We Love You was the first Psychedelic Furs song I really liked–well, really it was only the second one I’d heard. But I liked it!
I think what makes the song for me is Richard Butler’s sardonic vocals. He delivers each line with a feeling of boredom and ennui, not to mention shedloads of sarcasm. Given that the song targets trend-o-philes, I think he does a great job of skewering them right where they live.
Additionally, the song has a great pulsing beat, and Duncan Kilburn’s saxaphone really fits in well too. A really great song.
And of course, the lyrics:
I’m in love with Catholics
I’m in love with your blue cars
I’m in love with the words that scream
We are so stupid, we all dream
I’m in love with Frank Sinatra
Fly me to the moon
I’m in love with fools like you
I’m in love with doing the twist
I’m in love with the bodies that scream
They fall so far, they fall so far
I’m in love with the Supremes
Oh baby love
I’m in love with Sophia Loren
I’m in love with Bridget Bardot
I’m in love with the whole dumb scene
I’m so in love, you know what I mean
I’m in love with Anthea and Donna
All that shit that goes
Uptown top ranking
I’m in love with the factory
I’m in love with the BBC
I’m in love with your TV
They’re so in love with you and me
I’m in love with a nuclear bomb it falls
I’m in love with shopping city dreams
I’m in love with real men
They go through the
Air for oxygen
Love is just a car like you
That turns so blue and turns so blue
No blue cars will run my world
No playboys will black my word
I would walk a million smiles
For one of your miles Bob
Stop stop stop stop stop stop stop
We love you we love you we love you
We love you we love you we love you
We love you
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