Just an old-fashioned love song

[beautifulduckweed]

I was listening to 69 Love Songs, Pt. 2 by the Magnetic Fields last night. Not nearly as good as Pt. 1, which features brilliant bits of indie-pop love like "Absolutely Cuckoo" ("Don't fall in love with me yet, we've only recently met, true I'm in love with you but you might decide I'm a nut"), "The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side" ("I know Professor Blumen makes you feel like a woman, but when the wind is in your hair you laugh like a little girl") and "Come Back to San Francisco" ("You need me like the wind needs the trees to blow in, like the moon needs poetry, you need me"). However, Pt. 2 does have its worthwhile moments. "You're My Only Home" is one of those moments.

I will stay if you let me stay
And I'll go if you let go
But I won't go far away
Because you're my only home

I will hide what you want hidden
And I'll roam if you say roam
But I'd just as soon you didn't
Because you're my only home

When you cancel dinner plans
When you cross the street and you don't take my hand
When you make impossible demands
I wish I didn't understand, but...

I will stay if you let me stay
And I'll go if you let go
But I won't go far away
Because you're my only home

I will hide what you want hidden
And I'll roam if you say roam
But I'd just as soon you didn't
Because you're my only home

And now for something completely different somewhat related:

I've been toying with the idea of creating a mix CD of homo love songs. On top of the list right now are "Michael" by Franz Ferdinand, "Danger! High Voltage" by Electric 6 (Dick Valentine and Jack White screaming "It's high voltage / When we touch, when we kiss, when we touch" at each other = HOMOLOVE DELUXE) and "When My Boy Walks Down the Street" and "I Thought You Were My Boyfriend," both by The Magnetic Fields. Any other suggestions for ze love songs of gayness?

Comments

[heyokish.livejournal.com]

bl = british library!

[ariiadne.livejournal.com]

oh, DUH. Haha. Yes, keep your eyes peeled, since I may be popping by there sometime next week again. You never know!

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

Ohmigod, I will a-splode from eleventy hundred different kinds of jealousy if you get to hang out with Katie at the British fuckin' Library, Jess.

And can I just say that it's so friggin' nifty that the two of you are randomly connected in that way? Because seriously. So nifty.

[heyokish.livejournal.com]

I'll be there on wednesday next week. So, if you're around and see a shortarse with a walking stick...that's probably me.