The penultimate song on Doolittle is also the only song in which bassist Kim Deal shares co-writing credits with Francis.
Black Francis told Esquire that “Silver” is,
the only composition that I did with Kim on this session. I think we worked on it a couple of times the previous year or something....
[Verse 1: Kim Deal & Black Francis]
In this land of strangers
There are dangers
There are sorrows
I can't see this lady
It is shady
I am leavin' tomorrow
Tomorrow
Tomorrow
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 2: Kim Deal & Black Francis]
Even there's a reason
It's silver, it's gone
In this land of strangers
There are dangers
There are sorrows, sorrows
Sorrows
Sorrows
Sorrows
Sorrows
Sorrows
Silver was written by Kim Deal & Frank Black.
Silver was produced by Gil Norton.
This is a song me and Kim wrote really fast one night sitting around bored in the studio waiting for whatever to happen with the engineers. There were other lyrics that were supposed to have been written for the actual song but all we’d got left were the original phrases that we came up with so that...