PETER GABRIEL - THE BOOK OF LOVE

THE BOOK OF LOVE

PETER GABRIEL

Songwriter: STEPHIN MERRITT

Country: u.s.a.

Where: NEW BLOOD ORCHESTRA IN LONDON

Album: scratch my back

Label: virgin records

Genre: indie rock

Year: 2010

"The Book of Love" is a song written by Stephin Merritt and attributed to The Magnetic Fields, an American indie pop group founded and led by him. "The Book of Love" appears in Magnetic Fields' three-volume concept album 69 Love Songs containing 69 tracks described as "love songs", 23 tracks in each of the three volumes. The three-volume release was released in 1999 with "the Book of Love" appearing in volume 1 as track number 12.

The book of love is long and boring

No one can lift the damn thing

It's full of charts and facts and figures

And instructions for dancing

But i

I love it when you read to me

And you

You can read me anything

The book of love has music in it

In fact that's where music comes from

Some of it is just transcendental

Some of it is just really dumb

But i

I love it when you sing to me

And you

You can sing me anything

The book of love is long and boring

And written very long ago

It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes

And things we're all too young to know

But i

I love it when you give me things

And you

You ought to give me wedding rings

And i

I love it when you give me things

And you

You ought to give me wedding rings

You ought to give me wedding rings.