Dinner At Eight

Album: Want One (2003)
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Rufus Wainwright
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 2

  • Elle from Seattle, WaThis is a song about Loudon Wainwright III, Rufus' father. He says on his Want DVD that he wrote it after he and his father did a shoot for Vanity Fair, and Rufus said to Loudon that he (Rufus) had got them on the cover, and Loudon reacted badly ("it was great until these old magazines got us started up again"). They didn't talk for some time. Rufus wrote the song early enough that it could have been on Poses, but he wasn't ready to release it then, and so, with his father's blessing, it was included on Want One instead.
  • Andy from New York, Nyis father and mother separted when he was thee. He had a confrontation with his father about this in a resaurant and it ended with his father threatening to kill him. He went home and wrote this song. Abandonment by his father is a reoceuring theme
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