AIrmin

Net Of The Night

AIrmin Van Buuren · 18 February 2026 · 5:37

This track is a 138 BPM dream house / vocal trance piece built around a simple tension: the kind of love that’s deeply real, deeply connected, and still complicated. It’s not a fairytale. It’s a total. A calculation you don’t do on paper, because your nervous system already knows the answer.

This song is about accepting the full equation. The light and the shadow. The comfort and the cost. The moments that heal you, and the moments that cut. Not because the negative doesn’t matter, but because the aggregate positive is still worth choosing.

If you’ve ever loved someone you couldn’t fully explain, this one’s for you.

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Released
18 February 2026
Length
5:37
Tempo
138 BPM
Style
Dream House & Vocal Trance
Plays
286

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Lyrics

[Verse 1] We met where the city forgets to breathe, Neon confessions under our teeth. Your love was a halo with a rusted edge, Mine was a prayer I couldn’t quite pledge. You pull me in like a beautiful crime, I lose my name just to borrow your time. If I’m a spark and you’re gasoline We burn so clean in a bad routine. [Pre-Chorus] I feel the fault lines under the floor, Still I run to you wanting more. If it’s poison, why’s it paradise? If it’s wrong, why’s it feel like life? [Chorus] So take the light with the shadows it casts, Hold the ache and the aftermath. Love isn’t pure, but it’s real in my hands, A broken compass that still understands. I’ll take the whole of you, sharp and sweet, Count the cost, still choose the heat. If this is storm and salvation combined I’ll take the net of the night. [Post-Chorus] I’ll take it, I’ll take it, the net of the night. I’ll take it, I’ll take it if it keeps us alive. [Verse 2] Your silence cuts like a velvet blade, Then you kiss like you’re trying to be brave. We build on a fault and we call it a home, Two tuned hearts in a tremor-tone. You’re the calm and the chaos I can’t outrun, The setting moon and the rising sun. And I’ve seen the worst, I’ve tasted the test Still I want you at my best. [Pre-Chorus 2] I know the dark you don’t speak aloud, I know the thunder inside your cloud. But when you touch me, the doubt gets thin Like the world ends, and we begin. [Chorus] So take the light with the shadows it casts, Hold the ache and the aftermath. Love isn’t pure, but it’s real in my hands, A broken compass that still understands. I’ll take the whole of you, sharp and sweet, Count the cost, still choose the heat. If this is storm and salvation combined I’ll take the net of the night. [Bridge] If love is a ledger, let’s total the scars, Add all the mercy, subtract who we are. We’re not a fairytale, more like a flare, Bright in the moment, gone in the air. But I would rather be wrecked by the truth Than safe in a lie that doesn’t move. So if you’re the ocean and I’m the tide Let me pull you to the other side. [Break] Take the light, take the shadows, Take the hurt, and the halo. [Final Chorus] So take the light with the shadows it casts, Hold the ache and the aftermath. Love isn’t pure, but it’s real in my hands, A broken compass that still understands. I’ll take the whole of you, sharp and sweet, Count the cost, still choose the heat. If this is storm and salvation combined I’ll take the net of the night. [Outro] I’ll take it, the net of the night. Even when it cuts Even when it bites.

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