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This song brilliantly displays Stephin's absolute command of lyrics. His word play, metaphors, form and flow are more poetic than most poets I've read.

When I saw him in 99 at the Crocodile cafe. The crowd clapped as he took the stage and he bitterly said: I don't understand that. Why are you clapping when we haven't even done anything yet.

calico992 2 months ago

"Funny song :p"? Shit, this is one of the saddest, most longing filled songs that Merritt's ever penned.

Genius though

parshy1 6 months ago

They always match their lyrics to the rest of the music so well.

andeedean 8 months ago

I probably listen to this five times a day, every day. I love this album completely, and this is my favorite track. I don't pay much attention to the message of it, the Merritt-esque gender confusions, I just love the melodies and the melancholies... this guy writes amazing, amazing songs. Check out the Gothic Archies and the 6ths too.

freddyferd 1 year ago 5

I've heard Stephin interviewed and I find him a tad arrogant and an eccentric wannabe.

Parkinish 2 years ago

@Parkinish

I've heard/seen him interviewed as well and... I'd say non-neurotypical.

mackereltabbie 7 months ago

Great dedication to one's hidden frustrations. It's the perfect sarcasm for pornstars.

RocksyCloud 2 years ago 3

Doesn't it seem like a sense of Romanticism belies in the end as well? Like enacting by means of those, sloppy yet vivacious, tattoos ('art') a entire life?

I still find Stephin's misantrophic sarcasm as a mask instead of a real meaning for misogynous content.

Regards

BeWaTer99 2 years ago

No matter how you state it, this will always be a comedy refering to animals. We are animals, but we are also humans. There is no point in trying to claim ourselves to be compared with irrational beings, but if you want to say that this sarcasm is a mask, SADLY i must admit that you are correct.

RocksyCloud 2 years ago

Too sad to be true :_) Guess a lot of people are like that on the inside, let's just pretend this mask's a "wanna be an irrational being" because it actually is true, on our most deep dark side, we all want to be like that, let ourselves loose and become a stupid animal, a wild being. I agree with you, we want to be like that but we must never allow it to happen because we will be loosing our humanity. Greetings.

XLennethValkyrieX 2 years ago

Truthfully spoken, my Very Friendly Dear. =D

RocksyCloud 2 years ago

It's an interesting point of view as well :)

BeWaTer99 2 years ago

@BeWaTer99 Most of that sounds really fucking pretentious and hollow. I just want you to be aware.

Mutakaliim 4 months ago

@Mutakaliim How should I feel? I'm not an English native speaker. I do my best in order to be communicative yet expressive (for that's how I actually am).

Regardless, you're listening to some heavily pretentious band. I just want you to be aware.

BeWaTer99 2 months ago

@BeWaTer99 Whats your native tongue? Faggot?

Mutakaliim 2 months ago

@Mutakaliim lol'd at you.

BeWaTer99 2 months ago

I'd meet people with lots ofm oney

And the ywould love me like i loved you.

...don't know why, maybe it's just me, but this sounds melancholic to me. :')

4everLevy 2 years ago

Certainly it is. Each of Magnetic Fields' songs have kept a certain feeling of "mellancholic sarcasm". Just look at the title of the song and the contrast between it and its content. IMHO, this song deals a lot with enjoying life the way we really want to, even though we are told not to do so by our social enviroment and our moral (I have to say it) prejudices. So, isn't religion an appropiate banner for that statement?

BeWaTer99 2 years ago