On the first song on the Magnetic Fields'Realism, Stephen Merritt tells a would-be suitor that "you can't just go and say things because they're pretty/and I know longer drink enough/to find you witty." Perhaps this is an impish turn of the cards on MerrittÂ’s part, because, as is well known (and Realism proves yet again), Merritt is all but unrivaled when it comes to pretty phrases and melodies... Lees meer
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