| Boys Like Girls – Five Minutes To Midnight Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think there might be a deeper meaning to this song. Five Minutes to Midnight was a code phrase used during the Cold War to describe lengths of time away from nuclear war. 1 Minute to Midnight meant the first nuke has been launched, midnight meant nuclear war. For the US right now we're about 6 minutes from midnight (it doesn't mean time in minutes obviously, but the closer to midnight, the closer to nuclear winter). The closest we got in the Cold War was 2 minutes. This song could just be about a party or whatever, but I think it's possible it could have a deeper meaning; a last night to live sort of meaning, or even last week I suppose. The first verse, "Brown eyes and lungs are filled up with smoke," could indicate a coming apocolypse of some sort. Then, "Fast lives are stuck in the undertoe," could indicate that as the world is receding, the chaos of lives that could never slow down are caught back and rather meaningless. "But you know the places I wanna go" could mean the places the speaker wants to go before death. Then "We could pack up And leave all our things behind No fact, or fiction, or storyline 'Cause I need you more than just for tonight" could mean leaving home, because it'll be meaningless by midnight and the speaker is saying they need the other person if they survive. Nuclear war is a bit of a stretch for parts of the lyrics or for this song, but I think it's possible and even if it isn't the meaning it at least makes us think a little more about it. |
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