A midnight dreary

"A midnight dreary" is a song by LorD and Master from the album, Definitely. It's about a lonely, strange man living in a manor house high above a village. Nobody understands him or why he's so sad, but he stares into a fire, wishing he could make them understand him. Loosely inspired by The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, this song runs the raven's word "nevermore" through a vocoder, in an echo of the Shakespeare-through-a-vocoder fun of "Cold sweat".

Lyrics

Once upon a midnight dreary
I stumbled on the soundest theory
I gazed into the open fire
And wondered why 

I posed my thoughts as a query
Once upon a midnight dreary
I gazed into the open fire
For quite some time

Why do they fear me?
Why don’t they hear me?
I can see it all so clearly
On a midnight dreary 

Sometimes my shadow moves without me
No one knows a thing about me
The flickering of the open fire
Dances on the wall

Once upon a midnight dreary
I found myself with no one near me
I gazed into the open fire
And cursed them all 

Nevermore
Nevermore
Nevermore
Nevermore

Versions

"A midnight dreary" artwork.

• Appears on Definitely.
• Appears on A midnight dreary maxi-single (q.v.).
• Hallowe'en edit appears on SoundCloud as a free download for Hallowe'en 2017.
• LorD and Master extended mix appears on A midnight dreary maxi-single .
• LorD and Master remix appears on A midnight dreary maxi-single .
• dEk101 remix appears on A midnight dreary maxi-single .
• E39 remix appears on A midnight dreary maxi-single .

maxi-single release

1. "A midnight dreary' - 4.20
2. "Any other day" - 4.07
3. "A midnight dreary" (LorD and Master extended mix) - 7.15
4. "A midnight dreary" (LorD and Master remix) - 5.57
5. "A midnight dreary" (dEk101 remix) - 4.05
6. "Long time dead" (LorD and Master extended mix) - 8.20
7. "A midnight dreary" (E39 future pop mix) - 4.58
8. "Three little words" (E39 amped up pass) - 4.47

Release date: 3 March 2018.

Personnel

• Written, produced and performed by Daniel Bailey-Graham.
• Additional production and remixes on tracks 3 and 4 by Daniel Bailey-Graham for LorD and Master.
• Additional production and remix on track 5 by Derrick Ryder for dEk101.
• Additional production and remix on tracks 7 and 8 by Peter Tanico for E39.