This is a song I heard in the first week or so after my initial exposure to beautiful Brokeback Mountain in February 2006. The song is "Magic Power", a track from the 1981 LP Allied Forces by Triumph (which I just learned today was Canadian--up to now I had somehow thought they were Swedish!), so I had heard the song before back in my high-school days. But with the film so fresh in my mind, it was colored anew with those swirling emotions engendered thereby. It made me think of Alma Junior (one could imagine this as the song heard on the car radio at the end), and of the hopeful optimism in front of her young life. Conversely, it also made me think of the lost youth of Ennis, of how he no longer had that optimistic promise of that vanished summer of 1963...and no longer had Jack.
At any rate, here are the lyrics to this, my favorite Triumph song:
Something's at the edge of your mind, you don't know what it is
Somethin' you were hopin' to find but you're not sure what it is
Then you hear the music and it all comes crystal clear
The music does the talkin' says the things you want to hear
I'm young, I'm wild and I'm free
I got the magic power of the music in me
I'm young, I'm wild and I'm free
I got the magic power of the music in me
She climbs into bed, pulls the covers overhead and turns her little radio on
She's had a rotten day so she hopes the DJ's gonna play her favorite song
It makes her feel much better, brings her closer to her dreams
A little magic power makes it better than it seems
She's young now, she's wild now, she wants to be free
She gets the magic power of the music in me
If you're thinkin' it over but you just can't sort it out
Do you want someone to tell you what they think it's all about
Are you the one and only who's sad and lonely, reachin' for the top
Well the music keeps you goin' and it's never gonna stop
Never gonna stop
Never gonna, never gonna, never gonna stop
The world is full of compromise, and infinite red tape
But the music's got the magic, it's your one chance for escape
So turn me on - turn me up - it's your turn to dream
A little magic power makes it better than it seems
I'm young, I'm wild and I'm free
I got the magic power of the music in me...