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Rufus Wainwright - Foolish Love

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Uploaded by on Aug 1, 2008

Foolish Love

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
Oh, 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
Oh, all for the sake of a foolish love

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 in and slumber
Oh, all for the sake of a foolish love
All for the sake of a foolish love

Cause 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

from the Rufus Wainwright sessions at West 54th in 1998

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  • I can't get over how he sounds so incredible live, even in a compressed Youtube video.

  • He already has! :)

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  • Another great song by Rufus....no big shock there.

  • Beautiful!!! Just so incredibly amazing!!!!

  • So, supposedly this song is about him being in love with a straight guy. I'm in a similar situation, so I decided I'd listen to it.

    “Cause I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless

    I don't want to smell you and lose my senses”.

    BAM. WORDED EXACTLY.

  • One of my favourite songs in the world actually - I love him so much it's weird!

  • @TheMinuteHand

    You must not listen to much Radiohead then. THAT can sound pretty garbled, but nonetheless amazing.

    Often, it's the tone we fall for; THEN we look up the lyrics. The terseness of this doesn't disappoint.

  • Like the sounds but I cant understand what hes saying

  • 1 dislike. BOO YOU!

  • his best song maybe

  • goosebumps. Rufus is some kind of angel, how can this song be so beautiful when i've heard it (the cd) a thousand times?

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