Magical Solution Lyrics

Music gave me reasons to fight

On the days and nights I felt I couldn't breathe I would just write

Losing all sense of self, it's almost as if I'd vanish

The ultimate bandage, a magic blade that I could brandish

Took offensive stances and handled the avalanches

Of substantial damages dealt by family and romance it's

Been turbulent but that's okay, I'm ignoring what's there

When music is the most important thing then you don't care

Why would I focus where, the problem is located?

When I could just escape it? I think often I created

For the same reasons I skated. Just to put some distance

Between me and the forces fucking up my whole existence

I thought that with persistence success would just be a given

What's the difference between a hallucination and a vision?

This positions confusing what I knew is no longer solid

Don't let the music stop, I'm too codependent to call it

Some days are terrific while other days are so bad

Oscillate from great to feeling randomly sad

Caught up in the past and things that could never be

I used to think I knew the magical solution that would set me free

Days n Daze's song "Post Party Depression"

Summarizes 2022 my confession

Is for the time I questioned if art could be my profession

Used to never second guess it because my success was predestined

I just knew it. This truth was like a personal prophecy

One day music's kernel would blossom into the tallest tree

And offer me, all the desperately needed shade

As if to suffer was okay because one day I would be made

Saved from the trauma that's plagued me since I was young

In the face of crazy painful situations I just sung

And thus forever clung, to the hopes of what could be

Put on the rose tinted glasses so I don't have to see

Told myself that I was free, then adopted an illusion

More conducive to a crusty rapper dude from Houston

I now seek a solution that isn't exactly magical

But rather one that's from within, long lasting, and actual

Some days are terrific while other days are so bad

Oscillate from great to feeling randomly sad

Caught up in the past and things that could never be

I used to think I knew the magical solution that would set me free

"It has to be something else

And the best I've come up with is this...

It is a particular moment

A magic moment that occurs after the placing of a bet

And before the result of that bet

It is when the dice are in the air

And as long as they are there, time stops

As long as the red dice are in the air

The gambler has hope"

- Norm Macdonald