Friction

"Friction"
Song by The Midnight
from the album Syndicate
Released	October 3, 2025 (2025-10-03)
Length	3:56
Label	Ultra
Songwriter(s)	Tim McEwan Tyler Lyle Lelia Broussard Royce Whittaker Daniel Nakamura
Producer(s)	Tim McEwan NEST Acoustics
Syndicate track listing
Syndicate "Syndicate (Intro)" "Shadowverse" "Runaways" "Friction" "The Right Way" "Afterglow pt. 1" "Digital Dreams" "Sentinels" "Chariot" "First Night in Paris" "Afterglow pt. 2" "Fatal Obsession" "Quiet Earth" "Long Island" "Love is an Ocean" "Sanctuary" "Summer's Ending Soon"

Friction is a song by The Midnight. It is the fourth track from their album Syndicate.

The song was written by band members Tyler Lyle and Tim McEwan alongside Lelia Broussard, Royce Whittaker, and Daniel Nakamura. It was produced by McEwan and NEST Acoustics. It has a running time of three minutes and 56 seconds.

Lyrics

When the sun is going down
Sinking to the ground
Don't you get that feeling?
Yeah

Like you gotta get away
Cause baby if we stay
We might stop believing
Yeah

Baby we've been living like there's nothing to find
But maybe we can take it to the end of the line and see
So if I get a ticket would you take it to ride
We’ll hit the city limits and we’ll leave it behind be free
Looking for that feeling

You wanna run away
Before the summer fades
You know it's not too late
California dreaming looking for that feeling
The city skin
It fits too tight
In the late hot summer sweat
The kids come looking for a fight

And everywhere
The sirens call
And the gods that built these walls
Are taking bets to watch you fall

But in the underground
There are no names
Just a kick drum heartbeat
Pounding insane
On stranger’s lips and in our veins
We grind out the freedom with our chains
It’s the friction

Come closer to me
Can I breathe you I need to
Come closer to me
Do you know what you do?
It’s the friction
Come closer to me
Can I breathe you I need to
Come closer to me
Do you know what you do?
It’s the friction

The static sparks
Across the wires
And the wind blows in from elsewhere
Catching embers of desire

But the flames
Are in our hearts
And the longing floods the circuit
We peel our masks off in the dark

But in the underground
There are no names
Just a kick drum heartbeat
Pounding insane
On stranger’s lips and in our veins
We grind out the freedom with our chains
It’s the friction

Come closer to me
Can I breathe you I need to
Come closer to me
Do you know what you do?
It’s the friction
Come closer to me
Can I breathe you I need to
Come closer to me
Do you know what you do?
It’s the friction

Come closer to me
Can I breathe you I need to
Come closer to me
Do you know what you do?
It’s the friction
Come closer to me
Can I breathe you I need to
Come closer to me
Do you know what you do?
It’s the friction

It’s the friction

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