Wild Rivers - Pink Shades Lyrics

Wild Rivers Lyrics

"Pink Shades"

You said "nothing's working out
Everything I try on"
Said you lost your pink shades
And someone turned the light on
You were standing on the glass
Thinking 'bout one thing
Then the bottom dropped out
You were hanging onto nothing

But keep trying
I know it never looked so bad
But I can see around this patch
And she's fighting
Remember when I heard that laugh
Man, that wasn't so far back
When I met you
You were lightning
You were singing in the crowd
Thinking nothin' by it
So keep trying

Now I'm doing what I can, saying what I should say
You're taking all your meds and you had a couple good days
Then the lights come on and take you down
You were coming around

But you keep trying
I know it never looked so bad
But I can see around this patch
And she's fighting
Remember when I heard that laugh
Man, that wasn't so far back
When I met you
You were lightning
You were singing in the crowd
Thinking nothin' by it
So keep trying

You catch an edge
And now you're thrashing while you spin
I just take it on the chin
While these walls are closing in
And you wait for it to clot
You're still hung up with that thought
And I can try to talk you down
But you ain't buying

But I keep trying
I know it never looked so bad
But I can see around this patch
And she's fighting
Remember when I heard that laugh
Man, that wasn't so far back
When I met you
You were lightning
You were singing in the crowd
Thinking nothin' by it
So keep trying

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Writer(s): Khalid Yassein

Khalid Yassein explained, "The initial melody for 'Pink Shades' came from one of many late-night jam sessions when the band was temporarily living together in a house in Echo Park at the end of 2019. It always felt kind of special and important. In April, after our album production in Connecticut was cut short due to the pandemic, we all returned to Toronto, and I returned to 'Pink Shades' and wrote all of the lyrics in one sitting. I sent it to the band, who I hadn't seen in three months—the longest we'd ever been apart—and we were all really excited about where this song could go. We had never self-produced or recorded a song. Not being on the clock at a professional studio, we were able to build the song out exactly how we imagined."

Wild Rivers shared the following message on Facebook on the 18th of September 2020 while posting an audio snippet of this song, "Pink shades is a message for anyone who is in a dark place and doesn’t know where to turn to. All you can do is keep trying."

"Pink Shades" lyrics

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