Rufus Wainwright
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.Collection: Believe
And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.Collection: Dream
I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?Collection: Believe
But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wallCollection: Wall
One day you will come to Montauk and see your dad playing the piano And see your other dad wearing glasses Hope that you will want to stay for a while Don't worry I know you'll have to goCollection: Dad
Somebody curse the light And take me far away from myselfCollection: Light
Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for you.Collection: Moon
These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.Collection: Bird
Cigarettes and chocolate milk These are just a couple of my cravings Everything it seems I like's a little bit stronger A little bit thicker A little bit harmful for me.Collection: Couple
I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But really it's because, as a child, I thought I was Judy Garland. And when I started out, I was a little nuts. I thought I was a classic, legendary superstar when only 10 people knew who I was. I feel in some ways that my confidence is misinterpreted as arrogance, which is understandable. But I've also always thought that false modesty is evil.Collection: Children
Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of who Made me lose my perfunctory view Of all that is around And of all that I do.Collection: Views
Wouldn't Ponochio II be a great musical, now that he has to face the real world and get a wife... job. Now he wants to be a toy again.Collection: Jobs
The mind has so many pictures Why can't I sleep with my eyes open? The mind has so many memories Can you remember what it looks like when I cry? I'm trying, trying to tell you All that I can in a sweet and velvet tongue But no words ever could sell you Sell you on me after all that I have done.Collection: Sweet
I really need to know I may just never see you again, or might as well You took advantage of a world that loved you well I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down I'm so tired of you, America.Collection: Tired
My cheeks explode when I smile. Thats why I have to look so nonplussed.Collection: Looks
Prima Donna is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.Collection: Song
My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it really.Collection: Mother
I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.Collection: Crush
Madonna created a monster that sucks up souls.Collection: Soul
I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil ThompsonCollection: Thinking
I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.Collection: Boys
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.Collection: Eye
I find so many songwriters today are missing an element ... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.Collection: Song
I will take my coffee black / never snack / hang with the wolves who are sheepish.Collection: Coffee