the same material
- I never had it
- I never wanted it
- I never had your beauty mark
- But i do have your taste
- And i do have your round face and long hands
- I think Callas sang a lovely "norma"
- You prefer Robson in "deep river"
- I may not be so manly
- But still i know you love me
- Even if i don't have your beauty mark
- [Thanks to crucifymyself@hotmail.com for these lyrics]
- The summer sun set a vicious circus
- When shadows held the world in place
- But today i felt a chill in my apartment's coolest place
- Fuggi regal fantasima
- The village larks cannot be heard
- Cause all the crows got panderers
- I can't escape these velvet drapes
- Don't want my rings to fall off my fingers
- Fuggi regal fantasima
- The mirror i find hard to face
- Cause i fear it's a long way down
- Got to get away from here
- Think i know which hemisphere
- Crazy me don't think there's pain in barcelona
- They dance you round a waltz confound
- But i fear it's a long way down
- This road
- Even if that straw i pulled
- And i got to fight that bull
- Nothing really does compare to barcelona
- Besides in spain don juan's to blame
- But i fear it's a long way down
- And i fear i won't be around
- Got to get away from here
- Think i know which hemisphere
- Make sure i have all my papers
- Laying out my summer clothes
- Search for traps in vain like scratching
- So my suitcase i can close
- Fuggi regal fantasima
- [Thanks to crucifymyself@hotmail.com for these lyrics]
- This is the day
- The day of the death
- The death of the matinee idol
- Still so beautiful as the angels
- As the angels came down from high
- So sweet and so soft
- So charmingly daft
- So young was the matinee idol
- Lips of crimson, slightly open
- As the flash and all fame put to rest
- Walk along that wall
- No it is not from the academy
- Walk along that wall
- From this moment on
- You'll cease to be the undying love of the public eye
- And so goes one more away from the maze
- Away for to sit at the table above babel
- Far from this world
- While standing on the boulevard
- Walk along that wall
- No it is not from the academy
- Walk along that wall
- From this moment on
- You'll cease to be
- But still
- Whomever has looked at beauty is marked out already by death
- Still so beautiful as the angels
- As the angels came down from high
- [Thanks to crucifymyself@hotmail.com for these lyrics]
- Desdemona, do not go to sleep
- Brown-eyed tosca, don't believe the creep
- I see it in his eyes
- And why don't you ladies believe me when i'm screaming
- I always believe you
- Violetta, keep your man locked up
- Or like cio-cio
- You will end up burned by love or sickness
- And why don't you ladies believe me when i'm screaming
- I always believe you
- There is a knock at the door
- Tell me it's not mimi again
- Or is it Gilda's waiting passion to be stabbed and killed again
- Katya kabanova, why did you marry him?
- You knew his mother was a bitch
- And would keep hold of him
- Oh pamina got away from mama
- Before the age of rambo opera
- Damned ladies of orpheus
- Your arias cause a stir in my sad and lonely heart
- [Thanks to crucifymyself@hotmail.com for these lyrics]
- My true love did breathe by the sally ann so softly
- That while walking through town
- Only my heart did hear him
- In views of the city
- There ain't many folks by the sally an so pretty
- That while walking through town
- Many a twisted feature made a terrible beauty
- And then i knew
- I'd been there before
- One thing you must know by the sally ann directly
- Is that the pockets don't hold any more sunken treasure
- After baptism by whiskey
- But when leaving the bar by the sally ann just barely
- That old angel may allow light from above the mountain
- And red brick walls blooming, you might see
- And then you'll know
- You've been there before
- [Thanks to crucifymyself@hotmail.com for these lyrics]
- Every kind of love
- Or at least my kind of love
- Must be an imaginary love to start with
- Guess that can explain the rain waiting walking game
- Schubert bust my brain to start with
- Cause every kind of love
- Or at least my kind of love
- Must be an imaginary love to start with
- Guess that can explain the rain waiting walking game
- Schubert bust my brain to start with
- Oh, to look at you
- In a cab
- Back of your head across my lap
- Oh, what grace
- Green back seat against the red of your face
- Oh, to look at you
- Any old grand hotel
- Drunken demands give way to reservations
- Oh, what a room
- Champagne brings such happy faces
- Happy faces
- Cause every kind of love
- Or at least my kind of love
- Must be an imaginary love to start with
- Guess that can explain the rain waiting walking game
- Schubert bust my brain to start with
- Cause every kind of love
- Or at least my kind of love
- Must be an imaginary love to start with, baby
- Guess that can explain the rain waiting walking game
- Schubert bust my brain to start with
- Oh, oh...
- [Thanks to crucifymyself@hotmail.com for these lyrics]
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