Race To A Red Light

from Midnight Sun EP by Dante Matas

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It’s a race to a red light and we jumped the starting gun
I get ahead of myself, you break into a run
It’s a song for the midnight and we’re singing to the sun
But the favour of dawn, so it seems, like a race to a red light, can’t be won

Is it all that we know? Or all that we choose to understand
Holding us back from the things we want?
Is it going to last? Do you think that it’s moving way too fast?
‘Cause I feel as if I have grown numb

It’s a race to a red light and we jumped the starting gun
I get ahead of myself, you break into a run
It’s a road so infinite and we’ve only just begun
Maybe we’re fooling ourselves, like a race to a red light,
It’s never done

We carried on through the night
Under makeshift candlelight that spread like the stars in a lesser way
You looked at me, told me of all that we could be
Once we see the winning side no one does
But we’ll never cross that finish line because

It’s a race to a red light and we jumped the starting gun
I get ahead of myself, you break into a run
It’s a song for the midnight and we’re singing to the sun
But the favour of dawn, so it seems, like a race to a red light,
Can’t be won
Like a road so infinite it’s never done
It’s a race to a red light

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from Midnight Sun EP, released June 2, 2017

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Dante Matas Toronto, Ontario

Dante Matas is a singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from Toronto. He began by writing music at a young age before forming his first band at Etobicoke School of the Arts where he majored in visual art. In university, Dante studied philosophy and completed an MA in the field. Today, Dante combines his wide-ranging interests to make what could only be called cosmic folk pop. ... more

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