GIMME! GIMME! GIMME! (A Man After Midnight) – English Lyrics

• By: Cher

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

(Half past twelve) and I'm watching the late show

In my flat, all alone

How I hate to spend the evening on my own

(Autumn winds) blowing outside the window

As I look around the room

And it makes me so depressed to see the gloom

There's not a soul out there

No one to hear my prayer

Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight

Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away

Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight

Take me through the darkness to the break of the day

...

(Movie stars) find the end of the rainbow

With a fortune to win, it's so different from the world I'm living in

(Tired of TV) I open the window and I gaze into the night

But there's nothing there to see, no one in sight

There's not a soul out there

No one to hear my prayer

Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight

Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away

Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight

Take me through the darkness to the break of the day

Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight

Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight

Midnight, midnight

Midnight, midnight (gimme, gimme, gimme)

Midnight, midnight

Midnight, midnight (gimme, gimme, gimme)

Midnight, midnight

Midnight, midnight (gimme, gimme, gimme)

Midnight, midnight

Midnight, midnight

There's not a soul out there

No one to hear my prayer

Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight

Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away

Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight

Take me through the darkness to the break of the day

Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight

Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away

Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight

Take me through the darkness to the break of the day

Midnight, midnight

Midnight, midnight

Midnight, midnight

Midnight, midnight

Midnight, midnight

Midnight, midnight

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
midnight /ˈmɪdnaɪt/ A1	noun - twelve o'clock at night
gimme /ˈɡɪmi/ A1	verb - to hand over or transfer something to someone
man /mæn/ A1	noun - an adult male human
shadows /ˈʃædoʊz/ A2	noun - dark area or shape produced by an object blocking light
darkness /ˈdɑːrknəs/ A2	noun - absence of light
chase /tʃeɪs/ A2	verb - to pursue in order to catch or catch up with
watching /ˈwɑːtʃɪŋ/ A1	verb - looking at something for a period of time
depressed /dɪˈprest/ B1	adjective - in a state of general unhappiness or despondency
gloom /ɡluːm/ B2	noun - partial or total darkness
soul /soʊl/ B1	noun - the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being
prayer /prer/ B1	noun - a solemn request for help or expression of thanks addressed to God
alone /əˈloʊn/ A1	adjective - having no one else present
different /ˈdɪfərənt/ A1	adjective - not the same as another or each other
tired /ˈtaɪərd/ A1	adjective - in need of rest or sleep
gaze /ɡeɪz/ B2	verb - to look steadily and intently
blowing /ˈbloʊɪŋ/ A2	verb - moving air creating a current of wind
fortune /ˈfɔːrtʃuːn/ B2	noun - chance or luck as an arbitrary force affecting human affairs
rainbow /ˈreɪnboʊ/ A2	noun - an arch of colors visible in the sky after rain

Key Grammar Structures

• How I hate to spend the evening on my own

  ➔ Verb + Infinitive (expressing emotion/preference)

  ➔ Verbs like 'hate', 'love', 'like', 'prefer' can be followed by an infinitive (like "to spend") to express a general feeling or preference about an action.

• As I look around the room

  ➔ Conjunction 'As' (simultaneous action)

  ➔ The conjunction "as" is used here to indicate that two actions are happening at the same time: 'I look around the room' and 'Autumn winds blowing outside'.

• And it makes me so depressed to see the gloom

  ➔ Causative 'make' + Object + Adjective + Infinitive

  ➔ The structure "it makes me so depressed to see" describes what causes someone to feel a certain way. Here, 'to see the gloom' is the cause of feeling 'depressed'.

• No one to hear my prayer

  ➔ Infinitive of purpose/description after an indefinite pronoun

  ➔ An infinitive (like "to hear") can follow an indefinite pronoun (like 'no one') to specify its purpose or what can be done with it.

• Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away

  ➔ Causative 'help' + Bare Infinitive

  ➔ The verb 'help' can be followed by an object and a bare infinitive (like "chase") or a full infinitive (with 'to') to indicate assistance in an action. 'Help me chase' means 'help me to chase'.

• Take me through the darkness to the break of the day

  ➔ Prepositional phrases of movement and time

  ➔ Prepositional phrases like "through the darkness" (indicating movement/path) and "to the break of the day" (indicating destination/time) are used to provide specific details about an action.

• it's so different from the world I'm living in

  ➔ Relative clause (implied relative pronoun)

  ➔ This is a defining relative clause where the relative pronoun (e.g., 'that' or 'which') is omitted because it acts as the object of the preposition 'in'. The full form would be 'the world *that/which* I'm living in'.

• Tired of TV

  ➔ Adjective + Preposition (Fixed expression)

  ➔ Many adjectives are followed by specific prepositions to form common fixed expressions. "Tired of" means bored with or fed up with something.

• But there's nothing there to see

  ➔ Existential 'there' + Indefinite pronoun + Infinitive

  ➔ The structure 'there is/are + indefinite pronoun + infinitive' (like "nothing there to see") is used to indicate the existence or availability of something, or lack thereof, for a particular action.

• How I hate to spend the evening on my own

  ➔ Idiomatic expression 'on my own'

  ➔ The idiom "on my own" means by myself, alone, or without help from others.