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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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Mary Lou Lord – I Don’t Want to Get Over You (Live City Sounds)
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[Verse 1] / I don't want to get over you / I guess I could take a sleeping pill / And sleep at will / And not have to go through what I go through / I guess I should take Prozac
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Communist Daughter – I Don't Want to Get Over You
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I don't want to get over you / I guess I could take a sleeping pill / And sleep at will / And not have to go through what I go through / I guess I should take Prozac, right / And
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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 – I Can't Touch You Anymore
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[Verse 1] / You wanna know / If we fell in love too fast / You wanna know / If this is, well, too good to last / [Pre-Chorus] / You're asking the wrong questions / You're opening
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The Magnetic Fields – The Night You Can't Remember
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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
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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 – You're My Only Home
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I will stay if you let me stay / And I'll go if you let me 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
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The Magnetic Fields – The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
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Featuring some off-kilter instrumentation with bouncy synths percussion, track 8 from Volume 1 from the “Lower East Side” of New York City who isn’t attractive, but has an awesome
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The Magnetic Fields – Blue You
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The moon was singing the blues / The stars in the sky harmonized singing it too / And I, far below was singing low and slow for you / And I know all the world was singing the blues
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The Magnetic Fields – Busby Berkeley Dreams
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[Verse 1] / I should have forgotten you long ago / But you're in every song I know / Whining and pining is wrong and so / On and so forth, of course, of course / But no, you can't
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The Magnetic Fields – I'm Sorry I Love You
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Illustrated by Paul Smith
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The Magnetic Fields – Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
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A woman is asking her husband if he is no longer in love with her. During the course of the conversation she learns that not only has he fallen out of love with her, but he loathes
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The Magnetic Fields – The Things We Did and Didn’t Do
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Ending off volume one of 69 Love Songs is a ballad of suddenly reminiscing over a past relationship. Track 23 has no percussion but a full performance from the group with
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The Magnetic Fields – Kiss Me Like You Mean It
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[Verse 1] / He is my Lord, he is my savior / And he rewards my good behavior / My secret soul, I know he's seen it / [Chorus] / He says, "Come here baby and / Kiss me like you mean
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The Magnetic Fields – I Don’t Know What to Say
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Track #4 from The Magnetic Fields‘ ninth studio album Realism.
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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 – Strange Eyes
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An extended metaphor about an ex-lover’s blue eyes.
Ordinarily in writing love songs you try not to specify eye color, to make it more universal. This hits you over the head with
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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 – Love in the Shadows
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[Verse 1] / The woman with no nose / I know where she goes / The old guy with the gold eye / We go back, he and I / Don't smile / We don't do that here, baby / [Chorus] / Love in
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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 – The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
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[Verse 1] / 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
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The Magnetic Fields – How to Say Goodbye
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[Verse 1] / The only thing that I could ever feel / I can't believe it wasn't real / The only thing that I could ever feel / I can't believe it wasn't real / You can't open your
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The Magnetic Fields – Very Funny
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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
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The Magnetic Fields – Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
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The sweet “Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing” is track 21 on The Magnetic Fields’s 69 Love Songs, Volume 1. Stephin Merritt sings a soft ballad over ukelele and dimmed background
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The Magnetic Fields – You Love to Fail
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[Verse 1] / 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 / [Chorus] / And I wanna take you
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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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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 – 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 – Reno Dakota
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Reno Dakota is track 5 of the first volume of The Magnetic Fields’s 69 Love Songs. Claudia Gonson sings these brilliant lyrics over a sole banjo.
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The Magnetic Fields – Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
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Track 9 of volume one of The Magnetic Fields’s magnum opus 69 Love Songs features a very lo-fi synth-heavy composition detailing the carnal desires a man has for a lost loved one.
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The Magnetic Fields – You Must Be Out of Your Mind
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[Verse 1] / You think I'll run, not walk, to you / Why would I want to talk to you? / I want you crawling back to me / Down on your knees, yeah / Like an appendectomy / Sans
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The Magnetic Fields – I Don't Believe in the Sun
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This is the track 2 from the first volume of The Magnetic Fields’s 69 Love Songs. The music is played by the full band and features Stephin Merritt’s vocals.
The lyrics are one
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The Magnetic Fields – For We Are the King of the Boudoir
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On 69 Love Songs, Merritt worked in a remarkable breadth of musical styles; this track is a harpsichord-driven post-Baroque art song, of the sort that might have been composed by
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The Magnetic Fields – Don't Look Away
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Track #6 on both the CD and vinyl versions of the Magnetic Fields' 4th album, ‘Get Lost’ from 1995.
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