Martha Wainwright is the daughter of Loudon Wainwright III and the late Kate McGarrigle and is the sister of Rufus Wainwright. The family may be famous musically, but are somewhat dysfunctional. Martha has stated that her parents had played out the end of their relationship in song and that is now the family's preferred form of communication. So that takes us to "Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole," the title track to her 2005 EP and also on her debut album later the same year. It is about her father... the father she didn't really have (she and Rufus lived in Canada with their mother and visited their father in America on summer holidays) and the title would suggest it is nothing more than a tirade against him... well it is that, but it is also a captivating acoustic song full of emotion. It is just another frank family conversation in song. Loudon had written a song called "I'd rather be lonely" when Martha was just 14 years old and years later she found out that it was about her... so that may be what inspired her to eventually write "Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole." Did I mention the family was dysfunctional?
Lyrics
Poetry is no place for a heart that's a whore
And I'm young & I'm strong
But I feel old & tired
Overfired
And I've been poked & stoked
It's all smoke, there's no more fire
Only desire
For you, whoever you are
For you, whoever you are
You say my time here has been some sort of joke
That I've been messing around
Some sort of incubating period
For when I really come around
I'm cracking up
And you have no idea
No idea how it feels to be on your own
In your own home
with the fucking phone
And the mother of gloom
In your bedroom
Standing over your head
With her hand in your head
With her hand in your head
I will not pretend
I will not put on a smile
I will not say I'm all right for you
When all I wanted was to be good
To do everything in truth
To do everything in truth
Oh I wish I wish I wish I was born a man
So I could learn how to stand up for myself
Like those guys with guitars
I've been watching in bars
Who've been stamping their feet to a different beat
To a different beat
To a different beat
I will not pretend
I will not put on a smile
I will not say I'm all right for you
When all I wanted was to be good
To do everything in truth
To do everything in truth
You bloody mother fucking asshole
Oh you bloody mother fucking asshole
Oh you bloody mother fucking asshole
Oh you bloody mother fucking asshole
Oh you bloody mother fucking asshole
Oh you bloody...
I will not pretend
I will not put on a smile
I will not say I'm all right for you
For you, whoever you are
For you, whoever you are
For you, whoever you are
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