Long-Forgotten Fairytale Lyrics

Lyric discussion by SeventhMoonchild 

Cover art for Long-Forgotten Fairytale lyrics by Magnetic Fields, The

This songis brilliant. I heard this song before knnowing Meritt was gay and just thought 'I must be going insane, but I can swear he's singing about a man'. It's so cool the way he can talk about a man without actually using any words specifically.I mean, I read the lyrics and tried to imagine it about a woman, but it sounded so wrong in my head. Prolly because it sounded so right the other way around. Beautiful song, so much feeling disguised, it's almost painful. How he makes everything sound so unimportant...