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No Such Thing as Magic

from Ghostwatching by Jessica Law

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The winds that scatter us around
Have landed me within your town
Let’s congregate while we’re united by the fates

You’ve only seen me on the stage
In disguise and rendered strange
You learn too late that I’m not actually from space

I hate to blow your mind
But I’m just a mortal who happens to write

And I’ll never be enough for you
And I’ll always be too good to be true
If you can’t have the stars
Then you won’t have the moon
And you’ve found out I’m not magic after all

It’s been a year you’ve been alone
Are you sufficiently worn down?
Enough to contemplate the offer that I made

In a house that I don’t own
In a town that’s not our home
A place where no-one lives, from which nobody came

A cloud obscures the sky
And I can’t decide if I can face the winter again

Because I’ll never be enough for you
And I’ll always be too good to be true
If you can’t have the stars
Then you won’t have the moon
And you’ve found out I’m not magic after all

I learn the taste of angels’ breath
And the temporary death
And the metallic tang of coming round again

I hold the Starchild in my hand
Introduce him to the band
And incrementally I shrug off all my chains

Another year goes by
And I can’t remember why you ever caught my eye

‘Cos you'll never see reality
And you’ll always want too much of me
What you want isn’t real
What you have, you don’t feel
And there’s no such thing as magic after all...

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from Ghostwatching, released July 12, 2022

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Jessica Law Cambridge, UK

"Packed with emotion, surprise and wit." - The Daily Album
“Someone… who’d probably get laughed off the X-Factor for not being exactly the same as everyone else.” – Nightshift Magazine
"A collection of intriguing folk songs, packed with expressive lyrics, strange rhythms and creative instrumentation." - Ocelot Magazine
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