The Book of Love
The Magnetic Fields * Track #12 On 69 Love Songs
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Album 69 Love Songs
- #1Absolutely Cuckoo
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- #2I Don’t Believe in the Sun
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- #3All My Little Words
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- #4A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off
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- #5Reno Dakota
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- #6I Don’t Want to Get Over You
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- #7Come Back from San Francisco
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- #8The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
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- #9Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits
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- #10The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be
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- #11I Think I Need a New Heart
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- #12The Book of Love
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- #13Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long
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- #14How Fucking Romantic
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- #15The One You Really Love
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- #16Punk Love
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- #17Parades Go By
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- #18Boa Constrictor
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- #19A Pretty Girl Is Like...
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- #20My Sentimental Melody
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- #21Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing
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- #22Sweet-Lovin’ Man
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- #23The Things We Did and Didn’t Do
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- #24
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- #25Love is Like Jazz
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- #26When My Boy Walks Down the Street
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- #27Time Enough for Rocking When We’re Old
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- #28Very Funny
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- #29Grand Canyon
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- #30No One Will Ever Love You
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- #31If You Don’t Cry
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- #32You’re My Only Home
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- #33(Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy
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- #34
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- #35Promises of Eternity
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- #36World Love
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- #37Washington, D.C.
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- #38Long-Forgotten Fairytale
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- #39Kiss Me Like You Mean It
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- #40Papa Was a Rodeo
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- #41Epitaph for My Heart
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- #42Asleep and Dreaming
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- #43The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
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- #44The Way You Say Good-Night
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- #45Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
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- #46I Shatter
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- #47
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- #48It’s a Crime
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- #49Busby Berkeley Dreams
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- #50I’m Sorry I Love You
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- #51Acoustic Guitar
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- #52The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
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- #53Love in the Shadows
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- #54Bitter Tears
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- #55Wi’ Nae Wee Bairn Ye’ll Me Beget
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- #56Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
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- #57Experimental Music Love
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- #58Meaningless
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- #59Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin
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- #60Queen of the Savages
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- #61Blue You
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- #62I Can’t Touch You Anymore
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- #63Two Kinds of People
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- #64How to Say Goodbye
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- #65The Night You Can’t Remember
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- #66For We Are the King of the Boudoir
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- #67Strange Eyes
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- #68Xylophone Track
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- #69Zebra
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The Book of Love by The Magnetic Fields
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The Magnetic FieldsProduced by
Stephin MerrittWrited by
Stephin MerrittAbout
Arguably the most recognized song from the 69 Love Songs collection, “The Book of Love” is track 11 of volume one. Stephin Merritt sings a basic, timeless melody over a barely strummed guitar and light background vocals.
Despite its conversational lyrical style and not-entirely-romantic vocabulary...
The Book of Love Lyrics
[Verse 1]
The book of love is long and boring
No one can lift the damn thing
It's full of charts and facts and figures
And instructions for dancing
[Chorus]
But I, I love it when you read to me
And you, you can read me anything
[Verse 2]
The book of love has music in it
In fact, that's where music comes from
Some of it is just transcendental
Some of it is just really dumb
[Chorus]
But I, I love it when you sing to me
And you, you can sing me anything
[Verse 3]
The book of love is long and boring
And written very long ago
It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes
And things we're all too young to know
[Chorus]
But I, I love it when you give me things
And you, you ought to give me wedding rings
I, I love it when you give me things
And you, you ought to give me wedding rings
The Book of Love Q&A
Who wrote The Book of Love's ?
The Book of Love was written by Stephin Merritt.
Who produced The Book of Love's ?
The Book of Love was produced by Stephin Merritt.
When did The Magnetic Fields release The Book of Love?
The Magnetic Fields released The Book of Love on Tue Sep 07 1999.
What did The Magnetic Fields say about "The Book of Love"?
Stephin Merritt explains in the album interview booklet:
I like taking clichés literally and unpacking them, or whatever you call it. Any book that was comprehensive about love would be really long and unliftable, like the Encyclopedia Britannica … Actually, maybe it wouldn’t be all that boring–may...