Lyr Req: The One You Really Love (Stephin Merritt)

Subject: The One You Really Love - John Hartford?
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Feb 02 - 08:58 PM

Heard this on a local NPR show, yesterday and just loved it, absolutely gorgeous melody. It sounded like it might be John Hartford and had a beautiful, simple autoharp for backup. The words included something about the one you really love being dead and how the beauty in your eyes isn't meant for me, but for the one you really loe. The end line is rather shocking because it changes to the corpse you really love.

Thanks for any info!

kat

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The One You Really Love - John Hartf
From: harpgirl
Date: 10 Feb 02 - 10:08 PM

...no autoharps on his records, my dear....tis a mystery...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The One You Really Love - John Hartf
From: masato sakurai
Date: 10 Feb 02 - 10:45 PM

"The One You Really Love" by Magnetic Fields is HERE, with sound clip. This one?

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The One You Really Love - John Hartf
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Feb 02 - 11:10 PM

Thanks, hg.

Masato, that's it! Interesting songwriter and singer. I like his simplicity of style. Thank you, very much!

kat

PS: now that I know who it was, I found the lyrics here, scroll down to #15, thanks, again, Masato!

Subject: Lyr Add: THE ONE YOU REALLY LOVE (Stephin Merritt)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 11 Feb 02 - 09:41 PM

THE ONE YOU REALLY LOVE
(Stephin Merritt)

I do believe our love's in danger
I might as well be loving air
You look at me like I'm a stranger
You look at me like I'm not there

CHO: I gaze into
Your eyes of blue
But their beauty
Is not for me
You're thinking on
Someone who's gone
You're dreaming of
The one you really love

I made you mine, or so it seemed
Though he is dead he haunts your dreams
I might as well be two feet tall
You never will love me at all. CHO.

You're dreaming of
The corpse you really love.

[Recorded by Magnetic Fields on "69 Love Songs," 1999.]