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stephenmagic wrote:1. Are you a Hypnotist

Oh! "Hypnotist of Ladies" - They Might Be Giants.

Hows about...
Jamie Cullum - Mind Trick
Queens of the Stone Age - Do it again
Biffy Clyro - Some Kind Of Wizard
and for some people: Queens of the Stone Age - The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret.

There must be more!

Let us not forget "Do You Believe in Magic" and "Strange Magic." My friend Terry Evanswood plays quick clips from a ton of magic songs before his show opens. It's very nicely done.

A trick of the tail - Genesis

In case you screw up a trick:
I missed again - Phil Collins

Dirty magic - The Offspring

When you forget how a trick works:
I don't remember - Peter Gabriel

When you get fooled by another magician:
More fool me - Genesis

When a spectators needs to signs a card:
Sign your name - Terence Trent d'Arby

Mahoney wrote:I can only think of one that hasn't been mentioned (or at least I don't think it has):

The Police - Every Little Thing She Does is Magic

I would really like to use this in a card manipulation routine

I had a hunch that if I looked in the archives, I'd find a thread or two about music with a magic theme. So here I am.

But you missed one!!!

In fact, you missed a particularly brilliant one. I speak of In Your Eyes by Oysterband, which is actually one of my very favourite love songs in its own right. The lyrics are superb, and the music starts off well but becomes a tad too noisy for my taste at the climax.

The things that the singer sees in his girlfriend's eyes are most intriguing. I've met very few women whose eyes quite meet that description...

It can be listened to (in Real Media) here and you can read the lyrics here.

Excerpt:

Wonder what the spark is when you turn your eyes on me?
Some kind of magic and it will not let me be.
Rip goes reality, walls are falling down
Snap goes the iron chain that tied me to the ground.

Incidentally, I improvise on keyboard, and maybe (just maybe) I could create a backing track for someone's magic video sometime. You can go here to get some idea of my style, which is folky. However, I lack the equipment to make a professional-quality recording.

another very interesting singer songwriter (in the same mold as that Damien Rice fellow, but did it before him and better) is Tom McRae. There are several songs of his that have single lines in them relating to magic, cards and misdirection (How The West Was Won on All Maps Welcome for example) but specifically, his latest album, released this year, is called King of Cards, and has the following songs on it:

- King of Cards
- Houdini And The Girl

Absolutely fantastic singer, all four albums are brilliant, and I'd highly recommend you check him out. The most recent album is the most accessible.

Theres a U2 song that has a lyric about
"sleight of hand (sumin sumin sumin)"
But I cant remember the song!

Got It!!!!!

The song is U2 Without You.
The lyrics are:
"Sleight of hand and twist of Fate"

Woo I am the memory machine!

what about ..........."break" on through by the doors.....ill get me coat

oh and its with or without you.......

Foo Fighters - Pretender

Keep you in the dark, You know they all pretend

The secrets that you keep are at the ready