Null Relationship

This track comes from the overlap of beach life and CTO life — morning surf sessions bleeding into architecture reviews. It tackles A relationship that returns null - all the checks you run, all the validation, and still getting nothing back. The lyrics get specific — "That was never guaranteed to be there when I need you" — because personal tracks on Majik's are personal for real, not performatively. The lo-fi production matches the energy of the confession. It hits heartbroken and analytical, in that order. Every personal track in the catalogue comes from a real moment, a real feeling, a real person. This one is no exception.

[verse 1] I called your function but you returned null No error message, no exception, just a void pull Of nothing where there should have been a response I checked the parameters, validated the constants Everything looked right on my end, proper syntax Sent the request with all the right abstracts But you were undefined, unreachable, gone Null pointer exception on a love I thought was strong I should have checked for null before I tried to access The properties of a heart that had no address [chorus] Null relationship, nothing to return Empty object where there used to be concern I keep calling but the method's been deprecated Null relationship, I should have validated Before I built my whole application on a value That was never guaranteed to be there when I need you Null relationship [verse 2] Tried to debug us, set the breakpoints at the arguments The first date, the first kiss, the first apartment Where did the logic break, where did the data corrupt Where did your love object become abrupt-ly empty I traced the execution line by line And found the bug was somewhere around the time I started deploying more to work than to us Midnight commits when I should have been discussing The future, the feelings, the things that aren't in code But I wrote programs while the relationship erode-d Into a null that I can't typecast back to whole [chorus] Null relationship, nothing to return Empty object where there used to be concern I keep calling but the method's been deprecated Null relationship, I should have validated Before I built my whole application on a value That was never guaranteed to be there when I need you Null relationship [bridge] if (love !== null && love !== undefined) { // we never made it here // the condition always failed // because I was checking for something // that I forgot to initialize // you can't debug what you never started right // and I never started us with enough light } [verse 3] Now I initialize my variables carefully Check for null before I try to share them rarely With another instance of a human connection Run the unit tests before the first affection Lessons learned in syntax that a therapist would question But this is how a coder processes the pain, no question Wrap it in a try-catch, handle the exception Log the error, learn the lesson, build a better version Of the man who let the most important thread Return null while he was coding something else instead Never again, null check everything, especially love Especially the things you think you're certain of [chorus] Null relationship, nothing to return But the error log taught me how to learn I keep building, and the method's been updated Null relationship, I've been educated Next time I'll build the whole application On a value that I've validated with patience No more null [outro] Catch (heartbreak) { learn from it; move forward; initialize again; }