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[Verse 1]
It's a quarter past midnight as we cut through the city, yeah, yeah, yeah
The streets are getting restless, good times, bad decisions, yeah, yeah, yeah
It's a quarter past midnight and the sirens are mending some hearts
But we're the losers on the back seats singing "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
[Pre-Chorus]
It's a quarter past midnight, still avoiding tomorrow
It's a quarter past midnight, but we're just getting going
[Chorus]
We keep on running, running through a red light
Like we're trying to burn the night away
Away-way, oh, away-way, oh
[Post-Chorus]
This is my favourite part, oh
Help me piece it all together, darling
Before it falls apart, oh
Help me piece it all together
[Verse 2]
It's a quarter past midnight and the speakers are blowing, yeah, yeah, yeah
We want the bodies on the billboards, not the lives underneath them, yeah, yeah, yeah
And now, we're crawling up the walls again and it's a quarter past twelve
And you said we'd leave this place in dust and fall from Heaven straight through Hell
We never know what we have, we never knew what we had, had, had, had, had, had, had, had
[Chorus]
We keep on running, running through a red light
Like we're trying to burn the night away
Away-way, oh, away-way, oh
Why are we always chasing after something like we're trying to throw our lives away?
Away-way, oh, away-way, oh-oh
[Post-Chorus]
This is my favourite part, oh
Help me piece it all together, darling
Before it falls apart, oh
Help me piece it all together
[Bridge]
I can't remember, I can't remember, I can't remember, I can't remember
It's a quarter past midnight and the secrets are flowing (I can't remember, I can't remember)
Our lips are getting looser, I don't know what I'm saying (I can't remember, I can't remember)
We never knew what we had, I never know what I've had
[Chorus]
Keep on running, running through a red light
Like we're trying to burn the night away
Away-way, oh, away-way, oh
Why are we always chasing after something like we're trying to throw our lives away?
Away-way, oh, away-way, oh
[Post-Chorus]
Well, this is my favourite part so
Help me piece it all together, darling
Before it falls apart, oh
Help me piece it all together, darling
[Outro: Sung, Spoken]
Won't you help me piece it all together, darling?
Won't you help me piece it all together?
'Cause when I can't remember, when I can't remember
When I can't remember, won't you help me piece it all together, darling?
How you doing, Charlie Barnes?
Calming down
How you doing, Daniel Smith?
Don't know
It's nice to have my back to everyone
Um, yeah, so as you all have noticed, we've changed everything
Well, from now on, we changed everything quite a lot
Um, Charlie Barnes put a lot of
A lot of hard work into a lot of these arrangements
And as you'll notice, we're all in back of the stage
He's at the front, in the middle
He finally got his way, um, and obviously
We've also got loads of incredible musicians on stage with us tonight
Alright, let's play a song
Quarter Past Midnight (MTV Unplugged) was written by Dan Smith.
Bastille released Quarter Past Midnight (MTV Unplugged) on Fri Apr 28 2023.