Land Locked Heart

"Land Locked Heart"
Single by The Midnight
from the album Road 96: Mile 0 (Video Game Soundtrack)
Released	February 23, 2023 (2023-02-23)
Length	3:23
Label	The Midnight Music
Songwriter(s)	Tim McEwan Tyler Lyle Royce Whittaker
Producer(s)	Tim McEwan
The Midnight singles chronology
Heart Worth Breaking (2022) Land Locked Heart (2023) Chariot (2024)

Land Locked Heart is song by The Midnight. It was released on February 23, 2023, as a single from the video game soundtrack Road 96: Mile 0.

The song was written by band members Tim McEwan and Tyler Lyle along with Royce Whittaker and produced by McEwan. It has a running time of three minutes and 23 seconds and is in the key of G minor. The electric guitar on Land Locked Heart was performed by Whittaker.

Lyrics

Maybe I left here a long time ago
And neither of us knew it

Would they say I've lost the plot
Would you say I blew it

Thought I found a way back home
And now I'm looking through it

After all this time spent gone
I think I just outgrew it

Empty out my bedroom
Throw all that stuff away
All I'm taking with me now is a blank slate
'Cause these days are too short
To live a whole life through
In this land-locked,
In this land-locked heart with you

Maybe I left here a long time ago
And maybe we both knew it

Maybe this could've been heaven
But the weeds just grew right through it

So what is left of paradise
Out beyond it's edges

Empty lights, sunset skies
Over the empty hedges

Were we supposed to waste away

Empty out my bedroom
Throw all that stuff away
All I'm taking with me now is a blank slate
'Cause these days are too short
To live a whole life through
In this land-locked,
In this land-locked heart with you

Lyrics source

Official versions

Land Locked Heart (from Road 96: Mile 0)