Sometime Around Midnight - The Airbourne Toxic Event

This has to be by far my favorite song of the 2000's, or whatever we are calling the last decade. I listen to it everyday, have seen it live, and never get tired of it. Not only is the music captivating with an incredible buildup, which not only builds but even pushes it when it gets to the top, some great violin and a powerful voice that builds with the music, what sells this song to me are the lyrics. Sincere and heartfelt, it is the tale of a man who runs into his ex and has all his feelings come back, only to see her leave with another guy and remember the pain of her leaving. I feel it in his voice the story of him, and it's one I feel most people can relate to, including myself. This song gets me every time, and is a must listen and really a must see live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJi2z3tGKIg

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’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.

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
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.
Oh and when 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.