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Love Field Lyrics
You lie so unfolded
In a love field
With your contempt for any modesty
In a love field
In a love field
In a love field
You yield with your lips still sealed
In a love field
Lost in a sea of imaginary women
Everything you'd want
from the dawn to the dimming
Breath comes sharp and heart beats faster
In a love field
Cold ground for a pillow
Under a blanket of stars
In a love field
In a love field
In a love field
Headlights that startled
This embrace of hours
In a love field
In a crooked house
Where things can be arranged
You think you're different from the rest
But you don't see how you've changed
Under an archway
On a road of white linen
In a love field
Feel the anxious rhythm of a functional stranger
In a love field
In a love field
In a love field
She's so tense but it's never mentioned
In a love field
In a love field
With your contempt for any modesty
In a love field
In a love field
In a love field
You yield with your lips still sealed
In a love field
Lost in a sea of imaginary women
Everything you'd want
from the dawn to the dimming
In a love field
Cold ground for a pillow
Under a blanket of stars
In a love field
In a love field
Headlights that startled
This embrace of hours
In a love field
Where things can be arranged
You think you're different from the rest
But you don't see how you've changed
On a road of white linen
In a love field
Feel the anxious rhythm of a functional stranger
In a love field
In a love field
She's so tense but it's never mentioned
In a love field
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This song is clearly about prostitution, the title being quite ironic/sardonic. \n\nI have found what I believe to be references to prostitutes and prostitution sprinkled throughout Costello\'s oeuvre, as well as metaphorical use of the concept- "When England was the whore of the world, Margaret was her madam... " Tramp the Dirt Down, from the album Spike. \n\nThis strong expresses empathy for the woman, while the brief first person line "Headlights that startle this embrace of ours," suggests feelings of guilt and/or complicity. \n\nPerhaps the song is about sex workers in general, like the song Satellite. \n\nI\'d be very interested to hear other thoughts on this.
I thought the first half of the song was fantasizing about various women to masturbate to while out in nature, worrying about possible getting caught, and then settling for some prostitute (functional stranger) to live out those fantasies.
I always thought this was about a guy who fancied a woman but she’s off screwing some other guy in a field somewhere OR, a father imaging his daughter having her first sexual experiences outside.