Story Behind The Song

Inspired on a moonlit night on the shores of Lake Erie, Canada. Totally fictional storyline.

Song Description

A fictional story told by a woman who seems to no longer have the ability to return her love to her lover. Setting is a warm and romantic moonlit beach at midnight, using soft latin rhythm.

Lyrics

MIDNIGHT MIRAGE
July 2002, Maggie Vida
Intro:

Verse 1 The full moon lingered watching?? the bright stars? rhythmic dancing?

A veiled mist was distorting? my dreaming of you?.

With emotions brimmed with yearning ??.. the warm tide?s gentle tugging?

The soft wind?s distant calling? had left me unglued?.. (to refrain)

REFRAIN: Midnight mirage, so visibly real ? crept into my heart to silently steal

The love I was hiding?. the love I was saving

The love I was hoping?? to give back to you

Verse 2

Both frozen and breathless? enthralled by control?

Both speechless and helpless?. it peered through my soul? (INTERLUDE)?..

From the whisp?ring horizon?. To the shoreline?s strange vibrations?.

So compelling this sensation?. it beckoned me home?? (to ref.)

Verse 3: interlude?.

It returned? as it entered??. an elusive-type fade?..

With the loud waves? sudden calming?. the winds gently played?. (to ref. 2)

REFRAIN 2: Midnight mirage, so visibly real? crept into my heart to silently steal

The love I was hiding, the love I was saving, the love I was hoping ?..

to give back to you?.. (to Bridge)

Bridge: The sands? impassioned swirling?. a voice so alluring?? (to final refrain)

Final Refrain: Midnight mirage, so visibly real?crept into my heart to silently steal

The love I was hiding? the love I was saving?

The love I was hoping?. To give back to you?.

Midnight mirage?.(enchanting?) ? midnight mirage? (so captivating)?

Midnight mirage?. (intoxicating)?.