“Midnight” is the first track on American singer-songwriter Tor Miller’s debut EP Headlights and the second on his debut album American English. The track premiered exclusively on Billboard on January 21, 2015.
Midnight was a song I wrote with my good friend Jon Green when I was living in London. I...
[Verse 1]
Jeff Buckley's grace was playing loud as hell
In the back of an old dive bar
So I step outside and light a cigarette
Take in the fumes of the passing cars
Loud angry drunks and a few crust punks
Fill every crevasse of St. Marks
Some things have changed since back then
But the streets are still so hard
[Chorus]
In the lonely hour of midnight
When New York City's lying wide awake
Under the glow of a street light
I feel the rumble that the concrete makes
I might hail a cab down
Right thru the Holland to the interstate
And my soul reignites
In the lonely hour of midnight
[Verse 2]
Two lovers falling in each others arms
Stumbling on down the highline
Up on the bridge there's a broken heart
Screaming to his valentine
Two sunken eyes at the cornershop
Trying to get a loosey for a dime
The needle drops and the vinyl turns
I'm gonna burn this one right
[Chorus]
In the lonely hour of midnight
When New York City's lying wide awake
Under the glow of a street light
I feel the rumble that the concrete makes
I might hail a cab down
Right thru the Holland to the interstate
And my soul reignites
In the lonely hour of midnight
[Bridge]
Calling out for something
Calling out for something true
Calling out for something
Calling out for something true
Calling out for something
Calling out for something true
In the lonely hour of midnight
When New York City's lying wide awake
Under the glow of a street light
I feel the rumble that the concrete makes
[Chorus]
In the lonely hour of midnight
When New York City's lying wide awake
Under the glow of a street light
I feel the rumble that the concrete makes
I might hail a cab down
Right thru the Holland to the interstate
And my soul reignites
In the lonely hour of midnight
[Outro]
And my soul reignites
In the lonely hour of midnight
Midnight was written by Jon Green & Tor Miller.
Midnight was produced by Eliot James.
Tor Miller released Midnight on Wed Jan 21 2015.
When I wrote ‘Midnight, I had just flown to London for a long period of recording. During that time I was getting very into all these biographies and autobiographies about the '70s punk scene… 'Midnight’ was almost like a love note for the city and in a strange way an homage to a bygone era.