The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be
The Magnetic Fields * Track #10 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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- #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 Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be by The Magnetic Fields
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The Magnetic FieldsProduced by
Stephin MerrittWrited by
Stephin MerrittAbout
Many of the songs on 69 Love Songs feature very sparse or limited instrumentation. Track 10 of volume one is such an example. Songwriter Stephin Merritt sings a somber poem over guitar and lute.
The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be Lyrics
The cactus where your heart should be
Has lovely little flowers
So though it's always pricking me
My ardor never sours
The cactus where your heart once was
Has power to rend and flay
I stick because I'm stuck, because
I just can't tear myself away
The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be Q&A
Who wrote The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be's ?
The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be was written by Stephin Merritt.
Who produced The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be's ?
The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be was produced by Stephin Merritt.
When did The Magnetic Fields release The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be?
The Magnetic Fields released The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be on Tue Sep 07 1999.
What did The Magnetic Fields say about "The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be"?
Stephin Merritt explains in the album interview booklet:
I did a songwriting-in–a thingy in an art gallery where I was working on lyrics for this record on the walls of the art gallery in magic marker and playing the ukulele on this ladder and I wrote ‘The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be’ there,...