Sometime Around Midnight.

The song, "Sometime Around Midnight" by The Airborne Toxic Event, has been out a few years now I think. EVERY time I catch it on the radio though, I leave it on that station and I get so attached to it. This song conveys the most passion I have ever heard (and yes, this is coming from Kelly Clarkson's number one fan, and she is the queen of conveying her emotions through songs). I think almost everyone can relate to it, even if you haven't been in a relationship really. We all have had someone, or been interested in someone, where the feeling wasn't mutual or even worse, they knew you liked them and rubbed it in.

I have never felt enough affection for a person in a relationship to even begin to imagine how much this song COULD mean, but it still strikes a chord with me, evoking feeling from me that I only feel with a few other songs.

Even in high school, liking that boy that knew that you liked him still even after things were over between the two of you, but he would hang out with that other girl right in front of you, and make eye contact with you every once in awhile, just to make sure you were watching and hurting.

I am sure there are numerous more examples, but the part that gets me is when he is practically screaming "and then you walk, under the streetlights, and you're too drunk to notice that everyone's staring at you." The emotion in his voice during that part is unreal, you can almost immediately feel the pain of the situation, whichever one you connect to for this song.

This is the verse that gets me the most:

"and she leaves with someone you don't know,
but she makes sure you saw her, she looks right at you and bolts.
and she walks out the door
your blood boiling, your stomach in ropes.
and your friends say 'what is it, it looks like you've seen a ghost...'
and you walk under the streetlights.
you're too drunk to notice that everyone is staring at you.
you don't care what you look like
the world is spinning 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 know that you're breaking in two."

The musical arrangement of this song is also pretty awesome. Great instruments and melodies.

Anyways, that's it. I heard that song about 3 times this week and got reminded each time how much emotion lies within it. I think I am terrified of when I am in that situation, coming from a real relationship, and THEN listening to this song. It just makes me realize how much things change once the person you are into, has been with someone else. I was watching the episode of Friends last night, where Ross and Rachel break up after Ross sleeps with another woman on the first night of their infamous "break". I have seen it so many times that I can quote the whole break up scene. But still, I can relate to her everytime I hear her tell Ross "you're a totally different person to me now."

This is really a random post but I do really like that song and what it means for me.