The semicolon gets a lot of use in poetry and, of course, lyrics. It coordinates independent clauses of a compound sentence, to quote Webster's, or links independent thought lines of a lyric, to put it into a form familiar to lyricists. It is true that semicolons make no never mind to the new generation, but, of course, their language is incomprehensible anyway- take rap. On second thought, don't.
Crazy Eddie, your sentence with the semicolon makes me pause fractionally; if you placed a comma there, the tendency is to race on and perhaps lose some of the meaning.