Warned I was warned against this By my father Son come to your senses Boy Don't go near the city It will bring you heartbreak And it won't be pretty I was running for my life When I saw this Like a child in a dream Full of fright While all the sunshine babies Keep on crawling from the night I am always at my best In the moonlight Born I was born into this First time I saw her I knew I won't get through this Girl How'd you move right through me I was a goner For you dancing so foolish I could tell you about the night I was slighted How it filled me with a darkness, hate and spite Love turned me into something That can still scare me sometimes But it only comes back out in the moonlight I am The Midnite Machine The strong only survive But the weak are living All the creatures of the underworld Got no use for forgiving I'd say you better keep you're chin up When you're talking to me You say that you'll be good in a week But you couldn't know the meaning of these words that you speak I'm gonna show you a good time even if it kills us All through my city of the night I'll be your guide By fate's hand I was chosen To live one eternal life As the prisoner and crown prince of the midnite I am the Midnite Machine Let's give it up for the old sly dogs If they foold me once Then they fooled me a million times So convincing when they lie Let's give it up for the old sly dogs Who told me love is patient and it's kind You're so pretty when you cry The most sinister of cynics get you laughing as you die They live to watch the light fade from your eyes But these bloodveins keep pumping Though the well is running dry Cause this engine only runs on the midnite I am the Midnite Machine

Oh baby this time I'm biting the bullet I'm locked and loaded Chompin away I'm goin big time Like a Washington Bullet I'm Wes Unseld back in '78 I treat that R train like a partyline (Goin my way?) I raise an army on a Friday nite (On to the day) I got a fresh lime and a bottle of Bulleit Kentucky mules til we kick it now Each of my evil demons they don't get better They just get cleverer these days She could write a Dear John letter I won't go get her She'll forget in a few days We reaching beyond measure Out to the rim of the night we go Not even a glimmer of light can glow I tell you so Sell all your finer things and tumble into the darkside baby Light the Midnite Machine and rumble into the darkside baby I was all of 17 when I stumbled into the darkside And remained a fiend Cause I don't know how to love you When I'm clean The best of us had come to fisticuffs out on a Ridgewood bus All because I cussed ran my mouth just like a blunderbuss Stopped to count our losses all the bridges to burn But soon our nite took a hard right in a profitable turn baby We jacked a kid with CT plates on his custom Soaked him for bout 7 or 8 G's out the trust fund A diamond ring of timing cause the summer' been rough But now we're living like kings until the end of the month You know that Each of my evil demons they don't get better... Sell all your finer things and tumble into the darkside baby... Into the darkside...

Doesn't matter what you did or what you didn't say last nite It don't matter what you can't erase or play out right Anytime we fight on a whim now Sends you right running for him now My blood boils over the brim You say one thing Do something else now I'm losing count Don't you wanna do right? By the one who gave you all you ever want? I been out every nite To get you off my mind God knows what you're getting on I don't want your last guy coming around I'll make this his last nite above the ground I ain't got time to be the last to know I'm not gonna follow you wherever you go I don't want your last guy coming round I blame myself for this you need to know Held onto you way too tight when I was meant to let you go Swear to god I'll find him Cut him down and blind him Leave him bleeding on the street So you can see what I did I know we ain't been seeing eye to eye I wanna cruise you wanna ride ride ride You got the best of me Not what you pretend to be Call your little buddy let him know He's got an enemy You won't ever do right Not by me Not by you Not by us You've been gone every night You go bad When it's good And that's all that I can trust I don't want your last guy coming around I'll make this his last nite above the ground I ain't got time to be the last to know I'm not gonna follow you wherever you go But now I got your little man in sight If you see him he'll be gone by midnite I don't want your last guy coming around

In the throes of a summer gunfight You came to my side At the height of my desperation I never thought I could be your sunlight But I was a star At the heart of your constellation Until the fall I was worlds away beneath you hittin a wall Inside in a dream I couldn't reach you Out there on Mars I tried so hard to forget but I recall So tell me you do Are you still you? Like I knew you? Cause I think that I still need you I won't waste time waiting for Someone who don't exist no more so Are you still you now? Are you still you now? Cause I could steal you now I could steal you now Are you still you now? Are you still you now? Cause I could steal you now I could steal you now They remembered it for me wholesale But something went wrong And they strapped me down and erased it I went back to The Last Resort now They said you been gone Since I went on that dark vacation Back in the fall I was worlds away beneath you hittin a wall Inside in a dream I couldn't reach you Out there on Mars I tried so hard to forget but I recall So tell me you do Are you still you? Like I knew you? Cause I think that I still need you I won't waste time waiting for Someone who don't exist no more so Are you still you now? Are you still you now? Cause I could steal you now I could steal you now Are you still you now? Are you still you now? Cause I could steal you now I could steal you now Are you still you?

Can't feel the sunburn til the middle of the night When the ripe corn moon's aglow like incandescent light Ain't the time for sleepin And I don't know the day But I know I want to kill you in a special way In a misty mortuary I will let you lie I just wanna be the face you see before you die Sure I have my reasons But you won't need to know You got too much on your plate to hear my tale of woe Holy Orders Sanctify it

Daylight's gone out of style Let's fade to black Til we're hittin the freeze frame You better call him Cause I can't dial They changed the title but it feels the same man Cue the static Kill the lights It's gonna be another of them nights man I tried to space it out the same as before But I can't feel the rain on my face anymore And I say Hey hunny What's so funny? I'm full of flames and I'm made of money I only came for the running and gunning But I'll stay for the rave If you're showing me something I got my head caved in but I feel alright I got my head caved in but I feel alright I got my head caved in but I feel alright Come on You got the plug I can go all night Sent some dudes off to meet with the reaper Could be a dream but I'm a real light sleeper Beaten and bloodied but I'll be fine Broke both they're skulls saw what's on their minds I know a guy who'll get us patched up quick We out here lookin like a slasher flick Get some cash turn a magic trick If you can keep a clear head When it gets smashed with a brick Alright, split up, circle back down and Meet me round Avenue A and Houston I got something that's gonna blow your whole world apart You'll never forgive me But this is your night, baby I got my head caved in but I feel alright I got my head caved in but I feel alright I got my head caved in but I feel alright Come on You got the plug I can go all night You got the plug I can go all night

I make reservations but we skip the dinner She says she lives for things like that Her kiss in the lobby tastes like gin and ginger I ring for the lift and it rings right back In moments it's morning I already miss her And I feel a new sinister sting She's up and she's gone without even a whisper I don't want this to be a one time thing I got a crush And it haunts me I got a crush And it haunts me I always promise I won't let it happen But you know what they say bout the best laid plans I been in love once and really who hasn't? It's all about pay and stray demands When she lit a smoke I could see that she's older I know she's gone down this road before The winds keep on whippin and I'm getting colder I can't pretend and I can't ignore I got a crush And it haunts me I got a crush And it haunts me I go out walkin just after midnite I just can't stop this anymore I start my knockin but I can't get inside She calls the cops while he holds the door I got a crush And it haunts me I got a crush And it haunts me It haunts me

Another time another tear a new war And now the battlefield's too near to ignore I'll be right here by your side til the dawn Hold on tight the daylight's all gone It's not gonna mean a whole lot When the shots rip a hole in my memory It's not gonna mean all that much When her touch is all only a reverie It's not gonna mean a lot then It's not gonna mean too much then But it'll mean something to me It'll do something to me I don't know you This ain't the same as before I should've told you This place ain't safe anymore And I can't hold you now It takes some time to move on I'm not gon hurt ya I'm gonna hurt when I'm gone It's not the time for hopes and dreams to be mourned They've tried to kill them since before I was born Though your banners may be tattered and worn They'll lay the base of a faith reborn It's not gonna mean a whole lot When the shots rip a hole in my memory It's not gonna mean all that much When her touch is all only a reverie It's not gonna mean a lot then It's not gonna mean too much then But it'll mean something to me It'll do something to me I don't know you This ain't the same as before I should've told you This place ain't safe anymore I can't hold you now It takes some time to move on I'm not gon hurt ya I'm gonna hurt when I'm gone Oh no Alright Hey what are they taking my hands for? Okay I know They hate when avenues are my dance floors And I spent too many nights on a bender Now I'm so close to surrender It's not gonna mean a whole lot When the shots rip a hole in my memory It's not gonna mean all that much When her touch is only a reverie It's not gonna mean a lot then It's not gonna mean too much then But it'll mean something to me It'll mean something to me I don't know you This ain't the same as before I should've told you This place ain't safe anymore And I can't hold you now It takes some time to move on I'm not gonna hurt you I'm gonna hurt when I'm gone

I never thought I could fall to such a phenomenal low Eviscerated my edges I'd hit the throttle an go I think the beast I been feeding is finally eating me Swallowed hole There was a time I had all of the proper numbers to call I'd reach out and they'd be grabbing me before police got involved But lately I been a stranger and all the pain is unstoppable Every time I get all the pieces put back together they fall apart And I've been going to meetings but they don't see what it's all about You were the dead of night That I was waiting for You were the bread of life I ate when I was poor Now you're the city lights That I'll be praying toward Until the rains start to pour Maybe I'll see you one night when I'm really looking my best Back where I first saw you dancing in that familiar dress But it don't matter to me what you want to wear and it never ever did Somehow I knew it was bound to play out this way in the end You never made me believe it dear no you'd never pretend But I pretended so badly babe and I pretend you knew I did Every time I get all the pieces put back together they fall apart And I can't seem to find reasons I can't be near where my problems start You were the dead of night That I was waiting for You were the bread of life I ate when I was poor Now you're the city lights That I'll be praying towards Until the rain starts to pour