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Solid Gold by The Darkness

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The Darkness

Solid Gold

Release date: 5th October 2017

From Pinewood Smile
Track 3
4:32
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About This Track

'Solid Gold' by The Darkness is a hard rock track from the album 'Pinewood Smile' released in 2017. The lyrics paint a swaggering, confrontational fantasy of violent reckoning, crowd panic, and after-show bravado, with a repeated sense of urgency and spectacle, culminating in the boast that “We are legends”. The song’s theatrical intensity is aimed at both the spectacle of notoriety and the performers’ sense of inevitability, as if the show’s momentum cannot be stopped.

"Solid Gold" is a track by The Darkness, from the album Pinewood Smile, released 5th October 2017. The track is 4:32 long. It's filed under Hard Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 8 articles about The Darkness.

About the Artist

The Darkness

The Darkness

Lyrics

Solid Gold

We're gonna blow peoples fucking heads off
People gonna shit themselves
Crying out for more, caution wet floor
This one's going out to the girls
Hellbent for denim and leather
Notoriety and wealth
After the show
I think we both know
This fist ain't gonna bump itself

We are legends
With a power that you can't deny, uh-uh-uh
We're immortal
'Cause our songs will never die

And we're never gonna stop
Shitting out solid gold
And we're never gonna stop
Shitting out solid gold

There's a guy coming down from Sony
Artist and repertoire
If he like what he hears in those stupid ears
I'll buy myself a faster car
He's blowing smoke up our arses
Everything we do is "ace"
He wants to wine and dine us
Desperate to sign us
'Cause we melted his fucking face

We are legends
With a power that you can't deny
We're immortal
'Cause our songs will never die

And we're never gonna stop
Shitting out solid gold
And we're never gonna stop
Shitting out solid gold

Stone cold foxes screaming in the front row
Sacred promise of fellatio
Soul that can't be sold
Lo and behold
Behold

And we're never gonna stop
Shitting out solid gold
And we're never gonna stop
Shitting out solid gold

And we're never gonna stop
Shitting out solid gold
And we're never gonna stop
Shitting out solid gold

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Track details

From Pinewood Smile

4:322017
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Pinewood Smile
The Darkness
6th October 2017
Track number
3
Release year
2017
  1. 1All the Pretty Girls
    3:18
  2. 2Buccaneers of Hispaniola
    3:06
  3. 3Solid Gold
    4:32
  4. 4Southern Trains
    2:52

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