Lyrics: Midnight
Midnight
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Midnight it’s raining outside he must be soaking wet Everyone is sleeping tight God knows I tried my best Darling you know it looks bad Just lost the best thing that I ever had Still I don’t know why I did him wrong It’s too late now he’s gone to say [chorus] Heartache, heartache yeah [chorus] And now it’s midnight it’s raining outside [chorus] You say you’ll lose your pride [credit: Moyet] |
Note: ‘Midnight’ is almost a Cole Porter song, Alison Moyet’s voice steeped in melancholy, accompanied by sparse instruments. A woman cheating her husband and now he’s left her – that theme sure has been covered before.
The lyrics of ‘Midnight’ have a nice build up, though, introducing the man outside in the rain and the woman musing a still unknown wrong in the first verse. The second verse throws light on the reason of their separation, the woman’s infidelity and her regrets. The third verse finds the woman in the rain as well, still regretting. That third verse already preludes (‘nothing can replace all of those wasted years’) to the final lines, where the woman concedes that his loss, should he come back, will be so much smaller than hers when he doesn’t. Her regrets seem to be more self pity than apology. |
