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'89: The 1989 Musical Marching Zoo

by The Magnetic Fields

on 50 Song Memoir (2017)

Anonymous figures with animal heads
Are they human? Or are they quadrupeds?
Are they psychotics who've gone off their meds
And away...

The 1989 Musical Marching Zoo
Are coming to play
Inside of your mind
The 1989 Musical Marching Zoo
Are coming to stay
Don't be left behind

And this is the band that I wanted to be
No names and faces, and no history
Particularly, no pictures of me

The 1989 Musical Marching Zoo
Are coming to play
Inside of your mind
The 1989 Musical Marching Zoo
Are coming to stay
Don't be left behind

If only musicians were invisible
Or, like the Residents, identical
Sod MTV; show me a tractor pull,
And the

The 1989 Musical Marching Zoo