Playlist Rufus Wainwright

rufus wainwright - hallelujah

I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?

It goes like this...the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall
The major lift
The baffled King composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you.

She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne
She cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Maybe I have been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you.

I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know
What's real and going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?

And remember when I moved in you
The holy dark was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above
And all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you.

And it's not a cry you can hear at night
it's not somebody who's seen the light
it's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

rufus wainwright - 1111

Woke up this morning at 11:11
Wasn't in Portland, and I wasn't in Heaven
Could have been either by the way I was feeling
But I was alive, I was alive

Woke up this morning at 11:11
John was half naked and Lulu was crying
Over a baby that will never go crazy
But I was alive and kicking through this cruel world
Holding a notion of you at 11:11
Tell me what else can I do, what else can I do?

Woke up this morning and something was burning
Realized that everything really does happen in Manhattan
Thoughts were of characters and afternoons lying
And you, you were alive

Oh, the hours we are separate
11:11 is just precious time we've wasted
So patch up your bleeding hearts and put away your posies
I'm gonna have a drink before we ring around the rosies with you
Oh, the hours we are separate,
Oh, the hours we are separate, 11:11

rufus wainwright - 14th street

You've got my lost brother's soul
My dear mother's eyes
A brown horse's mane
And my uncle's name
You walked me down 14th Street
For the doctor to meet after thoughts of the grave
In the home of the brave and of the weak

But why'd you have to break all my heart
Couldn't you have saved a little bit of it?
Why'd you have to break all my heart?
Couldn't you have saved a minor part?

I could have clipped and saved and planted in the garden
Damn you guess I'll have to get a new one

I'd love to sit and watch you drink
With the reins to the world, gripping a smoke
Vaguely missing link
Don't ever change you hungry little bashful hound
I got the sheep, poor little Bo Peep
Has lost and filed for grounds.

But why'd you have to break all my heart
I could have ripped apart and thrown into the river
Wonder if there's hearts that will deliver

Don't ever change, don't ever worry
Because I'm coming back home tomorrow
To 14th Street where I won't hurry
And where I'll learn how to save, not just borrow
And they'll be rainbows and we will finally know

rufus wainwright - a bit of you

A bit of you the only drug I must abuse
A bit of you is the only substance I cannot refuse
When I walk on Spring
Beneath the stench a bit of you is all I smell
Upon the shelves a bit of you I ask "they sell?"
When I walk on Spring

Cause there ain't no style
No there ain't no style
Cause there ain't no style
And in fact there is just one other problem
You live up in Harlem

Of course I had no knowledge of this at the time
That came apr¨¨s July on the Upper West Side
Waiting for the fall
When from the Battery on up to your front door
From mother ship the rocket launching twister whores
Would blow up it all

Cause there ain't no style...
And in fact there is just one other problem
I would have spared Harlem

Affections sent, straight to Chekov, say you need me
Don't you need me, wait I thought we're on Broadway
No, my daddy said so: "still outside of Moscow"

And so the days creep up to my big final show
And not a word from you, an hour I must blow
So I walk and see
Upon the streets a faded island, press on eyes
A big old pool of you's, zillions I realize
And just one of me

Cause there ain't no style...
You've infected Harlem
Guess I won't be waiting several hours
Before nightfall for that A train,
just the hiss of the dumes band play.

rufus wainwright - a foggy day

I was a stranger in the city
Out of town were the people I knew
I had that feeling of self-pity
What to do? What to do? What to do?
The outlook was decidedly blue
But as I walked through the foggy streets alone
It turned out to be the luckiest day I've known

A foggy day in London Town
Had me low, had me down
I viewed the morning with alarm
The British Museum had lost its charm

How long, I wondered, could this thing last?
But the age of miracles hadn't passed
For suddenly I saw you there
And through foggy London Town
The sun was shining everywhere

rufus wainwright - a rose that needs some water

Let me lay my head on your heart
Let me lay my head on your heart
And you can give this rose some water
You can give this rose some water now

Nothing ever is what it seems
Nothing ever seems what it is
And though I may be sliding by ya
I'm a rose that needs some water now

I've been spinning round my glass ring
Grim personality
Slowly bending towards the shadows of waiting to swallow me
So if thorns are made when wretched
I'm cutting through the chatter
I'm a rose that needs some water now

All the world I'm happy to see
And all the world it's going to be
To maybe find or borrow
A place to put tomorrow's pain

Ocean crossings
Mountains to climb
And history a waste of time
Well she may just set to plunder
This rose that needs some water now

I'll come near you
Eyes beneath your eyes
Where I hope to be
All the blueness
Blue, blue, blueness
Imagine I'll untangle and fashion

So if thorns are made when wretched
I'm cutting through the chatter
I'm a rose that needs some water
Water
Water
Now
Now
Now
Now
Now

rufus wainwright - across the universe

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither while they pass they slip away across the universe.
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind,
Possessing and caressing me.
Jai guru deva om.

Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.

Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes,
and call me on and on across the universe.
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box,
They stumble blindly as they make their way across the universe.
Jai guru deva om.

Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.

Sounds of laughter shades of love are ringing through my open mind,
Inciting and inviting me.
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns,
It calls me on and on across the universe.
Jai guru deva om.

Nothing's gonna change my world (8X)

Jai guru deva,
Jai guru deva,
Jai guru deva,
Jai guru deva...

rufus wainwright - after you ve gone

After you've gone and left me cryin'
After you've gone, there's no denyin'
You'll feel blue, you'll feel sad
You'll miss the bestest pal ya ever had

There'll come a time when you'll regret it
There'll come a time, now don't forget it
Oh, baby, think what you're doin'
My love for you is gonna drive you to ruin
After you've gone, after you've gone away

Lorna Luft:
After you've gone and left me cryin'
After you've gone, there's no denyin'
You're gonna feel blue and
You're gonna feel sad, you're gonna feel bad
And you'll miss, and you'll miss
And you'll miss the bestest pal ya ever had

Wainwright & Luft:
There'll come a time, now don't forget it
There'll come a time when you'll regret it
Oh, baby, think what you're doin'
I'm gonna haunt you so, I'm gonna taunt you so
It's gonna drive you to ruin
After you've gone, after you've gone away

rufus wainwright - agnus dei

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

rufus wainwright - albatross

The lady comes
to the gate dressed
in lavender and leather
Looking North to the sea
she finds the weather fine
She hears the steeple bells
ringing through the orchard
All the way from town
She watches seagulls fly
Silver on the ocean
stitching through the waves
The edges of the sky

Many people wander up
the hills
From all around you
Making up your memories
and thinking
they have found you
They cover you
with veils of wonder
as if you were a bride
Young men holding violets
are curious to know
if you have cried
And tell you why
And ask you why
Any way you answer

Lace around the collars
of the blouses
of the ladies
Flowers
from a Spanish friend
of the family
The embroid'ry
of your life
holds you in
And keeps you out
but you survive
Imprisoned in your bones
Behind the isinglass
windows of your eyes

And in the night
the iron wheels
rolling through the rain
Down the hills through
the long grass to the sea
And in the dark the hard
bells ringing with pain
Come away alone

Even now by the gate
with you long hair blowing
And the colors of the day
that lie along your arms
You must barter your life
to make sure you are living
And the crowd that has come
You give them the colors
And the bells
and wind and the dream

Will there never be
a prince
who rides along the sea
and the mountains
Scattering the sand
and foam
into amethyst fountains
Riding up the hills
from the beach
in the long
summer grass
Holding the sun
in his hands
and shattering
the isinglass?

Day and night
and day again
and people come and go
away forever
While the shining
summer sea
dances in the glass
of your mirror
While you search
the waves for love
and your visions
for a sign
The knot of tears
around your throat
is crystallizing
into your design

And in the night
the iron wheels
rolling through
the rain
Down the hills
through
the long grass
to the sea
And in the dark
the hard bells
ringing with pain
Come away alone
Come away alone
with me

rufus wainwright - aleluia

Eu ouvi que havia um acorde secreto
E David tocou e agradou o senhor
Mas você não liga muito para a música, liga?
E é assim..a fortuna, a fé, a menor queda, a maior ascensão
O confuso rei compôs aleluia
Aleluia
Aleluia
Aleluia
Aleluia
Sua fé é forte mas você precisa de provas
Você viu ela se banhando na lua
Sua beleza e o luar cairam sobre você
Ela lhe amarrou na cadeira da cozinha
Ela quebrou seu trono
Ela cortou seu cabelo
E dos seus lábios ela tirou um aleluia
Aleluia (4x)
Talvez eu já tenha estado aqui antes
Eu conheço esta sala, eu andei neste chão
Eu costumava viver sozinho antes de te conhecer
Eu vi a sua bandeira na escultura de mármore
O amor não é uma marcha da vitória
Ã? um frio e partido aleluia
Aleluia (4x)
Havia um tempo em que você me avisaria
O que é real e esta afundando
Mas agora você nunca irá me mostrar, irá?
E lembre-se quando eu cheguei em você
O escuro sagrado chegou também
E cada fôlego que dávamos era aleluia
Aleluia (4x)
Talvez haja um Deus lá em cima
E tudo que eu aprendi sobre o amor
Ã? afastar quem provocou você
E isso não é um choro que você pode ouvir a noite
Não é alguém que vê a luz
Ã? um frio e partido aleluia
Aleluia (4x)

rufus wainwright - alone together

Alone together, above the crowd
Beyond the world, we're not too proud to cling together
We're strong as long as we're together

Alone together, the blinding rain
The starless night was not in vain
For we're together
And what is there to fear together?

Our love is as deep as the sea
Our love is as great as a love can be
For we can weather the great unknown
If we're alone together
Together, together
If we're alone together

rufus wainwright - another believer

hello
I've got something to tell you
but it's crazy
I got something to show you
so give me just one more chance
one more glance
and I will make of you
another believer

guess what
you got more than you bargained
ain't it crazy
you got more than you paid for
so give me just one more chance
one more glance
one more hand to hold

you've been on my mind
though it may seem I'm foolin'
wasted so much time
though it may seem I'm foolin'

what are we gonna do
what are we gonna do
what are we gonna do about it?

do doo do doo doo do
doo do doo doo doo do
do doo do
another believer

so then
that is all for the moment
until next time
until then do not worry
and give me just one more chance
one more glance
and I will make of you
yeah I'm going to make of you
another believer

you've been on my mind
though it may seem I'm foolin'
wasted so much time
though it may seem I'm foolin'

what are we gonna do
what are we gonna do
what are we gonna do about it?

hello
I've got something to tell you
another believer
hello I've got something to show you
another believer

you've been on my mind
seem I'm foolin'
wasted so much time
one more chance

rufus wainwright - april fools

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 withgifts
You are suave thanks to ribbons that opened sesame
But in the stars and closer to home in every planet
It ain?t hard for me and dear JoJo 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 are clouds in hell

And you will believe in love
And all that it?s supposed to be
Yes you will believe in love

And you will believe in love
And all that it?s supposed to be
Yes you will believe in love

But you will believe in love
And all that it?s supposed to be
Yes you will believe in love

And you will believe in love
And all that it?s supposed to be
Yes you will believe in love

rufus wainwright - ashes

I'm no Rasputin, you ain't no Rapunzel
I have willingly fallen, and you have cut your own hair
Thought we needed motion, at least until the war kicks in
I go out in the world with you the last night of the burning flare

Trains will follow trains under the dun, under the moon
And I do believe that all that I can do is croon
And I do believe that there was a morning that I saw your true love
burning
next to me

But now there's ashes, from exquisite eyelashes
So far away, past the border, past the turnstyle
And even I know, and I do believe, and I do believe that there was a morning
I saw your true love burning next to me

But now there's ashes, from exquisite eyelashes
So far away, past the border, past the turnstyle
Sometimes I wonder if it is true humility
For this humiliation

Walking in the twilight, walking in the crows of day
From this station of passion, I go