| Rufus Wainwright – The Maker Makes Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| The beautiful, lullaby sort of quality of this songs makes one think of a ditty being sung by old wranglers to calm the cattle on a trail somewhere in the old west. The hymn-like harmony makes the “maker” in the lyrics seem to be God. However, this causes the lyrics to seem like the punishment of God for Jack and Ennis doing something wrong. I note that the way the lyrics appear on this website, “maker” is spelled with a lower case “m”. If this is the way Wainwright wrote the words, then he clearly did not “the maker” as God. I think of this song as Jack’s song, not Ennis’ song. Sing the words as though they were being sung by Jack, and the song will take on a whole different meaning. Nothing that Jack can do will get past the barriers that Ennis has placed to “protect” himself. Jack knows that only “the maker”, Ennis, can make them both happy men. | |
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