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from The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (2008)
Two roosters I slew and with all of my might
I prayed hard for you in Haiti at night Your skin has turned blue and your hair has turned white Must be the voodoo of this Haitian moonlight We can't take day trips but oh, those moonlight strolls Dressed up in silk slips, high heels and mink stoles You swivel your hips as I work the controls No blood ever drips when I widen your holes Zombie boy, Zombie boy Zombie boy, Zombie boy You seem to have died of some form of the pox They left you inside, your tiny black box I heard when you cried and I answered your knocks Let's make you a bride with another two cocks You look pretty good for so long in the ground You smell like a sewer but you don't make a sound I feed you ordure to keep Poopsie spellbound I like to be sure you'll be sticking around Zombie boy, Zombie boy Zombie boy, Zombie boy Zombie boy, Zombie boy Zombie boy, Zombie boy |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
So we got married in Venice in June
So what? We circled the Earth in a hot air balloon So what? and the rest of our lives is one long honeymoon well, that doesn't mean we're in love If you really loved me you'd buy me a beautiful pearl but you've already bought me all of the pearls in the world so there's one thing I crave when my days become ho-hum and blah I want a zebra We've got so many tchotchkes we've practically emptied the Louvre In most of our palaces there's hardly room to manoeuvre I shan't go to Balie today I must stay home and Hoovre up the gold dust That doesn't mean we're in love If you really loved me you'd buy me the Great Pyramid Oh, I'm so forgetful, you already did But there's one think I need if you won't think I'm greedy, my death another zebra Zelda looks lonely, I want a zebra |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
I will stay if you let me stay
and I'll go if you let go, but I won't go far away because you're my only home. And I will hide what you want hidden and I'll roam if you say roam, but I'd just as soon you didn't because you're my only home. When you cancel dinner plans; when you cross the street and you don't take my hand; when you make impossible demands I wish I didn't understand, I will stay if you let me stay and I'll go if you let go, but I won't go far away because you're my only home. I will hide what you want hidden and I'll roam if you say roam, but I'd just as soon you didn't because you're my only home. |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Wayward Bus/ Distant Plastic Tree (2003)
Maybe tomorrow I'll see love in your eyes and mine will dry
Maybe tomorrow we can learn how to fly on these nasty little wings (C): And I wanna take you out but you always refuse 'cause you only play the games that you know you can lose You love to fail, that's all you love. We don't know why you've been gone Somebody said you're on the run You're living where wild horses run Well, hey, whatever turns you on. (C) I'll be your confidante Come and go as you please I'll honor and protect my Wagner in dungarees. (C) (C) |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Get Lost (1997)
Brian Wilson, wine
1960 and vine, summer kisses In a pendleton shirt Songs and gentle words, granted wishes When I look in your eyes I go soft inside And the sound of your voice sends shivers up my spine And at the slightest touch, we're in love You and me and the moon, ooh, ooh You and me and the moon, ooh, ooh In a cool gay bar Where the people are entertaining When the sun clocks in We'll still be talking and champagning Underneath the strobe light, we'll dance all night I'm a little bit shy, you're easy on the eye And at the slightest touch we're in love You and me and the moon, ooh, ooh You and me and the moon, ooh, ooh When you look in my eyes I go soft inside And the sound of your voice sends shivers up my spine And at the slightest touch we're in love You and me and the moon, ooh, ooh You and me and the moon, ooh, ooh You and me and the moon, ooh, ooh You and me and the moon |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
Are you out of love with me?
Are you longing to be free? Do I drive you up a tree? Yeah! Oh, yeah! Do I drive you up the wall? Do you dread every phone call? Can you not stand me at all? Yeah! Oh, yeah! Though I need you more than air is it true you just don't care? Are you having an affair? Yeah! Oh, yeah! When we met I thought money was everything so I let you buy the house, the car, the ring but I can't take your perpetual whining and you can't sing I though if we live apart we could made a brand-new start Do you want to break my heart? Yeah! Oh, yeah! I've enjoyed making you miserable for years found peace of mind in playing on your fears How I loved to catch your gold and silver tears, but now my dear What a dark and dreary life Are you reaching for a knife? Could you really kill your wife? Yeah! Oh, yeah! Of, I die, I die, I die! So it's over, you and I Was my whole life just a lie? Yeah! Oh, yeah! |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
To my dear,dear mother
I leave myonly shoes To my dear, dear mother I leave my only shoes By the time you read this I will have died of the blues Scream little choo-choo Bang your xylophone track You can wail all night long but you can't bring her back I've done so much crying the flesh has left my bones I've done so much crying the flesh has left my bones I can play my ribcage like a xylophone |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (2008)
Xavier says, "Ha, ha, ha
We have nothing in common See you round ta-ta Slink back to your abominable lover Zsa-Zsa, before I blow your cover Tra-lala" Zsa-Zsa's scene, tacky queen You think there's no one but you Get your crass little ass Out and don't make me cut you With how much you talk you'd think That someone else was listening Want a drink, Miss Thing? "Slow gin fizz', says Xavier Zsa-Zsa orders and drinks come "Here it is, teddy bear To your health, you rat fink scum" Xavier wheezes, "I forgot" Before each line he sneezes quite a lot |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
When the rhythm calls the government falls. Here come the cops.
From Tokyo to Soweto viva la musica pop. We are black & white and we dance all night down at the hop, and the letters were tall on the Berlin Wall viva la musica pop. So if you're feeling low stuck in some bardo, I, even I know the solution love, music, wine and revolution. love, love, love music, wine and revolution. This too shall pass so raise your glass to change and chance, and freedom is the only law shall we dance... |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Get Lost (1997)
Moons in June I've given up on that stuff
Arms have charms but I've no hope of falling in love The rest of life pales in significance I'm looking for somebody with whom to dance With whom to dance? With whom to dance? I'm looking for somebody with whom to dance. Rings and strings What use have I for these things? Bells and carousels I'd just be fooling myself. And you You look like heaven An angel who stepped from a dream 777 times lovelier than anything I've ever seen. |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Get Lost (1997)
All the summer days
Where we used to play Walking hand in hand Castles in the sand So you said goodnight But you meant goodbye Now our love has died This is why I cry, cry From the madding crowd Pointing up at clouds Summer turned to fall Pictures on the wall So you said goodnight But you meant goodbye Now our love has died This is why I cry, cry So you said goodnight But you meant goodbye Now our love has died This is why I cry, cry |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Wayward Bus/ Distant Plastic Tree (2003)
We walked alone in the rain and lightning
When you were my baby So much in love it was almost frightening When you were my baby Everybody called you a fool When you wouldn't play by the rules Everybody was wrong, whoa whoa There was nowhere to run away to When you were my baby Everybody began to hate you When you were my baby Time wasn't on our side Me and my foolish pride Then I said goodbye, whoa whoa Now you've gone away and left me on my own Now I'm walking down the highway all alone On a rainy night and crying out my eyes Crying out my eyes Crying out my, crying out my eyes We were young, yeah, but old enough to... When you were my baby And I just couldn't help but love you When you were my baby Just the way you wore your hair And the way you just didn't care And the way you danced Do do, do do do, do do do, do do do do do When you were my baby Do do, do do do, do do do, do do do do do When you were my baby Do do, do do do, do do do, do do do do do When you were my baby Do do, do do do, do do do, do do do do do When you were my baby |
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from The Magnetic Fields - The Charm Of The Highway Strip (2003)
Time, measured in dotted yellow lines has passed you by
and I never said an honest thing to you in all my life Hard times go slowly and the good times never come The world is a motor inn in the Iowa highway slum when the open road is closing in and you can't say where it ends and you begin when every truckstop dive's another five years off your life when the open road is closing in and the dotted yellow lines begin to spin when the sky begins to fall on everything you like at all you won't be coming home again Ciao, you keep on drowning in the roads between the towns now I have been closing all the shutters in the house well, I know you'll be back when every tree is turning brown you'll find the house is empty and the swingset's fallen down |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
Grand pianos crash together when my boy walks down the street
There are whole new kinds of weather when he walks with his new beat Everyone sings hallelujah when my boy walks down the street Life just kind of dances through ya from your smile down to your feet Amazing he's a whole new form of life Blue eyes blazing and he's going to be my wife The world does the hula-hula when my boy walks down the street Everyone thinks he's Petula so big and yet so petite Butterflies turn into people when my boy walks down the street Maybe he should be illegal he just makes life too complete... Amazing he's a whole new form of life Blue eyes blazing and he's going to be my wife Oh, shadows of echoes of memories Oh, things that he brings that he found in the sea Oh, shadows of echoes of memories of songs Oh, how could he know that it won't be long... Grand pianos crash together when my boy walks down the street There are whole new kinds of weather when he walks with his new beat Everyone sings hallelujah when my boy walks down the street Life just kind of dances through ya from your smile down to your feet |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
W a-s-h i-n-g t-o-n, baby, D.C.!
W a-s-h i-n-g t-o-n, baby, D.C.! Washington, D.C. It's paradise to me It's not because it is the grand old seat Of precious freedom and democracy No, no, no It's not the greenery turning gold in fall The scenery circling the Mall It's just that's where my baby lives That's all. Washington D.C.! It's the greatest place to be It's not the cherries everywhere in bloom It's not the way they put folks on the moon No, no, no It's not the spectacles and pagaentry The thousand things you've got to see It's just that's where my baby waits for me W a-s-h i-n-g t-o-n, baby D.C.! W a-s-h i-n-g t-o-n, baby D.C.! Washington, D.C.! It fits me to a T It's not the people doing something real It's not the way the springtime makes you feel No, no, no It ain't no famous name on a golden plaque That keeps me that makes me ride that railroad track It's my baby's kiss that keeps me coming back It's my baby's kiss that keeps me coming back |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
Everybody knows but me, when you go where you shouldn't be.
Everybody knows but me, where you go when you're feeling free. Everybody knows but me. So you go there for a laugh. You just go to take photographs. To believe that, I'd be daft but yes I think you go for a laugh and you say, I love you honey. Very funny. |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
A pretty girl in her underwear..
A pretty girl in her underwear... If there's anything better in this world -- who cares? La mort, c'est la mort, Mais l'amour, c'est l'amour. La mort, c'est seulement la mort, Mais l'amour, c'est l'amour. A pretty boy in his underwear... A pretty boy in his underwear... If there's a better reason to jump for joy -- who cares? La mort, c'est la mort, Mais l'amour, c'est l'amour. La mort, c'est seulement la mort, Mais l'amour, c'est l'amour. |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
There are two kinds of people:
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from The Magnetic Fields - The Charm Of The Highway Strip (2003)
You were just like me
You were one big bruise In the game of life we were playing too lose You were Jesse James I was William Tell You were Daniel Webster I was the devil himself Two characters in search of a country song Just make believe, but so in love Two characters been listenin' all night long For voices from Nashville above Hell on eighteen wheels At a hundred per We went crashing through the Jersey barrier But the road went on Over dale and hill You were Calamity Jane And I was Wild Bill Two characters in search of a country song Just make believe, but so in love Two characters been listenin' all night long for voices from Nashville above Two characters in search of a country song Just make believe, but so in love Two characters been listenin' all night long For voices from Nashville above |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Holiday (2003)
You know the rain is gone when the sky is full of dust
and the tears are gone when your eyes are red as rust and it just rains because it can and you just cry until you can't But I can feel my courage crumbling and my heart just turns to ice When I see myself reflected in your torn green velvet eyes. You know the night is gone when the sunlight burns your eyes and the cold is gone when the room is full of flies and it's all a waste of time if you try to change your mind And it's all a waste of time if you try to change your mind |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (2008)
Sober, life is a prison
Shit faced, it is a blessing Sober, nobody wants you Shit faced, they're all undressing Oh, sober, it's ever darker Shit faced, the moon is nearer Sober, you're old and ugly Shit faced, who needs a mirror? Oh, sober, you're a cromagnon Shit faced, you're very clever Sober, you never should be Shit faced, now and forever I gotta get too drunk to dream 'Cause dreaming only makes me blue I gotta get too drunk to dream Because I only dream of you I gotta get too pissed to miss you Or I'll never get to sleep I gotta drink wine not to pine for you And God knows that ain't cheap I know you think I'm insane I know it's not appealing But till I'm feeling no pain Guess what I'll be feeling? I gotta get too drunk to dream 'Cause dreaming only makes me blue I gotta get too drunk to dream Because I only dream of you I gotta get too fried to cry Or I'll be crying all night long I gotta get too high to sigh Oh, my God, where did I go wrong? So why do I get plastered? And why am I so lonely? It's you, you heartless bastard You're my one and only I gotta get too drunk to dream 'Cause dreaming only makes me blue I gotta get too drunk to dream Because I only dream of you I gotta get too pissed to miss you Or I'll never get to sleep I gotta drink wine not to pine for you And God knows that ain't cheap And God knows that ain't cheap |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Wayward Bus/ Distant Plastic Tree (2003)
I was only doing my job for the Company
with a gun in my pocket and no identity I fell in love with you but we're not free. (C): Tokyo A go-go, Tokyo A go-go the dancing spies with evil eyes that walk the night Tokyo A go-go, Tokyo A go-go in colored scenes the dancing queens with laser beams. You were just another boy only seventeen well designed for giving pleasure just a love machine Now we've got to run away We're turning green. (C) |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
There'll be time enough for rocking when we're old We can rock all day in
rocking chairs of gold but tonight I think I'd rather just go dancing There'll be time enough for rocking when we're old, my love There'll be time enough for talk in the nursing home Darling, time enough to write an epic poem but tonight I think I'd rather just go dancing There'll be time enough for talking in the home, my love There'll be time enough for sleeping when we're dead You will have a velvet pillow for your head but tonight I think I'd rather just go dancing There'll be time enough for sleeping when we're dead, my love There'll be time for sex and drugs in Heaven when our pheromones are turned up to 11 but tonight I think I'd rather just go dancing There'll be time enough for sex and drugs in Heaven, my love and time enough for rocking when we're old |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (2008)
Through sleet and snow and storm and hail
Through every degradation and betrayal Past rhyme and reason and beyond the pale Darling, I will love you till the bitter end And all the bitter moments till then Through time and tomb and Tim and Tom Through pro and con and quid pro quo and qualm Through tidal wave and asteroid and bomb Darling, I will love you till the bitter end And all the bitter moments till then And when your charms begin to fade And when you feel old and afraid I'll scratch beneath your shoulder blade and whisper My love is deeper than I show Remember what I said through sleet and snow So even though I know you have to go Darling, I will love you till the bitter end And all the bitter moments till then |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (2008)
Three-Way!
Three-Way! Three-Way! |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
So far away and so alone
how could I ever take you home You're beautiful, beautiful You've got a devastating point of view and everything you say is true You're beautiful, beautiful The nightbirds start to sing their favorite song: "The Way You Say Good-Night" The nightbirds start to sing their favorite song and the moon begins to sing I kiss you and the sun goes down How come it's always dark when you're around You're beautiful, beautiful The nightbirds start to sing their favorite song The moon begins to sing You're beautiful, beautiful The stars begin their Busby Berkeley dance: "The Way You Say Good-Night" And the night becomes a musical extravaganza: "The Way You Say Good-Night" The way you say good-night I dream of all day long Oh, I could write a song about the way you say good-night... |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Get Lost (1997)
Outside the rain is coming down
Inside it's warm and dry You'll never find a cab uptown So why not stay the night? Why don't you call in sick tomorrow Let's sleep the day away I've got pyjamas you can borrow Let's take a holiday You can't leave the village in the the morning When the radio writes poetry for Avenue Pi You get tangled in the wheels of old Queen River And you can't find the breath to whisper goodbye Whisper goodbye Why don't you stay until the weekend It should clear up by then As your resolve begins to weaken We'll become such good friends And you could stay until the summer And we can sleep through spring And I can telephone my drummer And have her get your things You can't leave the village in the the morning When the radio writes poetry for Avenue Pi You get tangled in the wheels of old Queen River And you can't find the breath to whisper goodbye Whisper goodbye Why don't you stay until we're old And fall in love with life Why don't you stay until we're ghosts We'll only seem to die You can't leave the village in the the morning When the radio writes poetry for Avenue Pi You get tangled in the wheels of old Queen River And you can't find the breath to whisper goodbye Whisper goodbye Whisper goodbye Whisper goodbye Whisper goodbye Whisper goodbye |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Holiday (2003)
Crows in the trees spanish hotels by the sea
we wave goodbye airplanes draw swords in the sky I'm so rich and you're so bored Are you the trouble I've been looking for You go out and you slam the door Are you the trouble I've been looking for. My eyes still burn whether you leave or return The flowers bloom when you walk into the room I'm so rich and you're so bored Are you the trouble I've been looking for You go out and you slam the door Are you the trouble I've been looking for. You stole it all and wrote my name on a wall I've moved again I've changed my name again I'm so rich and you're so bored Are you the trouble I've been looking for You go out and you slam the door Are you the trouble I've been looking for. |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
So the sun goes down and the world goes dancing
And the stars come out and they all go dancing And there is nothing I'd like more Than a twirl across this rickety old floor Well I don't know why but I just feel like dancing I can't imagine why but I feel like dancing And there is nothing in this world That I'd like better than a twirl across your rickety old floor Maybe it's you You know your eyes are awful blue Maybe it's more Maybe you're all I ever waited for After all the endless nights when I wished I could still cry |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Wayward Bus/ Distant Plastic Tree (2003)
We used to go out on the summer nights and dance in the neon rain
We used to hold hands at the movie show but we'll never hold hands again Do do do do do come on Do do do do do come on (C): Those days are gone You and I were young those summer nights You'll see the world diving for a girl you'll never find and then we'll quietly grow old: the saddest story ever told. Once upon a time we fell in love or at least that's what you said You say I can find someone else but I just wish I was dead Do do do do do come on Do do do do do come on. (C) |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
I do believe our love's in danger
I might as well be loving air You look at me like I'm a stranger You look at me like I'm not there I gaze into your eyes of blue But their beauty is not for me You're thinking on someone who's gone You're dreaming of the one you really love I made you mine, or so it seemed Though he is dead he haunts your dreams I might as well be two foot tall You never will love me at all... I gaze into your eyes of blue but their beauty is not for me You're thinking on someone who's gone You're dreaming of the one you really love You're dreaming of the corpse you really love |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (2008)
I want to be a playboy's bunny
I'd do whatever they asked me to. I'd meet people with lots of money, and men would love me like I loved you. I want to be a topless waitress, I want my mother to shed one tear. I'd throw away this old sedate dress slip into something a tad more shear. I want to be an artist's model An odalisque au naturel I should be good at spin the bottle While I've still got something left to sell I want to be a cobra dancer With little willie between my thighs I may not find a cure for cancer But I'll meet plenty of single guys. I'd like to be a brothel worker, I've always been treated like one. If I could be a backstreet lover, I'd make more money and have more fun. I want to be a dominatrix which isn't like me, but I can dream. Learn S&M and all those gay tricks and men will pay me to make them scream I want to be a porno starlet For that I'll wait till mom is dead I'd see my name in lights of scarlet And get to spend everyday in bed I want to be a tattooed lady, Dedicated as I am to art. Characters bold, complex, and shady Will write my memoirs across my heart |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
Before you left your garrison
you'd had a drink, maybe two You don't remember Paris, hon but it remembers you It's true, we flew to Paris, dear aboard an Army jet the night you can't remember the night I can't forget You said I was terrific, it meant zilch to you, ah, but I have our marriage certificate 'n I'll keep it till I die You were an Army officer and I just a Rockette the night you can't remember the night I can't forget No rose conveyed your sentiments not even a petunia but you've got vague presentiments and I've got little Junior You said, Nobody loves me and I said, wanna bet? the night you can't remember the night I can't forget |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
Andy would bicycle across town
In the rain to bring you candy And John would buy the gown For you to wear to the prom With Tom the astronomer, who'd name a star for you But I'm the luckiest guy On the Lower East Side 'Cause I've got wheels And you want to go for a ride Harry is the one I think you'll marry But it's Chris that you kissed after school Well, I'm a fool, there's no doubt But when the sun comes out And only when the sun comes out I'm the luckiest guy On the Lower East Side 'Cause I've got wheels And you want to go for a ride The day is beautiful and so are you My car is ugly but then I'm ugly too I know you'd never give me a second glance But when the weather's nice all the other guys don't stand a chance I know Professor Blumen makes you feel like a woman But when the wind is in your hair you laugh like a little girl So you share secrets with Lou, but we've got secrets too Well, one: I only keep this heap for you 'Cause I'm the ugliest guy On the Lower East Side But I've got wheels And you want to go for a ride Want to go for a ride? Want to go for a ride? Want to go for a ride? |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Holiday (2003)
I saw you standing at the airport
With your chihuahua in your hand Crying on the moving sidewalk On your way to Disneyland And the flowers she sent and the flowers she said she sent Are all equally dead You don't care anymore, she said And the books she read and the books that she said she read Are all spread on the floor You don't care about them anymore I saw you closing your antique shop With a boa 'round your throat And you tremble like an ostrich In your ostrich feather coat And the flowers she sent and the flowers she said she sent Are all equally dead You don't care anymore, she said And the books she read and the books that she said she read Are all spread on the floor You don't care about them anymore |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Get Lost (1997)
With an ivory pipe and a cumberbund
In the dead of night on the autobahn With the long ago on the radio And the dreaming moon We were young and in love in a burning town But the fire went out, I'm alone again now And I finally know how cool to be cold With the dreaming moon I'll begin again with another new name And a whole new life full of fortune and fame But in the 100th year, I'll be right back here With the dreaming moon The dreaming moon The dreaming moon The dreaming moon The dreaming moon |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
I met Ferdinand de Saussure
On a night like this On love he said "I'm not so sure I even know what it is No understanding No closure It is a nemesis You can't use a bulldozer To study orchids" He said... So we don't know anything You don't know anything I don't know anything about love But we are nothing You are nothing I am nothing Without love I'm just a great composer And not a violent man But I lost my composure And I shot Ferdinand Crying "it's well and kosher to say you don't understand but this is for Holland-Dozier-Holland" His last words were We don't know anything (etc) His fading words were We don't know anything (etc) |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
The cactus where your heart should be has lovely
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
The book of love is long and boring
No one can lift the damn thing It's full of charts and facts and figures and instructions for dancing but I, I love it when you read to me and you, you can read me anything The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb but I, I love it when you sing to me and you, you can sing me anything The book of love is long and boring and written very long ago It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes and things we're all too young to know but I, I love it when you give me things and you, you ought to give me wedding rings I, I love it when you give me things and you, you ought to give me wedding rings |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Wayward Bus/ Distant Plastic Tree (2003)
Tar-heel boy sings a song
Bout a girl who ain't comin' home By n by, by n by She worked too long in the mill She's gone to those rolling hills in the sky We're barely off Mama's milk And we're locked in here weavin' silk We can't buy, we can't buy While you been off in Oregon I been drinkin' here all alone All night long, all day long They shot a nine-year-old boy For a hundred dollars |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Holiday (2003)
You used to slide down the carpeted stairs
or down the bannister you stuttered like a kaleidoscope 'cause you knew too many words you used to make ginger bread houses we used to have taffy pulls Take ecstasy with me, baby take ecstasy with me. You had a black snowmobile we drove out under the northern lights a vodka bottle gave you those raccoon eyes we got beat up just for holding hands Take ecstasy with me, baby take ecstasy with me. |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Holiday (2003)
I read your manifestoes and your strange religious tracts.
You took me to your library and kissed me in the stacks. Planets crash, the world goes nova, Sun explodes, all goes black. You went off swinging London and forgot to come back You couldn't grok my racecar, but you dug the roadside blur. You weren't into my airplane, but you loved the whirling world. Planets crash, the world goes nova, Sun explodes, all goes black. You went off swinging London and forgot to come back Planets crash, the world goes nova, Sun explodes, all goes black. You went off swinging London and forgot to come back |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
There's an hour of sunshine for a million years of rain
but somehow that always seems to be enough. When love falls from the sky nobody ever asks why You just take it or you leave it where it was, but there's just one kind of love you can spend your life dreaming of. For the love of a sweet-lovin' man. Some have traveled far and wide, some have given up and died For the love of a sweet-lovin' man. Some have broken down and cried, some have turned to dust inside, but I'll stay right here and hide in the arms of my sweet-lovin' man. Until you've had sweet lovin' there's no lovin' worth the name, but you can go blind from crying all the time, and who said life was easy and who said a man was fair? Well I wish you well but keep your paws off mine. You can't buy one at the mall but he'll come if you just call... |
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from The Magnetic Fields - The Charm Of The Highway Strip (2003)
Well I don't care what people say
Life is too short to hang around So I stay so long in a place And then move on to the next town Oh Sunset City I've got to see the world Don't hold me too tightly Don't whisper my name Sad-eyed baby I'm not that kind of girl When the dice stop rolling There's no more to the game When the time comes to say goodbye And in the morning I'll be gone For other towns and other lives I'll catch the first train, bag in hand And I won't miss you, and you won't cry Oh Sunset City I've got to see the world Don't hold me too tightly Don't whisper my name Sad-eyed baby I'm not that kind of girl When the dice stop rolling There's no more to the game When the time comes to say goodbye (Chorus repeats) |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Wayward Bus/ Distant Plastic Tree (2003)
We used to dance like it was going out of style
when you loved me for a while and I remember every word you ever said; every kiss We used to sing all the oldest songs we knew but the words were never true for you or was it all a game of solitaire played in the dark? (C): All the sweetest things you said and I believed were summer lies Hanging in the willow trees like the dead were summer lies I'll never fall in love again. I whispered too but the things I said were true and I gave up my whole world for you I gave you all the best years of my life and half the worst and now you're gone I pine and wane, pale and wan, never knowing when it's dawn, curtains drawn, hiding in my room, wasting away, cutting myself. (C) |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Holiday (2003)
Please forgive me for all the things I've done.
Sugar give me the love I need to carry on living. Living without you I'd just die With you, with you I can hold my head up high And tell the crowd that I'm so proud It makes me want to cry Sugar World of you Sugar World what can I do Sugar World you're so Sweet You're a Sugar World To me you're champagne or ruhr wine Will you make up your mind You're lemon or you're lime You're pecan or praline You're sky bar or cloud nine Sugar save me, come on save me from myself. Enslave me, I never wanted anything else. Looking, looking into your candy eyes. Talking, talking about the day when I can Make a vow, but that's not now. It makes me want to cry. Sugar World of you Sugar World what can I do Sugar World you're so Sweet You're a Sugar World To me you're champagne or ruhr wine Will you make up your mind You're lemon or you're lime You're pecan or praline You're sky bar or cloud nine |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Wayward Bus/ Distant Plastic Tree (2003)
You held me upside-down
Till I couldn't breathe anymore Then you held me like a baby Television, like wine; and cigarettes, like grains of sand; And raspberry schnapps, like a thousand sunsets. (C): The boys talk like they own the world The women keep their stupid diaries But suddenly there's a tidal wave And everything is sucked out to sea. There were probably birds Outside our little room I don't remember anything but you We must have been the butt Of all the jokes in the world For trying to live like Pippi Longstocking. (C) (C) |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Holiday (2003)
on the ferris wheel
looking out on Coney Island under more stars than there are prostitues in Thailand our hair in the air our lips blue from cotton candy when we kiss it feels like a flying saucer landing and i can't sleep cause you got strange powers your in my dreams strange powers in Las Vegas where the electric bills are staggering the decor hog wild and the entertainment saccharin what a golden age, what a time of right and reason the consumers king and unhappiness is treason and i can't sleep cause you got strange powers your in my dreams strange powers the sun falls down like money the moon pours down like mercury the stars fall down like money and you come back to me strange powers |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
Strange eyes, blue clocks without hands
two lives lived in distant lands little blue mysteries what did they see in me Strange eyes, early Picassos call me even when you don't if only from pictures it having been three years The follow me in all my dreams Oh God I'm still in love with you Strange eyes, to little star charts plunges knives into my poor heart As lovely as a tree they endlessly recede Strange eyes, two little whirlpools made by God to destroy fools two pearls of inf'nite cost two paradises lost They swallow me in all my dreams Oh God I'm still in love with you |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Wayward Bus/ Distant Plastic Tree (2003)
Well you've got a really long name
It won't fit on any forms You gave me all your mirrors and they made me deformed You're sending smoke signals I know your secret code We travel in the plaid van and we give our puppet show and we picnic in the winter on maple syrup and snow You're sending smoke signals I know your secret code Well, you made a Molotov cocktail, and you threw it on the ground, and it sent us flying, and now we're flying about You're sending smoke signals I know your secret code |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Get Lost (1997)
Someone else's world goes by
As my train runs through this night Someone else's rain comes down But no rain can touch me now Smoke and mirrors Special effects A little fear A little sex That's all love is Behind the tears Smoke and mirrors We were foolish, you and I But there's no reason to cry We put on a lovely show But that's all, I had to go Smoke and mirrors Special effects A little fear A little sex That's all love is Behind the tears Smoke and mirrors I don't know the stations' names I'll spend my life on this train Smoke and mirrors (Fumee et miroirs) Special effects (Effets speciaux) A little fear (Un peu de peur) A little sex (Un peu de sexe) That's all love is (Sous les larmes) Behind the tears (L'amour n'est que sa) Smoke and mirrors (De la fumee et des miroirs) |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Get Lost (1997)
I know all the names of your tears
And numbers of these lonely years I know all the someone's somedays Don't believe them anyway When you love someone You can always tell the sun It will be twilight soon Save a secret for the moon In a darkened room Write it on a black balloon Then watch it fade from view Save a secret for the moon I can show you sadder poetry Than you ever dreamed there could be I know all the saddest people Most of them are dead now When you love someone You can always tell the sun It will be twilight soon Save a secret for the moon In a darkened room Write it on a black balloon Then watch it fade from view Save a secret for the moon When you love someone You can always tell the sun It will be twilight soon Save a secret for the moon In a darkened room Write it on a black balloon Then watch it fade from view Save a secret for the moon |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Holiday (2003)
The saddest brown eyes I'll ever know.
You gave crying so long ago, But come outside and watch the snow Softly falling. Sad Little Moon in the big black sky. All alone, hang your head and cry. Sad Little Moon in the timeless night. You may sleep, but you will never die. You didn't need them, your Sunday friends. And so you watched them like grains of sand Running one by one out of your hands Softly falling. |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
Buy more stock in roses
Millionaires will always woo Don't be shocked if roses Make a millionaire of you |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
Reno, Dakota
There's not an iota Of kindness in you You know you enthrall me And yet you don't call me It's making me blue Pantone 292 Reno, Dakota I'm reaching my quota Of tears for the year Alas and alack You just don't call me back You have just disappeared It makes me drink beer I know you're a recluse You know that's no excuse Reno, that's just a ruse Do not play fast and loose With my heart Reno, Dakota I'm no Nino Rota I don't know the score Have I annoyed you Or is there a boy who Well, he's just a whore I've had him before It makes me drink more |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Wayward Bus/ Distant Plastic Tree (2003)
I will not sing your ugly song
I won't put on your ugly play I cannot join your ugly priesthood And if I die I won't come home Railroad boy of mine... I bought you crows and candelabra And I went moth-eating with you I held you down when you had seizures And read to you at bedtime Railroad boy of mine... We went to see a beaver dam We went to see a coral reef But life is more than going to see things And that's too bad Railroad boy of mine Railroad boy of mine... |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
Punk Love
Punk Love Punk Rock Love |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
What if the show couldn't go on What if we all got jobs
and got to bed before dawn What if Old Joe had to retire What if all the stage hands were let go or fired that's just like what the world would be If you fell out of love with me I can't let this happen to you don't you let it happen to me What would our friends and family say if they could only see If you let this happen to us don't think you'd be setting me free Wasn't it you and I who made promises of eternity What if the lights didn't go on What if the velvet curtain had to be taken down What if the clowns couldn't be clowns and all those painted smiles gave in to plaintive frowns What if no show ever happened again No Seven, no 8 1/2, no Nine, and no 10 All numbers and no mystery No promise of eternity... I can't let this happen to you don't you let it happen to me What would our friends and family say if they could only see If you let this happen to us don't think you'd be setting me free Wasn't it you and I who made promises of eternity |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (2008)
Please stop dancing in my head
I have cried till I'm half dead Please stop dancing in my head Please stop dancing in my mind I have cried till I'm half blind Please stop dancing in my mind Please stop dancing in my heart I can't seem to make it art Please stop dancing in my heart Please stop dancing in my soul I can't make it rock 'n' roll Please stop dancing in my soul Please stop dancing in my sleep I can't make it twang and beep Please stop dancing in my sleep Please stop dancing in my eyes I can't make it pretty lies Please stop dancing in my eyes Please stop dancing in my blood Ill wind blowing no one good Please stop dancing in my blood Please stop dancing in my life I will never be your wife Please stop dancing in my life |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
I'll linger here your ring upon my finger dear and sing till dawn
a song of you and me and what and why for time is all I have to keep between these walls and half asleep the days go by a million little nights and days go by and I don't mind Parades go by So many beautiful parades go by Leave me behind I'll sit and stare how could I venture anywhere and let the centuries fall where they may but never die for I have loved and so I lost the world above beyond the moss... |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Wayward Bus/ Distant Plastic Tree (2003)
Was there some part of you - tail, or hunchback;
That, when they cut it off, grew back? You were a little girl with starry eyes Now you're a sad young man and no one knows why. (C): When we go dancing underneath the city in the catacombs When we go dancing the strobe lights and the disco will bring us home. I know Old Orchard Beach is where you belong You can go back, but, baby, that won't make you young The wind will blow or it won't The stars come out or they don't The world goes round or we get thrown into the stars. (C) |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (2008)
Old fools, dancing
Old fools who believe That they can dance and sing And fall in love After all, love Old wines, old shoes Old lines who would've thought They would ever reuse Like I, love you Surprise I, love you Flowers, long drive Old fools, new lives Old fools, dancing Old rules take the Backseat to new romancing Long drives, flowers Old fools, new lives |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
Dance with me my old friend
Once before we go Let's pretend this song won't end And we never have to go home And we'll dance among the chandeliers And nothing matters when we're dancing In tat or tatters you're entrancing Be we in Paris or in Lansing Nothing matters when we're dancing You've never been more beautiful Your eyes like two full moons Than here in this poor old dance hall Among the dreadful tunes The awful songs we don't even hear And nothing matters when we're dancing In tat or tatters you're entrancing Be we in Paris or in Lansing Nothing matters when we're dancing |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
If you don't mind, why don't you mind?
Where is your sense of indignation. You are too kind, much too kind. Where is the madness that you promised me? Where is the dream for which I paid dearly? When things go wrong I sing along. It is the nature of the business. But you're not here to make my sad songs more sincere. No one will ever love you honestly. No one will ever love you for your honesty. No one will ever love you honestly. No one will ever love you for your honesty. |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
I'm a hopeless romantic
You're a terrible flirt Cool and unfazed, you're always amazed when someone gets hurt I live on the blue planet that I saw in your eyes but now I can't stay knowing it's made of beautiful lies but my sentimental melody like a long-lost lullabye will ring in your ears down through the years bringing a tear to your eye Goodbye Love can kill people, can't it Well it still might kill me Each drop of rain is a glass of champagne It's sweet and it's free When I drink I don't panic When I drink I don't die When I'm far gone it's all just a song just beautiful lies... but my sentimental melody like a long-lost lullabye will ring in your ears down through the years bringing a tear to your eye Goodbye |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
Billie you're a miracle and God knows I need one.
Sing me something terrible that even dawn may come. You and me, we don't believe in happy endings. Hey, Lady Day, can you save my life this time? Can you cry so beautifully you make my troubles rhyme? Hey, Lady Day, can you save my life again? My only love has gone away. Will you be my only friend? Billie you're a genius enough to be a fool. A fool to gamble everything and never know the rules. Some of us can only live in songs of love and trouble. Some of us can only live in bubbles. Hey, Lady Day, can you save my life again? My only love has gone away. Will you be my only friend? |
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from The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (2008)
I walk alone around the town
I used to walk with you I watch the lonely snow come down down Seventh Avenue Now dreadful decorations deck the air and mistletoe is hanging everywhere but you no longer care Oh, Mr. Mistletoe hanging above please go away I've got no one to love Oh Mr. Mistletoe wither and die you useless weed for no one have I Oh, Mr. Mistletoe how very rude Couldn't you tell I'm not in the mood? Oh, Mr. Mistletoe go find your tree Didn't you know? There's no Christmas for me Oh, Mr. Mistletoe go find your tree Didn't you know? There's no Christmas for me |
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from The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
Meaningless?
You mean it's all been meaningless? Every whisper and caress? Yes yes yes it was totally meaningless Meaningless like when two fireflies flouresce Just like everything I guess yes yes yes it was utterly meaningless Even less a little glimpse of nothingness sucking meaning from the rest of this mess Yes yes yes it was thoroughly meaningless and if some dim bulb should say we were in love in some way kick all his teeth in for me and if you feel like keeping on kicking feel free Meaningless Who dare say it wasn't meaningless? Shout from the rooftops and address the press Ha ha ha it was totally meaningless Meaningless Meaning less than a game of chess Just like your mother said and mother knows best I knew it all the time but now I confess Yes yes yes how deliciously meaningless Yes yes yes how effervescently meaningless Yes yes yes how beautifully meaningless Yes yes yes how profoundly meaningless Yes yes yes how definatively meaningless Yes yes yes how comprehensively meaningless Yes yes yes how magnificently meaningless Yes yes yes how incredibly meaningless Yes yes yes how unprecedentedly meaningless Yes yes yes how mind-blowingly meaningless Yes yes yes how unbelievably meaningless Yes yes yes how infinitely meaningless |
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