"Witches” by Krysle Lip. And in this era of fake news and mainstream media mishaps it seems our salvation may indeed come from the TRUTH that "witches that can lead us home.” Actual witches? Possibly, but perhaps they are more metaphorical witches, for so many people have been demonized recently. Immigrants, the basket of deplorables, the left, the right, the media, corporations, lobbyist, politicians, Washington insiders, globalists, and nationalists, have all had their reputations sullied in what is the impression of humanity experiencing a new inquisition. People kill in the name of their God and speak in His name. They think they hold the truth; Their truth! But as Krysle implies in the song, only our souls can truly decipher truth.
 
Witches is also a tribute to "witches and sorcerers." Religion venerates light, science defines light, but the mystics harness light and project it deep into the past and into the future – our future. Krysle boils down the inadequacy projected by society onto each of us and asks us to embrace what we feel are our sins, that part of us that doesn’t measure up, and allow someone we have been taught to distrust to lead us home. Witches captures everything each of us felt on, dare I say, the white-knuckler we just experienced (and race, that is embedded in our language, rears its ugly head). Witches is a metaphor for minorities in the "melting pot,” and we are encouraged to celebrate what makes us all different.
 
Witches is a follow up to "Electric Mirror,” another song that is a commentary on society. As with all of Krysle’s songs there is the text that we need to pay attention to but the subtext is even more powerful forcing us to read between the lines to the words that cut like a knife in butter. Krysle talks about Electric Mirror, "this song is an ode to [the] current world of appearances, in which we are bathed since our childhood. Social media has made society, and more specifically women feel abnormal and unattractive due to the standards that media has imposed. Electric Mirror is the mirror within the device which invites this obsession for the ‘selfie’ and ‘instant gratification’ generation.” Witches elevates his conversation and brings it

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