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Love Is Not Real

by Basement Life

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1.
this tiny gleam of hope is cracking beneath me and every morning I awake my eyes are set on fire throughout the day they burn away and they get so tired a dismal face in any case is sure to leave a slow burn it's a matter of picking pieces and constructing desirable spaces but I'm brooding anyway dear silly me just fall asleep ears attached to strings world's smallest symphony if I lead the day astray the tune stays with me I'm left with hollow sockets and empty compartments like the ones used to hold your emotions designed to keep them sorted so that you can you direct them at the convenient target like it matters anyway if the strings begin to fray the tune in haunting I'm choking down on stems and leaves upside down immersed in olive trees that hang above your dim-lit street where you deflect branches pipe dreaming you're absorbed and I'm on fire trying hard to burn in the letters "love is not real" and I'm tired what's the point you wishful forgetter but that's not why I called tonight
2.
you can fuck right off cloak and dagger no one likes the attentioneater it doesn't matter where my shame is placed don't let your feelings get in the way my heart only burns on the surface maybe one day you can take its place just like I said, inviting wolves in your bed makes the damage real enough to warrant my heart only burns on the surface there's only futile cells inside my self I keep my spine interrupted those intangible marks left in distress just keep moving on into oblivion your movements are so oblivious
3.
Fly By Night 02:43
let's have all your attention listen but forget retention we will auto-tune convictions for ears washed in convention the same words, the same words repeating until your ears are bleeding let's bypass production send it straight for consumption open the box, destroy the sum, market it to everyone over-produce the same shit, reinvent the two-bit well maybe we're the new trend or byproduct of a ship sinking money grows on our trees we rake all the dead leaves so what if they are dirty we'll try to keep our hands clean bottom lines and dollar signs talk about your feelings just sign on dotted lines same formula repeating there's no need to give credit let's all just forget it
4.
hey, what are you talking about? I'm caught in this feeling here you're falling on deaf ears and I'm fading out remember that night that I crashed my car and you were so worried about being late? you stood wasted with folded arms and you yelled at me about how you wanted more I guess I'm truly amazed at the way words roll off your back, Ms. Understood it hurts because it should and then went on about your dad and all you hate about me being around with such sincerity sat there crying under the street lamp spitting daggers is so fucking convenient I pump the gas and you hit the brakes I run around for problems you create scream and cry about art and influence this crumpled car was not on my to-do list you drown the sound and start throwing shade at the Weakerthans and listening to Braid you say that 'love' is a word with a meaning and then turn and fly south on the weekends I'm out of breath from just keeping pace the southside stretch and your worn in face I keep asking myself why I do this you're so goddamn motherfucking selfish you only seem to care when I'm on your way you've only got my back when it's in your face bleeding out, spilling guts on your front lawn stitch me shut so I'm up and can be gone you still can't hide your insecurity with a million smiles, it comes between your teeth spilling out with every sip of your cocktail soaking into every thread of your dumb blouse I keep thinking things happen for reasons but truth is some things leave no explanation I walked fourteen blocks while thinking do the means always justify the end?
5.
who are we? bless this bottle line the floor with glass and try not to stumble what's the difference in empty and loaded? we're different layers of the same fucking substance are we moving up or down? either way we're out of reach let's stop and think about where this is going or retreat there's no point in trying to retrace past animals occupying dead space it's all timing we live for holidays and occupying space
6.
help someone, earn a friend help them too much, you make an enemy, I'm told sometimes eyes shine brighter this place is on fire and I'm burning, I'm burning summer stares are my best friends but it all depends on what you're waiting for it doesn't hurt to have all the answers when people scatter, you're left sinking, I'm sinking you need to think about your life you think too slow in the heat of apathy our skulls turn into lead a total disregard for anything expressed
7.
our happiness is unsustainable with every kiss, we try, it's unavoidable these lips are tied in need of hospitals when you wake at night, my shoes are already on just got my feet up the water's almost to the bed just caught my breath and we're caught in the stream again just got my feet up the water's almost to the bed we got caught in the stream again the water's almost to the bed we got caught in the dream again I got lost in my head, I can't keep it from wandering every spot I'm in, I find it's always the people closest that are the most feeble so lie awake at night because the light is still on we're trying endlessly to steer the course and feign remorse all these sheets are still unraveling but if we know our truths and still believe we can achieve the monsters underneath can still be slain
8.
Stratosphere 04:03
don't forget the words poised on my lips those nuts and bolts fastened to my throat overtones and division attend to coarse intentions we're hanging by a thread but we're not ahead of that I watched the choices disappear they sailed straight through the stratosphere but altitude calms my mind you gotta watch me all the time I know the air is thin, but don't miss a beat it can be hard to get me don't be so cold hearted talk to me, is this more than we bargained I'm just being honest, I'm just being honest we're loud and petty thieves it's really sad that we just got started but you act like this is what you wanted
9.
Swan 04:34
you said that Mondays are the best for getting out of bed cold chains, steel frame all the luxuries of the fucking dead head phones and blindfolds head for the door but you're never leaving home sustain dead weight Rx to excess and medicate who cares who's strung along? it's always the same damn swan song who cares who's right or wrong? it's always the same damn swan song you can't help but beat what isn't dead you'll cut your own throat to spite your head a cadaver that feeds on punishment pull back the sheets, it's in your bed fractured bones and hemorrhages depleting sleep in spite of medicine
10.
For/Whatever 04:31
swim for the shore this is a shit storm just let the winds blow your fucking body afloat, watch the undertow it's so hard to make a ship that's built to brave a seasoned climate change stonewall waves of angst and just float away don't mind the rocks scraping your knees even if the skin begins to bleed it'll only fill the water with the taste and scent of fathers that didn't want to bother to teach their little birds to sing the other birds are perched in trees along jagged lines of shores and seas but is there someone to comfort me when I show my teeth and start to scream "bring down the sharpest rains with the force of a thousand men let the winds tear through the barge along with the captain you're still not far away that shore won't make you safe but you keep paddling as if vows are all that you'll break you're on your own"

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released March 17, 2017

© 2017 Basement Life

Eric Mann - Guitars
Gavan Holden - Vocals/Bass
Brennan O'Brien - Drums

Produced, engineered, and mixed by Aslan Freeman
Recorded at Freeman Productions Studio in Chapel Hill, NC
Mastered by Jesse Cannon at Cannon Found Soundation in NYC.
Artwork by Gavan Holden

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