The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event
Tami Lance/ Terrahawx & Near1977
“Sometime Around Midnight” is the first single from The Airborne Toxic Event’s self titled album released in 2009. The song was written by lead singer Mikel Jollett about a night when he ran into an ex-girlfriend at a bar. “Sometime Around Midnight” was certified gold in the United States on Februar...
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 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
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 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'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
Sometime Around Midnight was written by Mikel Jollett.
Sometime Around Midnight was produced by Pete Min.
The Airborne Toxic Event released Sometime Around Midnight on Tue Aug 05 2008.
On the website’s “White Noise” section, Mikel Jollett wrote about the night the song was written about:
The song is a true story. The band playing the melancholy music was a Silver Lake scene band called Le Switch. The bar was the now-closed Safari Sam’s and the event marked the closure of Sea Leve...
On February 9, 2012, “Sometime Around Midnight” was certified gold by the RIAA.