Black Capricorn Day

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"Black Capricorn Day"
Single by Jamiroquai from the album Synkronized
B-Side	Canned Heat (MAW Remix) (8:26) Supersonic (Restless Soul Main Vocal) (7:35) Supersonic (Sharp Razor Remix) (7:05)
Released	3 November 1999
Recorded	1999
Played Live	109 times
Genre	Acid jazz, house
Length	5:43 (album version) 3:42 (radio edit)
Label	Epic Records
Writer	Jay Kay, Toby Smith, Wallis Buchanan, Simon Katz, Derrick McKenzie
Producer	Al Stone, Jay Kay
BPM	93
Key	B Minor

Black Capricorn Day is the third track and third single on Synkronized, released on 8 June, 1999 exclusively in Japan.

Background

TBA

Music video

N/A

Lyrics

Hey, hey, ah-hah-hah-hah, baby

Hey, hey, let the rain come down on me

Hey, hey

Hey, hey

I see people and they're craving blood

And I'm so rarely understood

Well, I don't know what they want from me

It's gonna take sometime just to let them see

I'm going through a black (hey) Capricorn day

And though it doesn't seem so

I've got to get this way

I'm going through a black (hey) Capricorn day

And though you want to check me out

I'm not the man to play, play, play, play

Hey, hey

Don't you see I'm not the man to play

Hey, hey

No way you can play with me today

Hey, hey

Just let me sing it to my Capricorn day

Hey, hey

My heart is a pincer, and the sky is black

And I can feel cold steel when I turn my back

It stings like needles with a jagged tongue

You know, this rain reminds me of when I was so young

I never had any of those black Capricorn days (hey)

And though it doesn't seem so

I've got to get this way

I'm going through a black (hey) Capricorn day

And though you want to check me out

I'm not the man to play, play, play, play

It's just too black for me, it's just too black for me (7x)

It's just too black

I'm stuck on the highway leading straight to hell

Like any other drifter with a soul to sell

You know I'm dealing with the devil in everyone I meet

And their faces tell a story that life is so sweet

And I'm going through a black (hey) Capricorn day

And though it doesn't seem so

I've got to get this way

I'm going through a black (hey) Capricorn day

And though you want to check me out

I'm not the man to, not the man to play, no, no, no (play, play, play, play)

Black (hey) Capricorn day

And though it doesn't seem so

I've got to get this way, got to get this way

Black (hey) Capricorn day

And though you want to check me out

You want to check me out

I'm not the man to play

It's just too black for me, it's just too black for me

It's just too black for me, it's just too black

It's just too black for me, it's just too black for me (3x)

Gallery

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  Back cover

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  CD cover

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  Promotional CD cover

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  Secondary promotional CD cover

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  CDr cover

Credits

Jamiroquai

• Jay Kay – vocals
• Simon Katz – guitar
• Nick Fyffe – bass
• Toby Smith – keyboards, keyboard programming
• Derrick McKenzie – drums

Session member

• Sola Akingbola – percussion

Trivia

• The music video was influenced by Martin Scorsese's film After Hours.
• Derrick's name is misspelled as "Derick McKenzie" in the video.
• Although the video for the song was included on the British version of the High Times: Singles 1992–2006 DVD, the single was never made available in the UK.
  • The only official release of the single in the UK was a CDr release used as a CD reference, released in 1999. The copy only contains the radio edit of the track.
• The actual release date for the single is hard to pinpoint as many sources have conflicting reports.
  • On Wikipedia, the single is stated to have been released in November 1999 in Japan. However, the song's box template has a source citing it was released on 3 November.
  • On Discogs, the single is listed to have been released February 2000. Despite this, listings show the single was released in 1999.