The Strokes - Under Cover Of Darkness

Did you know it’s been five years since we heard any new music from the Strokes? I bet you didn’t know that, no one’s really mentioned it. (For those of you under 10, the Strokes were famous rock starts who dated models and didn’t wash their hair.)

Between babies and rehab and overrated solo albums, work on Angles began over two years ago. It was a slow start fraught with artistic differences, but by the time the band’s 2010 festival gigs rolled around there were no signs of tension. A snippet of “Under Cover of Darkness” isn’t much to go on, but it gives at least a small sense of the “classic” Strokes sound Nicolai promised the BBC last month.

Lyrics:
Slip back out of whack,
At your best.
It's a nightmare,
So I'm joining the army.

Know how folks back out,
I'll still call.
Will you wait for me now?

We've got the right to live, fight to use it,
Got everything but you can just choose it,
I won't just be a puppet on a string.

Don't go that way.
I'll wait for you.

And I'm tired of all your friends
Listening at your door
And I want,
What's better for you.

So long, my friend
And adversary.
Oh, but I'll wait for you.

Get dressed, jump out of bed
You do it best.

Are you OK?
I've been all around this town
Everybody's been singing the same song for ten years.

I'll wait for you.
Will you wait for me too?

And they sacrifice their lives,
In the land of all closed eyes.
I've been saying it a billion times,
And I'll say it again.
So long, my end
The sorry embrace.

Don't go that way.
I'll wait for you.

I'm tired of all your friends,
Knocking down your door.
Get up in the morning and give it your all.
So long, my friend
And adversary.

Oh I'll be waitin for you.