10 Greatest Love Songs On The Magnetic Fields '69 Love Songs'

4. Long Forgotten Fairytale

So you find yourself in a club. It’s late, you’ve had a few drinks, you’ve been dancing. The DJ is playing throbbing synth pop backed with syn-drums that sound like euphoric, digital handclaps.

Suddenly, there they are; the one that got away. Immaculately dressed, confident, happy and did they lose weight? Did they...g, et taller??!! Is that a thing?!

Long Forgotten Fairytale captures the feeling of running into an old flame and getting burned all over again. That intoxicating moment when, “the colours are too intense/and nothing is making sense.”

Of course we know we should resist but suddenly all the reasons we left them(or the hurtful way they left us) have melted from the mind. It’s happened to the best of us. From the sound of it, it’s happened to Stephin Merritt in an Eighties nightclub playing a secret Depeche Mode album. Where better?