The eighth track off Springsteen’s eponymous release, “Magic” is simple but haunting. A magician of sorts speaks to us and eerily gets more and more sinister as the track goes on.

The Boss once introduced the song as such,

“I wrote it as we’re sort of living in an Orwellian time when, uh, what’s true can be made to seem like a lie and what’s a lie can be made to seem true.

So this song’s not really about magic. It’s about tricks.

And their consequences."