Sometime Around Midnight

Album: The Airborne Toxic Event (2008)
Charted: 33
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  • And it starts
    Sometime around midnight
    Or at least that's when
    You lose yourself
    For a minute or two

    As you stand
    Under the bar lights
    And the band plays some song
    About forgetting yourself for a while
    And the piano's this melancholy sound check
    To her smile
    And that white dress she's wearing
    You haven't seen her
    For a while

    But you know
    That she's watching
    She's laughing, she's turning
    She's holding her tonic like a crux
    The room suddenly spinning
    She walks up and asks how you are
    So you can smell her perfume
    You can see her lying naked in your arms

    And so there's a change
    In your emotions
    And all of these memories come rushing
    Like feral waves to your mind
    Of the curl of your bodies
    Like two perfect circles entwined
    And you feel hopeless, and homeless
    And lost in the haze
    Of the wine

    And she leaves
    With someone you don't know
    But she makes sure you saw her
    She looks right at you and bolts
    As she walks out the door
    Your blood boiling
    Your stomach in ropes
    And when your friends say what is it
    You look like you've seen a ghost

    And you walk
    Under the streetlights
    And you're too drunk to notice
    That everyone is staring at you
    And you so care what you look like
    The world is falling
    Around you

    You just have to see her
    You just have to see her
    You just have to see her
    You just have to see her
    You just have to see her

    And you know that she'll break you in two Writer/s: MIKEL FRANS JOLLETT
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

  • Robert from Los Angeles, CaIts about a night he ran into his ex. These things happen in our lives. What can you do. Love would be a great thing if it were not so full of emotion. Yes, I understand that statement may seem to make little sense, but if you think about it, you may find it makes perfect nonsense.
  • Liesa from Roy, UtI love this song and the emotion of it, it gives me goosebumps
  • Mike from Milwaukee, WiUnfortnately Dale, you got some facts wrong. I completely agree that this is a great song, but he (Mikel) actually did see his ex girlfriend in this situation. What a great song, and an amazing, rising band.
  • Dale from Cambridge, United KingdomThis song is one of THE best ever written. It is full of emotion, and memories that every guy in the world has, or will experience at some time in their life. I read the meaning of the song to be how a guy feels after several beers in a club when he sees the girl that he wants to take home with him. How he is seemlingly lead on by the woman to the extent where he, in smelling her perfume, he can already visualise her laying naked in his arms. In the end though, she accepts a drink, then disappears out of the club with someone else purposely so you see! Women eh!
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