Sometime Around Midnight

'Sometime Around Midnight' was the third single from The Airborne Toxic Event. It gained much airplay on radio stations, particularly BBC Radio One in the United Kingdom where it reached position #33 in the singles chart. In America the song reached #4 in the Billboard Modern Rock Charts. It is track 7 from the band's debut album. According to the Sometime Around Midnight Songfacts, this song describes a night out when Mikel Jollett ran into his ex-girlfriend. The rest of the band witnessed the event. .

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