Arachne Song Lyrics
Arachne by Rufus Wainwright Spinning Arachne
Birds are picking at the cherries in your lovely tapestry
Spinning Arachne
Looming over the loom in the middle of the room
I see you spinning Arachne
The bears are hungry for the berries in your country
Fantasy, spinning Arachne
The gray-eyed goddess Athena is in the plume, harbinger of doom
Don't
Challenge the gods
Don't
Especially that one
Because if you do, oh, Arachne
A black spider, you will become
And there's nothing more frightening
Than a black spider spinning in the night
Spinning Arachne
How your cheeks, they get to pouting when attention you're not getting
Don't [?]
You'll give birth to sleeping beauty [?] children
Waving the future
Tried so hard to make it pretty, tried so hard to really matter
Next to [?] Athena
I won't even go there
I won't even go there
I won't even go there
Oh, Arachne
Just don't
Challenge the gods
Don't
Especially that one
Don't
Challenge the gods
Don't
Especially that one
Because if you do, oh, Arachne
A black spider, you will become
And there's nothing more frightening
Than a black spider spinning in the night