Den här låten handlar om att det kan vara svårt att tolka relationerna till sina kompisar. Det är ibland svårt att veta om ens vänner uppskattar vad man gör eller om det är tvärtom men att de inte vågar säga det.
Låtens sound är lite psykedeliskt för att spegla tankarna som kan vara abstrakta och oklara i ett sammanhang likt detta. Slutet på låten är maffigt för att spegla känslan av att man tror att man ska få svaren man letar efter, men det får man bara om man kommunicerar med sina vänner. “Do my friends think high of me or will they be leaving? It's killing me to the point beyond healing.”
Shades
Text & Musik
J. Friberg
Vers 1
Gonna try to shed some light even if I'm in shades
Only great or real bad that's means I'm always in the gray
A day in the life I'm in altercations with this problem in so many ways
Don't know what expression I should have on my face, meshing every meaning that is possible in takes
Wishing I could get a hero with a capability to save me with whatever sense it can make
People will talk behind my back, eventually grin, are they being kind or actually pityin'?
Mitigate the pain with ibuprofen
Missing out on the real message
I need a doctor to teach me to master the skill of escaping this thing that I'm mixed in
Brygga
And then I realise, it's about how I view it with my own eyes
Refräng
I'm the judge of how I recieve it (recieve it)
To find the colors you just gotta believe in
that shades are only shadows of what you are feelin’ (feelin’)
I'm the judge of how I recieve it (recieve it)
To find the colors you just gotta believe in
that shades are only shadows of what you are feelin’
Vers 2
When I'm in the booth makin’ music and I'm spittin',
my tooth aches when one word isn't hittin',
producer say it's so small that it's hidden,
wanna carve off my skin, though I know I'm nitpickin'
But I'm slow burner like I wait for the wholemeal
Even though my tummy turns, cause it's an ordeal
The result of the song reveals itself
I was wrong, cause I longed, while it banged and it feels well
Lost on this planet tryna enter some sobriety,
society's got your boy scouting ahead unreliably
Only so much research you can do when the answers are faded, my knees hurt, prayin I ain't no failed experiment
So I'll go, find my goals, score, get elated
Refräng
I'm the judge of how I recieve it (recieve it)
To find the colors you just gotta believe in
that shades are only shadows of what you are feelin’
Stick
I get on the brink of breaking even
Do my friends think high of me or will they be leaving?
It's killing me to the point beyond healing
Brygga
Do I just gotta realise, it's about how I view it with my own eyes? (own eyes, own eyes)
Refräng
I'm the judge of how I recieve it (recieve it)
To find the colors you just gotta believe in
that shades are only shadows of what you are feelin’ (feelin’)
I'm the judge of how I recieve it (receive it)
To find the colors you just gotta believe in
that shades are only shadows of what you are feelin’