love is like a bottle of gin

• but a bottle of gin is not like love... şeklinde devam eden, her zamanki gibi şık ve bilge the magnetic fields şarkısı. 69 love songs dan. sözlerin tamamı şöyle;
  
  it makes you blind, it does you in
  it makes you think you're pretty tough
  it makes you prone to crime and sin
  it makes you say thing off the cuff
  it's very small and made of glass
  and grossly over-advertised
  it turns a genius into an ass
  and makes a fool think he is wise
  it could make you regret your birth
  or turn cartwheels in your best suit
  it costs a lot more than it's worth
  and yet there is no substitute
  they keep it on a higher shelf
  the older and more pure it grows
  it has no color in itself
  but it can make you see rainbows
  you can find it at the bowery
  or you can find it at elaine's
  it makes your words more flowery
  it makes the sun shine, makes it rain
  you just get what they put in
  and they never put in enough
  love is like a bottle of gin
  but a bottle of gin is not like love
• içinde metafor patlaması barındıran, yazanın insan olduğundan şüphe duyduğum mükemmel bir the magnetic fields şaheseri. normalde ne şiir ne şarkı yazarım, öyle bir yeteneğim yoktur ama nedense 'lan ben yazmış olmalıydım bunu, benim aklıma gelmeliydi bu benzetmeler' diye içten içe imreniyorum veya kıskanıyorum. ben de anlamadım.