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Josephine Lyrics

Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: The Wayward Bus

If I were Napoleon, you could be my Josephine
We could go to drive-in films in my red convertible
If I were Napoleon, I might be in magazines
I'd write some science fiction - science fiction about you
You could be my Josephine: just you and your chaperone
Let you be my Josephine, Josephine
If I were Napoleon, you could be my lady love
Look into my soft blue eyes
Run your fingers through my hair
If I were Napoleon, you could be my turtle-dove
Living out in Corsica in our summer cottages
And you could be my Josephine and we could be Siamese twins
Let you be my Josephine, Josephine

Comments/Interpretations

by Kev on 11/4/2008 2:18pm
this song is awesome!

by Joey on 11/21/2009 3:41pm
That it most certainly is. I especially like the implied rhyme on the 'run your fingers' line...

by Andrew on 8/10/2010 8:55am
I really like how it's a woman singing, and the gender roles are reversed. That is one of my absolute favorite things about Stephin Merritt's work.