It's A Crime

The Magnetic Fields · 69 Love Songs Pt. 3 [1999]

It's a crime to fall in love

Heart and mind, and soul in love

It's a crime to fall in love, so hard, so hard



I shouldn't have bothered, 'cause you're just like all the others

Now I know, and I won't do that again

I should've guessed that you'd be just like all the rest

Now I know not to go through that again



I'm still crying all night and all day

But if I show it, someone lock me away



Because it's a crime to fall in love

Heart and mind, and soul in love

It's a crime to fall in love, so hard, so hard



My mother said gently, you can buy her a Bentley

But my son, she'll only drive it away

I didn't listen, 'cause my brain was missing

And I only found it today



I was a man but now I'm only a child

And if it kills me I am going to smile



'Cause it's a crime to fall in love

Heart and mind, and soul in love

It's a crime to fall in love, so hard, so hard



You won't be hearing from me anymore

'Cause I can't see through my tears anymore

If it takes years to be any more than a jellyfish

I will not tell you this



Because it's a crime to fall in love

Heart and mind, and soul in love

It's a crime to fall in love, so hard, so hard

So hard, so hard, so hard, so hard, so hard, so hard