Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright(born 22 July 1973) is a Canadian- American singer-songwriter. Wainwright was born in Rhinebeck, New York, USA, to folk singers Loudon Wainwright IIIand Kate McGarrigle(they divorced while he was a child). He began to play the piano at age six, and by age thirteen he was touring with his sister , mother Kate, and aunt Anna as the McGarrigle Sisters and Family. His song I'm Running, which he performed in the movie Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller, and in which he also played a minor character, was nominated for the 1988 Genie Award for Best Original Song and earned him a nomination for the 1990 Juno Award for Most Promising Male Vocalist. He lived in Montreal with his mother for most of his childhood and briefly attended McGill University, where he studied both classical and 'rock' piano.
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Rose That Needs Water Lyrics
Rufus Wainwright
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
Im a rose that needs some water now
Ive been spinning round my glass ring
Grim personality
Slowly bending towards the shadows of waiting to swallow me
So if thorns are made when wretched
Im cutting through the chatter
Im a rose that needs some water now
All the world Im happy to see
And all the world its going to be
To maybe find or borrow
A place to put tomorrows pain
Ocean crossings
Mountains to climb
And history a waste of time
Well she may just set to plunder
This rose that needs some water now
Ill come near you
Eyes beneath your eyes
Where I hope to be
All the blueness
Blue, blue, blueness
Imagine Ill untangle and fashion
So if thorns are made when wretched
Im cutting through the chatter
Im a rose that needs some water
Water
Water
Now
Now
Now
Now
Now