Is This What They Used To Call Love? Lyrics - The Magnetic Fields

Feels like December, but it's May 

I've gone as pale as Doris day 

The blue sky's torn asunder 

By clouds that warn of thunder 

Is this what they used to call love? 

Your face surrounds me everywhere 

Like a kaleidoscope's nightmare 

This outpouring of emotion 

Is boring as an ocean 

Is this what they used to call love? 

Well, it mustn't be the chicken pox 

I've never met a chicken 

But whenever I get near you dear 

My heart starts to sicken 

In the ninth circle of this hell 

My heart is burning and unwell 

What demons lie within it? 

I'll die in one more minute 

Is this what they used to call love? 

Is this what they used to call love?