There I was in uniform Looking at the art teacher I was just a girl then; Never have I loved since then He was not that much older than I was He had taken our class to the Metropolitan Museum He asked us what our favorite work of art was, But never could I tell it was him Oh, I wish I could tell him -- Oh, I wish I could have told him I looked at the Rubens and Rembrandts I liked the John Singer Sargents He told me he liked Turner Never have I turned since then No, never have I turned to any other man All this having been said, I married an executive company head All this having been done, a Turner - I own one Here I am in this uniformish, pant-suit sort of thing, Thinking of the art teacher I was just a girl then; Never have I loved since then No, never have I loved any other man
There I was in uniform Looking at the art teacher I was just a girl then; Never have I loved since then He was not that much older than I was He had taken our class to the Metropolitan Museum He asked us what our favorite work of art was, But never could I tell it was him Oh, I wish I could tell him -- Oh, I wish I could have told him I looked at the Rubens and Rembrandts I liked the John Singer Sargents He told me he liked Turner Never have I turned since then No, never have I turned to any other man All this having been said, I married an executive company head All this having been done, a Turner - I own one Here I am in this uniformish, pant-suit sort of thing, Thinking of the art teacher I was just a girl then; Never have I loved since then No, never have I loved any other man
A versão ao vivo gravada em Montreal possui uma orquestra de metais que foi adicionada em estúdio após a performance.
A música foi inspirada em um conto de um ex‑professor de arte que relatou ao cantor no ginásio que um aluno se apaixonou por ele, mas acabou se casando com um homem rico.
“The Art Teacher” aborda o tema anti‑materialista que é recorrente nas letras de Rufus Wainwright, contrastando dinheiro e amor.
O estilo musical lembra o compositor Philip Glass, e o próprio Glass afirma que este é o seu favorito da discografia de Wainwright.
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