10 Greatest Love Songs On The Magnetic Fields '69 Love Songs'
8. I Don’t Want To Get Over You
Like all the best self-pity anthems I Don’t Want To Get Over You has it both ways. Miserable and fatalist enough for wallowing in but smart and funny enough to poke fun at itself. With nods to clove cigarettes and Albert Camus the song is a knowing catalogue of sulky adolescent cliché.
The protagonist makes no reference to attempting to win back his former love, or indeed if the feelings were ever even really requited. Instead he’s determined to dwell in his misery. Merritt’s deep, rich voice fits the subject matter like a glove that’s been separated from the other half of its pair.
I Don’t Want To Get Over You is an anthem for the doomy, bedroom dwelling teen that resides somewhere in all of us. Even those of us that now have partners, kids or mortgages.