Reworking the song as an idyll to fit The Midnight felt like a way to honor the strangeness and vibrancy of a Brooklyn that seemed to disappear. I felt like I was seeing the ghost of an old friend. There was more graffiti, and trash piled on the street like I’d never seen it before. I went back to visit New York for the first time during a lull in COVID waves to see my old neighborhood.
The song became a Midnight song in 2021- two years after I left Brooklyn for Atlanta. My wife and I also grew up- we had a baby and shortly thereafter we decided to end our five year relationship with Brooklyn. Greene, the rents went up, the neighbors were no longer starving artist types. Anyway, the place changed.Īpple and Whole Foods soon arrived in Williamsburg and Ft. When I die I want to go to Skinny Dennis and hear Zydeco or some Bushwick loft party Modular Synth set. It struck me as a kind of weirdo heaven for a kid who grew up in the Bible Belt. There was a refreshingly weird creative energy that permeated gentrifying Brooklyn that I’d never felt before. My wife was working long hours at a corporate job in Midtown and usually wasn’t home before 8, so I would walk, well, I would walk and drink Happy Hour bourbon and cokes at Skinny Dennis, and I would look for books at Spoonbill & Sugartown, and vinyl at Rough Trade. On days when I couldn’t stand staring at my computer screen anymore- usually around 4:00, I would get on a Citibike and ride up Flushing Avenue around the Navy Yard to Williamsburg. in 2016 as a surf rock song while I was living in Ft. Want To Know The Story Behind More Lyrics? Check Out What Emma Hewitt Had To Say This single anecdotal quote was pulled from our chat with Tyler. It puts things into perspective and makes you wonder about the hundreds of narratives in every passing person you see.
I’ll sing my borrowed song on your borrowed guitar It was Brooklyn They come from Mississippi and La La Land New wave hippies and the pop goth glam It’s just ‘cause parents don’t understand It was Brooklyn
Oh, it’s just Brooklyn on a Friday Verse 2: Love.” Lyrics By The Midnight Verse 1:Īnd a gutter punk kid with a neck tattoo Hooking up at the unisex bathroomĪnd in the corner were the terrified tourists Brooklyn.
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