"I just like how simple it is.
I also like the take on it - the first line is 'the book
of love is long and boring / no one can lift the damn thing'
- and that just hit me immediately. I don't know if you
have heard the Magnetic Fields version, but Steven Merritt
has a very dry basso profundo delivery and it kind of adds
a bit of irony to it. I just wanted mine to be a bit more
straightforward and sincere as a kind of different angle
to it. It's one of those songs that I really wish that I
had written." |