still fighting was written and recorded on the road during our Shades Tour in 2025, mostly in the back of our van, somewhere between shows, cities, crossing borders, and long nights that refused to end. A few quiet hotel rooms found their way into the process too, but the heart of the song lives on the road.

The arrangement is intentionally fragile and close, with piano, acoustic guitar, and Sina’s voice leading the way, surrounded by soft harmonies and improvised percussion. Salt shakers replaced drums. Chairs creaked. Birds sang outside open doors. Those sounds are witnesses to where we were when the song was born.

Lyrically, still fighting feels like a whispered confession at 3 a.m. It is a song for the quiet warriors, for anyone carrying unseen battles, holding on through endless nights, and finding the strength to keep going when giving up would be easier.

This song carries a part of our journey, in all its struggle and beauty.
A reminder that finding the strength to keep going is sometimes the hardest thing of all.

The Shades Song actually started as a half-forgotten scribble pulled out of a drawer right before our first tour in 2023. It was just a fun little piece we dusted off to add an extra song to the setlist. Sina threw in a melodica hook, we added a few new verses and a bridge, and off we went. When we hit the road, the crowd suddenly started singing it back to us from the very first chorus. Once we felt that contagious vibe, we began bringing sunglasses to gigs, passing them out during the song, and the whole place would turn into this ridiculous, beautiful sea of shades and smiles.

We’d always played The Shades Song acoustically on the road before it turned into this version. In early 2025, we took it to the studio just to fiddle around, recording first-and-only takes in one afternoon with an electric guitar that had rusty strings and whatever instruments we had at hand, meant as a demo. But when we listened back a week later, it had the exact same energy we feel when everyone in the crowd sings with their shades on, and it turns into this wonderful community moment. The audience made this song what it is today, bigger than we ever expected, and that love for all of you is all over this recording.

So let’s never grow up the way we’re supposed to, stay true to ourselves no matter what other people say, and always, always keep your shades on.