The Magnetic Fields

Strange Eyes

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Strange eyes, blue clocks without hands
two lives lived in distant lands
little blue mysteries
what did they see in me
Strange eyes, early Picassos
call me even when you don't
if only from pictures
it having been three years
The follow me in all my dreams
Oh God I'm still in love with you
Strange eyes, two little star charts
plunge knives into my poor heart
As lovely as a tree they endlessly recede
Strange eyes, two little whirlpools
made by God to destroy fools
two pearls of inf'nite cost
two paradises lost
They swallow me in all my dreams
Oh God I'm still in love with you

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anne Arbour On May 02, 2002

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2016-08-05 01:39:43

Anne Arbour

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2002-05-02 00:47:00

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by elleon

20y ago

This song is just absolutely beautiful.

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by blu_girl_4eva

19y ago

what does this song mean to me?

everything. strange eyes > stranger than i ever seen before but beautiful and now i've lost them.

"Strange eyes, two little whirlpools made by God to destroy fools two pearls of inf'nite cost two paradises lost They swallow me in all my dreams Oh God I'm still in love with you"

oh god, its true x x x x lyj

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