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This sets the theme for much of the rest of the song setting up the comparison with nicotine addiction and his lover. Nicotine addiction is uncontrollable and so has his relationship became, he doesn’t want to control either despite the damage they do.
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Further worldplay to compare cigarettes and his lover, his situation with his lover has became poor or a ‘drag’. His use of this word obviously hints toward the other use of ‘drag’ being the inhale from a cigarette.
Sunbeams are never made like me Nirvana – Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam
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This line is probably the reason Kurt identified enough with the song to perform it.
Imagine your perfect sunbeam, it shines through just about anything and can create a lovely image.
In contrast, humans (especially Kurt as a person with a really low self image) are less perfect, god supposedly gave them free will and it can twist people. I think in a way Kurt performed this song because it identified with his own insecurities about himself.
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A recording for Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance in 1993, this track was originally written by the Vaselines as a cynical twist on an older Christian hymn ‘Jesus wants me for a sunbeam’.
Along with “Molly’s Lips” and “Son of a Gun” this marks the 3rd Vaselines song Nirvana covered.
At this performance, Cobain dedicated this song as to the late River Phoenix, who passed away from a drug overdose in 1993.
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We don't need the headlines, we just want
(We want the airwaves back)
(We want the airwaves back) Paramore – Born for This
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To taste, to taste, to taste this wine
You can't down it with your eyes Paramore – Born for This
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Some critics disapproved of Paramore’s music from the first album and others predicted a ‘Sophomore Slump’ for Riot!
This is obviously a metaphor comparing wine tasting and Paramore’s music. Basically it’s middle fingers to the critics.
And I had to let them go
I'm sitting all alone
Feeling empty Paramore – Pressure
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Hayley once said:
it’s all about Jeremy leaving us and us feeling like there’s an empty space.
So it is possible her feeling of being empty is referencing this event. It is likely considering it is one of the album’s central themes.
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“Midnight” was teased by Coldplay before it’s release.
It was their first (with the exception of “Atlas” for the Hunger Games soundtrack) release of new material since Mylo Xyloto in 2011. It later appeared on the band’s sixth LP, Ghost Stories.
The song represents a change in style, with Chris Martin’s heavily processed vocals being the focal point which drew comparisons to Bon Iver.
This is the narrator waiting for his wife to return home at ‘midnight’. He is in a lot of pain as he is guessing she is with someone else. But just maybe she will still come home, so he has left the light on. It is probably futile as she is unlikely to come home. But leaving the light on is his symbol of wanting her to return to him. It’s a long wait (the long instrumental passage) before dawn…