[Intro - piano and saturated electric guitar stating the melody alone over swelling synth pads, slow gated drums enter] [Verse 1 - intimate, slow, saturated guitar arpeggios underneath] Four hundred souls behind my back, one door, and I'm the only key. Three in the morning, black on black— and he's up there, waiting for me. [Pre-Chorus - guitar thickening, drums building] I knock. The door gives. I step through— and Lord, there's nothing I won't do— [Chorus - massive wall of saturated guitar, huge gated drums, gospel choir entering] MIDNIGHT MAN! He owns the night! MIDNIGHT MAN! The only light! Two feet away and burning slow— and neither one of us says go. [Verse 2 - saturated guitar, sultry, close] The door clicks shut. The world gets small. He fills that seat from wall to wall. He takes the cup. He looks at me. And Lord, that look. That's all I see. [Pre-Chorus - bigger] He's been awake since yesterday— and still he looks at me that way— [Chorus - bigger, choir answering] MIDNIGHT MAN! He owns the night! (OWNS THE NIGHT!) MIDNIGHT MAN! The only light! (ONLY LIGHT!) Two feet away and burning slow— and neither one of us says go. [Break - guitar drops to one held saturated chord] (spoken) Stay a minute. [Bridge - slow, saturated guitar swelling underneath] "Stay." One word, and I obeyed. An hour in the dark we stayed. He never laid a hand on me. He didn't have to. Now I see. [Guitar Duet - two saturated electric guitars trading phrases, then locking into harmony together in thirds, climbing higher and higher, gospel choir swelling underneath] [one beat of total silence] [Final Chorus - key change, full gospel choir, maximum saturated guitar] MIDNIGHT MAN! He owns the night! (OWNS THE NIGHT!) MIDNIGHT MAN! The only light! (ONLY LIGHT!) Two feet away and burning slow— (BURNING SLOW!) and neither one of us says go! (DON'T LET HIM GO!) [Climax - the lead holds one enormous sustained note, full gospel choir at maximum, twin guitars screaming over the top] MIDNIGHT MAN! (choir) MIDNIGHT MAN! Burning slow— (choir) DON'T LET GO! MIDNIGHT MAAAN! [Outro - everything collapsing into afterglow, choir humming low, saturated guitar ringing out, dawn coming] The sun comes up. He's theirs by day. Four hundred waking. On our way. But out there where the dark ran deep, I had the hour they don't keep.
