Postcard from the First Try

This track comes from the Lowcountry marshes where Aaron found wisdom knee-deep in pluff mud. It tackles A postcard from the first entrepreneurial attempt — the naive excitement, the mistakes, the lessons. The beautiful mess of trying something for the first time with no safety net.. The lyrics get specific — "But crazy got me through the Navy, crazy never made me lazy" — because personal tracks on Majik's are personal for real, not performatively. The electronic production matches the energy of the confession. It hits nervous and hopeful, 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] Dear future me, I have no clue what I'm doing But I filed the paperwork and the dream is brewing Magic Unicorn, I know, the name sounds kind of crazy But crazy got me through the Navy, crazy never made me lazy I've got a laptop and a plan that's written on a napkin A business model that would make a professor have a heart attack and A stubbornness that borders on concerning, so they say But I'm sending this postcard from the first day anyway [chorus] The first try's always messy, always loud, always wrong The first try's always the beginning of the song That nobody hears until the tenth try gets it right But the first try is the bravest, the most beautiful fight A postcard from the first try, wish you were here To see a man with nothing but a vision and a fear That it might actually work [verse 2] I don't know what a burn rate is, I barely know the stack But I know how to solve a problem and I know how to come back From nothing, the Navy made that muscle strong as hell And if this startup thing works out, it'll be one heck of a tale If it doesn't, well, the postcard still exists Proof that Aaron Stransky took a swing with both his fists At the conventional, the expected, the safe route And chose the unconventional without a single doubt [chorus] The first try's always messy, always loud, always wrong The first try's always the beginning of the song That nobody hears until the tenth try gets it right But the first try is the bravest, the most beautiful fight [bridge] Years from now I'll look back at this postcard and I'll laugh At the business plan that was only a paragraph At the pitch deck that was just a Google Doc At the revenue projections that were written on the clock Of optimism, ticking toward a future that I drew With crayons and with courage and with nothing else to lose [verse 3] So here's to the first try, the ugly, gorgeous start The postcard from the moment I chose the entrepreneur's art Dear future me, I hope you made it through And if you did, remember, it started in this room [outro] P.S. — The napkin business plan is in the desk Second drawer, under the Navy discharge papers Keep it It's worth more than any deck