Black Dog (song)

Black Dog is a song performed by the band Samurai.

Background
Recorded right before the Night City Holocaust of 2023, Black Dog was never released due to the loss of its few recordings during said event. Despite that, two known copies survived. One was a "crappy pirate datalink" made up of a poor quality sample studio session recording - with most of the song missing. This sample was found by rockerboy Lilayah, who tried to make out the whole song, but without any luck. With the help of her friend Trace Santiago though, in 2038 they managed to contact someone who had a lead about it.

The unknown person presented herself as Samantha, and showed them a slim blue chip which she assured had the complete song. Unfortunately, the chip had been damaged by the EMP blast the 2023 nuke had caused. If that wasn't enough, part of it was encrypted. Samantha didn't know what to do with it, but she had made some copies, and gave Lilayah one of them. As a way to return that gift, Lilayah and her friends paid Samantha back by transporting a crate she needed to deliver to Los Alamos in New Mexico.

Once they reached their destination, a woman by the name of Angel took care of the rest. She gave them a good amount of eddies for their trouble, and gave Lilayah a matching chip to hers, revealing that the song in the chip was a full recording from the original studio session.

By 2077, Black Dog was usually played on 107.3 Morro Rock Radio.

Credits

 * Performed by Refused
 * Lyrics by David Sandström; Dennis Lyxzén
 * Music by David Sandström; Kristofer Steen; Mattias Bärj
 * Published by CD Projekt RED

Trivia

 * The line "The escape and the chase is now one!" was originally written as "The escape and the chase become one!".
 * While the Black Dog song is said to be a Johnny Silverhand song in the Black Dog story, and being recorded years after the Samurai's breakup, in it is said to be a Samurai song.