Wainwright, Rufus - Dinner At Eight Lyrics






No matter how strong
I'm gonna take you down
With one little stone
I'm gonna break you down
And see what you're worth
What you're really worth to me

Dinner at eight was okay
Before the toast full of gleams
It was great until those old magazines
Got us started up again
Actually it was probably me again

Why is it so
That I've always been the one who must go
That I've always been the one told to flee
When it fact you were the one long ago
Actually in the drifting white snow
You left me

So put up your fists and I'll put up mine
No running away from the scene of the crime
God's chosen a place
Somewhere near the end of the world
Somewhere near the end of our lives

But 'til then no, Daddy, don't be surprised
If I wanna see the tears in your eyes
Then I know it had to be long ago
Actually in the drifting white snow
You loved me

No matter how strong
I'm gonna take you down
With one little stone
I'm gonna break you down
And see what you're worth
What you're really worth to me





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  1. g.... 2....

    fun fact: this is not in a minor key

  2. M.... K....

    I've seen Rufus 7 times all told ...... these lyrics would put a lump in anyone's throat.

  3. S.... S....

    I love him

  4. D.... B....

    this is the original and is crap compared to the Keane song...

    D.... B....

    I agree. Keane's version is miles better

    D.... B....

    @Ahmad Almajid indeed

  5. J.... G....

    I am unaware of his families portffolio or efforts I am sure there commendable but I have recently listened to you rufus and you are blissfully gifted thanks for the sound of you,blue collar jock😎👍🙏

  6. F.... ....

    I usually like listening to Rufus Wainwright's singing but then he's usually performing the same song that the band are playing. WTF is this piano arrangement about? Or is it him? Listen to this version by Sheridan Smith for a version that doesn't grate anywhere near as much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szoo7mykdJc

  7. P.... B....

    I was 24, newly moved to NYC & living with my now ex-husband in a walkup apartment on the Hudson River when Rufus’ new album (Poses) found me—during those initial days of art. I was new to the City. Rufus was just becoming known on a public level and he was also living in NYC.

    A couple years later, still so young, spending my days in the theater—this album found me.

    This song is about his anger towards his estranged musician father. At that time, my father was also an estranged musician. I would cry to this album while driving thru the Hudson Valley.

    A decade later, divorced, back home in the South, I reunited with my father just in time to watch him die.

    Rufus’s music has been with me since 2001. None of us can imagine at 24 where life will take us, or what albums we will grow attached to along the way.

    P.... B....

    wow that was beautiful, thanks for telling us that.

    P.... B....

    When was that? 30 years ago? There is not enough money in this universe to ever ever ever make me move back to that shithole NYC. It's an absolute nightmare today. I grew up there in the 70s and 80s and by the 1990s it started become unbearable as all the self righteous sanctimonious out of state leftists yupppie fuckholes and trust fund brats starting taking it over complaining about anything and everything. Today you couldn't pay me to even visit even if my own mother was living there, I would get into a fight in the street, it's the absolute asshole capital of the world.. They elected a blatant communist as Mayor there TWICE, Bill fuckhead DeBlasio, which to me is 4 times as worse as a Nazi. Nazis killed 25 million people, Communism 100 million and they elect a guy who supports that shit, it's unreal.

  8. J.... C....

    Good song for November evening

  9. a.... ....

    Oh my goodness. I forgot about this one. Makes my eyes wet.

  10. T.... R....

    I understand Wainwright has been around for a pair decades. I also understand that I didn't gravitate toward him twenty years ago, no because I wasn't ready but because I sensed I'd really need him to be something new in 2018. And he is. For me he is an utterly new artist who is making my heart race. That hasn't happened since I found Dylan in my teens and Sarah Vaughan in my twenties and. From 30 till today (54) that particular heart has lain dormant, believing it was deceased. // The 1933 film of the same title -- directed by the great pufta director George Cukor is is terrific. How many times have you seen it, Timothy? Oh I lost count ten years ago.

  11. Z.... ....

    The best sonf of Rufus! I really love this song.

  12. M.... B....

    Et puis celle ci aussi je l écoute tous les jours depuis des années.

  13. m.... ....

    No hago más que llorar cada vez que escucho esta canción. Maravillosa

  14. J.... L....

    Both of them go right for the jugular. Loudon cast a massive shadow over his family, and Rufus spit back the fact that it was HE who got his Father back in the spotlight via a Rolling Stone cover shoot

  15. S.... F....

    There should be a 'Love' button for this song. This man moves me, particularly when he writes about his family.

  16. G.... A....

    i love love love this wowowow

  17. S.... V....

    Crying never felt so good : )

  18. F.... ....

    such a beautiful song

  19. M.... A....

    I discovered this song when I heard Alan Cumming perform it live. Such an amazing song.

  20. P.... D....

    Heartbreakingly beautiful forged by unbearable, desolating loss.

    P.... D....

    This song is the anthem of every man or woman whose parent walked out on them. Such pain and rejection cannot be expressed. xx

    P.... D....

    For any man or woman who's had any deep love walk out on them.

  21. M.... S....

    Beautiful; poignant; beautifully poignant.

  22. n.... t....

    great song