Sunglasses After Dark

The Cramps * Track #5 On Songs The Lord Taught Us

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Album Songs The Lord Taught Us

ALBUM

The Cramps

1980

Sunglasses After Dark by The Cramps

Performed by

The Cramps

Produced by

Alex Chilton

Writed by

Jimmy Noble & Link Wray & Whitey Pullen & Lux Interior & Poison Ivy

About

“Sunglasses After Dark” is technically a cover of two songs: The lyrics are lifted from Dwight Pullen’s “Sunglasses After Dark”, and the music from Link Wray’s “Ace of Spades.”

(Link Wray) had the most apocalyptic, monumental sound I ever heard – real emotional and so simple and so violent. That st...

Sunglasses After Dark Lyrics

I got somethin' to say to you and you better listen
I'm'a tell ya how to be cool in one easy lesson
Go!

Sunglasses after dark!
AAAAAHHHH! They're so sharp!
And you'll be cool
...And the squares'll drool

It's real simple...
Sunglasses after dark!
AAAAAHHHH! They're so sharp!

Listen to this:
Went out last Saturday night
Got myself in a knife fight
Everybody got cut includin' me
'Cause not one of us cats could see!
We had on S.A.D
That's right

I was hangin' around on the street
When this great big guy ran right into me!
I could hardly make him out, everything was so dim
But then I seen what was wrong with him...
He was wearin' sunglasses...after dark

Sunglasses after dark!
Whooooo! They're so sharp!
Sunglasses after dark!
Whooooo! It's so simple!

...Uh, where am I, by the way?
...Oh, yeah

Sunglasses After Dark Q&A

Who wrote Sunglasses After Dark's ?

Sunglasses After Dark was written by Jimmy Noble & Link Wray & Whitey Pullen & Lux Interior & Poison Ivy.