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Love Songs that are also Warnings to GTFO while you can

Me quitte. Baby please gon' go. Don't believe the hype. Think twice, it's alright . 'If you love them, warn them that you are awful and make everyone around you unhappy.' While there are plenty of egoist songs about how love sucks , or about banishing a wrong'un, songs which rebuff someone out of altruism take a leap of insight beyond most songwriters. (For reality is beyond them.) 1. Autoclave - MoGos "Maybe it's the heat in here, maybe it's the pressure: You ought to head for the exits, the sooner the better. I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam And no one in her right mind would make her home my home ." 2. Absolutely Cuckoo - Magnetic Fields " Don't fall in love with me yet / we've only recently met... I only tell you this because / I'm easy to get rid of But not if you fall in love... Know now that I'm on the make / And if you make a mistake My heart will certainly break / I'll have to jum...