[Wowfunhappy]

...someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you're using the semicolon correctly; it sounds wrong to me, at least. I think you'd need to either take out the word "but" (which would cause the sentence to no longer make sense) or, well, change the semicolon to an em dash.

[anon84873628]

For sure, that's like the exact opposite of why to use it: "A semicolon is used to join two closely related independent clauses (complete sentences) that are not connected by a coordinating conjunction."