Movie review: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Movies of Myself

Image by Toni Blay
Stop me falling down, stop me making movies of myself
Put that old dog down, stop me making movies of myself
Bring the carriage round, get me to the garden of sleep
Make that high gate speak, Perrier out of a paper bag
Looking like a hag
And start giving me something
A love that is longer than a day
Start making my heart sing something that it doesn’t want to say…

Lyrics from the song "Movies of Myself" by Rufus Wainwright.

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