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Track: I Don't Know What It Is
Artist: Rufus Wainwright
Album: Want One

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Name: Rufus Wainwright
Spotify Genres: singer-songwriter
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American-Canadian singer, songwriter, and composer (born July 22,1973). He has recorded seven albums of original music and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks. He has also written a classical opera and set Shakespeare sonnets to music for a theater piece by Robert Wilson. Born to folk music luminaries [a=Loudon Wainwright III] and [a=Kate McGarrigle], his sister is singer-songwriter [a=Martha Wainwright] and his half-sister is singer-songwriter [a3321339]. He was raised in Canada, and has both US and Canadian citizenship. He fathered a daughter with [a1848518] named Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen born February 2, 2011. Grandson of [a2243742], and nephew of [a3078428], [a2734903] and [a440846].

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Release: Rufus Wainwright - I Don't Know What It Is
Year: 2004
Genres: Rock, Pop
Styles: Vocal

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LYRICS

I don't know what it is
but you got to do it
I don't know where to go
But you got to be there
I don't know where to fall
But I know that its comfortable where
I don't know where it is

Putting all of my time
In learning to care
And a bucket of rhymes
I threw up somewhere
Want a locket of who
Made me lose my perfunctory view
Of all that is around
And of all that I do

So I knock on the door
Take a step that is new
Never been here before
Is there anyone else here too
In love with beauty
Playing all of the games
Who thinks three's company
Is there anyone else who wears slightly mysterious brusies
I don't know what it is

Take a lookin around
At friendly faces
All declaring a war on far off places
Is there anyone else who is through with complaining about what's
Done unto us

So I knock on the door
And I am on the train
Going god knows where to
To get me over
To get me over

Give me heaven or hell
Calais or Dover

I was hoping the train
Was my big number
Stopping in Santa Fe and the arches of Topeka
Though I'm chugging along, put away by the crossing hand
We'll be heading for Portland, or Limburgh or Lower Manhattan
Find myself running around

I don't know what it is so get me over
I don't know what it is so get me over
I don't know what it is so get me over
To get me over
You gotta do it.
You gotta be there.