Each drawing represents a lyric from one of the songs from the three-volume album 69 Love Songs, by the Magnetic Fields:
quote | song title | volume and track number |
"Zelda looks lonely; I want a zebra" | Zebra | III.23 |
"dress in black and read Camus" | I Don't Want to Get Over You | I.6 |
"Grand pianos crash together" | When My Boy Walks Down the Street | II.3 |
"You're dreaming of the corpse" | The One You Really Love | I.15 |
"Acoustic guitar, how lovely you are with your inlays of mother of pearl" | Acoustic Guitar | III.5 |
"your eyes like two full moons" | Nothing Matters When We're Dancing | I.21 |
"wrapped around my heart like a boa constrictor" | Boa Constrictor | I.18 |
"talking to your picture" | Boa Constrictor | I.18 |
"me, decked out like a Christmas tree" | Long-Forgotten Fairytale | II.15 |
"What if the clowns couldn't be clowns" | Promises of Eternity | II.12 |
"My brain was missing" | It's a Crime | III.2 |
"I gaze into your eyes of blue" | The One You Really Love | I.15 |
"the velvet curtain" | Promises of Eternity | II.12 |
"I might as well be two feet tall" | The One You Really Love | I.15 |
"a threshing machine" | Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget | III.9 |
"you cross the street and you don't take my hand" | You're My Only Home | II.9 |
"We flew to Paris, dear, aboard an army jet" | The Night You Can't Remember | III.19 |
"turn cartwheels in your best suit" | Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin | III.13 |
"diggin' in the rubble" | Fido Your Leash Is Too Long | I.13 |
"It's not the cherries everywhere in bloom, it's not the way they put folks on the moon" | Washington D.C. | II.14 |
"Butterflies turn into people" | When My Boy Walks Down the Street | II.3 |
"Millions of crystal balls roll around your feet" | If You Don't Cry | II.8 |
"I'm on the moon; I can't really breathe" | A Pretty Girl Is Like... | I.19 |
"You were an army officer and I just a Rockette" | The Night You Can't Remember | III.19 |
"an old enchanted castle" | Long-Forgotten Fairytale | II.15 |
"The stars begin their Busby Berkeley dance" | The Way You Say Good-Night | II.21 |
Grouping the songs by volume and then converting track numbers to letters (A=1, etc.) spells out three answers: FOUR ROOMS, COLLIN CHOU, and WEBISMS.