Sometime Around Midnight - The Airborne Toxic Event: Song Lyrics, Music Videos & Concerts

The Airborne Toxic Event

Sometime Around Midnight

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Sometime Around Midnight was released on January 1, 2009 by Island Records as a part of the album The Airborne Toxic Event (Bonus Track Version)

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

The Airborne Toxic Event

The Airborne Toxic Event

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COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Mikel Jollett

Composer

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

The Airborne Toxic Event

The Airborne Toxic Event

Producer

Pete Min

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]

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 awhile

And the piano's this melancholy soundtrack to her smile

And that white dress she's wearing

You haven't seen it for a while

[Verse 2]

But you know that she's watching

She's laughing, she's turning

She's holding her tonic like a crux

The room's 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

[Verse 3]

And so there's a change in your emotions

And all 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

Lost in the haze of the wine

[Verse 4]

Then she leaves with someone you don't know

But you make sure you saw her

She looks right at you and bolts

As she walks out the door

Your blood boiling, your stomach in ropes

Oh, and when your friends say, "What is it?

You look like you've seen a ghost"

[Verse 5]

Then you walk under the street lights

And you're too drunk to notice that everyone's staring at you

You just don't 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

You know that she'll break you in two

Written by: Mikel Jollett

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