 Genius Lyrics
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Lights – Magnetic Field
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[Verse 1] / Walk with me through the boneyard / I know you like to play hard / You know I'm easy to convince / How you move through the spaces and can get so persuasive / I haven't
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The Magnetic Fields – All My Little Words
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“All My Little Words” is the third track of the first volume of The Magnetic Fields’s 69 Love Songs. Maintaining a soft, melancholy atmosphere comes a ballad about a man who is not
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The Magnetic Fields – Washington, D.C.
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[Hook] / 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 / [Verse 1] / Washington, D.C., it's paradise to me / It's not because it is the grand old seat / Of
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The Magnetic Fields (Ft. Shirley Simms) – Quick!
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Track #14 from The Magnetic Fields‘ tenth studio album Love at the Bottom of the Sea.
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The Magnetic Fields – Jeremy
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Track #8 on 1992’s The Wayward Bus, the second album released by The Magnetic Fields and the last to feature Susan Anway as lead vocalist.
This sophomore follow-up to ‘Distant
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The Magnetic Fields – California Girls
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Track #2 on The Magnetic Fields‘ eighth studio album Distortion.
The Magnetic Fields' “California Girls” is a tale of imagined revenge that an unpopular, unconventional girl would
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The Magnetic Fields – Boa Constrictor
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Track 18 of volume one of The Magnetic Fields’s 69 Love Songs is another showcase for Shirley Simms, the on-again off-again vocalist for the band. She sings over an intricate
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The Magnetic Fields – Underwear
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A pretty girl in her underwear / A pretty girl in her underwear / If there's anything better in this world / Who cares / [Chorus] / La mort, c'est la mort / Mais l'amour, c'est l'
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The Magnetic Fields – I Shatter
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Bang, there was you / Too gold, too blue / You took the truth / I cried, you flew / [Chorus] / You called me mad (And I am mad) / As a hatter / Some fall in love (Some fall in love
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The Magnetic Fields – A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off
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Track 4 in the first volume of 69 Love Songs features Stephin Merritt and the band playing a subtle country ditty about a man with a wandering heart.
Illustration by Tom
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The Magnetic Fields – I Don't Want to Get Over You
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“I Don’t Want to Get Over You” is the much-beloved track 6 from Vol. 1 of The Magnetic Fields’s 69 Love Songs. Featuring a full band, Merritt sings lyrics that nail the sensation
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The Magnetic Fields – World Love
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Use of the label “world music” reached its peak in the 1980s and ’90s, with albums like Paul Simon’s Graceland and the launching of record companies like Putumayo World Music. As
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The Magnetic Fields – Bitter Tears
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[Chorus] / Bitter tears keep me goin' / Through the years, freely flowin' / What have you done? / Only a gun could stop these bitter tears / [Verse 1] / The endless streets I walk
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The Magnetic Fields – Queen of the Savages
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My girl is the queen of the savages / She don't know the modern world and its ravages / Instead of money she's got yams and cabbages / She lives in a dome / I don't care if I never
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The Magnetic Fields – Swinging London
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[Verse 1] / I read your manifestoes and your strange religious tracts / You took me to your library and kissed me in the stacks / [Chorus] / Planets crash, the world goes nova
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The Magnetic Fields – Meaningless
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Meaningless? / You mean it's all been meaningless? / Every whisper and caress? / Yes, yes, yes, it was totally meaningless / Meaningless / Like when two fireflies fluoresce / Just
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The Magnetic Fields – My Only Friend
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He’s lost his love, so he’s drowning his sorrows in sad Billie Holiday songs. Possibly not the wisest move.
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The Magnetic Fields – I Think I Need a New Heart
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“I Think I Need a New Heart” is track 11 on the first volume of The Magnetic Fields’s 69 Love Songs. Like an argument put into song, the instrumentation is like a country song with
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The Magnetic Fields – Absolutely Cuckoo
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This is the first song from the first volume of The Magnetic Fields’s 69 Love Songs. The track features Stephin Merritt’s baritone over light ukelele and synthesizer drops.
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The Magnetic Fields – Zebra
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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
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The Magnetic Fields (Ft. Susan Anway) – Summer Lies
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Track #6 on 1992’s The Wayward Bus, the second album released by The Magnetic Fields and the last to feature Susan Anway as lead vocalist.
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The Magnetic Fields – No One Will Ever Love You
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The Fleetwood Mac vibe to which Merritt refers is reflected in the track’s music as well, with a deceptively simple and gently propulsive rhythm track reminiscent of “Dreams,” and
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The Magnetic Fields – Love is Like Jazz
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“Love is Like Jazz” is a genre experiment, parodying a beatnik style with hand drums, stand-up bass and accordion provided by writer Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket).
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Charlotte Cornfield – The Magnetic Fields
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[Verse 1] / We went to see the Magnetic Fields at Theatre Corona / I maybe had one too many drinks / But I was grateful to you for showing up / Tickets were sold out but I scored
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The Magnetic Fields – Papa Was a Rodeo
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[Verse 1: Stephin Merritt] / I like your twisted point of view, Mike / I like your questioning eyebrows / You've made it pretty clear what you like / It's only fair to tell you now
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The Magnetic Fields – Acoustic Guitar
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Acoustic guitar, I'm gonna make you a star / Get your picture all over the world / Acoustic guitar, you can have your own car / Just bring me back my girl / She always loved the
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The Magnetic Fields – Smoke and Mirrors
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Track #3 on the CD release of ‘Get Lost’, and track #2 on side A of the vinyl release.
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The Magnetic Fields – Andrew in Drag
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“Andrew in Drag” is the second song from The Magnetic Fields‘ tenth studio album Love at the Bottom of the Sea. The song is a return to the melodic synth-pop sound that was
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The Magnetic Fields – Take Ecstasy with Me
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The final track of the Magnetic Fields' fourth album, Holiday, “Take Ecstasy with Me” is a bittersweet song about a homosexual relationship whose problems are temporarily solved by
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The Magnetic Fields – When My Boy Walks Down the Street
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“When My Boy Walks Down the Street” is the third track on the second volume of The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs. The song is characterized by upbeat, driving verses and chorus
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The Magnetic Fields – Long-Forgotten Fairytale
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“Long-Forgotten Fairytale” has an upbeat melody juxtaposed with disturbing lyrics, one of the many tracks on 69 Love Songs that does this. Stephin Merritt unfolds a story of an
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The Magnetic Fields – Fear of Trains
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Track #7 on 1994’s The Charm of the Highway Strip, the third studio album by The Magnetic Fields.
The album’s title comes from a 1959 quote by J.B. Jackson:
“Let us hope that the
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The Magnetic Fields – Roses
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Shockingly sparse, track 1 from volume two of 69 Love Songs is a good piece of advice wrapped in a solitary man’s trembling vocal.
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The Magnetic Fields – Asleep and Dreaming
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I've seen you laugh at nothing at all / I've seen you sadly weeping / The sweetest thing I ever saw / Was you asleep and dreaming / Well, you may not be beautiful / But it's not
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The Magnetic Fields – '08 Surfin'
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In 2006 Merritt moved to Los Angeles to pursue opportunities in film scoring. It does not appear that his time in the city had much of an impact on his curmudgeonly personality.
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The Magnetic Fields – If You Don't Cry
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[Verse 1] / Softly the crystals falling on 17th Street / Do their dance and die and are gone / Millions of crystal balls roll around your feet / Nothing gets done / [Pre-Chorus 1
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