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Rufus Wainwright - Greek Song

Rufus Wainwright - Greek Song Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Poses
Released: 2001

Greek Song Lyrics

Greek Song

This is a song about a guy Rufus met in Greece. The story goes that Rufus met him and they talked, but when Rufus tried to make out with him, the Greek got freaked out. "Save your poison for a lover who is on your side" is an example of Rufus telling him, if you're going to talk about loving men, act like it or save your poison for women.

Rufus Wainwright - Poses

Rufus Wainwright - Poses Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Poses
Released: 2001

Poses Lyrics

Poses

This song is about Wainwright's fear of success. He fears what his future self will be and is worried he will fall into the showbiz stuff and end up wandering around New York drunk, a nobody.

Rufus Wainwright - Go Or Go Ahead

Rufus Wainwright - Go Or Go Ahead Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Want One
Released: 2003

Go Or Go Ahead Lyrics

Thank you for the bitter knowledge
Guardian angels who left me stranded
It was worth it, feeling abandoned
Makes one hardened but what has happened to love

You got me writing lyrics on postcards
Then in the evening looking at the stars
But the brightest of the planets is Mars

Then what has happened to love
So I will opt for the big white limo
Vanity fairgrounds and rebel angels
You can't be trusted with feathers so hollow
Your heaven's inventions, steel eyed vampires of love

You see over me, I'll never know
What you have shown to other eyes
Go Or Go Ahead and surprise me
Say you've lead the way to a mirage

Go or go ahead and just try me
Nowhere's now here smelling of junipers
Fell off the hay bales, I'm over the rainbows

But oh Medusa kiss me and crucify
This unholy notion of the mythic power of love
Look in her eyes, look in her eyes

Forget about the ones that are crying
Look in her eyes, look in her eyes
Forget about the ones that are crying
Go or go ahead

Writer/s: WAINWRIGHT, RUFUS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Go Or Go Ahead

This is a song about Rufus' addiction to crystal meth, and the "stranded, alone" feeling it gave him.

Rufus Wainwright - This Love Affair

Rufus Wainwright - This Love Affair Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Want Two
Released: 2004

This Love Affair Lyrics

I don't know what I'm doing
I don't know what I'm saying
I don't know why I'm watching all these white people dancing

I don't know where I'm going
But I do know that I'm walking
Where?
I don't know
Just away from This Love Affair

I can't say that I'm cruisin'
Not that I don't like cruisin'
Just that I'm bruisin from you

I can't say that I'm waltzin'
Not that I don't like waltzing
Would rather be waltzin' with you

So I guess that I'm going
I guess that I am walking
Where?
I don't know
Just away from this love affair

Writer/s: WAINWRIGHT, RUFUS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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This Love Affair

This is about moving on from a failed love affair.

Wainwright's mother Kate McGarrigle considers this her favorite song of his.

Rufus Wainwright - Agnus Dei

Rufus Wainwright - Agnus Dei Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Want Two
Released: 2004

Agnus Dei Lyrics

Agnus Dei
Agnus dei
Qui tollis peccata mundi
Agnus dei
Agnus dei
Qui tollis peccata mundi
Dona nobis pacem
Dona nobis pacem
Pacem
Dona nobis pacem

Translation:
Lamb of God
You who take away the sins of the world
Lamb of God
You who take away the sins of the world

Give us peace
Give us peace
Peace
Give us peace.

Writer/s: WAINWRIGHT, RUFUS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Agnus Dei

The song's title and all of its lyrics are Latin. "Agnus Dei" is a movement from a mass (older composers write many of these) and literally means:
(Lamb of God) Agnus Dei
(qui tollis peccata mundi) who takes away the sins of the world
(dona nobis pachem) grant us peace.

In this song, Wainwright is asking for clemency from people who attack him and his music.

This is essentially a Classical song. It is a setting of the text of one movement from a mass done by Wainwright.

This is in Bb minor, which is a very rare key.

Wainwright did the string arrangement himself.

The creaking at the beginning is actually a violin (though Wainwright agrees that it sounds like a fart). It was created by pressing down about a quarter of the way up a string and rubbing the string along the fingerboard while damping the string with the pinky.

Rufus Wainwright - Beautymark

Rufus Wainwright - Beautymark Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rufus Wainwright
Released: 1998

Beautymark Lyrics

Beautymark

This song is about Rufus' mother, Kate McGarrigle. According to Wainwright, they commonly make songs that are about each other, and this was in response to McGarrigle's "First Born" (A song about Rufus). Some lines that refer to her: "I never had your black hair, and hazel eyes," "I had no radio shows nor did I have homemade clothes, homemade curtains of the same material." The song ends very happily when Rufus decides "I may not be so manly, but still I know you love me, even if I don't have your beauty mark."