The Magic in Front of Me

Verse 1

They taught me how to spell the words

But never mentioned casting spells

I lined the letters up in rows

And wondered why it felt like something else

Pre-Chorus

We have a dozen ways to say the same old thing

Happy, glad, content, delighted, pleased

Yet no one ever stopped to show

The other meanings hiding underneath

Chorus

Spelling out the words like casting spells

Arranging letters, making meanings bind

We learn one version, call it absolute

While twenty other words wait in the line

Why give us fifty shades of one emotion

But never teach the roots behind the sound?

I'm still just trying to understand

The magic sitting right in front of me

Verse 2

I can describe the rain ten different ways

Drizzle, shower, downpour, mist, and spray

But ask about the deeper load a word can hold

And suddenly the lesson fades away

Pre-Chorus

We have a dozen ways to say the same old thing

Angry, mad, furious, annoyed, enraged

Yet no one ever pulled apart

The quieter meanings locked inside the page

Chorus

Spelling out the words like casting spells

Arranging letters, making meanings bind

We learn one version, call it absolute

While twenty other words wait in the line

Why give us fifty shades of one emotion

But never teach the roots behind the sound?

I'm still just trying to understand

The magic sitting right in front of me

Bridge

Maybe every word's a little spell we throw

Some land soft, some cut, some barely show

If I'd been taught to look a little deeper in

I might have noticed sooner where the meaning begins

Final Chorus

Spelling out the words like casting spells

Arranging letters, making meanings bind

We learn one version, call it absolute

While twenty other words wait in the line

Why give us fifty shades of one emotion

But never teach the roots behind the sound?

I'm still just trying to understand

The magic sitting right in front of me

(Let it be)

The magic sitting right in front of me