You Must Be Out Of Your Mind ✍ The Magnetic Fields

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you think I'll run not walk to you 
why would I want to talk to you 
I want you crawling back to me 
down on your knees yeah 
like an appendectomy 
sans anaesthesia 

if you think you can leave the past behind 
you must be out of your mind 
if you think you can simply press rewind 
you must be out of your mind, son 
you must be out of your mind 

you want what you turned off, turned on 
you call it sunset, now it's dawn 
you can't go 'round just saying stuff 
because it's pretty 
and I no longer drink enough 
to think you're witty 

if you think you can leave the past behind 
you must be out of your mind 
if you think you can simply press rewind 
you must be out of your mind, son 
you must be out of your mind. 

you want to kindle that old flame 
I don't remember your real name 
it must be something scandalous 
lurks in your shadows 
if you need a santa claus 
to buy your gallows 

if you think you can leave the past behind 
you must be out of your mind 
if you think you can simply press rewind 
you must be out of your mind, son 
you must be out of your mind. 

you must be out of your mind, son 
you must be out of your mind.

The Magnetic Fields € I Don't Want To Get Over You

I don't want to get over you. I guess I could take a sleeping pill and sleep at will and not have to go through what I go through. I guess I should take Prozac, right, and just smile all night at somebody new.

Somebody not too bright but sweet and kind who would try to get you off my mind. I could leave this agony behind which is just what I'd do if I wanted to, but I don't want to get over you cause I don't want to get over love.

I could listen to my therapist, pretend you don't exist and not have to dream of what I dream of; I could listen to all my friends and go out again and pretend it's enough, or I could make a career of being blue--I could dress in black and read Camus, smoke clove cigarettes and drink vermouth like I was 17 that would be a scream but I don't want to get over you.

The Magnetic Fields - A Chicken With It's Head Cut Off

Eligible, not too stupid
Intelligiable, and cute as cupid
Knowledgeable, but not always right
Salvageable, and free for the night

Well my heart's runnin' round like a chicken with its head cut off
All around the barn yard falling in and out of love
Poor thing's blind as a bat
Gettin' up, fallin' down, gettin' up
Who'd fall in love with a chicken with its head cut off?

Woah Nelly

My wife doesn't understand me
Many dozens, hope to land me
I'm for free love
And i'm in free fall
This could be love
Or nothing at all

But my hearts runnin round like a chicken with its head cut off
All around the barn yard falling in and out of love
Poor thing's blind as a bat
Gettin' up, fallin' down, gettin' up
Who'd fall in love with a chicken with its head cut off?

We don't have to be stars exploding in the night
Or electric eels under the covers
We don't have to be
Anything quite so unreal
Lets just be lovers

Well my heat's runnin' round like a chicken with it's head cut off
All around the barn yard falling in and out of love
Poor thing's blind as a bat
Gettin' up, fallin' down, gettin' up
Who'd fall in love with a chicken with its head cut off?

It ain't pretty