The Magnetic Fields Lyrics
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1. Absolutely Cuckoo
2. I Dont Believe In The Sun
3. All My Little Words
4. A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
5. Reno Dakota
6. I Dont Want To Get Over You
7. Come Back From San Francisco
8. The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side
9. Lets Pretend Were Bunny Rabbits
10. The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be
11. I Think I Need A New Heart
12. The Book Of Love
13. Fido Your Leash Is Too Long
14. How Fucking Romantic
15. The One You Really Love
16. Punk Love
17. Parades Go By
18. Boa Constrictor
19. A Pretty Girl Is Like
20. My Sentimental Melody
21. Nothing Matters When Were Dancing
22. Sweet-lovin Man
23. The Things We Did And Didnt Do
24. Roses
25. Love Is Like Jazz
26. When My Boy Walks Down The Street
27. Time Enough For Rocking When Were Old
28. Very Funny
29. Grand Canyon
30. No One Will Ever Love You
31. If You Dont Cry
32. Youre My Only Home
33. (crazy For You But) Not That Crazy
34. My Only Friend
35. Promises Of Eternity
36. World Love
37. Washington D.C.
38. Long-forgotten Fairytale
39. Kiss Me Like You Mean It
40. Papa Was A Rodeo
41. Epitaph For My Heart
42. Asleep And Dreaming
43. The Sun Goes Down And The World Goes Dancing
44. The Way You Say Good-night
45. Abigail Belle Of Kilronan
46. I Shatter
47. Underwear
48. Its A Crime
49. Busby Berkeley Dreams
50. Im Sorry I Love You
51. Acoustic Guitar
52. The Death Of Ferdinand De Saussure
53. Love In The Shadows
54. Bitter Tears
55. Wi Nae Wee Bairn Yell Me Beget
56. Yeah! Oh Yeah!
57. Experimental Music Love
58. Meaningless
59. Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin
60. Queen Of The Savages
61. Blue You
62. I Cant Touch You Anymore
63. Two Kinds Of People
64. How To Say Goodbye
65. The Night You Cant Remember
66. For We Are The King Of The Boudoir
67. Strange Eyes
68. Xylophone Track
69. Zebra
Other Songs 100000 Fireflies Alien Being All I Want To Know All She Cares About Is Mariachi All The Umbrellas In London All You Ever Do Is Walk Away Always Already Gone Andrew In Drag As You Turn To Go At The Dolls Tea Party Babies Falling BBC Radiophonic Workshop Beach-A-Boop-Boop Better Things Born For Love Born On A Train California Girls Candy Castle Down a Dirt Road Chicken With Head Cut Off Chicken with Its Head Cut Off Courtesans Crowd Of Drifters Dancing In Your Eyes Deep Sea Diving Suit Desert Island Dont Look Away Dreams Anymore Drive On Driver Dust Bowl Either You Dont Love Me Or I Dont Love You Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree Falling In Love With The Wolfboy Famous Fear Of Trains From a Sinking Boat God Wants Us To Wait Goin Back to the Country Heather Heather Heroes How F*cking Romantic I Die I Dont Believe In You I Dont Believe You I Dont Know What To Say I Dont Like Your Tone I Dont Really Love You Anymore I Have The Moon I Looked All Over Town I Thought You Were My Boyfriend (I Want to Join A) Biker Gang I Was Born I Wish I Had An Evil Twin Id Go Anywhere With Hugh If Theres Such A Thing As Love Ill Dream Alone Im Tongue-Tied In An Operetta In My Car In My Secret Place Infatuation Infatuation (With Your Gyration) Infinitely Late At Night Interlude Irma Is This What They Used To Call Love Its Only Time I've Got a Date With Jesus Ive Run Away To Join The Fairies Jeremy Josephine Kings Le Tourbillon Living In An Abandonded Firehouse With You Living In An Abandoned Firehouse With You Lonely Highway Long Vermont Roads Love Goes Home To Paris In The Spring Love Is Lighter Than Air Lovers From The Moon Mr. Mistletoe My Husbands Pied-a-Terre Old Fools Old Orchard Beach Painted Flower Plant White Roses Please Stop Dancing Pretty Girl Is Like Quick! Railroad Boy Rats In The Garbage Of The Western World Sad Little Moon Save A Secret For The Moon Seduced and Abandoned Smoke And Mirrors Smoke And Mirros Smoke Signals Strange Powers Stray With Me Suddenly There Is A Tidal Wave Sugar World Summer Lies Sunset City Swinging London Take Ecstasy With Me Tar-Heel Boy Technical Technical (You're So) The Dada Polka The Day The Politicians Died The Desperate Things You Made Me Do The Dolls Tea Party The Dreaming Moon The Flowers She Sent And The Flowers She Said She Sent The Horrible Party The Machine In Your Hand The Nun's Litany The Only Boy In Town The Saddest Story Ever Told The Trouble Ive Been Looking For The Village In The Morning The Way You Said Good-Night Three-Way Till The Bitter End Tokyo Tokyo A Go-Go Too Drunk To Dream Torn Green Velvet Eyes Two Characters In Search Of A Country Song Walk a Lonely Road Way You Say Good-Night We Are Having A Hootenanny When Im Not Looking Youre Not There When The Open Road Is Closing In When Will You Love Me Again? When You Were My Baby When Youre Old And Lonely Why I Cry With Whom To Dance? Xavier Says Yeah! Oh Yeah! You And Me And The Moon You Love To Fail You Must Be Out Of Your Mind Young And Insane Your Girlfriends Face Zombie Boy
Other Songs 100000 Fireflies Alien Being All I Want To Know All She Cares About Is Mariachi All The Umbrellas In London All You Ever Do Is Walk Away Always Already Gone Andrew In Drag As You Turn To Go At The Dolls Tea Party Babies Falling BBC Radiophonic Workshop Beach-A-Boop-Boop Better Things Born For Love Born On A Train California Girls Candy Castle Down a Dirt Road Chicken With Head Cut Off Chicken with Its Head Cut Off Courtesans Crowd Of Drifters Dancing In Your Eyes Deep Sea Diving Suit Desert Island Dont Look Away Dreams Anymore Drive On Driver Dust Bowl Either You Dont Love Me Or I Dont Love You Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree Falling In Love With The Wolfboy Famous Fear Of Trains From a Sinking Boat God Wants Us To Wait Goin Back to the Country Heather Heather Heroes How F*cking Romantic I Die I Dont Believe In You I Dont Believe You I Dont Know What To Say I Dont Like Your Tone I Dont Really Love You Anymore I Have The Moon I Looked All Over Town I Thought You Were My Boyfriend (I Want to Join A) Biker Gang I Was Born I Wish I Had An Evil Twin Id Go Anywhere With Hugh If Theres Such A Thing As Love Ill Dream Alone Im Tongue-Tied In An Operetta In My Car In My Secret Place Infatuation Infatuation (With Your Gyration) Infinitely Late At Night Interlude Irma Is This What They Used To Call Love Its Only Time I've Got a Date With Jesus Ive Run Away To Join The Fairies Jeremy Josephine Kings Le Tourbillon Living In An Abandonded Firehouse With You Living In An Abandoned Firehouse With You Lonely Highway Long Vermont Roads Love Goes Home To Paris In The Spring Love Is Lighter Than Air Lovers From The Moon Mr. Mistletoe My Husbands Pied-a-Terre Old Fools Old Orchard Beach Painted Flower Plant White Roses Please Stop Dancing Pretty Girl Is Like Quick! Railroad Boy Rats In The Garbage Of The Western World Sad Little Moon Save A Secret For The Moon Seduced and Abandoned Smoke And Mirrors Smoke And Mirros Smoke Signals Strange Powers Stray With Me Suddenly There Is A Tidal Wave Sugar World Summer Lies Sunset City Swinging London Take Ecstasy With Me Tar-Heel Boy Technical Technical (You're So) The Dada Polka The Day The Politicians Died The Desperate Things You Made Me Do The Dolls Tea Party The Dreaming Moon The Flowers She Sent And The Flowers She Said She Sent The Horrible Party The Machine In Your Hand The Nun's Litany The Only Boy In Town The Saddest Story Ever Told The Trouble Ive Been Looking For The Village In The Morning The Way You Said Good-Night Three-Way Till The Bitter End Tokyo Tokyo A Go-Go Too Drunk To Dream Torn Green Velvet Eyes Two Characters In Search Of A Country Song Walk a Lonely Road Way You Say Good-Night We Are Having A Hootenanny When Im Not Looking Youre Not There When The Open Road Is Closing In When Will You Love Me Again? When You Were My Baby When Youre Old And Lonely Why I Cry With Whom To Dance? Xavier Says Yeah! Oh Yeah! You And Me And The Moon You Love To Fail You Must Be Out Of Your Mind Young And Insane Your Girlfriends Face Zombie Boy
The Magnetic Fields (named after the André Breton/Philippe Soupault novel Les Champs Magnétiques) are an American band founded and led by Stephin Merritt. Merritt is the group's primary songwriter, producer, and vocalist, as well as frequent multi-instrumentalist. Merritt's lyrics are often about love and feature atypical or neutral gender roles, and are by turns ironic, tongue-in-cheek, bitter, and humorous.
The band released their debut single "100,000 Fireflies" in 1991. The single was typical of the band's earlier career, characterized by synthesized instrumentation by Merritt, with lead vocals provided by Susan Anway (and then by Stephin Merritt himself, from the House of Tomorrow EP onwards). A more traditional band later materialized; it is now composed of Merritt, Claudia Gonson, Sam Davol, and John Woo, with occasional guest vocals by Shirley Simms.
The band's best-known work is the 1999 three-volume concept album 69 Love Songs. It was followed in the succeeding years by a "no-synth" trilogy: i (2004), Distortion (2008), and Realism (2010). The band's latest album, Quickies, was released on May 29, 2020.
Members:
The band released their debut single "100,000 Fireflies" in 1991. The single was typical of the band's earlier career, characterized by synthesized instrumentation by Merritt, with lead vocals provided by Susan Anway (and then by Stephin Merritt himself, from the House of Tomorrow EP onwards). A more traditional band later materialized; it is now composed of Merritt, Claudia Gonson, Sam Davol, and John Woo, with occasional guest vocals by Shirley Simms.
The band's best-known work is the 1999 three-volume concept album 69 Love Songs. It was followed in the succeeding years by a "no-synth" trilogy: i (2004), Distortion (2008), and Realism (2010). The band's latest album, Quickies, was released on May 29, 2020.
Stephin Merritt - guitars, synthesizers, ukulele, keyboards, bass guitar, drum machines, percussion, miscellaneous instruments, vocals
Claudia Gonson - piano, drums, percussion, keyboards, vocals, group manager
Sam Davol - cello, flute
John Woo - guitars, banjo
Shirley Simms - autoharp, ukulele, vocals
From: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Genre(s): Indie pop, experimental pop, synthpop
Active From: 1989-present