Rufus Wainwright - Want Two
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Release date: 07 December 2004
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- Agnus Dei
- The One You Love
- Peach Trees
- Little Sister
- The Art Teacher
- Hometown Waltz
- This Love Affair
- Gay Messiah
- Memphis Skyline
- Waiting For A Dream
- Crumb by Crumb
- Old Whore's Diet
- Coeur De Parisienne - Reprise d'Arletty (Live)
- Quand Vous Mourez de Nos Amours (Live)
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| Jun 16, 2012 19:00 | Rufus Wainwright | The Forum | Tunbridge Wells | Tickets not currently available. |
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| Jul 16, 2012 19:00 | Rufus Wainwright | The Forum | Tunbridge Wells | Tickets not currently available. |
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| Jul 16, 2012 19:00 | Rufus Wainwright | The Forum - Bath | Bath |
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| Jul 18, 2012 19:30 | Rufus Wainwright | Iveagh Gardens | Dublin | Tickets not currently available. |
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| Nov 16, 2012 19:00 | Rufus Wainwright | New Theatre - Oxford | Oxford | Tickets not currently available. |
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Rufus Wainwright - Want Two: Wikipedia Album Entry
Want Two is the fourth album by american-canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright. The album was released on November 16, 2004. Four of the tracks on this album were released in the summer of 2004 as the ep Waiting for a Want on the iTunes music store.
Want Two is, according to Wainwright, the darker sibling of 2003's Want One - its subject matter concerned with "the world we live in" (RW Geffen Bio) after Want One's focus on the intensely personal. The artist's song selections here show his range to be broad, veering from romantic ballad (Peach Trees) to tragic ballad (This Love Affair), sophisticated pop (The One You Love) to third person/first person narrative lament (The Art Teacher), personal tongue in cheek manifesto (Gay Messiah), to classical pop hybrid (Memphis Skyline) and songs beyond category. Agnus Dei is used in the trailer for the 2007 film Trade.
Mother Kate McGarrigle and aunt Anna McGarrigle both perform and sing on Hometown Waltz. Antony Hegarty of 2005 Mercury Prize winners Antony and the Johnsons sings lead vocal alongside Wainwright on Old Whore's Diet. The initial UK version of the record contains bonus live tracks, Coeur de Parisienne - Reprise d'Arletty and Quand Vous Mourez de nos Amours (written by French Canadian songwriter Gilles Vigneault).
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Rufus Wainwright - Want Two Lyrics
Rufus Wainwright - Hometown Waltz Lyrics
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
Rufus Wainwright - Waiting For a Dream Lyrics
Waiting for the present
For the present to pass
Waiting for a dream
To last
Rufus Wainwright - The Art Teacher Lyrics
There I was in uniform
Lookin' at the art teacher
I was just a girl then
Never have I loved since then
Rufus Wainwright - Gay Messiah Lyrics
He will then be reborn
From 1970's porn
Wearing tube socks with style
And such an innocent smile
Rufus Wainwright - Crumb By Crum Lyrics
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
Rufus Wainwright - Agnus Dei Lyrics
Agnus dei
Agnus dei
Qui tollis peccata mundi
Agnus dei
Rufus Wainwright - Peach Trees Lyrics
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
Rufus Wainwright - Memphis Skyline Lyrics
Never thought of Hades
Under the Mississippi
But still I've come for to sing for him
So southern furies
Rufus Wainwright - An Old Whore's Diet Lyrics
An old whore's diet
Gets me going in the morning
Ain't nothing like it
Gets me going in the morning
Rufus Wainwright - The One You Love Lyrics
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
Rufus Wainwright - Little Sister Lyrics
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
Till your hair becomes a powdered wig
Rufus Wainwright - This Love Affair Lyrics
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
