Fish Sticks and Green Jello

He may not be for everyone but I love his music. I think I first fell in love with him when I heard 'Complainte de la Butte' from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. One of my most favorite movies of all time. I love paris and the song is so very parisian so it's a fave as well.

Be sure to check him out: http://www.rufuswainwright.com/

Anyways tonight I was listening to a song of his called 'Foolish Love'. I decided to do a search on what the song meant. Music is so emotional with so much depth and meaning to it. I love it.

Foolish Love
"It's about the type of person you fall in love with who, when you take one look at him, you know it will end tragically. You know you can never really have him, but it's what you've always wanted-impossible love. It's rather up-tempo and happy-sounding but still sad. I remember writing it almost like a mantra, saying to myself, "Lighten up and trudge on." That's all you can do. Get out with class, the way Cole Porter would."

Foolish Love
by 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
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

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