“Sunglasses” is the fourth and longest track on Black Country, New Road’s 2021 debut album, For the first time. The two-part, nearly-ten-minute track is a re-recorded version of the band’s second single (released in 2019) of the same title. The album version of the song adds a ninety-second guitar i...
[Part 1]
[Intro]
Welcome to the best new six-part Danish crime drama
She steams herself in marble rooms, courtesy of Pig
I lose myself in the light of the TV, courtesy of her father
She buys everything that glows gold in the kitchen larder
[Verse 1]
Mother is juicing watermelons on the breakfast island
And with frail hands she grips the NutriBullet
And the bite of its blades reminds me of a future that I am in no way part of
And in a wall of photographs
In the downstairs second living room's TV area
I become her father
And complain of mediocre theatre in the daytime
And ice in single malt whiskey at night
Of rising skirt hems and lowering IQs
And things just aren't built like they used to be
The absolute pinnacle of British engineering
[Refrain]
And I am so ignorant now, with all that I have learnt
I am so ignorant now, with all that I have learnt
Yes, I am so ignorant now, with all that I have learnt
I am so ignorant now, with all that I have learnt
I am so ignorant now, with all that I have learnt
[Part 2]
[Verse 2]
I am invincible in these sunglasses
I am the Fonz, I am the Jack of Hearts
I am looking at you and you cannot tell
I am more than the sum of my parts
I am looking at you with my best eyes and I wish you could tell
I wish all my kids would stop dressing up like Richard Hell
I am locked away in a high-tech, wraparound, translucent, blue-tinted fortress
And you cannot touch me
I am invincible in these sunglasses
Cars are going "beep, beep, beep"
And there are so many roadmen on this street
And they cannot tell that I am scared
I am invincible in these sunglasses
I am 'modern-Scott Walker'
I am a surprisingly smooth talker
And I am invincible in these sunglasses
[Refrain]
And I am so ignorant now, with all that I have learnt
I am so ignorant now, with all that I have learnt
[Bridge]
I'm more than adequate
Leave Kanye out of this
Leave your Sertraline in the cabinet
And burn what's left of all the cards you kept
I'm more than adequate
Leave my Daddy's job out of this
Leave your Sertraline in the cabinet
And burn what's left of all the cards you kept
I'm more than adequate
Leave Kanye out of this
Leave your Sertraline in the cabinet
And burn what's left of all the cards you kept
I'm more than adequate
Leave my Daddy's job out of this
Leave your Sertraline in the cabinet
And burn what's left of all the cards you kept
[Outro]
She sells chemtrails
To the students at Bedales
I try to free myself from the grip
Of Shellac nails
She sells chemtrails
To the students at Bedales
I try to free myself from the grip
Of Shellac nails
Sunglasses was written by Tyler Hyde & May Kershaw & Luke Mark & Lewis Evans & Georgia Ellery & Charlie Wayne & Isaac Wood.
Sunglasses was produced by Andy Savours.
Black Country, New Road released Sunglasses on Fri Feb 05 2021.
It was a genuine realisation that I felt slightly more comfortable walking down the street if I had a pair of sunglasses on. It wasn’t necessarily meditating on that specific idea, but it was jotted down and then expanded and edited, expanded and messed around with, and then became what it was. Sung...