Irma waits by the window,
Vaguely looking down at her socks
And humming. Possibly her
Father will come home with a box
Of chocolates. Possibly
Not. Father's memory
Was never what i...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Magnetic Fields
It was infinitely late at night
The stars are still out there
But they're all out of light
Don't worry about me, I'll be all right
It's just infinitely late at night
It's st...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Magnetic Fields
Feels like December but it's May
I've gone as pale as Doris Day
The blue sky's torn assunder
By clouds that warn of thunder
Is this what they used to call love?
Your face surround...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Magnetic Fields
It's a crime to fall in love
Heart and mind and soul in love
It's a crime to fall in love
So hard, so hard
I shouldn't have bothered, cuz you're just like all the others
Now I kno...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Magnetic Fields
I've run away to join the fairies
This mortal world has lost its charms
I'll be a flower for their garden
Never to hold you in my arms
They will enchance me and enslave me
A...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Magnetic Fields
If I were Napoleon, you could be my Josephine
We could go to drive-in films in my red convertible
If I were Napoleon, I might be in magazines
I'd write some science fiction - scien...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Magnetic Fields
We were young like the future, we were young and always wrong
We were young like our country, learning old ways to be young
Random driving around with you in my dilapidated car
Lik...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Magnetic Fields
All day snow covered us
Night-time: it was always night
The people on the street were made of meat
Black girl, trucks ran us down
Blue boy...
The people on the sidewalk were traced...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Magnetic Fields
It was a shallow ocean
It was a very low scar
They're not too wide to get around
Given the old-school try
And you must have had
Nothing better to do
I've been kissing my cigarette...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Magnetic Fields
You're in your own little world: an expensive birdcage;
Like a plastic baby in a Faberge egg
I saw you today at the Cafe Blase
And thought of the nights when we had fire fights
Nam...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Magnetic Fields