This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Magick, with our tears
Magick, with our tears
Magick, with our tears
The magickal veneer
The way to, mother noose
The way to, suck an egg
The way to, golden down
The way to, Koh Phangan
The glitter on the snow
The place to always go
Do what you will, do what you will
The glitter on the snow
The place to always go
Do what you will, do what you will
Magick, with our tears
Magick, with our tears
Magick, with our tears
The magickal veneer
The way to, mother noose
The way to, suck an egg
The way to, golden orb
The way to, Koh Phangan
The glitter on the snow
The place to always go
Do what you will, do what you will
The glitter on the snow
The place to always go
Do what you will, do what you will
The vision and the voice
The view from devils tower
The snake with tail on tongue
The broken silver wand
The glitter of the snow
The place to always go
Do what you will, do what you will
Magick, with our tears
Magick, with our tears
Magick, with our tears
The magickal veneer
Magick, with our tears
Magick, with our tears
The magickal veneer
The way to, mother noose
The way to, suck an egg
The way to, golden down
The way to, Koh Phangan
The glitter on the snow
The place to always go
Do what you will, do what you will
The glitter on the snow
The place to always go
Do what you will, do what you will
Magick, with our tears
Magick, with our tears
Magick, with our tears
The magickal veneer
The way to, mother noose
The way to, suck an egg
The way to, golden orb
The way to, Koh Phangan
The glitter on the snow
The place to always go
Do what you will, do what you will
The glitter on the snow
The place to always go
Do what you will, do what you will
The vision and the voice
The view from devils tower
The snake with tail on tongue
The broken silver wand
The glitter of the snow
The place to always go
Do what you will, do what you will
Magick, with our tears
Magick, with our tears
Magick, with our tears
The magickal veneer
Lyrics submitted by olliemilton7
Magick Lyrics as written by Jamie Oliver Jack Reynolds James Nicholas Righton
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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The videos ace too.
Its starts like MAGICK. And ends like MAGICK. Klaxons just make me think better
klaxons are soooooooooo good
love love love
First band that mixes the occult with rave music. and does it raaaather well. wooooooo.
Um, yeah, lateralus666, the Klaxons are definaely NOT the first band to do this and do it well.
See "We Fenced Other Gardens With The Bones of Our Own" or "They Were Wrong, So We Drowned" by Liars or something.
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this song in practically perfect. can't wait to see them at splendour in august!
This video had me all scared when I first saw it, not that its not good, I love a good shocker but it's still bizzare. Reminds me of that film, Stigmata
Great song all the same, love the vocals provided by Jamie! Also like the reference to Ko Phangan which is were the "Moon Festival" takes place. It's set at the full moon and it's basically rave music from dusk to dawn.
How very Klaxon-esc
I just saw their new music video for magick. Its amazing