this is a song about how love REALLY is. hah. really...what's to interpret? sometimes you just get SICK of your significant other.

I saw them in LA last summer, and the show was pretty disappointing, because they didnt bring their synthisizers. reguardless, this song was the best performance. I love this song,

How does this only have two comments? Everything from the typical Stephin Merritt genius lyric work that is so obtuse yet so relatable to the nice (and rare on 69 Love Songs) shoegaze-y production makes this a song I really cannot get out of my head. Please help.

this song is hysterically funny.

one of my absolute favourites by Magnetic Fields. The vocal melody is just too beautiful and I find myself whistling it all the time. at work, in the kitchen or when walking down the street.

the lyrics are also brilliantly written and the whole duet thing is just awesome!

"Are you reaching for a knife?
Could you really kill your wife?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!
Of, I die, I die, I die!
So it's over, you and I
Was my whole life just a lie?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!"

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genius!!!!

Yeah, that last part is definately the best.
I think they love eachother so much it makes them sick. It's sort of a love-hate relationship.

some anon on wikipedia uses this song as synecdochic of the entire meaning/form of 69 Love Songs in general. He or she (and not me) writes:

Another way of understanding 69 Love Songs is through Merritt's praise of an artist (Laurie Anderson) who "write[s] heartbreaking melodies with words that make fun of heartbreaking melodies."[3] Consider "Yeah! Oh, Yeah!" where Stephin and Claudia, playing jilted lovers modeled closely on Sonny & Cher, sing their complaints to one another, overplaying and overstating their grievances such that their words become garish declarations of woe ("what a dark and dreary life / are you reaching for a knife?") to which the other character isn't really capable of responding but must still follow in tone ("yeah, oh yeah"). The lack of a firm distinction between content (what is sung) and form (the way it is sung) implies that this couple lives and dies by virtue of how persuasively they can sing to one another, and illustrates the persistent Magnetic Fields songwriting device of trapping a character within the conventions or formalities of a genre.