I had no idea. We lived together for one year in New York when I was 14 and it was a disaster, and 'I'd Rather Be Lonely' was about that year. He really crossed the line there". In her memoir, Stories I Might Regret Telling You, Martha wrote that when she heard the song's key lines, "You're still living here with me / I'd rather be lonely" and realized that the song was about her, "A part of me wanted to jump to my death from my tiny seat. Or, better yet, take off into the night, leaving him standing there waiting for me. But the show must go on, so I dried my tears and went down the stairs and on to the stage". Rufus has written the song "Dinner at Eight" about his conflicted relationship with his father. Martha and her father sang a duet on "Father Daughter Dialogue" (on Loudon's 1995 album, Grown Man) and collaborated on the song "You Never Phone" (on Loudon's 2003 live album, So Damn Happy). Wainright's first wife, Kate McGarrigle, wrote her song "Go Leave" about Wainwright. In it, she recounts how in the 1970s, her then-husband ran off to Europe with performance artist Penny Arcade. McGarrigle, who was pregnant at the time, traveled from Canada to England in search of him. After finding him, she lost the baby, and Wainwright informed her that he was leaving her. Martha has said that it is "the most gut-wrenchingly painful song ever. At the end, you hear the sound of a tear falling on to a string of her guitar. I used to listen to it as a child and cry my eyes out". Discography Studio albums Filmography M*A*S*H (1974–1975) (TV) .... Capt. Calvin Spalding, the singing surgeon. (3 episodes: "Rainbow Bridge", "There Is Nothing Like a Nurse", "Big Mac") Saturday Night Live (1975) (TV) .... Season 1, episode 5 (Hosted by Robert Klein, with musical numbers by ABBA and Wainwright) The T.V. Show (1979) (TV) .... Dead Man on Telethon/Spinal Tap keyboardist The Slugger's Wife (1985) .... Gary Jacknife (1989) .... Ferretti 28 Days (2000) .... Guitar guy Undeclared (2001) (TV) .... Hal Karp Ally McBeal (2002) (TV) .... Jerome Trouper (Love Is All Around, parts 1 & 2) Big Fish (2003) .... Beamen The Aviator (2004) .... Coconut grove vocalist No. 2 The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) .... Priest Elizabethtown (2005) .... Uncle