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06 Maybe Magician

from Contact by Walther's Wallpaper

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(chorus) Ladies and gentlemen direct your attention to the card in my hand. Indulge in superstition. It’s enough to preserve your soul for another week or so until you yield to your suspicions. But, who’s gonna save the magician?
I’ve got cards up my sleeve and a rabbit in my hat. I stuff doves down my pants in preparation for my act, but I’m relaxed. Paying customers believe the lamest crap. I just give a grin, blow a kiss, and the whole crowd starts to clap for this liar. Master of trap-doors, smoke, and wires. There’s no magic, no one has it, and despite our strong desires we’re just assholes fooling assholes wearing top-hats, capes, and formals. It’s upsetting to accept; this world’s completely normal.
I loved magic as a boy. I wish that I could still believe, because without it the unknowable’s just a man behind a screen and our immutable fate is to grind away at all the mysteries that make a life worth living until we know everything like that the universe is growing and will continue to expand until matter fills infinity with empty clouds of sand and that eventually the suns will die and one day so will man. Here’s to hoping there are things that we do not yet understand.
People ask me how I do it, but they don’t want to know that one million dollars of equipment placed around the stage just so is the extent of all my magic, the sole secret to my show, because without ignorance it is impossible to hope. Trust me I won’t stop looking for it until they roll me in my grave. Right now I’m skeptical but I believe that I could change, because now and then I’ve seen some things that I could not explain. It’s a real big world, I’m still unsure, that maybe keeps me sane.
Why do people pay admission and eagerly wait in uncomfortable proximity to watch logic break? What makes predictability such a terrible threat? Why do we wish to disprove the root of so much success? Are we afraid to trade free will for cause and effect? Our unreliability doesn’t make us complex, but perhaps it is that certainty is not worth the price of all the possibility that it nullifies.

*Recordings of David Nixon and British Pathe Mellotron obtained without intent of copyright infringement. Thank you.

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from Contact, track released November 19, 2012
Ian Troester-Solbrig

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Named after the inventor of the optical planetarium (W. Bauersfeld), Walther's Wallpaper presents dark and comical stories from history, art, and imagination in the form of danceable songs. Sibling duo Ian and Chloe danced to the beats of a Casio SA-8 before they started keeping their own memories. They wear more clothes now. ... more

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