Released: November 21, 1983
Songwriter: Andy Taylor John Taylor Nick Rhodes Roger Taylor (Duran Duran) Simon Le Bon
Producer: Duran Duran Ian Little Alex Sadkin
[Verse 1]
Shackled and raised for a shining crowd
They want you to speak but the music is louder than
All of their roar with the heat of the planet's core-but
[Chorus]
The shadows are on your side
As soon as the lights go down
In the darkest place you can find
You belong to the hands of the night
[Verse 2]
Promises made with a distant friend
Truth should be known it can only bend
To a tune of its own
Hey you'll never hear that voice again
Scandal in white on a tangled vine
With everybody to say that you're having the
Time of your life when your life is on the slide-but
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Spinning a compass to choose your way
You can run you can dive you can stand and you can soar
Whichever way you can be sure-that
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Shadows on your side
The shadows are on your side
Shackled and raised for a shining crowd
They want you to speak but the music is louder than
All of their roar with the heat of the planet's core-but
[Chorus]
The shadows are on your side
As soon as the lights go down
In the darkest place you can find
You belong to the hands of the night
[Verse 2]
Promises made with a distant friend
Truth should be known it can only bend
To a tune of its own
Hey you'll never hear that voice again
Scandal in white on a tangled vine
With everybody to say that you're having the
Time of your life when your life is on the slide-but
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Spinning a compass to choose your way
You can run you can dive you can stand and you can soar
Whichever way you can be sure-that
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Shadows on your side
The shadows are on your side
- Ordinary World
- Come Undone
- Hungry Like the Wolf
- Rio
- Save a Prayer
- Girls on Film
- The Reflex
- The Chauffeur
- Notorious
- A View to a Kill
- The Wild Boys
- New Moon on Monday
- Planet Earth
- Is There Something I Should Know?
- Union of the Snake
- New Religion
- Drug (It’s Just a State of Mind)
- Faster Than Light
- Hungry Like the Wolf (Night Version)
- American Science (Meltdown Dub)
- Girls on Film [Night Version]
- I Believe / All I Need To Know
- I Don’t Want Your Love (7" mix)
- This Is How A Road Gets Made