Your friends say "What is it? You look like you've seen a ghost"
I must have heard this song 150 times in the last month, and it still gets to me just as much as it did the first time.
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 barlights
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 cross
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 emotion
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"
And you walk, under the streetlights
And you're too drunk to notice that everyone is 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
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So here's the thing. It's about emotion, which is pretty universal, and why people relate to the song. I get that. But, while emotion is universal, the expression of that emotion, and the concepts you use to convey that to someone else, is HIGHLY personal. And this song felt like they had taken some of those phrases right out of my brain. The band is Airborne Toxic Event, I recommend checking them out.
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 barlights
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 cross
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 emotion
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"
And you walk, under the streetlights
And you're too drunk to notice that everyone is 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
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So here's the thing. It's about emotion, which is pretty universal, and why people relate to the song. I get that. But, while emotion is universal, the expression of that emotion, and the concepts you use to convey that to someone else, is HIGHLY personal. And this song felt like they had taken some of those phrases right out of my brain. The band is Airborne Toxic Event, I recommend checking them out.