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Track: Strange Powers
Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: Holiday

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Name: The Magnetic Fields
Spotify Genres: chamber pop
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The Magnetic Fields (named after the [a945713] novel Les Champs Magnétiques) is an American indie pop group founded and led by Stephin Merritt. He is the group's primary songwriter, producer and vocalist, as well as frequent multi-instrumentalist. The Magnetic Fields is essentially a vehicle for Merritt's songwriting, along with various side-projects, such as The 6ths, Future Bible Heroes and The Gothic Archies. While the particular musical style of the band is usually as malleable as Merritt's songwriting, its songs are commonly attributed to pop genres and subgenres: synthpop, indie pop, and noise pop. The band is often also cited as being recognizable by Merritt's lyrics, often about love and often with irregular or neutral gender roles, that are by turns ironic, tongue-in-cheek, bitter, and humorous.

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LYRICS

on the ferris wheel, looking out on coney island
under more stars than there are prostitues in thailand
our hair in the air, our lips blue from cotton candy
when we kiss it feels like a flying saucer landing.
and i can't sleep cause you got strange powers.
you're in my dreams, strange powers.

in Las Vegas where the electric bills are straggring.
the decor hog wild and the entertainment saccharin. what a golden age, what a time of right and reason. the consumers king and unhappyness is treason.

and i can't sleep cause you got strange powers.
you're in my dreams, strange powers.

the sun falls down like money.
the moon pours down like mercury.
the stars fall down like money.
and you come down to me.

and i can't sleep cause you got strange powers.
you're in my dreams, strange powers.