BAD CITY
1980s Showa Era AOR (Adult-Oriented Rock), SHOGUN style. Funky bassline and tight drums. Cool, sharp cutting guitar riff. Electric piano chords. Soulful and melancholic male vocals. Features a passionate, wailing saxophone solo in the instrumental break. Urban, slightly hard-boiled atmosphere, like a detective drama soundtrack.
BAD CITY
1980s Showa Era AOR (Adult-Oriented Rock), SHOGUN style. Funky bassline and tight drums. Cool, sharp cutting guitar riff. Electric piano chords. Soulful and melancholic male vocals. Features a passionate, wailing saxophone solo in the instrumental break. Urban, slightly hard-boiled atmosphere, like a detective drama soundtrack.
Lyrics
Intro
(Guitar riff like speeding down a highway at night)
(Tight drums and funky bass kick in)
Verse 1
A river of taillights, wetting the asphalt
Cold wind blows through the concrete canyons
Yesterday's shadow in the rear-view mirror
Stomp the gas, trying to shake it loose
Verse 2
Dialing the number of that familiar bar
"Gimme the usual," the glass fogs up
Trading fake smiles across the smoky floor
Everyone's hiding something in this town
Pre-Chorus
This city's like a bottomless labyrinth
Even the truth just melts into the neon glow
Chorus
Oh, (Bad City) the town that never sleeps
Wandering the dark, holding loneliness tight
(Bad City) playing a dangerous game
Even love turns into a trap in this place
(Just tonight... running through the night)
Interlude
(Passionate and melancholic saxophone solo)
(Guitar wails and weaves around it)
Pre-Chorus
Swore I'd get out of here someday, made a vow
But I'm drawn right back to this darkness now
Chorus
Oh, (Bad City) full of hopeless dreamers
Falling down and wounded, still waitin' for the light
(Bad City) a false paradise
Gonna grab it with these hands, the one and only
(Real thing... running through the night)
Outro
(Guitar and sax fade out, tangled together)
(Running... running...)
(Bad City...)
(Tokyo Night...)