Yeah! Oh, Yeah!

The Magnetic Fields

Are you out of love with me?
Are you longing to be free?
Do I drive you up a tree?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!

Do I drive you up the wall?
Do you dread every phone call?
Can you not stand me at all?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!

Though I need you more than air
Is it true you just don't care?
Are you having an affair?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!

When we met I thought
Money was everything
So I let you buy the house,
The car, the ring

But I can't take your perpetual whining
And you can't sing
I though if we live apart
We could made a brand-new start

Do you want to break my heart?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!
I've enjoyed making you
Miserable for years

Found peace of mind in
Playing on your fears
How I loved to catch your gold
And silver tears, but now my dear

What a dark and dreary life
Are you reaching for a knife?
Could you really kill your wife?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!

Of, I die, I die, I die!
So it's over, you and I
Was my whole life just a lie?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!


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    I love this song. It's incredibly mean and cynical, and breaks my heart, and at the same time, funny as hell.

    Genius.

    muldrakeon September 17, 2012   Link

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