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Magic Lyrics

Artist: Ben Folds Five
Album: The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner

from the back of your big brown eyes
i knew you'd be gone as soon as you could
and i hoped you would
we could see that you weren't yourself
and the lines on your face did tell
it's just as well
you'd never be yourself again

saw you last night
dance by the light of the moon
stars in your eyes
free from the life that you knew

you're the magic that holds the sky up from the ground
you're the breath that blows these cool winds 'round
trading places with an angel now
saw you last night
dance by the light of the moon
stars in your eyes
free from the life that you knew
saw you last night
stars in your eyes
smiled in my room

Comments/Interpretations

by Claudinei Soares on 11/2/2012 9:54pm
I've heard this song for the first time on a cd player back in 2000 (a year after the release of the promo album Reinhold Messner) and I was enchanted... Even now this melody brings so many feelings... I think this song is gaining meaning year after year. I have to thank my friend Big Bear (Ursão) who gave me the record, saying: You will not like it.
To me, this song is quite like a soundtrack for my life... Specially now. Sometimes an artist should know that his work has that kind of power. I hope someday those guys could know how much that song means to a brazilian boy.