Rufus Wainwright

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

Chorus: oh, all for the sake, 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

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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 and slumber

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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

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 on 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

Chorus: walk, walk along that wall
No it is not from the academy
Walk, walk along that wall

From this moment 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

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But still, whomever has looked at
Looked at beauty is marked out
Is marked out already by death
Still so beautiful as the angels
As the angels came down from on high

Desdemona do not go to sleep
Brown-eyed tosca don't believe the creep
I see it in his eyes

Chorus: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

Chorus: 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
Sad and lonely heart

My true love did breathe by the sally ann
Just barely
That while walkin' through the town only my heart
Did hear him
In views of the city
There ain't many folks by the
Sally ann so pretty
That while walkin' through town,
Many a twisted features
Made a terrible beauty
And then i knew
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 treasures
After baptism by whiskey

But when leavin' the bar by the sally ann
Just barely
The old angel may allow light from above
The mountain
And red brick walls blooming, you may see

And then you'll know
And then you'll know, you've been there before

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 its making a stop on april first

Chorus: and you will believe in love
All all that its 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 opened sesame
But in the stars and closer
To home in every planet
It ain't hard for me and
Dear jojo to see

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So let it all go by looking at the sky
Wondering if there are clouds and stuff in hell

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 herd of bulls charging stop lights red
I'd be blind

Chorus: you broke my heart danny boy
Not your fault danny boy

I was hanged at the doorstep, played like a two to a fourset
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, 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 ben
Or a herd of bulls charging stop lights red
I'd be blind

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