Rufus Wainwright

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...

You've got my lost brother's soul My dear mother's eyes A brown horse's mane And my uncles name You walked me down 14th street For the doctor to meet after thoughts of the grave In the home of the brave and the weak But why'd you have to break all my heart? C...

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 stink 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...

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 s...

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 cha...

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 w...

Hello, I 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...

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 And all...

Wish I could be more less Wish I could be less more Underneath the dress is a gun Pointing at the floor Wish I could be less me And a little more like you I'd finally confess To all the things that you make me do Oh I've been singing all I can today But nothin...

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...

Nothing so bright, nothing so smooth, nothing so pure As my baby All of my life days into night, all I did dream Was my baby Until the days darkness entwined with silver eyes Was my baby staring at me And since then I can't see straight And since then my sm...

On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away Written by Paul Dresser Composed by Paul Dresser 'Round my Indiana homesteads wave the cornfields, In the distance loom the woodlands clear and cool. Oftentimes my thoughts revert to scenes of childhood, Where I first rece...

If you’re running from your doorstep And you don’t know where to go to Drinking rosé in the rain Or listening to the same song over and over again If you’re lost on a strange path Needing a gate to turn into Far from the sun Or listening to someone hap...

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...

When I am older than these small goddamned hills And there's no reason for my mind to be still Oh how I'll feel like a beautiful child Such a beautiful child again When I have finally found my room filled with toys Be banging on my crib excited by noise Oh...

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 fears of nuns who dressed in black But I do have your tastes I...

1. There are voices of hope that are borne on the air, And our land will be freed from its clouds of despair, For brave men and true men to battle have gone, And good times, good times are now coming on. CHORUS Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! |: Sound the news from t...

You can go out, dancing And I'll write about you, dancing without you And I'll shed a tear between my legs When you were here, I missed you Now that you're away, I'm out there without you And I shed a tear between my legs Though we live in the same cit...

Chokin' on my bitter tears My bitter tears Only thing I don’t fear's you Don’t want you to see my tears My bitter tears Only thing I fear is my tears Heavens how it’s going to rain Is this the same Heavens with the bright blue skies Drivin' at the cra...

California, California You're such a wonder that I think I'll stay in bed Big time rollers, part time models So much to plunder That I think I'll sleep instead I don't know this sea of neon Thousands suffer whiffs of freon And big nights back east with...

I tried to do all that I can But the churches have run out of candles I tried to give you all I own But the bankers have run out of loaners It’s always just that little bit more That doesn’t get you what you’re looking for I tried to block the cabin do...

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, you were talking so brave and so sweet, giving me head on the unmade bed, while the limousines wait in the street. Those were the reasons and that was New York, we were running for the money and the flesh. And th...

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 If I should buy jellybeans Have to eat them all in just one sitting Everything it s...

La lune trop blême pose un diadème sur tes cheveux roux la lune trop rousse de gloire éclabousse ton jupon plein de trous la lune trop pâle caresse l'opale de tes yeux blasés princesse de la rue soit la bienvenue dans mon coeur blessé The stairways up to la b...

Maybe in you I'll believe Maybe I'll believe in you The future of my understanding of love Many a time I've before Before I've many a time Knocked a stranger's door Discretion hardly I'm known for Probably has nothing to, nothing at all in the world to do with...

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 si...

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 b...

No matter how strong I'm gonna take you down With one little stone I'm gonna break you down And see what you're worth What you're really worth to me Dinner at eight was okay Before the toast full of blames It was great until those old magazines Got us started...

Do I disappoint you, in just being human? And not one of the elements, that you can light your cigar on Why does it always have to be fire? Why does it always have to be brimstone? Desire Cool this body down Do I disappoint you, in just being lonely? And not...

Do you love an apple? Do you love a pear? Do you love a laddy with curly brown hair? Why yes I love him, I'll never deny him, I'll always love him 'till the day that I die Before I got married I wore a black shall, But after I'm married, I wore bugger-all But...

Es muß sein Wanna be a man of my word Want to believe in God No matter what I've heard Es muß sein I must go, go where I've never been Even if it is where I have already seen Es muß sein I won't cry No time for crying left I am a man, although bereft I am...

Every time we say goodbye, I die a little, Every time we say goodbye, I wonder why a little, Why the gods above me, who must be in the know. Think so little of me, they allow you to go. When you're near, there's such an air of spring about it, I can hear a la...

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody k...

For to see my depth of sorrow You are not allowed to follow me Unto this town square And then run away Evil angel with your cleft tongue When you kissed me On this town square All the lights came on at sunset Thought you'd stay Evil angel bearing apples When...

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 w...

He will then be reborn From 1970's porn Wearing tubesocks with style And such an innocent smile Better pray for your sins Better pray for your sins 'Cause the gay messiah's coming He will fall from the star Studio 54 And appear on the sand Of Fire Island's s...

Get outta town Before it's too late, my love Get outta town Be good to me please Why do me harm? Why not retire to a farm And be contented to charm the birds off the trees Just slip away I care for you much too much Cuz when you are near Close to me dear We t...

Give me what I want And give it to me now! Don't be such a holy cow Everybody knows that You can't make it happen Give me what I want And give it to me now! Don't be such a greedy sow Everybody knows that You have never been down Especially after...

Thank you for this 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 th...

I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down I'm going to a place that has already been disgraced I'm gonna see some folks who have already been let down I'm so tired of America I'm gonna make it up for all of The Sunday Times I'm gonna make it up for...

You who were born with the sun above your shoulders You turn me on you turn me on You have to know You who were born where the sun she keeps her distance You turn me on you turn me on But so does she You who were born there where beauty is existence You turn...

Honey I'm a roller concrete clover Tadzio, Tadzio Arm wrestle your mother Simply over Tadzio, over you But beware my heart can be a pin A sharp silver dragonfly Trying to get my mansions green After I've Grey Gardens seen In betweeen tonight and my tomorrow...

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, Hallelu...

If a person should ever like a person Then a person should like you Being that I'm only just a person What would you do? If a person should ever like a person Then a person should like me Being that you're only just a person It must be Still I find it hard to...

The road is long With many a winding turn That leads us to who knows where Who knows when But I'm strong Strong enough to carry him He ain't heavy, he's my brother. So on we go His welfare is of my concern No burden is he to bear We'll get there For I know He...

Is this heartbreak or is this heartburn? Have I been played or do I need a rolaid? Gotta learn the difference 'tween I love ya The difference 'tween I love ya and the symptoms of ebola Is this heartbreak or is this heartburn? Can I be spared from being so dra...

The drummers and jugglers in Montreal Don't even exist at all So I'm tearing up these tarot cards and Venetians clowns Antique shops and alcoholic homosexuals You may ask why I want to torch my home town Partly it's bitterness and hopping 'round and 'round ag...

I don't know what it is but you got to do it I don't know where to go But you got to be there I don't know where to fall But I know that its comfortable where I don't know where it is Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw u...

Rufus: I eat dinner at the kitchen table By the light that switches on I eat leftovers with mashed potatoes No more candlelight No more romance No more small-talk When the hunger's gone I eat dinner at the kitchen table And I wash it down with pie I...

I'm a-runnin' I'm a-runnin' from you 'Cause you're a-chasin' You're a-chasin' me to The end of the earth Or the city of kingdom come I can see ya I can see you way back You can see me You're gonna stab me in the back But not unless I can outrun you...

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 Hoped to look at you in a cab Back of your head across my lap Oh what grace, gre...

Wandering properties of death Arresting moons within our eyes and smiles We did rest Amongst the granite tombs to catch our breath Worldly sounds of endless warring Were for just a moment silent stars Worldly boundaries of dying Were for just a moment never o...

You gave me all your love in one day You gave it all and almost faded away Well I'm gonna take this sad 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 m...

Get me new faces, new faces, I'm tired of the old ones Played aces, lost cases, my place is fine, let the bulls run There's one--little Lord Bosie cut from the daisy chain Plain to see little Lord Bosie and to suppose he's headed for Hades I know the way--bird...

I don't want somebody to love me Just give me sex whenever I want it 'Cause all I ask for is instant pleasure Instant pleasure, instant pleasure You in the traffic for all eternity How could that speed be where you want to be? Said don't you really want insta...

I keep thinking that you are going to change I keep thinking that you are going to rearrange But I'm a fool to think something so impossible You ain't ever gonna change You ain't ever gonna change Oh no Jericho Until I blow I keep thinking that you are...

Puisqu'on ne peut fléchir ces jalouses gardiennes, Ah! laissez­moi Conter mes peines Et mon émoi. Vainement, ma bien­aimée! On croit me désespérer; Près de ta porte fermée Je veux encore demeurer. Les soleils pourront s'étendre. Les nuits remplacer les jour...

I'm leaving for Paris, no I don't think that I'll see you I'm leaving for Paris, no I don't think that I need to So I'm leaving for Paris, won't you try to take care of yourself? Just you try to take care of yourself, 'cause I'm leaving Yes, I'm leaving fo...

See one thousand eyes forget the starry skies Leaving you Every sunny path a bitter aftermath Leaving you So could you kindly shut the door It's strange to think I needed air before Then shut down the world and stay Within four walls Please shut down the worl...

Les feux d'artifice t'appellent Descends dans la rue Les feux d'artifice t'appellent Descends dans la rue Les feux d'artifice t'appellent Les couleurs dans le ciel Eclatent sur la ville Le feu du ciel qui fut Descend dans la rue Et l'amour n'est plus...

Sometimes I think You're trying to kill me with your stars and stripes and sometimes, sometimes your Liberty Cabbage goes dry but still your arms are strong your blood runs furies inside me. Cities of gold, mountains of purple, Hot dogs and hamburgers eaten on...

Little sister come and sit beside me, beside me And we'll play a tune on this old piano forte Just for a while, just for a while, just for a while Til your hair becomes a powdered wig And I become a total bastard Feet that hardly reach the pedal Sold to a trem...

Martha it's your brother calling Time to go up north and see mother Things are harder for her now And neither of us is really that much older than each other anymore Martha it's your brother calling Have you had a chance to see father? Wondering how's h...

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 f...

Me & Liza, Liza & I Famous till the day that we die Mama made it so hard to try Me and Liza, Liza and I Daddy writing unanswered love letters Why? Come on Liza, gimme a try Blowin' on the embers of fame Burning down the house of your name Ev...

Never thought of Hades Under the Mississippi But still I've come to sing for him So southern furies Prepare to walk for my harp I have strung, and I will leave with him Relax the cogs of rhyme Over the Memphis sky Turn back the wheels of time Under the Memphis...

The boys and girls of Millbrook Are on a train from New York Wearing new hats Shooting the shit Deep in the heart of Dutchess County, Bounty And all the evening breakdowns Will soon be washed from their hands The next very day,as they make way Eating the appl...

One day you will come to Montauk And you will see your dad wearing a kimono And see your other dad pruning rošes Hope you won’t turn around and go One day you will come to Montauk And see your dad playing the piano And see your other dad wearing glašses Hope...

Stop me falling down, stop me making movies of myself Put that old dog down, stop me making movies of myself Bring the carriage round, get me to the garden of sleep Make that high gate speak, Perrier out of a paper bag Looking like a hag And start giving me so...

Be hold the way our fine feathered friend His virtue doth parade Thou knowest not my dim witted friend The picture thou hast made Thy vacant brow and thy tousled hair Conceal thy good intent Thou noble upright, truthful, sincere And slightly dopey gent, You'r...

You walk alone in the valley of life in the shaddow of love under the trees of happiness You walk alone like a baby unborn like a father unknown like a pocket penniless I'm happy that you really care but do you really know how scary this is for you and is fo...

Haven't fallen down in a while Sitting here walking the line Well that's ok, I ain't no book 'Cause nobody's off the hook See you looking so sad Trying to live your life in style Well that's ok, you ain't no crook 'Cause nobody's off the hook I remember you...

I'm not ready to love, I'm not ready for peace I'm givin' up the dove to the beast I'm not ready to surrender to another glove murderer I'm not ready to love, I'm not ready to to fly I'm givin' up belive in the sky So you can take my sin in up above on high,...

Men reading fashion magazines Oh what a world It seems we live in Straight man Oh what a world We live in Why am I always on a plane or a fast train Oh what a world my parents gave me Always Travelin' but not in love Still I think I'm doin' fine Wouldn't it...

An old whore's diet Gets me going in the morning Ain't nothing like it Gets me going in the morning To say I love you Gets me going where I want to Oh, gets me going Oh, gets me going in the morning (Repeats) Hell, either here or Hell will do Either here or...

People will know when they see this show The kind of a guy I am They'll recognize just what I stand for and what I just can't stand They'll perceive what I believe in And what I know is true And they'll recognize I'm a one man guy Always was through and...

i’m outta the game i’ve been out for a long time now i’m lookin’ for something can’t be found on the main drain, no i’m out of the game i’ve been out for a long time now i’m looking for something can’t be found on the main drain no, look at you, look...

Is true love a trip to Chinatown Or being held in one's opium gaze Under the peach trees There I'll sit and wait Is true love a long walk through Bryant park Or being held in the month of May under the peach trees There I will be, will be until you come and g...

After another production of “The Flying Dutchman” I landed in Berlin Thinking over it over it how can I get over it And wonder what state I’m in Sissi was the anarchist empress of Austria And I was in the same state that she was in Thinking over it over...

The yellow walls are lined with portraits And I've got my new red fetching leather jacket All these poses such beautiful poses Makes any boy feel like picking up roses There's never been such grave a matter As comparing our new brand name black sunglasse...

Pretty things, so what if I like pretty things? Pretty lies, so what if I like pretty lies? From where you are To where I am now I need these pretty things Around the planets of my face Everything's a sign of my astrology From where you are To where I am now...

Quand vous mourrez de nos amours J'irai planter dans le jardin Fleur à fleurir de beau matin Moitié métal, moitié papier Pour me blesser un peu le pied Mourez de mort très douce Qu'une fleur pousse Quand vous mourrez de nos amours J'en ferai sur l'air de ce t...

Well since you are my archenemy I'm gonna give you some time With a heart that's made filled with alcohol Water can be wine Hope the rocks are not too slippery When through the center I slay Won't you stand in straight as an evergreen When it all gives way O...

I got the outfit for the party but you’ve taken away the invitation And I’d like to thank you Rashida for doing this And giving me a reason to write a song I guess I’ll have to go a begging for that Vanity Fair connection And I’d like to thank you Rashida...

Where is my master the rebel prince Who will shut all of these windows It's these windows all around me It's these windows who are telling me To rid my dirty mind of all of its preciousness Where is my master the rebel prince Bet breaking everything try...

Why do you keep all your stars in from your studio on Melrose Avenue? You've lost all your assets ?? in life-long contracts to you Didn't you know that old Hollywood is over? Oh, can't you see all the good that celebrity can do for those in the dark? Yes...

Let’s meet in a respectable dive On the somewhat safe street And have a beer We’ve both kept our eyes on the ball We know the lyrics to them all These songs of fear And baby I love you And I do not want to lose you But I’m not able to put my cards on...

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 s...

I will never be as cute as you, according to the board of human relations I will never fly as high as you, according to the board of public citations These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to men...

Sad with what I have Never met a more unimpressed, depressed lad Blue boy doesn't have a thing on me Sad with what I have Never met a more repressed Motionless cad Bluebeard doesn't have a thing for me Then I think of you How could someone so bright...

My true love did breathe, by the Sally Ann so softly, That while walkin' through 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 feature Made a terrible be...

Who will be at Sanssouci tonight? The boys that made me lose the blues tonight, and then my eyesight All together, playing games of cards Gambling the tiny shards of brass, once my heart Who will be at Sanssouci tonight? I'm lookin' through the window fr...

Who will keep Keep me in this evening Even though They are not here with me I could be a great star Still I'm far from happy Finally Feel the world around me Fighting through Fighting through the whiskey I could be a great star Still I'm far from happy Out...

Do I love you because you treat me so indifferently? Or is it the medication? Or is it me? Do I love you because you don't want me to rub your back? Or is it the medication? Or is it you? Or is it true? And I better be prominently featured in your nex...

Sometimes you need a stranger to talk to Sometimes you need to go to the observatory Sometimes a movie star’s eyes gets you through the love and the lies Sometimes you need a stranger to walk with Sometimes you need to go to the dog park Sometimes a movie star...

Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby Somewhere over that rainbow, skies are blue And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far b...

So you want a song So you want a song A song just for you There are many melodies to choose from but there’s only one of you So I’m gonna fly in the sky so high in the wind And I’m gonna try really really try so hard not to give in And find the song of y...

For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any Who for thy self art so unprovident. Grant if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many But that thou none lov'st is most evident For thou art so possessed with murderous hate That against thy self thou stick'st not...

A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion; A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted With shifting change, as is false women's fashion; An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, Gilding the...

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd like him, like him with frie...

When most I wink then do mine eyes best see For all the day they view things unrespected But when I sleep in dreams they look on thee And darkly bright are bright in dark directed Then thou whose shadow shadows doth make bright How would thy shadow's for...

Out the door Just in time Head down four-o-five Gotta meet the new boss by 8 AM. Phone rings in the car The Wife is working hard She's running late tonight again Well - I know what I've been told You gotta work to feed the soul But I can't do this all on my...

Release The sword of Damocles Just release it To the authorities We have been given The same fortune cookies You and I have All of our progenies Raise kindness Above all else Avoid the books of Hatred behind the shelves I will caress your Cares...

But you might fray after a while My fickle heart, it did forget thee But still, but still I can remember When you went two ways down a one way street You danced to rock n' roll with solid feet That night, my heart was a highway You stepped in with the fan-far...

There I was in uniform Looking at the art teacher I was just a girl then; Never have I loved since then He was not that much older than I was He had taken our class to the Metropolitan Museum He asked us what our favorite work of art was, But never could I te...

Prepare your things Dissolve your mind 'Cause I'm your consort beautiful queen of seventeen A blood red moon has spared our bed But not your rivals Beautiful queen Prepare to reign No more to hide with I your faithful consort by your side Let streamers fly a...

Loudon Wainwright III feat. RufusWainwright You'll never change, neither will I we'lll stay the same till the days that we die. I'll never win, neither will you, so what in this world are we gonna do, People hate change, they make a fuss, they stay the...

The dream has come and gone The earth lumbers on The dream is back in space Back where it came from The dream has gone away The earth could not play The earth just spins in place Throwing things away And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind...

One more chain I break, to get me closer to you One more chain does the maker make, to keep me from bustin' through One more notch I scratch, to keep me thinkin' of you One more notch does the maker make, upon my face so blue Get along little doggies...

If I should ever run into a lot of money Tell me would I move to New York City? If I had an apartment with a view of that city, Tell me would I see the stars above me? If I had a room at the top of the Waldorf Astoria Tell me would I still love ya? If I was bl...

Waiting to cross the rubicon Wondering what side I'm on What are these visions of me as a young man? With one arm pointed, and the other arm holding your hand Needing a plan to keep you near Blowing a horn, so you can hear If it was only my love and dev...

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...

When the earth was still flat, and the clouds made of fire And mountains stretched up to the sky, sometimes higher Folks roamed the earth like big rolling kegs They had two sets of arms, two sets of legs They had two faces peering out of one giant head And the...

I'm looking for the tower of learning I'm looking for the copious prize I saw it in your eyes what I'm looking for I saw it in your eyes what I'm looking for I really do fear that I'm dying I really do fear that I'm dead I saw it in your eyes what I'm looking...

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...

Won't you walk me through the Tiergarten? Won't you walk me through it all, darling? Doesn't matter if it is raining Won't you walk me through it all? Even if the sun, it is blazing Even if the snow, it is raging All the elements, we must conquer To get to th...

Won't you walk me through the Tiergarten? Won't you walk me through it all, darling? Doesn't matter if it is raining Won't you walk me through it all? Even if the sun, it is blazing Even if the snow, it is raging All the elements, we must conquer To ge...

I was going round from the town to the country Then going back round From the country back to the town I was making rounds from the back to my forehead Then going back round From the front to the back of my crown There's always trouble in paradise Don'...

A heart of ice is easily melted A heart of stone is easily thrown away It's the true loves That make me want to cry It's the true loves That make me want to say goodbye A heart of ice is easily molded A heart of stone is easily hidden away It's the...

You taste of potato chips in the morning Your face has the Marlon Brando club calling And who would have thought that I'd owe it all to Tulsa? And that fat guy with the green shirt that we both signed together Once he hears the song, won't live it down for...

Somewhere near central London I imagine not so far from Trafalgar Square and the lions There lives an older gentleman who teas with BBC and Britain's ghost His lady companion by his side. Oh yes, I see him now. And cross the deep blue sea I cannot smell Insid...

I'm just a floozy, an old-fashioned hussy Trying to kiss you, it hasn't been easy A lost little puppy dog running away From the pound Say Break all my bones with a stick and a stone And don't say a word 'cause it's words that'll hurt And this lost little baby...

Springtime, shoe shine, sometime of mine Brokered, then remembered Sunshine, ordered and transacted Brokered, then remembered Skipping along the path of today Velvet curtain rag couldn't ever wipe this pain away  

My phone's on vibrate for you Electroclash is karioke too I try to dance Britney Spears I guess I'm getting on in years My phone's on vibrate for you God knows what all these new drugs do I guess to have no more fears But still I always end up in tears My ph...

Thought that maybe we'd fall in love over the phone Thought that maybe I'd really love being alone Everybody but Heaven knows how I was wrong Oh Lord, what have I done to myself? What have I done to myself? In this vicious world Such a vicious world There is...

I don't want to make it rain I just want to make it simple I don't want to see the light I just want to see the flashlight I don't want to know the answers To any of your questions I don't want, no I really don't want To be John Lennon or Leonard Cohen I just...

Waiting for the present, for the present to pass Waiting for a dream to last You are not my lover, and you never will be 'Cause you've never done anything to hurt me There's a fire in the priory And it's ruining this cocktail party Yesterday I heard they clon...

I will never be defeated I will never come undone I will never know the way it feels to be just anyone I will never fall just as you all fall around me so I will never know I will never know I will never be the one who tells you that I need you more No...

When the bells all ring and the horns all blow And the couples we know are fondly kissing. Will I be with you or will I be among the missing? Maybe it's much too early in the game Ooh, but I thought I'd ask you just the same What are you doing New Year's...

What would I ever do with a rose? How would it ever get me high? What would I ever do with a rose? How would it ever get me by? How would it ever get the guy? What would I ever do with a rose? Sitting here underneath the bridge Making love at the break...

I’ve been made blue, I’ve been lied to When will I be loved I’ve been turned down, I’ve been pushed ‘round When will I be loved When I meet a new girl that I want for mine She always breaks my heart in two, it happens every time I’ve been cheated, been mistre...

Saw you on the corner Saw you in the park Saw you on the platform Of Grand Central Station Saw you at the racetrack Saw you on the lawn Saw you in the Madison Square Garden screaming Who are you? Who are you? Saw in the rainbow Saw you in the dark Saw you on t...

Across the evening sky, all the birds are leaving How can they know it's timeto go? Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming I have no thought of time Who knows where the time goes? Who knows where the time goes? Time goes Sad, deserted shore, your f...

World war three Between you and me Under sheets The land and the sea And everybody wants a piece of the action Everybody wants a piece of the action Don't bore us Get to the chorus There's so much more to come The battle's back in the saddle Just t...

Where you been, Zebulon? What you doin' in this song? Skating on the ice of song, about to go under My mother's in a hospital, my sister's at the opera I'm in love, but let's not talk about it There's so much to tell you I believe in freedom Freedom's...