Moonlight Midnight Blue

A mid-paced rocker...

I'm walking in the moonlight,

Talking to the midnight blue.

I'm tellin' that midnight,

“I'm a whole lot bluer than you.”

'Cause blue is blue,

And black is black,

And I'm tellin' you true,

It's a one-way track.

Chorus

When you're into the black,

Your fate is sealed,

You're not coming back,

It's the final done deal!

So I'm talkin' to that midnight blue,

I'm tellin' it what I'm gonna do.

I'm runnin' from the blue into the true,

I'm finding my way back to you.

Chorus

I'm heading back into the light,

The moonlight is now increasingly bright

My tortured soul is taking flight,

The future is gonna be quite alright.

Chorus

But the moonlight midnight blue,

Is never quite through with you.

The coming nights are a witch's brew,

Sweet dreams are often short and few.

Chorus

So when you're walkin' in the midnight blue,

Take your heart's love with you,

So she can tell that moonlight midnight blue,

How her love is the light protecting you.

Chorus

Moonlight midnight blue,

I'm staying the hell away from you!

(guitar screech wailing away into the distance with lots of reverb)

© 2019 The Iron Horseman

Author's Note

This is a mid-paced, almost rockabilly, number with blues overtones.

Reviews

[apennylate]

I... May have jumped STRAIGHT into jamming this out-loud... Oh, you meant for that to happen? Oh... You want me to make a fool of myself even further in front of my wife and dog and cats and entire neighborhood as I scream this from an open window with GUSTO??!?!?!!?!!?!? Done.

[The Iron Horseman]

Laughing myself silly here! I can just see you doing it, too!
I keep finding myself walking around singing this one to myself, which doesn't happen often. I usually sing other people's songs! So I guess I must really like this one.
It's so great to have you back. I missed the humor.

[apennylate]

I am considering just stealing it and when asked, I shall say I have stolen this from no man. Truth, I speak... For it was a horse made of iron and with eyes like twin-orbs of doom... Great to be back, although no humor exists here.... Only meta-reality truth

[The Iron Horseman]

HorseMAN, so not quite true, you thieving magpie! :D
It's great to have you back in your alternative reality, buddy. Just send me a cut of the royalties, okay? c/o PO Box IShouldBeSoLucky, LalaLand.

[apennylate]

Let me hop right on that... The return address will be NotaChanceOrClueDoesThisOneHave, lalaland express.

[The Iron Horseman]

ROFL!..........

[Lea Sheryn]

Very inspiring. Love it!

[The Iron Horseman]

Thank you, Lea. Glad you liked it.

[Lea Sheryn]

You're very welcome.

[BBP]

Ever heard of Nekromantix or Tiger Army...I could see either of them singing this. Nekromatix making it creepy and hard... Tiger Army taking the softer route with it.

Either way it'd be rad!

[The Iron Horseman]

Nope, don't know either of them! I will check them out! Thanks for the insight, BBP.

[BBP]

Think you'll dig em!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

almost feels like rockabilly set in the 90's.....
can imagine it to music...and i think it works well...
especially with some old time guitar like in the 50's----like the Rhythm Orchids played.

j.

[The Iron Horseman]

Thank you, Jacob. I'm not familiar with the Rhythm Orchids. My comparison would be to the Stray Cats, who were, of course, imitating the 50's and 60's sounds. And yes, there is oodles of guitar in it! :)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

they were the group from which came Buddy Knox who did Party Doll and Jimmy Bowen who did I'm Stickin' with You during the late fifties.

but Stray Cats were quite good....saw them at a concert...

[The Iron Horseman]

Thank you for the info.
Yes, I have seen the Stray Cays too - walked into a bar quite by chance and there they wer, up on the stage, pounding out Stray Cat Blues. They were indeed good!

[barleygirl]

This is one time when I can really feel the musicality of posted lyrics (not always evident for me with some other lyrics writers). I like your message & your imagery & the snappy beat, but this feels like many verses & some lyrics restate a small handful of ideas in a slightly different way, so overall it's long & repetitive to me. But if there's good instrumentality going on, sometimes it's good for the verses to go on & on, even if mostly restating (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[The Iron Horseman]

Huh! I don't know what happened on this one, Margie. I wrote you a long response to this last night, but it appears to have vanished off the face of the planet! Oh well!

[barleygirl]

That happens too often here, it seems! Hopefully we'll catch a better connection next time! *smile*

[Robert Trakofler]

well I like it... very good lyrics... great message! the melody has a Brian Setzer quality to it I kind of hear a rolling popping baseline in it. there is much more to this than when i first read it had to hear it first to get the point of the lyric

[The Iron Horseman]

Thank you, Bad Bunny. I'm glad you like it. You are right - it was built around a rolling bass line. My songs all start from a bass riff - I'm a bass player, so no surprise there, eh? :) I am really pleased that you could hear the music - it means that it's working! It takes a musician to be able to do that. Rock on, my friend!

[Robert Trakofler]

Us drummers love our bass players you keep us level when we start to fly to high:)

[The Iron Horseman]

Lol! And I thought it was the other way round!