She’s laughing, she’s turning, she’s holding her tonic like a cross. Or at least that’s when you lose yourself for a minute or two.Īnd the band plays some song about forgetting yourself for a while.Īnd the piano’s this melancholy soundtrack to her smile.Īnd that white dress she’s wearing, you haven’t seen her for a while. The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight Official Music Video This is The Airborne Toxic Event with Sometime Around Midnight. This band's lead singer has a unique, memorable, passionate voice that is impossible not to appreciate. Second on my list of favorite things about this song is probably the vocals. There's an emotion emitted from the strings that cannot be matched by any other instrument, and this track just wouldn't be complete without the element the viola brings. No matter how many times I listen to this song, though, I have to say my favorite part is the viola solo at the very beginning and very end it seems to be what brings the entire track together. In making this song "simple and sweet", the band has managed to create a track that is not only pleasant to listen to, but also easy to relate to - and that's a winning combination. To me, this song is simply about a man seeing an old "friend" at a bar - and all the bittersweet memories that brings back, all the unsatisfied desires of this lonely man.Īnd yet, that simplicity, that honesty. There are no secret meanings behind this track - at least, none that I've come to find. Each time I listen to the song, I find something new to appreciate about it the unique vocals, the passionate lyrics, the simple - yet painful - story the song tells. Having finally tracked down and added the song to my vast collection of digital music, Sometime Around Midnight has been playing on my iPod nonstop.
" - and the official title of the song was well, you know. However, I soon learned that the lyric in which I got my "midnight" reference simply stated, " It starts sometime around midnight. Why I adopted the title of Linkin Park's 2007 studio album as the unofficial title of this song, I'm not entirely sure. and that was too vague to look up song lyrics.įinally, one day, the string solo to my elusive track soared over the radio and, frantically excited, I turned around in the passenger seat and said excitedly to my sister, "This is my 'minutes to midnight' song!" The only word I could remember was "midnight". I must have spent weeks desperately trying to remember any significant lyric of the song that I could possibly Google in order to discover the identity of the track which had come to me on a shady weekday morning and then seemed to have disappeared from my radio station's play list. I remembered how much I enjoyed listening to the song. And I remember being instantly drawn to the song the simplistic, yet effective, styling of the band and their delivery of the music. I heard it on the local alternative radio station in the car. There's an interesting story behind my introduction to this song.