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Music Is Magic

by Simon Hughes

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This song is about living in an apartment building. When the neighbours come knocking and threatening to call the police because you play a chilled acoustic song at 7:30pm, but when the builders are in with industrial tools, the neighbours don't make whisper. Fuck them! MUSIC IS MAGIC!

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Time, is slipping through my fingers wasting my time on you
I think it's more a problem that I found more of a meaning than my time spent wasted on you
How can it come to this that I found a new connection with an outlawed function
I'm talking about singing every time I do it I don't feel safe
My neighbours tell me police are gonna come take me away
Lock me up yeah
I dare you, lock me up yeah
You'd have to throw away the key
Coz my civil disobedience is singing when I get my chance
And I know it might sound crazy but it's an unwritten rule
But I mustn't make a noise unless it's with a power tool
And I know it sounds unreasonable it's a culture of a fool
"Err, can you turn the noise down, please?"
But music is magic and you don't have no control
And I'm gonna keep on playing till my fingers get too old
Yeah music is magic so just listen to yourself
Coz nobody is gonna do it for you
Money is slipping through my fingers wasting my bills on you
I think it's more a problem that I found more of a meaningful exchange
Coz if you break a note you never get real change, no
But when I sing with people it opens up all my brain
And it brings a connection that money cannot replace
And I know it makes you angry to see people touching souls
But I wanna live for happiness and pleasure that's my goal
So if you come around come over take it easy take a chance
"and we can dance"
Coz music is magic and you don't have no control
And I'm gonna keep on playing till my fingers get too old
Yeah music is magic so just listen to yourself
Coz nobody is gonna do it for you
music is magic and you don't have no control
And I'm gonna keep on playing till my fingers get too old
Yeah music is magic so just listen to yourself
Coz nobody is gonna do it for you
So sing along....
Coz music is magic and you don't have no control
And I'm gonna keep on playing till my fingers get too old
Yeah music is magic so just listen to yourself
Coz nobody is gonna do it for you

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released February 15, 2021
Written, performed and produced to completion by Simon Hughes at The Roost Studios, Madrid, Spain.

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Simon Hughes Madrid, Spain

I write songs like others might paint, keep a sketchbook or even get a new tattoo. It just takes whatever form it takes, when the song is whirling around my head at that moment. It's hard to put moments of your life into genre, right? My songs are about love, life, protest and frustration, honesty and sometimes just outright improvisation.

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