Deeper meaning, or just deeper bulls***?

     In class today (YAY Friday!) we listened to this song for the purpose of analyzing (duh). The song was Sometime Around Midnight by Airborne Toxic Event, some indie rock band I've never heard of before. We discussed "analyzing with the grain" and the explicit message of the song, basically your average 'boo hoo girl done left Imma get drunk and stare at her creepily at a bar' song. One of the 'implicit meaning' possibilities was that the girl he's broken up over is dead (maybe because he's a stalker who took it a little too far??) and he's seeing her ghost. I think there's at least one more possibility, though. Here are the lyrics for a guide:

And it starts, sometime around midnight.
Or at least that’s when you lose yourself
for a minute or two.
As you stand, under the bar lights.
And the band plays some song
about forgetting yourself for a while.
And the piano’s this melancholy soundtrack to her smile.
And that white dress she’s wearing
you haven’t seen her for a while. 

But you know, that she’s watching.
She’s laughing, she’s turning.
She’s holding her tonic like a cross.
The room’s suddenly spinning.
She walks up and asks how you are.
So you can smell her perfume.
You can see her lying naked in your arms. 

And so there’s a change, in your emotions.
And all these memories come rushing
like feral waves to your mind.
Of the curl of your bodies,
like two perfect circles entwined.
And you feel hopeless and homeless
and lost in the haze of the wine. 

Then she leaves, with someone you don’t know.
But she makes sure you saw her.
She looks right at you and bolts.
As she walks out the door,
your blood boiling
your stomach in ropes.
Oh and when your friends say,
“What is it? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.” 

Then you walk, under the streetlights.
And you’re too drunk to notice,
that everyone is staring at you.
You just don’t care what you look like,
the world is falling around you. 

You just have to see her.
You just have to see her.
You just have to see her.
You just have to see her.
You just have to see her.
You know that she’ll break you in two.

     Alright, first of all, just because a song is sung by a man doesn't mean the protagonist is male, he never says 'I', always 'you'. I think the 'you' he sings about is a woman he knows, probably loves, who is an alcoholic. She tries to quit, and succeeds for a little while, but sometime around midnight, when the day is completely gone, she can't help herself. The woman she sees throughout the song is her addiction, alcohol, calling to her. Addiction smiles, the music calls to her (certain kinds of music are complements to alcohol), she wears a white dress for innocence, for 'just one drink, it'll be alright, it'll be like old times'. Addiction lures her in after her triumph over it for so long. The verse is full of longing, of the hunger she feels, the withdrawal she's dealing with every second, the temptation to give in just once.

     In the next verse you can feel the dizziness taking over her as she slowly gives up. The addiction mocks her because it has won. The smell of alcohol fills the entire room and she starts to lose her bearings. He sings that she sees it naked in her arms, leading into the next verse where the alcohol completely takes over her body and mind, SHE is the naked one, helpless and lost, no physical home left to her soul. The alcohol takes her body to go with a strange man, she watches herself move as if from across the room, the addiction has ultimately won. Her friends notice the change in her as she leaves but don't try to stop her.

     She seems to regain her sense of body in the last full verse, but she is so full of the drink she doesn't care anymore, she feels like she's in control of her body even though she senses her world is falling apart.
He sings the next line five times, emphasizing the NEED that addicts feel, to just have a taste of their medicine, they can't back away from their masters even though they are conscious of the fact it will ultimately destroy them.
   
     Anyway, that was my take on it, if we're looking for things not explicit. It makes sense to me that that's what he means by the song. I could go line by line on it but I think this is close enough, you get the point. What do you think?