Artist: The Magnetic Fields
The Magnetic Fields's lyrics & chords
The Magnetic Fields is a New York-based group fronted by Stephin Merritt. Recent albums released under the name "The Magnetic Fields" usually consist of synth-pop music in a 1980s style underlying clever lyrics which are often heavily ironic. While synth-pop often forms the foundation of their music, The Magnetic Fields' music borrows from many other styles, notably country, folk and indie pop. The band was originally formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1990 by friends Merritt and (percussionist/pianist/vocalist) Claudia Gonson. While 1991's...read more
Born on a train Your girlfriend's face All the umbrellas in london Desert island The saddest story ever told The dolls' tea party Deep sea diving suit Walk a lonely road The dreaming moon Swinging london Torn green velvet eyes Always already gone Lonely highway Smoke and mirrors Seduced and abandoned In my secret place Long vermont roads The desperate things you made me do The trouble i've been looking for Sad little moon Lovers from the moon Why i cry I'd go anywhere with hugh The dada polka Famous Painted flower All you ever do is walk away From a sinking boat Two characters in search of a country song Don't look away Sugar world Quick! Infatuation (with your gyration) When you're old and lonely In my car The machine in your hand The only boy in town Sunset city When the open road is closing in Crowd of drifters Candy The village in the morning Goin’ back to the country I've run away to join the fairies Dust bowl Summer lies Old orchard beach All she cares about is mariachi You love to fail Jeremy Dancing in your eyes Smoke signals Railroad boy Suddenly there is a tidal wave Josephine Living in an abandoned firehouse with you Falling in love with the wolfboy Kings Love goes home to paris in the spring With whom to dance? My husband's pied-a-terre Babies falling Tar-heel boy Young and insane Either you don’t love me or i don’t love you Technical (you're so) Experimental music love Alien being Tokyo a-go-go All i want to know Heather heather Dreams anymore '74: no '81: how to play the synthesizer I die: you die '83: foxx and i '86: how i failed ethics '02: be true to your bar Roses '93: me and fred and dave and ted '13: big enough for both of us One april day As you turn to go You you you you you *silence* '68: a cat called dionysus 4'33" If i were a rich man Plant white roses '71: i think i'll make another world '85: why i am not a teenager Rats in the garbage of the western world '88: ethan frome '92: weird diseases The nun's litany - alternate vocal version When i'm not looking, you're not there Distant plastic trees '01: have you seen it in the snow? Beach-a-boop-boop '05: never again '12: you can never go back to new york Le tourbillion Unlisted Bbc radiophonic workshop When will you love me again? The man amplifier
