"Sometime Around Midnight"

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 soundtrack 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 cross
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

Then 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 then your friends say "What is it? You look like you've seen a ghost."

Then you walk
Under the streetlights
And you're too drunk to notice that everyone is 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 

Sometime Around Midnight (The Airborne Toxic Event - Cover)

"Long drives" by Molly and the Zombies

Listen to me
I know I never got much relief
I limped when I walked
S-s-stuttered to talk
and the achin’ was just part of me
listen to me
I know all about agony
when you say that it hurts
more than anybody sees
with a heart colder than
the heart oughta be

‘cause you married a man who lied to you love
But it wasn’t like that when he first picked you up.
When he drove you around and he bought you some flowers
Until something had changed and the temperature soured

But I’m alright
Baby I don’t mind
I’ll get on just fine
On them long long drives
Call it a lie

Well whatever brings you back to life
We could turn it around we can drive it straight home
If you wanna be alone for the night
Whatever song you like

From The Souls to Mack the Knife
(here we go, here we go, here we go)
we could turn it up loud
we can put the pedal down
With the rain beading up my love

'Cause you ache for a drug that’ll never be enough
You’re never gonna feel like when he first picked you up
when he drove you around, bought you powder and flowers
until the thrill was gone

but you said  
I’m alright
baby I don’t mind
I’ll get on just fine
on them long long drives

last night I remembered being 17
I met a girl with a taste for the world and whiskey and rites of spring

spent every night with cassettes that she liked
in a car that I borrowed a lot.
and I could never get her to believe.

'Cause we tasted a kiss that was sent from below
it was cool in the night I was old as a stone
in the back of the car with a child at heart
who suddenly showed you their teeth

but you said
I’m alright
Jamie, I don’t mind
I’ll get on just fine
On them long long drives without you
drives without you

And I still see him sometimes
and he doesn't look right
you left me for him
then you left him for spite
I hope you never pay that price
Wherever you are tonight

Sometime Around Midnight (The Airborne Toxic Event - Cover)

Christian Valiente

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