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Midnight Special Vol. 2: Countdown 2 Sunrise

by L8D MDNT

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1.
So, so I felt it when it came upon me, I knew the moment that it held I felt the wizard when he cast upon it, I knew the moments that it grew Li-li-li-light it up, wa-wa-wa-water me too I knew what it felt like, I knew how it could be true Had to pull it over his eyes, so that he couldn’t see inside Lu-la-la-lay-lay-lay, Lu-la-la-lay-lay-lay, Lu-la-la-lay-lay-lay, Lu-la-la-lay-lay-lay eh, eh Came through on you, to comfort you, all around you Take it alive, take it in stride, all around you I walk alone, I know no one Who doesn’t see, who doesn’t feel me, who doesn’t know this Who can’t keep from this Take it, take up it’s coming on you Take it, take it, it can’t be you Na-na-ni-nigh-ni-ni-nigh-nigh-ni-ni-nigh-nigh-nigh-nigh na-na-na-na-na-na-ni-nigh-nigh-na-na-nigh-nigh Lady Midnight , Mike the Martyr, Franz Diego, Sophia Eris...
2.
(Ha) I be reminiscing about you, no one drive you crazy like I do I be reminiscing about you (Yeah, uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, Yeah, what up Keezy) you been running circles (Keezy in the building Mike the Martyr, uh) You like this top on me, I’ve been on top of you You know the things we do, be out of middle school and ever since you moved I be like what to do? I’m like in and out and in and out I’m on the run [I-----] I be reminiscing about you [I be reminiscing about you] Hope you ain’t running circles I recall your name, I speak your frame Come to me, come to me, came back to me {come...} I be reminiscing about you Going in circles thinking about you Saying the things that I know about you Baby, looking at the way you move [I’ve been reminiscing ‘bout you] And I remember the ways you always held my gaze [the ways you always held my gaze] Tease me [please me] (uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah, yeah, ha) And I know you ain’t forget me, walking ‘round town Iooking proud in Giuseppe's Knowing I’m the one that put you on, shit prolly why we didn’t last that long Cause I be frontin’ sometimes, acting like I be too fine to really need you at night, but secretly I’d wish you’d hold me, tell me “baby be mine” [like the way you spend the night] I like the way you spend the night, what what wha-wha-what? But see I’ll never be the perfect one I be what I be and on the run [like the way you spend the time…] Do you and I do me, we having fun [I’ll never be] No need for the needy [come back, come back] Buuut I can never reach you when I’m lonely Now I could never need you even if I wanted I’m on the come up with the sun up, sippin’ ‘rita’s bitch [aaaayy ayy] Don’t even know why I was trippin’ on some libra shit [aaaayy ayy] We graduated to cool, but they be still something ‘bout you I be reminiscing about you, going round in circles [oooooooo, yeeeee, yeeeee, yeeeee]
3.
Hold up, hold up, hold, up, hold up I’m tryna tell you something, in so many ways You keep talking, you can’t listen to what I say Why you gotta- hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up You don’t listen very well, do you? Talking through, talking through my space You like, you like you and the words that are you Framed in your reality when you see no clarity When you see no Pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up You don’t listen very well, do you?
4.
There was nothing you could tell me that would work So you left with nothing, so you left no words on the table What a way to go, what a way to go With no words What a way to go, what a way to go With no words What a way to go, with no words, no words No words You don’t gotta say nothing for me to know You don’t have to say nothing [say nothing] for me to know And even if you take nothing I see your soul, [I see it, I see it, I see it] with no words With no words [I see it, I see it, I see it] Why we listening to Mase you kiss me on my face Why they screw they face, when we turn up in the place My weight is on your hips I thank you for supporting me Your my priority most importantly We held hands in alleys and BLM rallies Me and Mike off Oliver and Golden Valley On our own accord it go accordingly You put a spell on me like it was some sorcery I’m just tryna love like Courtney, Off University like Porky’s Coming through your screens like a porch breeze We dripping off top like some 40’s Ay bro, we do it for the shorties Style priceless so you can’t afford these Take you to school montessori Tryna find a wave, like Dori So you left with nothing, so you left no words on the table What a way to go, what a way to go With no words What a way to go, what a way to go With no words Even if you take, even if you take nothing, I see you No words, no words, no words, no words [I see you] I see you, I see you, yeaaah I see you I see you
5.
[Take a chance on me] LM: You know the way you feel, you know the way its real So you choose to play a game (eh, eh, eh, eh) I know you feel the same Let me slide through (where the light?) I’m gonna let you know what’s real, (where the light?) Lemme just slide through (where’s the light? x3) I’m gonna let you know it’s real (where’s the light? X 3) [Take a chance on me, uh oh uh oh] (where’s the light? X 3) [where’s the light? x2...get to you, get to you girl..] I need you to slide through (get to you, get to you girl x 2) I need you to slide through (where’s the light? X 3) Gonna make it right, gonna be tonight (where’s the light? X 3) Slide through, I’m gonna slide on you I know it’s plain to see, You want me [You want me, you want me, I know you want me] Stop playing hard to get You know you’re gonna be in my bed, tonight [with me] You gonna, you gonna slide through I’m gonna, I’m gonna slide on you [I know you want me] Tonight, slide through it’s gotta be tonight (hooo) You care for me You’re surrounded by magic baby Your light just astounds me baby in intimate daze me crazy Just want to be so good for you, yeah Be good for you, yeah Good for you, oh (oooooh) Oh-oh uh oh uh oh-oh x3, yeah, hoy! ] (where’s the light? X 3) [where’s the light? x2...get to you, get to you girl x2..] I need you to slide through, (where’s the light? X 3) gonna make it right [I’m gonna slide on you] [On you] (where’s the light? X 3) I need you to you to slide through, gonna make it right [I’m gonna slide] (where’s the light? X 3) gotta be tonight [I’m gonna slide on you] (where’s the light? X 2) I need you to you to slide through, (where’s the light? X 3) gonna make it right I’ve been watching you [from across the room] You’ve been watching me [you’ve been watching me ] What we gonna do [what we gonna do] What’s it gonna be [you know it] What we gonna do, baby take a chance on me Pull up, pull, up, pull up, pull, up, pull up, pull (ooooooh) Slide on me I’m gonna slide on you Chance on me, chance on me
6.
Toma, toma, toma, toma, quitalo toma, la, la, la, la, la, la, la Everything that was something had a beginning and an end And somebody to call their friend It’s all on the good faces, it’s all on the good phrases It’s all on the good family, my family It’s all about the we, we, we Ay que, ay que la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la x 2 Un poco de sazón [un poco de sazón] un poco de ritmo [un poco de ritmo] un poco de prisa [un poco de prisa] un poco de sazón [un poco de sazón] Dame un poco mas [dame un poco mas] un poco de ritmo [un poco de ritmo] un poco poquito [un poco poquito] Poco de sazón [poco de sazón] Dame un poco poquito Un poco de sazón, Oyá [un Poco de sazón] Toma toma, dígame, eso dame ma ma-ma-mama mas Toma toma, dígame, pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-papi mas Un poco de sazón [ Un poco de sazón] un poco de ritmo [ un poco de ritmo] un poco de prisa [un poco de prisa] un poco de sazón [un poco de sazón] Dame un poco mas [dame un poco mas] un poco de ritmo [un poco de ritmo] un poco poquito [poco poquito] Un poco de sazón
7.
Tell you something you need to hear, this ain’t something you wanna hear Listen child, it’s time to say, you’ve been doing it the wrong way Listen, listen! You don’t know what you’ve done If you listen, you will find your way Listen! You don’t know what you done If you listen, you will find your way Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeeeeah Hey, yeah yeah, eyyeeah, eyyeeaah Tell you something, and this knowledge ain’t for free [Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, eyyeeaah] Teacher tell you what I’m gonna do for you Tell you, tell you something you need to hear this ain’t something you wanna hear Listen child, it’s time to say You’ve been doing it your own way Listen, listen! You don’t know what you’ve done If you listen, you will find your way, your way, your way Find your way, you will find your way
8.
Thoughts obsessively circling, know the rhythm’s right I draw once, I draw twice, I draw seven times Folding on cosmic lines Taking it all into, I’ll take it all into a place of wonder so that you can see where we began it [‘gan it] This could be your lifetime Everything that you’ve been waiting for Now you’ll see in your lifetime Today I fought a lion he was the big he was strong Thought he was supplying the fear in me I just drowned him in the hennessy, oohwee On the coast with orion, staying true with the crew Real with the zion, always on the come-up I got the mountain in me, I’ma come-up Could be in your lifetime, right where we began it Ooooooo, your lifetime
9.
I, eeee yeah, yeah Come to me, come to me, come to me, mamaya Come to me, come to me, come to me, mamaya may I Tell them so that we can rise up, I can be A tool if you let me, a mountain just vet me, Believe in me, I can see it all [eeeeeeee] I can stand strong for us all (I can take the weight, take the weight, take the weight, I was made for this) Ma-ma-ma-mamaya-ya-ya-ya (I can take the weight, take the weight, take the weight, I was made for this) (I can take the weight, take the weight, take the weight, I was made for this) Ma-ma-ma-mamaya-ya-ya-ya (I can take the weight, take the weight, take the weight, I was made for this) Take hold, call on, call on me Mamaya [la-la-la-li-li-di-di-di-dun-di-dun-di-dun-di di-di] [Ya, I was made for love, oooo] [Di-di-dun-di-dun-di-dun-di-dun-di] Fi-finish it all, finish it all [I was made for love] Tell me, tell us all [I was, made for this] (I can take the weight, take the weight, take the weight, I was made for this) I can’t stand it, and I can’t stand it, and can stand in if you let me (I can take the weight, take the weight, take the weight, I was made for this) Ma-ma-ma-mamaya-ya (I can take the weight, take the weight, take the weight, I was made for this) [Made it through the next day with you] Ma-ma-ma-mamaya-ya (I can take the weight, take the weight, take the weight, I was made for this) [you] Ma-ma-ma-mamaya-ya-ya [I was, made for this] (I can take the weight, take the weight, take the weight, I was made for this) Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-mamaya-ya (I can take the weight, take the weight, take the weight, I was made for this) Ma-ma-ma-mamaya-ya-ya-ya, ya-ya-ya
10.
This one will take you on a journey like nothing you’ve felt before This one will take you on a journey like nothing you’ve felt before All around (all around, all around) All around you (all around you) sent it all around you all around, all around) all around you (all around you) sent it all around This one will take you on a journey like nothing you’ve felt before This one will take you on a journey like nothing you’ve felt before This one, take you somewhere you’ve been before
11.
Metaphysical, (metaphysical) Metaphysical, (metaphysical) You know my place, hypothetical (hypothetical) You the the way, (you know the way) all tradition all direction and the union for this (all traditional, evolutional) You know it , you know it Ooooooo (who?)Ooooooo ( know it x 7, know it x7) Take it all over [you know my] Whose garden are you growing? [metaphysical, not traditional, unconditional, evolutional] Over and over [We were...young ones] [We were, we were, we were, we were ran over and we were all love] Ven, ven, ven, ven, ven Ven, ven, ven, ven aquí [take it all over] Shapes around, patterns and places bound Holding down you know you feel the ground [Quake--you know my] Quake under you, so you move And it breaks under you [you, under you] [run, run] part a thousand miles [part a thousand miles] Who can ignore [need to, need to, need to explore it] You came before it [who came before you?] [Who can? Who can?] Love [loooooove]
12.
Que toma asiento, toma que sigué La Doña Eh, eh! eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, Eeeeeh- Que canta señora, que canta La Doña [canta La Doña] Aquí vení- Aquí vení- aquí venían [Ba-ra, ba-ra, ba-ra, ba-ra, ba-ra, ba-ra, pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa] I came to [aquí venían] sing to you, [aquí venían] stories that we all knew once, we all grew once [we all grew once] Ancient pastime, [I would always be by your side] these were the fables that grew warriors I am warrior [I am warrior] Ooooooo [Ooooooo] [I am warrior] These once upon a times that grew warriors These are the labels that grew warriors [Eeee] I am warrior [Eeeeeee] [Yeeeeeaaaah, yeeeeaah] Warrior
13.
Alone Alone, onward holding in--[alone] --darkness to shine on ‘em Where could I see in and-- I’ll be around in a dark room around you [darkness surrounds you] Be, be, be, be [beeee] Be with me alone See, see, see, see [you know I like to be--] you know I like to be alone [all around you ] How does it feel to die? How does it feel to kill? All the colors you see ‘em, when they’re all around you When they’re all around you All the colors you’ll see ‘em All around you Call out, call out, call out, call out her name and shout it All around you
14.
[I was your eternal love] You know, you know, this was more than a crush for me This was more than a crush for me, for me Without the words, how could it be? Meee... This was more than a more, more than a crush for me Different than you, different, the same, different that you the same me [the same me] The same we, the same way we… This was more than a crush for me [this was more than a crush for me] Lover, lover, lover More than a crush… More than a crush for me You’re more than a crutch for me More than a lust, More than, more than... More than, more than... We were more, we were more We were more I was though [crush for me] I was-- I was your eternal Ari-ari-ari-arise [arise] I was your eternal [more than, more than] I was [more than a crush] Warriors, I walk beside you, you, you I walk beside you, you, you [more] We were more, we were more, we were more More than a crush for you
15.
Hey, eeyy, heeeeey Ey, yeah, yea, ah, yeah oh, yea, ye, ye, yeah, ye, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Running, racing through [alling in the place] [Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah] Raining on your window Falling on your pavement, [Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah] Falling in the placement of your-- [Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah] Oya, Oya Fa, la, la, la, la, la Fa, la, la, la, la, la Fa, la, la, la Fa, la, la, la, la Making my way, past the end, past the distance, past the goal, past the mold, past my own Pass the courvoisier, ah-huh, ah-huh Baby we came to play, ah-huh, ah-huh Pass the courvoisier, ah-huh, ah-huh Baby we came to play, ah-huh, ah-huh When I’m around the way, ah-huh, ah-huh Don’t be afraid to say hey, girl hey! Hey, I be over at Mike the Martyr Never sober but I’m harder I work you know? I go berserk and oh I be on the rih rise (rih rise) I’m going to the sky rise (sky rise) Left side, where you at? Fuck that I said right side, where you at? Fuck that I said left side, where you at? Fuck that I’m in the middle And you made that gap I’m walking through it like the red sea (red sea) Hey, eeyy, heeeeey Ey, yeah, yea, ah, yeah oh, yea, ye, ye, yeah, ye, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Raining on your window
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Ask me if I‘ll ever come again Ask me if we’re ever more than friends You’ve got needs and I’ve got reasons You’ve got needs and I’ve got reasons Ask me if I’ll ever leave again Ask me if we ever can pretend You’ve got needs and I’ve got reasons You’ve got needs and I’ve got reasons Ask me if I‘ll ever come again La, da, di, da, die [again] La, da, di, da, die [again] La, da, di, da, die [ah] How much time is left before it ends How much time is left before it ends Dawn approaching a new day begins Whose got needs when I’ve got reasons? Whose got needs when I’ve got reasons? Ask me if I‘ll ever come again La, da, di, da, die La, da, di, da, die Last call make me a believer [again] Last call make me a believer La, da, di, da, die [ask me] La, da, di, da, die [ask me] La, da, di, da, die To come again

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We dedicate this album to the CULTURE and the homies that hold us down in the darkest hours before dawn.

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released November 23, 2018

All lyrics written & performed by Lady Midnight
Additional lyrics written & performed by
Dem Atlas on "Slide"
Franz Diego on "No Words"
Sophia Eris on "Reminisce", "In Your Lifetime" & "Passing Through"
I-BE on "Return to Mamaya"
Additional vocals by DJ Keezy on "Reminisce"
All cuts & scratches by DJ Just Nine
Executive Produced by Mike The Martyr
Recorded at Lake Street Store Studios, Minneapolis
Mixed & mastered by Jess Listen at Co-Op Studio, Saint Paul
Photo by Teddy Grimes
Art & Design by Andres Guzman

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Lady Midnight is an experience. She is an ethereal vocalist and performance artist who draws upon her multidisciplinary background in visual art, dance and Afro-caribbean-indigenous roots to create work that timelessly reflects our collective lives.

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