Nun's Litany - The Magnetic Fields

(Funny song :p!)

I want to be a Playboys bunny
Id do whatever they asked me to
Id meet people with lots of money
And they would love me like I loved you

I want to be a topless waitress
I want my mother to shed one tear
Id throw away this old, sedate dress
Slip into something a tad more sheer

I want to be an artists model
An odalisque au naturel
I should be good at spin the bottle
While Ive still got something left to sell

I want to be a cobra dancer
With little Willie between my thighs
I may not find a cure for cancer
But Ill meet plenty of single guys

I want to be a brothel worker
Ive always been treated like one
If I could be a back-street lurker
Id make more money and have more fun

I want to be a dominatrix
Which isnt like me, but I can dream
Learn S&M and all those gay tricks
And men will pay me to make them scream

I want to be a porno starlet
For that Ill wait til Mamas dead
Ill see my name in lights of scarlet
And get to spend every day in bed

I want to be a tattooed lady
Dedicated as I am to art
Characters bold, complex and shady
Will write my memoirs across my heart

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• Nun's
• Litany
• The
• Magnetic
• Fields
• Distortion
• Stephin
• Merrit

[freddyferd]

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.

[RocksyCloud]

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

[calico992]

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.

[BeWaTer99]

@Mutakaliim lol'd at you.

[Mutakaliim]

@BeWaTer99 Whats your native tongue?  Faggot?

[BeWaTer99]

@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.

[Mutakaliim]

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

[parshy1]

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

Genius though

[mackereltabbie]

@Parkinish

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

[andeedean]

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

[Parkinish]

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