Castle Down a Dirt Road

The Magnetic Fields (named after the André Breton/Philippe Soupault novel Les Champs Magnétiques) are an American band founded and led by Stephin Merritt. Merritt is the group's primary songwriter, producer, and vocalist, as well as frequent multi-instrumentalist. Merritt's lyrics are often about love and feature atypical or neutral gender roles, and are by turns ironic, tongue-in-cheek, bitter, and humorous.The band released their debut single "100,000 Fireflies" in 1991. The single was typical of the band's earlier career, characterized by synthesized instrumentation by Merritt, with lead vocals provided by Susan Anway (and then by Stephin Merritt himself, from the House of Tomorrow EP onwards). A more traditional band later materialized; it is now composed… more »

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Well, we failed at all the normal ways of doing things
Ways that wouldn't make our parents disown us
All those chemistry degrees just left us ruing things
So we played the numbers fate's dice had thrown us

In a castle down a dirt road
Where the lightning flowed
We were thinking up ways to make things explode
In a castle down a dirt road

Certain technicals prevented us from leaving there
Such that what our parents thought was rendered moot
Our new set of problems centered on conceiving there
Ah, but worse was how to find the offspring cute

In a castle down a dirt road
Where we dreamed in code
There was mass destruction in every newt and toad
In a castle down a dirt road

In a castle down a dirt road
Where a strange wind blowed
One flash of light and then strange things growed
In a castle down a dirt road

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Written by: STEPHIN RAYMOND MERRITT

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