Magic - SHAD, Lido Pimienta

They steal

Then they take your memory of the theft

Magic

This show will literally take your breath

Joker in the deck

The Devil and his magic

(Devil and his magic)

The Devil and his magic

(Devil and his magic)

See it’s kinda like magic, huh

They cause a distraction then poof

All that we have disappears and we clap

Then forget that it happened

Forgot that we lost it

Forgot that the magic men have it

They grabbed it, they stole it, they cause a distraction

Distraction, distraction, (Why?) it’s all a distraction

Imagine, like magic

Gone is our land, our language, our history

Ancestry, families vanish like it was magic

Gone is our greatness, our sacred places

And practices, suddenly we feel vacant

We saw them take it though

Our hands lift from the earth

The dirt, from the food removed, rezoned, reduced, reduced to-

Disappeared, it’s all smoke and mirrors

All of it’s magic

The Devil and his magic

All of it’s magic

The Devil and his magic

Distraction, distraction

The way that they take

The way of magicians is in addition to subtraction

They used to vision, they mastered the craft of it

Listen, see through the illusions

And all the amusements

They divide humans up causing confusion

They use competition, religion

It’s all just division, man

All of it’s magic (All of it’s magic)

Splitting us into factions

Fighting until we’re fractured

Smaller and smaller fractions

People feeling like zero

Individuals divisible to the point we’re invisible

Gone into ghettos and armies and prisons

We won’t be missed, they easily dismiss us

They dissolve if you give them munitions

And the rest they condition and kill by attrition

All of it’s magic

The Devil and his magic

All of it’s magic

The Devil and his magic

All of it’s magic (La, la, la, la, la, la, la)

All of it’s magic

All of it’s magic

All of it, all of it’s magic, magic, magic

See them make up stats that make us scrap for the scraps

They have all of it, all of it

All of it’s magic

Grabbing at hat tricks, they’re practicing, crafty

The fastest, you had it and then suddenly

Gone is your work, your purpose, your worth

The reason you wake, your sense of seizing your stake in it

Your traditions and intuitions

Supports, commitments, decisions

They vanish from your hands like

Your volition, your voice, your vision, your choice

Your joys, you miss your mission, attention gone

To fast cars and fast fashion

Fast food and no fasting

All distractions

The light blinds and the fear blinds

And the cash binds and just gotta keep them confined until

Reality’s so hard to look at

That we turn a blind eye

Don’t even care that they took it

The Devil and his magic

The Devil and his magic

The Devil and his magic