Songs of love and trouble

I'm on my walk yesterday and listening to 69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields. It's a gift from a friend and it's music that I don't yet know; I'm making up my mind. And I hear this:

Billie you're a miracle
and God knows I need one
Sing me something terrible
that even dawn may come
You and me, we don't believe in happy endings

Hey, Lady Day,
can you save my life this time
Can you cry so beautifully
you make my troubles rhyme
Hey, Lady Day,
can you save my life again
My only love has gone away
Will you be my only friend

Billie you're a genius
enough to be a fool
a fool to gamble everything
and never know the rules
Some of us can only live in songs of love and trouble
Some of us can only live in bubbles

Hey, Lady Day...

The rhyme 'bubbles' lets it down, I think, but the song is otherwise beautiful and extraordinary, not least because of the contrast between the style of music - certainly not the sort of thing that used to back Billie Holiday - and the lyric itself. The song is 'My Only Friend'. You can listen to a snatch here. (Thanks: David T.)