Synthetic

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[[File:Synthetic remixes - single.jpg|thumb|Synthetic remixes single cover]]
'''Synthetic'''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=August 5, 2016 |title=Synthetic {{!}} The Midnight |url=https://themidnight.bandcamp.com/track/synthetic |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408214311/https://themidnight.bandcamp.com/track/synthetic |archive-date=April 8, 2022 |access-date=April 8, 2022 |website=Bandcamp}}</ref> is a song by [[The Midnight]]. It is the fifth track from their album [[Endless Summer]]. On December 18, 2017, Monstercat Silk released a remix single of Synthetic containing five remixed versions of the song.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 18, 2017 |title=Synthetic (Mango, We Are All Astronauts, Lost Empire Remixes) {{!}} The Midnight |url=https://themidnight.bandcamp.com/album/synthetic-mango-we-are-all-astronauts-lost-empire-remixes |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408214037/https://themidnight.bandcamp.com/album/synthetic-mango-we-are-all-astronauts-lost-empire-remixes |archive-date=April 8, 2022 |access-date=April 8, 2022 |website=Bandcamp}}</ref>

== Track info ==
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The song was written by band members [[Tim McEwan]] and [[Tyler Lyle]] and produced by McEwan. It has a running time of three minutes and nineteen seconds and is in the key of [[wikipedia:E-flat major|E-flat major]]. Synthetic is one of only two The Midnight songs with McEwan being the main vocalist, the other one being [[Comet]].

== Track listing ==
{{Track listing
| all_writing = [[Tim McEwan]] and [[Tyler Lyle]]
| headline = Synthetic (Mango, We Are All Astronauts, Lost Empire Remixes)
| title1 = Synthetic (We Are All Astronauts & Lost Empire Remix)
| length1 = 7:19
| title2 = Synthetic (Mango vs. We Are All Astronauts Vocal Remix)
| length2 = 7:40
| title3 = Synthetic (We Are All Astronauts 'Post-Rock' Vocal Remix)
| length3 = 6:00
| title4 = Synthetic (Mango vs. We Are All Astronauts Dub Remix)
| length4 = 7:40
| title5 = Synthetic (We Are All Astronauts 'Post-Rock' Instrumental Remix)
| length5 = 6:00
| total_length = 34:39
}}

== Lyrics ==

<blockquote>
<poem>
Been trying to move on
Been black and blue
Trying to turn the old
Into something new
You found somebody
I found someone too
She got everything I need
Yeah but she's not you

I locked my love into the ground
Hoped it never could be found
Body slowly shutting down
And now I am...

I'm still alive but I can't feel
I got stuff inside but it's not real
They say I'm fine but I feel synthetic
Nothing human left in me
I'm just a machine full of moving parts
I got emptiness where I used to have a heart
I'm still breathing but I'm synthetic
Nothing human left in me
Nothing human about me

No emotion
Just autotune
Left who I was back there with you
Maybe I died
And I kept movin'
In a body made from plastic and glue

I locked my love into the ground
Hoped it never could be found
Body slowly shutting down
And now I am...

I'm still alive but I can't feel
I got stuff inside but it's not real
They say I'm fine but I feel synthetic
Nothing human left in me
I'm just a machine full of moving parts
I got emptiness where I used to have a heart
I'm still breathing but I'm synthetic
Nothing human left in me
Nothing human about me
</poem>
</blockquote>
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== After The Midnight ==
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The song was covered in episode 12 of the After The Midnight podcast, released in july 2021.

== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Endless Summer]]
<noinclude>
[[Category:Songs]]‎</noinclude>
[[Category:Remixes]]
[[Category:Singles]]
{{#related:Comet}}
{{#related:Tim McEwan}}

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