Stay Past Midnight With Me (A Song)
The second song inspired and written for the upcoming debut novel, “Roses Grow in June” by Azalea Guan.
The tale of romance set in the 2000s, Roseanne crosses paths with June, a vibrant love unraveling with themes of first love and loss of innocence.
From playful gestures and exchanging each other’s very firsts, yet every love story comes to an end — here is the beginning of something new. In a small town, by the river dock…
INTRO ♫
I just want to say
Would you ever want to take this downtown?
We could maybe – maybe stay past midnight?
And pace around the streets on fifteen
You really know how to make something out nothing
And there’s a glimmer of hope, a glimmer of me – in your eyes
♫
Did you know, I sold my life away
Not really sure how it all happened, I wasn’t really quite like you
I wouldn’t love me either – I’m not really sure how it all happens.
So would you ever want to take this downtown?
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FIRST VERSE ♫
I’d love to watch the sun swallow you whole
And maybe we could drive past that bench – the one you held me on the tenth – on fifteen
Put your phone on silent
Let’s go drinking, your face lit up, you all over me
I want you all over me, I used to hear sirens in my sleep
I didn’t realize, I didn’t know
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CHORUS ♫
Watch the clock turn seventeen
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I wish we had more time
I wish the world stopped raining, one second
And the third… So would you ever wanna take this downtown? Drive past fifteen
Look up, pause and say what I say
Do it anyway, look past anyway
SECOND VERSE ♫
Just as long as it’s half past midnight, some people live forever without ever living for a second
Close your eyes, let’s drive past fifteen
BRIDGE ♫
I just gotta say
‘You don’t have to pretend’
‘I hid away my secret, just so we could be”
‘So we could take this downtown, past midnight.’
♫
I just gotta say
‘You don’t have to pretend’
‘I hid away my secret, just so we could be”
‘So we could take this downtown, past…’
♫