THE MAGNETIC FIELDS – Absolutely Cuckoo

Don’t fall in love with me yet
We only recently met
True, I’m in love with you, but
You might decide I’m a nut
Give me a week or two to
Go absolutely cuckoo
Then when you see your error
Then you can flee in terror
Like everybody else does
I only tell you this ’cause
I’m easy to get rid of
But not if you fall in love
Know now that I’m on the make
And if you make a mistake
My heart will certainly break
I’ll have to jump in a lake
And all my friends will blame you
There’s no telling what they’ll do
It’s only fair to tell you
I’m absolutely cuckoo

Don’t fall in love with me yet
We only recently met
True, I’m in love with you, but
You might decide I’m a nut
Give me a week or two to
Go absolutely cuckoo
Then when you see your error
Then you can flee in terror
Like everybody else does
I only tell you this ’cause
I’m easy to get rid of
But not if you fall in love
Know now that I’m on the make
And if you make a mistake
My heart will certainly break
I’ll have to jump in a lake
And all my friends will blame you
There’s no telling what they’ll do
It’s only fair to tell you
I’m absolutely cuckoo

It’s only fair to tell you
I’m absolutely cuckoo

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS – I’ve Run Away To Join The Fairies

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
And make of me their fool for fun
Upon my head they’ll place an ass head
More or less as you’ve always done

I loved you like I was your baby
Although you couldn’t even fly
And though you held no eldritch secrets
All too enthralled to you was I

In yonder forest grows a toadstool
To make the mind of man grow small
They will mistake me for their changeling
I wasn’t human after all

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS – 100,000 Fireflies

I have a mandolin
I play it all night long
It makes me want to kill myself
I also have a dobro
Made in some mountain range
Sounds like a mountain range in love
But when I turn up the tone
On my electric guitar
I’m afraid of the dark without you close to me
I went out to the forest and caught
A hundred thousand fireflies
As they ricochet round the room
They remind me of your starry eyes
Someone else’s might not have made me so sad
But this is the worst night I ever had
’cause I’m afraid of the dark without you close to me
You won’t be happy with me,
But give me one more chance
You won’t be happy anyway
Why do we still live here
In this repulsive town?
All our friends are in New York
Why do we keep shrieking,
when we mean soft things?
We should be whispering all the time…