Midnights (AFTG Version)
Because I am unwell, I bring you a comprehensive guide of all the lyrics on Midnights that make my chest hurt when I project them onto All for the Game characters. Please enjoy.
Under the cut because long
Lavender Haze:
Overall vibes- Andreil early on, when they’re just making out in secret. Could also be directly after the books.
Lyrics:
“Staring at the ceiling with you, oh you don’t ever say too much. And you don’t really read into my melancholia”
“I’ve been under scrutiny, you handle it beautifully, all this shit is new to me”
“I find it dizzying, they’re bringing up my history, but you weren’t even listening”
“I just wanna stay in this lavender haze”
Maroon:
Overall vibes: JereJean for the first verse. It gets sad, but we won’t mention that, unless you want to write that AU
Kevin/Jean for the second verse
Lyrics:
JereJean: “Laughing with your feet in my lap like you were my closest friend. How’d we end up on the floor anyway?”
“And I chose you the one I was dancing with”
“The burgundy on my tshirt when you splashed your wine into me and how the blood rushed into my cheeks so scarlet”
Kevin/Jean:
“When the silence came we were shaking, blind and hazy, how the hell did we lose sight of us again? Sobbing with your head in my hands, ain’t that the way, it always ends?”
“And I lost you, the one I was dancing with”
“And I wake with your memory over me, that’s a real fucking legacy to leave”
Anti Hero
Overall vibes: Genuinely most of the Foxes but I’m gonna split it up for more specific vibes
All foxes: “It’s me, hi, I’m the problem it’s me”
Kevin: “When my depression works the graveyard shift all of the people I’ve ghosted stand there in the room. I should not be left to my own devices they come with prices and vices I end up in crisis”
Neil: “I wake up screaming from dreaming one day I’ll watch as you’re leaving cause you got tired of my scheming for the last time”
“I stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror”
Jeremy: “Did you hear my covert narcissism I dress up as altruism”
Jean: “I wake up screaming from dreaming one day I’ll watch as you’re leaving and life will lose all it’s meaning”
Snow on the Beach
Overall vibes: Andreil and JereJean
Andrew: “and life is emotionally abusive and time can’t stop me quite like you did and my flight was awful thanks for asking I”m unglued, thanks to you”
“I can’t speak, afraid to jinx it, I don’t even dare to wish it”
Andreil: “And it’s like snow on the beach, weird but fucking beautiful...you wanting me, tonight feels impossible”
Jean: “And it’s fine to fake it til you make it til you do, til it’s true”
You’re on Your Own Kid
Overall vibes: Again, many of the Foxes, but I will focus on Kevin and Allison
“I gave my blood, sweat and tears for this”
“You’re on your own kid, you always have been”
Allison: “I hosted parties and starved my body, like I’d be saved by a perfect kiss”
Midnight Rain
Overall vibes: Kevin/Jean
“I guess, sometimes we all get just what we wanted...and he never thinks of me, except when I’m on TV”
“I guess sometimes we all get some kind of haunted...and I never think of him, except on midnights like this”
Question
Overall vibes: Renison, though I could not explain to you why. Like, I don’t have lyrics, but just listen to the song and you’ll get it
Vigilante Shit
Overall vibes: Once again, many of the Foxes, but I’ll split it up
Andrew: “You did some bad things, but I’m the worst of them”
“I don’t start shit, but I can tell you how it ends”
Neil: “She needed cold, hard proof so I gave her some.”
Fox Girls: “Ladies always rise above, ladies know what people want, someone sweet and kind and fun, the lady simply had enough”
Foxes: “They say looks can kill, and I might try”
Bejeweled
Overall vibes: The Fox Girls
Allison: “Best believe I’m still bejeweled, when I walk in the room, I can still make the whole place shimmer”
Renee: “Baby boy, I think I’ve been too good of a girl”
Dan: “Did all the extra credit and got graded on a curve”
Labyrinth
Overall vibes: Andrew catching feelings
“You know how scared I am of elevators, never trusted if it rises fast, it can’t last”
“Oh no, I’m falling in love”
“I thought the plane was going down, how’d you turn it right around?”
“You know how much I hate that everybody just expects me to bounce back”
Karma
Overall vibes: Kevin and Jean to Riko
Jean: “Karma is my boyfriend”
“Karma is the guy on the screen, coming straight home to me”
Both: “My pennies made your crown”
“Ask me why so many fade when I’m still here?”
Sweet Nothing
Overall vibes: Andreil. “And you always said you want nothing” anyone?
“Neil: They said the end is coming, everyone’s up to somethin’, I find myself running home to your sweet nothings”
Andrew: “All you ever wanted from me was sweet nothing”
Mastermind
Overall vibes: Andrew. “No, but I’ll still solve you” vibes
“and the touch of a hand lit the fuse, of a chain reaction of countermoves to assess the equation of you”
The Great War
Overall vibes: Andreil post-Baltimore
Andrew: “My knuckles were bruised like violets, sucker punching walls, cursed you as I sleep talked”
“You said I have to trust more freely, but diesel is desire, you were playing with fire, and maybe it’s the past that’s talkin’, screamin’ from a crypt”
“It turned into something bigger, somewhere in the haze got a sense I’d been betrayed”
“That was the night I nearly lost you”
“There’s no morning glory, it was war, it wasn’t fair”
Bigger than the Whole Sky
Overall vibes: Allison to Seth
“Your were more than just a short time”
Paris
Overall vibes: Andreil dodging the press
“Did you see the photos? No I didn’t but thanks though”
“No I didn’t see the news cause we were somewhere else”
“Romance is not dead, if you keep it just yours”
Glitch
Overall vibes: Andreil
“I think there’s been a glitch, five seconds later I’m fastening myself to you with a stitch”
“I was supposed to sweat you out”
High Infidelity
Overall vibes: Neil
“I didn’t know you were keeping count”- the countdown
“I bent the truth too far tonight, I was dancing around, dancing around it”
Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve
Overall vibes: Kevin to Riko (not shippy, to be clear. Just referencing a toxic relationship). Andrew to...life
Andrew: “And if I was a child did it matter, if you washed your hands?”
Kevin: “And now that I”m grown, I’m scared of ghosts, memories feel like weapons”
“But Lord you made me feel important, then you tried to erase us”
“God rest my soul, I miss who I used to be the tomb won’t close”
“I can’t let this go, I fight with you in my sleep, the wound won’t close, I keep on waiting for a sign. I regret you all the time”
“If clarity’s in death then why won’t this die?”
Dear Reader
Overall vibes: Neil, the unreliable narrator
“If it feels like a trap, you’re already in one”
“Get out your map, pick somewhere and just run”
“Burn all the files, desert all your past lives. And if you don’t recognize yourself, that means you did it right”
“Never take advice from someone who’s falling apart”
“The greatest of luxuries is your secrets”
“When you aim at the devil, make sure you don’t miss”
“I prefer hiding in plain sight”
“You wouldn’t take my word for it if you knew who was talking”
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