The “Midnight Sky” is the road Miley Cyrus is taking, as inspired by Stevie Nicks’ “Edge of Seventeen,” for the lead single from her seventh album Plastic Hearts, which crowned Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart this week (dated Dec. 12).
In an interview on SiriusXM’s “The Morning Mash-Up” this summer, Cyrus explained the lyric “forever and ever, no more.” “I think it’s my relationship with the stigma,” she explained, noting that if your “forever” doesn’t work out then some people consider you a failure.
“And I just don’t think that. I think we’re kind of set up for devastation — in that, from the time we’re little kids, we’re taught to claim other humans as our best friends forever. And you just don’t know who you’re going to be sitting with here right now,” she continued. “You never know who you’re going to evolve to be and who they’re going to evolve to be. So I think that we, especially as women in relationships, a lot of the time we can get villainized when ‘forever’ doesn’t happen.”
Check out the lyrics and music video below.
La-la, la-la, la
Yeah, it’s been a long night and the mirror’s tellin’ me to go home (home)
But it’s been a long time since I felt this good on my own
Uh, lotta years went by with my hands tied up in your ropes
Forever and ever, no more
The midnight sky is the road I’m takin’
Head high up in the clouds
Oh
I was born to run, I don’t belong to anyone, oh no
I don’t need to be loved by you (by you)
Fire in my lungs, can’t bite the devil on my tongue, oh no
I don’t need to be loved by you
See my lips on her mouth, everybody’s talking now, baby
Ooh, you know it’s true, yeah
That I was born to run, I don’t belong to anyone, oh no
I don’t need to be loved by you (loved by you)
La-la, la-la, la
She got her hair pulled back ’cause the sweat’s drippin’ off of her face (her face)
Said it ain’t so bad if I wanna make a couple mistakes
You should know right now that I never stay put in one place
Forever and ever, no more (no more)
The midnight sky is the road I’m takin’
Head high up in the clouds
Oh
I was born to run, I don’t belong to anyone, oh no
I don’t need to be loved by you (by you)
Fire in my lungs, can’t bite the devil on my tongue, oh no
I don’t need to be loved by you
See my lips on her mouth, everybody’s talking now, baby
Ooh, you know it’s true, yeah
That I was born to run, I don’t belong to anyone, oh no
I don’t need to be loved by you (by you)
Oh
I don’t hide blurry eyes like you
Like you
I was born to run, I don’t belong to anyone, oh no
I don’t need to be loved by you (by you)
Fire in my lungs, can’t bite the devil on my tongue, you know
I don’t need to be loved by you
See his hands on my waist, thought you’d never be replaced, baby
Ooh, you know it’s true, yeah
That I was born to run, I don’t belong to anyone, oh no
I don’t need to be loved by you, yeah
La-la, la-la, la
La-la
You know it’s true
You know it’s true
(Loved by you)
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Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: Miley Cyrus, Jon Bellion, Alexandra Leah Tamposi, Louis Russell Bell, Andrew Wotman, Ilsey Juber
