 Genius Lyrics
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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 Magic Numbers – Papa Was a Rodeo
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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 / That I leave early in the
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Kelly Hogan (Ft. Mike Geier) – Papa Was a Rodeo
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[Verse] / 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 / That I leave
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Ocean Music & Richard Aufrichtig – Papa Was a Rodeo
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[Verse 1] / 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 / That I leave
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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 – 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 – 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 – Experimental Music Love
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[Repeated and overlapping 23 times] / Experimental music love
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The Magnetic Fields – Xylophone Track
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To my dear, dear mother / I leave my only 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-
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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The Magnetic Fields – Come Back from San Francisco
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“Come Back from San Francisco” is a desperate lament from The Magnetic Fields, an art form composer Stephin Merritt frequents.
Shirley Simms sings this track to a man from the
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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 – Punk Love
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Around the middle of 69 Love Songs' first volume is a quick intermission-esque track that parodies the cliché, stereotypical punk rock song.
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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 – 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 – My Sentimental Melody
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[Verse] / 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
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The Magnetic Fields – How Fucking Romantic
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Track 14 of 69 Love Songs is a simple a cappella ditty with finger snaps. Sarcasm and sardonic wit in tow, the lyrics describe the sour attitude the narrator has from being
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Promises of Eternity
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[Verse 1] / What if the show didn'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
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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 – The Book of Love
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Arguably the most recognized song from the 69 Love Songs collection, “The Book of Love” is track 11 of volume one. Stephin Merritt sings a basic, timeless melody over a barely
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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 – Parades Go By
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[Verse 1] / 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
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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 – 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 – Time Enough for Rocking When We’re Old
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On one of the lowest vocal performance of Stephin Merritt, he simply says that he will always be by his/her lover side (even in the afterlife), but tonight he’d rather go dancing
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