Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Tried so hard to understand all of your feelings
Tried to cope with your insanities
Come to think about too many ways of healing
What we lost or maybe never had
One small step into the hidden decoy
One more world is help and one will destroy
I woke up in the midnight sun
So aware damage has been done
Agony or sanctuary
Only fate will show the way
From the bright of day into the jaw of darkness
One is shoved, a victim of lie
Friendly face turns into a fiery grimace
Suddenly feelings learn to die
Used up sympathy no chance to return
To a world one know but would's that will burn
Spent more time in the midnight sun
Still aware of what else has gone
Agonized and hypnotized
When will I be shown the way
Fell asleep and no midnight sun
Still aware justice has been done
No more doubts but disbelief
When the night was day
Celebration, miracle
And fate did show the way
Tried to cope with your insanities
Come to think about too many ways of healing
What we lost or maybe never had
One small step into the hidden decoy
One more world is help and one will destroy
I woke up in the midnight sun
So aware damage has been done
Agony or sanctuary
Only fate will show the way
From the bright of day into the jaw of darkness
One is shoved, a victim of lie
Friendly face turns into a fiery grimace
Suddenly feelings learn to die
Used up sympathy no chance to return
To a world one know but would's that will burn
Spent more time in the midnight sun
Still aware of what else has gone
Agonized and hypnotized
When will I be shown the way
Fell asleep and no midnight sun
Still aware justice has been done
No more doubts but disbelief
When the night was day
Celebration, miracle
And fate did show the way
Lyrics submitted by midnightsunrising
Midnight Sun Lyrics as written by Michael Weikath
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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The song title "Midnight Sun", to me, represents a theme of contradiction. In my opinion, many of the lyrics aim towards that idea - there seems to be a reoccurring theme of opposite ideals: agony/sanctuary, friendly face/fiery grimace, bright of days/jaws of darkness.. you get the point. The initial lyrics
"Tried so hard to understand all of your feelings Tried to cope with your insanities Come to think about too many ways of healing What we lost or maybe never had"
give me the impression that this was written with specificity in mind - perhaps a relationship or more vaguely, a person just in general.
In terms of how I personally relate to it, the lyrics remind me of a relationship with someone who's words/actions(?) are contradictory to what they otherwise are displaying. There is care and concern from the point of view of the lyrics for this particular person, but eventually, perhaps, "fate" dictates a different "way" and there is a feeling of accepting a separation.
For me personally, I've related it to a close, personal relationship. One in which I've felt things the other has not - despite their words and actions, I am not what I wish to be in this person's eyes; I am smaller than they are to me - Assumed to be "friends" rather than something more. Such strong feelings and contradictory from the other end can result in very passionate, yet mixed and compassion - a thin line between love and hate... or perhaps resentment in lighter terms. The "back and forth" or contradictory of emotions eventually leads oneself to accepting that one has to move on, despite the pain and resentment, or else realize continuation may result in self destruction.
"Friendly face turns into a fiery grimace Suddenly feelings learn to die Used up sympathy no chance to return To a world one knew but wounds that will burn"
However, such feelings do not wither or just disappear... scars remain. There is question and wonder where such things will lead in the future; is there room to go back? A place to change things? And we still wonder the answers on the correct path to take.
"Still aware of what else has gone Agonized and hypnotized When will I be shown the way?"
... and eventually, we find those answers (maybe to some degree), and all past digressions and occurrences seem respectfully clear.
"Fell asleep and no midnight sun Still aware justice has been done No more doubts but disbelief When the night was day Celebration, miracle And fate did show the way"
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