The energetic BLACK SHADES is the perfect song for your gym playlist. Heavy riffs, melodic pre-chorus and a powerful bull choir in the chorus will definitely get you going.
Japo, on Black Shades
I’ve always heard Black Shades as a song about the dualism of humanity. After all, to me it’s a song about all the secret and cool things you know about but can’t really witness. Like vampires and fixed boxing fights.
To mirror this dualism in music, throughout the song you can hear subtle guitar harmonies, evil pinch harmonics in harmony and a Wah fed classic rise/repetitive solo with a twist in the end.
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Lyrics
Another night, neon lights
Waiting time, a roll of the dice
Curtain call for the gambling kind
Men on scales, a fair fight?
Men of wealth, men of style, every
Second one of them is a vampire
Dream of life, dream of fame
Still fear they put them in their place
Calling out to those on streets
Calling out to come and see
Calling you come on and get me
CHORUS
Black shades and dirty games
Black shades and stolen planes
Black shades – dissolving fame
Two men standing on uneven scales
Like every fight it begins the same
By round four the crowd begins to roar
Soft push a drop of blood on the floor
Final round, make a run for the door
(Ladies and Gentlemen, In the left hand corner,
we’ve got the Minister of Black Shades, the prophet in disguise
Mr. Eli from the Book of Lies
And in the right hand corner, Ladies and Gentlemen,
the General of Dirty Trades, about to show you the way into the light..)
Calling out to those on streets
Calling out to come and see
Calling you come on and get me
Black shades and dirty games
Black shades and stolen planes
Black shades, dissolving fame
Two men standing on uneven scales
Walkways and bloody trails
Walkways in the soothing rain
On walkways shake hands of fate
Two men after a dirty trade