Magic (song)

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Album This song officially appears on the Driving Rain Official album.

Timeline This song has been officially released in 2001

Related sessions

This song has been recorded during the following studio sessions

Driving Rain session #7

Feb 25, 2001

Maggie Mae

Magic Lamp

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Song facts

From a November 2001 interview:

‘There Must Have Been Magic’ This is about meeting Linda – ‘it must have been magic the night that we met’. I met Linda in a club and I always thought years after, particularly after she died, that if I hadn’t stood up that night in a club we might never have met again. It was something I never normally did; I wouldn’t normally stand up as someone was about to leave and say ‘Er, excuse me, hello.…’ I didn’t do that. It was a bit embarrassing for a young guy to do that. I didn’t normally do that but it was just one of those things that I felt I just had to do that night – ‘Hi, um, I’m Paul, who are you?’ And she sort of smiled and said ‘Linda’. I said ‘Er, we’re going onto another club. Are you going home? Shall we meet up at this other club?’ We were in The Bag O’Nails and we said we’d meet up in The Speakeasy. Which we did. So ‘Magic’ is a song about that; it must have been some sort of magic that made me do that. Because if I hadn’t done that I might not have met her again.

Last updated on April 30, 2018

Lyrics

There must have been magic
The night that we met
If I hadn't stopped you
I'd always regret

A few minutes later
You'd have been out that door
And I'd have been lonely
For ever more
For ever more

Oh what made us do it
Under what holy spell
Nature's mother knew it
Only too well

She reached out her fingers
To point at the sky
Leaving me helpless
Not knowing why

And this is the hour
That they turn out the light
Nothing but memories
Burning so bright
Burning so bright

Oh what made us do it
Under what holy spell
Nature's mother knew it
Only too well

There must have been magic
The night that we met
If I hadn't stopped you
I'd always regret
I'd always regret

There must have been magic
There must have been magic
There must have been magic
The night that we met