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2.19 ASLEEP AND DREAMING
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1.10 THE CACTUS WHERE YOUR HEART SHOULD BE
"In the 69 Love Songs booklet, Stephin Merritt and Daniel Handler discuss how this song evokes the work of Ennio Morricone and Georgia O'Keeffe, and through them the desert spaces of Southwest USA.
LD Beghtol writes:
The prickly, dulcimer-like instrument you hear is my 1917 Marxophone. Stephin borrowed all of his friends' oddball instruments during the recording of 69 Love Songs, to augment his own vast collection, which is why the album has such a diverse sonic range."
1.17 PARADES GO BY
"The singer of Parades Go By is dead ('and so I lost the world above / beyond the moss' etc), and in the 69 Love Songs booklet Stephin Merritt and Daniel Handler discuss other songs where the narrator is dead. Stephin cites The Byrds' I Come and Stand at Every Door as a precedent.
He goes on to say, "I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft. I think I wrote Parades Go By under the influence of H.P. Lovecraft".
LD Beghtol adds, "Everyone realizes this is yet another Stephin Merritt vampire song, yes? The synth line makes me shivery." (Other Merritt vampire songs include I Have the Moon and Crowd of Drifters from The Charm of the Highway Strip and, clearly, I'm a Vampire from Future Bible Heroes' Eternal Youth.)
The quasi-orchestral arrangement and Stephin Merritt's vocal make this song the most likely one on the album to draw comparison with Scott Walker. "
3.4 I'M SORRY I LOVE YOU
"'Do not listen to my song / Don't remember it, don't sing along /
Let's pretend it's a work of art / Let's pretend it's not my heart...'
Another song with a reflexive twist (cf. The Way You Say Good-Night): a love song that deprecates the love song.
'A single rose in your garden dwells / Like any rose it's not itself /
It is my love in your garden grows / but let's pretend it's just a rose'
I'm Sorry I Love You also undermines the idea of metaphor in the first verse (as indulged in extremis in A Pretty Girl is Like..., Love is Like Jazz, Love is Like a Bottle of Gin) and evokes Gertrude Stein's "A rose is a rose is a rose" (cf. The Things We Did and Didn't Do).
LD Beghtol writes:
This apparently was supposed to be a Bow Wow Wow tribute (see their), though it didn't quite come out that way. All the gorgeous backing vocals are multiple tracks of Shirley Simms being Annabella Lwin. "
3.5 ACOUSTIC GUITAR
"A girl implores her guitar to bring back her girl. In the 69 Love Songs booklet, Stephin Merritt points to the folk tradition of singing in the character of the opposite gender. A song like House of the Rising Sun, originally written from the female point of view, may be straightforward when sung by Joan Baez or Marianne Faithful, but is less so when sung by Bob Dylan, who retains the same point of view. A similar ambiguity arises when Claudia Gonson sings Acoustic Guitar (having previously been straight, Gonson is now openly lesbian).
The cast of 'hard players' ('Acoustic Guitar, if you think I play hard / well, you could have belonged to...') is
-Steve Earle (born 1955, Virginia) is a singer-songwriter working on the borders of country music. He has a reputation for being tough and hard-living, but liberal. He has released sixteen albums and been married six times.
-Charo (born 1941, 1942 or 1952, according to different sources, in Spain) is a dancer, composer, singer, comedienne and star of showrooms, television and film, with very big hair. She performs mainly in Hawaii and Las Vegas. She appears to share with Stephin Merritt a fondness for Chihuahuas.
-GWAR are a death/goth metal/punk band, formed around 1980 in Virginia. The name is apparently onomatopaeic."
3.16 I CAN'T TOUCH YOU ANYMORE
"'You want to tell me / 50 ways you've left your lovers'
A reference to Paul Simon's song Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover.
'You want to tell me / how you loved 200 others...'
This could conceivably be a reference to Annabel Chong, who had sex with 251 men in a day â though the documentary film about this feat was only released in 1999, the same year as 69 Love Songs' completion. "
3.18 HOW TO SAY GOODBYE
"The other side of the coin in the pair of songs about lovers' speech: after the sweetness of The Way You Say Good-Night comes How To Say Goodbye.
'but baby, you know how to say goodbye
The thing I spent my whole life waiting for
has just walked out and locked the door'
These lines evoke Bob Dylan's saying goodbye song It's All Over Now, Baby Blue with its line "The lover who just walked out your door", and How To Say Goodbye could also be a reply to It's All Over Now, Baby Blue. "
