Rufus Wainwright - Go or Go Ahead | Live at Sydney Opera House | Sydney Festival 2025

 

Thank you for this bitter knowledge

Guardian angels who left me stranded

It was worth it, feeling abandoned

Makes one hardened, but what has happened to love?

You got me writing lyrics on postcards

Then in the evenings looking at stars

But the brightest of the planets is Mars

What has happened to love

So, I will opt for the big white limo

Vanity fairgrounds and rebel angels

You can't be trusted with feathers so hollow

Your heaven's inventions, steel-eyed vampires of love

You see over me

I'll never know

What you have shown to other eyes

Go, or go ahead and surprise me

Say you've lead the way to a mirage

Go, or go ahead and just try me

Nowhere's now here smelling of junipers

Fell off the hay bales, I'm over the rainbows

But, oh, Medusa kiss me and crucify

This unholy notion of the mythic power of love

Look in her eyes, look in her eyes

Forget about the ones that are crying

Look in her eyes, look in her eyes

Forget about the ones that are crying

Go, or go ahead

Go, or go ahead

Go, or go ahead

And surprise me

Go, or go ahead

Go, or go ahead

Go, or go ahead

And just try me

What has happened to love?