Songs
"The Art Teacher" has been compared to a short story "in which a lonely woman looks back on a delirious schoolgirl crush". This version, recorded live at Le Metropolis in Montreal, is slightly different from the version that would appear on Want Two, and does not feature the overdubbed horn solo. Wainwright has stated the song was inspired by a straight man that he met at the gym who told stories about his female students that had crushes on him.
Wainwright stated the following of "Gay Messiah", which describes a savior who will descend from the stars of Studio 54 and sunbathe on the beaches of Fire Island:
Interestingly enough this started off as a party song. What Passion of the Christ is to Christians this song is to the gay world. It's definitely a protest song, and I want people to hear it so I wrote it so that musically, it would be rather simple and accessible.The ballad "This Love Affair" "finds Wainwright trying his hand at concocting a modern-day standard and pulling it off with just the right mood and texture". Wainwright believes the song represents a perfect example of one of his own songs, being "emotional yet structured", "melancholy yet tough", and "very personal and universal at the same time".
"Waiting for a Dream" has been characterized as a "lush, enveloping, surreal excursion through a troubled subconscious". The political song addresses George W. Bush's first term as President of the United States, claiming, "There's a fire in the priory, and an ogre in the Oval Office".
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Famous quotes containing the word songs:
“In her days every man shall eat in safety
Under his own vine what he plants, and sing
The merry songs of peace to all his neighbors.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Dylan is to me the perfect symbol of the anti-artist in our society. He is against everything—the last resort of someone who doesn’t really want to change the world.... Dylan’s songs accept the world as it is.”
—Ewan MacColl (1915–1989)
“We can never see Christianity from the catechism:Mfrom the pastures, from a boat in the pond, from amidst the songs of wood- birds we possibly may.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)