The Magnetic Fields - '77: Life Ain't All Bad Lyrics

The Magnetic Fields Lyrics

"'77: Life Ain't All Bad"

When I write my memoirs
You will read them with pain and with shame
You'll be searching in vain for your name
For your bleak, insignificant name

When I write my memoirs
Which will be of course in verse
On the subject of you and how awful you are
I will be infinitely terse

I hope I never run into
Another piece of shit like you
You killed my dog, you killed my mice
You made my house a den of vice

But na na na na
Na na na
You're dead now
Na na na na
Na na na
So I sing
Na na na na
Na na na na
Life ain't all bad

I labored on your ice cream truck
Whenever I was not at school
You mostly used that ice cream truck
To sit there guzzling beer, you tool

But na na na na
Na na na
You're dead now
Na na na na
Na na na
So I sing
Na na na na
Na na na na
Life ain't all bad

You vandalized our brakes and framed
Me for your theft, and was I blamed!
You smashed the bedroom window glass
And stole what you could lift, alas!

Na na na na
Na na na
You're dead now
Na na na na
Na na na
So I sing
Na na na na
Na na na na
Life ain't all bad

Na na na na
Na na na
You're dead now
Na na na na
Na na na
So I sing
Na na na na
Na na na na
Life ain't all bad
Life ain't all bad

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album: "50 Song Memoir" (2017)

The Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir album cover

'66: Wonder Where I'm From

'67: Come Back As A Cockroach

'68: A Cat Called Dionysus

'69: Judy Garland

'70: They're Killing Children Over There

'71 I Think I'll Make Another World

'72: Eye Contact

'73: It Could Have Been Paradise

'74: No

'75: My Mama Ain't

'76: Hustle 76

'77: Life Ain't All Bad

'78: The Blizzard Of '78

'79: Rock'n'roll Will Ruin Your Life

'80: London By Jetpack

'81: How To Play The Synthesizer

'82: Happy Beeping

'83: Foxx And I

'84: Danceteria!

'85: Why I Am Not A Teenager

'86: How I Failed Ethics

'87: At The Pyramid

'88: Ethan Frome

'89: The 1989 Musical Marching Zoo

'90: Dreaming In Tetris

'91: The Day I Finally...

'92: Weird Diseases

'93: Me And Fred And Dave And Ted

'94: Haven't Got A Penny

'95: A Serious Mistake

'96: I'm Sad!

'97: Eurodisco Trio

'98: Lovers' Lies

'99: Fathers In The Clouds

'00: Ghosts Of The Marathon Dancers

'01: Have You Seen It In The Snow?

'02: Be True To Your Bar

'03: The Ex And I

'04: Cold-Blooded Man

'05: Never Again

'06: "Quotes"

'07: In The Snow White Cottages

'08: Surfin'

'09: Till You Come Back To Me

'10: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

'11: Stupid Tears

'12: You Can Never Go Back To New York

'13: Big Enough For Both Of Us

'14: I Wish I Had Pictures

'15: Somebody's Fetish

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"'77: Life Ain't All Bad" lyrics

The Magnetic Fields Lyrics