Inicialmente, a banda ganhou popularidade na Europa tocando em festivais como Les Inrockuptibles, Wintercase, e South by Southwest.
Formada em 1999 por um grupo de estudantes de jazz da University of North Texas, a formação original inclui Tim Smith (vocal, guitarra, teclado), McKenzie Smith (bateria), Paul Alexander (baixo), Eric Nichelson (guitarra), and Evan Jacobs (teclado).
O primeiro projeto do Midlake - com o nome de The Cornbread All-Stars — consistia nos gêneros funk/jazz fortemente influenciado por Herbie Hancock
Quatro anos de trabalho duro!Neste mês de maio fizemos quatro anos no ar. Continuamos trabalhando na divulgação deste maravilhoso instrumento, obrigado por participar da nossa história!
Verse: note, in the first 16 bars or so the guitar sounds to me like it is sliding up and down inversions of the chords, so if you want, do that, for simplicity i am just listing the chords used, not specific inversions or shapes.
Tried to make this intuitive, the #1's represent the first beat of each bar lined up with the according lyric w/ the chords above.
GaugGaugGaugGaug 1 1 (&) (&) 1 1 Well he siings when he moops seems to heeeeeeeeelp him a lot, (would you caaaaaaare for a driink? This is buuuusiness said she)
GaugGaugGaugGaug 1 1 (&) 1 1 Where theres uuuuuuuuuneven staaaaairs Mr. Landloooooooord is there (Tell me whhhheeere are the veeeents for theeeese aaappaarrt-ments)
BmajBmajBmajBmaj 1 1 & 1 & (2) 1 (&) Well he mooooooops all daaaaaaay he cant get awaaaaaay too (so they gooooooooo up-staaaaaairs to iiinspect air)
EminEmin 1 long
BmajBmajBmajBmaj 1 1 & 1 & 2 1 & And wheeeeeeeen he's through theres windows toooooo- (Aiiiiiirrr is good its reallyy good uuupp-)
Chorus: EmajEmajEmajEmaj 1 -ooooo (there)
DmajDmajEmajEmaj 1 1 1 Theeen Nellie cooomes tooo see him (Shees glad that heee caarres so much)
DmajDmajEmajEmaj 1 1 1 with a straight face she comes to see him (A-bout the safety of electrical ouuuttllets)
CmajCmajGmajGmaj 1 1 1 & taking her favoooorriittte pen from heeerr poocket
FmajFmajEmajEmaj 1 & & 1 1 She writes it doooown the things that she's found
CmajCmajEmajEmaj 1 1 1 & he always soooooometimes geettts a little nervous cause he'd (she) (she'd)
CmajCmaj 1 1 like for heeeeer tooo staaaay
EmajEmajDmajDmaj 1 for a daaaaaaayyyy---
CmajCmajEmajEmaj
DmajDmajCmajCmaj
EmajEmaj
*Repeat with parenthesis as second set of lyrics, hopefully the rhythm of the melody is close, always go with what you hear if you think what i have done is odd, but let me know if anything is blatantly wrong. Real good, Midlake real good listen time good.