Shortly After Midnight - Trev and the Collective Unconscious

There are two versions of Shortly After Midnight on the album - this is the earliest version recorded in Middlesbrough 1985 on a Fostex X15. The later version 1986 is more developed but i like Steve Gillgallon's Synth playing on this. Steve played bass and lead guitar and this was his first use of my new Yamaha synth.

 Shortly After Midnight final version 1986 

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SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT

by Trev Teasdel

Quiet in the town

Darkness creeps around

Silence is a menace

Sleep cannot be found.

Tension in the town

Your heart begins to pound

Feet begin to itch

Toss and turn around

Feel you wanna cry

Burning of the eye

Explosion of the soul

Helplessly you lie

Feel the tension rise

Fear is in your eyes

Seems you want to scream

Then the feeling dies

Chorus

Shortly after midnight, shortly after midnight

Shortly after midnight, shortly after midnight

Stranger in the cold light, standing in the moonlight

There a knocking at the door

A feeling not quite right

That robbed the purse of hope

And left you naked in the night

It crept upon you unawares

Teased and tore you like a cat

‘Til you screamed out inside

“What the hell is that!”

(Chorus)

Shortly after midnight, shortly after midnight

Shortly after midnight, shortly after midnight

Stranger in the cold light, standing in the moonlight

(Bridge)

Emptiness was floodlit by the moon

As it crept through window into the room

Hand in hand with the darkness in the soul

Ushered in by the sound of a silent drum roll – oll etc.

Quiet in the town

Not a single sound

Moon turned out its light

In the darkest deep of night

The wind it made no sound

Sleep could not be found

Darkness did surround

Midnight in the town

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This lyric began in Coventry 1979 while working at JJ Cash Ltd. The early verses began then and the song was finished off in Middlesbrough 1985. I wrote it on guitar but we recorded it with synths and keyboards. The first version featured a blistering synth solo by Steve Gillgallon. We recorded it on an Fostex X15 portastudio in 1986 and remixed at Studio 64 Middlesbrough for inclusion on a Cassette compilation album.



Trev Teasdel - Guitar, vocals, writer.
Steve Gillgallon - bass guitar, synth, keyboards, arrangement.
Steve Ingledew - keyboards, drum machine.