Geoff has said that this song is about feelings of lust and how they can get mixed up and misinterpreted as love.
“I loosened up and wrote a song about all the chemical reactions and physical phenomenon involved in attraction and how often we mistake those feelings for love.”
[Verse 1]
She spins magnetic rings
Around the dark violet heart of God
And she's a magnetic field
Shower of sparks
When she comes on
[Chorus]
There's a silent charge
In a coil of wire
When the currents pass right through it
We're coupled lines in lightning strikes
We jump like birds on a vine
We're the magnets caught in a metal heart
Where the blood is pumping through it
When the needle spins, it sings
"Feels like we're in love"
[Verse 2]
He spins magnetic rings that fall apart
When he's removed from her
He's a magnetic field
Under the silver of clouds
Where the lining of skies
Looks like the dirt on the ground
His only true north is down
[Chorus]
There's a silent charge
In a coil of wire
When the currents pass right through it
We're coupled lines in lightning strikes
We jump like birds on a vine
We're the magnets caught in a metal heart
Where the blood is pumping through it
When the needle spins, it sings
"Feels like we're in love"
[Outro]
Feels like we're in love
Love
Love
(We're the magnets caught in a metal heart
Where the blood is pumping through it)
Love
(When the needle spins, it sings
"Feels like we're in love")
Love
Magnets Caught in a Metal Heart was written by Geoff Rickly.
Magnets Caught in a Metal Heart was produced by Dave Fridmann.
Thursday released Magnets Caught in a Metal Heart on Tue Apr 12 2011.