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A true story.

I visited my childhood home this summer. We listened to the iPod on random all the way up and all the way back. There were two Queen songs amongst the two hundred tracks: ‘a kind of magic’ and ‘one vision’. Both songs I listened to as a kid growing up in that area, when they first came out. Near my destination there’s an industrial wasteland of a place called Runcorn, strangely redeemed by its tear-jerkingly beautiful suspension bridge, the prototype for Sydney harbour. We crossed the bridge both ways. One way, the iPod played us ‘one vision’, the other ‘a kind of magic’. Trippy.

http://lyricwiki.org/Queen:One_Vision