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Magnetic Fields reveal song names for new record. Make up your own lyrics here!

Submitted by imaginary dana on November 26, 2007.

In case you've been living under an imaginary rock and haven't heard, TIG fave the Magnetic Fields have a new record called Distortion, slated for release in mid-January 2008 -- and we couldn't be more thrilled about it!

Hat tip to Aversion for posting the song titles for the forthcoming release. Normally I don't get all in a lather when a band reveals an album title or song titles or album art, but this is Stephin Merritt we're talking about! So my brain is already working on potential rhymes, puns, and clever quips that might accompany the following song titles:

Track listing for Distortion:

Three-Way
California Girls
Old Fools
Xavier Says
Mr Mistletoe
Please Stop Dancing
Drive On, Driver
Too Drunk To Dream
Till The Bitter End
I'll Dream Alone
The Nun's Litany
Zombie Boy
Courtesans

Special imaginary bonus points to anyone who posts potential lyrics in the comments below!

categories: The Magnetic Fields | Nonesuch

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Sam! said on November 26, 2007:

Okay, well using the lyrics to "Three-Way" as a model I'm gonna give you my guess at "California Girls", it'll probably go a little something like this:

".....California Girls!.......California Girls!.....California Girls!........California Girls! Ooh California Girls!" probably.

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Joseph Riippi said on November 26, 2007:

"California Girls"

California girls
They all feed the squirrels,
They dance synchronized twirls
and their dresses unfurl
In a colorful, wonderful breeze

California girls
They're out of this world
They sing songs of Steve Earle
and spend too much on fuel
as they drive hybrids into the sea.

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Joseph Riippi said on November 26, 2007:

"Please stop dancing"

I said please stop dancing
Stop your prancing
Stop romancing
Stop enchanting me

I said please stop trotting
Stop your plotting
You're just so haughty
And you're knocking my knees.

I said please stop dancing
Cuz the lighting's brightening,
The mood's enhancing,
And it's all enlightening
me-to your face, that's so frightening, so alarming, so disarming,

So please, stop dancing, before I stop breathing, or start screaming.
Please stop dancing.

But I'm enlightening

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Joseph Riippi said on November 26, 2007:

"Mr. Mistletoe"

Mr. Mistletoe let's have a go
Let's kiss overhead while the carolers go

Mr. Mistletoe, did you even know,
That you're prickly ends tickle me so?
That your berries just beg to be sung?
That I'm in love each year when you're hung?
Mr. Mistleoe, you're the holiday love for Mr. Joe.

Mr. Mistletoe, let's have a fling
And under doorways, under lamposts we will swing

Under doorways, under freeways we will sing.
Under doorways, until always we'll be kissing.

5

Joseph Riippi said on November 26, 2007:

"Zombie Boy"

You've been unfed for years
But uncry your tears
The undead are the most love-ed
when it comes to undying tolerance for beers.

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Imaginary Kiku said on November 27, 2007:

Whoa, here's something weird and embaressing, ha.

Way back when I was first learning guitar I used to write a lot of silly songs. One was called "Too Drunk to Dream"...it went like this:

I'll be the driver, yeah I'll be ok
Don't worry I won't fall asleep at the wheel
And let my mind rearrange my day
And make me wonder which version is real

We stumble on out from the bars that we frequent
Amaze ourselves how we can find our apartments
And sleep too deep to dream

Me and the Magnetic Fields have some sort of...magnetic connection :]

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