Basement Songs, by Teen Idle

Basement Songs

by Teen Idle

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steveinsocal "…here, a collection of acoustic tracks which didn't make the "Insomniac Dreams" EP take on an almost mystical indie-folk air thanks to the sympathetic guitar and dulcet, tender vocals of Sara Abdelbarry, whose voice - as I've previously remarked - is probably the most note prefect I've heard since those of Deborah Wykes of Dolly Mixture and Birdie… that dear listener, is praise indeed…"

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Favorite track: To Keep from Squinting on a Sunny Day.

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1.	Intro 00:32	info	buy track
2.	Seven Seas 04:22	lyrics	buy track
Tell me, would we be much better In a foreign place where all the people Speak a different language Stockholm, Paris, Barcelona Or would our old homeland Throw out bait and reel us back to it We’ll go swimming through the seven seas And land where we began In this place every day is a dark, twisted fable To talking heads we lay in bed With nothing to get us off We look around the interweb At places oh so far away And fantasize that there we might Live a life not on the dime We’ve been holding out For some American-sized miracle ‘Cause now college kids will get a loan To which they sell their soul And in four years, when they’re grown They’ll sell everything they own We could learn from different places Take a page from Scandinavia Where they go to school for free And use wind as energy Who is going to take the blame? ‘Cause something is rotten in the USA In this place every day is a Grimm, twisted fable To talking heads we lay in bed With nothing to get us off We look around the interweb At places oh so far away And fantasize that there we might Live life on someone else’s dime
3.	Martyr 02:31	lyrics	buy track
Tonight there’s a flame that’s growing Now and then it rears its head Who will be the next poor martyr One today and two tomorrow Men like you, you love to claim You bleed blue when you feel no sorrow On the streets we’ll sweat and bleed Until we take them back as our own We’ve been seeing all the signs That tell us to go home But we’ll wear black and march ahead
4.	In Stereo 04:41	lyrics	buy track
I used to walk five flights up day and night In New York City, where I used to live I miss it dearly Now that I have graduated Every weekend I have stayed in Watching movies from the ‘80s This place can make you feel so jaded Through the years I’ve come to hate it Don’t know why, but I am waiting Lately I can’t seem to reach you You must be on another planet But when you come back down to earth You’ll fall face first in the dirt The evergreens are decorated I don’t feel like celebrating Christmas season is overrated I am always contemplating All your words and conjugating Losing games of my own making I know that we have said goodbye, But I keep looking for you left and right Living in stereo Lately I can’t seem to reach you Are you on another planet? And when you come back down to earth, You’ll fall face first in the dirt
5.	To Keep from Squinting on a Sunny Day 04:38	lyrics	buy track
To keep from squinting on a sunny day Just put your hand across your brow It’ll do you good Blocking the rays Of the sun beating down Be careful, Don’t go too low You’ll block your eyes Won’t see at all And you’ll walk into a tree To keep from freezing on a winter night Be sure to button up your coat When the frost bites And the snow is white It’ll keep away the cold But if you find you’re shivering still You can’t afford to pay the bills Then you better get a smaller place To keep from getting down on a rainy day Just shut the curtains closed Then the rain won’t wash away All the things you’ve worked for But if you want to sing the blues The whole world is bad news Then you better try that new pill

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After releasing my EP, I had some songs lying around that were very acoustic-sounding. A lot of them didn't feel like they fit anywhere else, so I decided to group them together in this little collection. Most of these were written in one sitting in mid-2020. I want this to be kind of a low-key release and not on Spotify, so I'm releasing this to celebrate the fact that pandemic-wise, things seem to be getting better and more hopeful day by day in the U.S. I tend not to like doing purely acoustic songs, but I happened to have these and figured it's time to just put them on Bandcamp exclusively.

("To Keep from Squinting on a Sunny Day," is a song my cousin Robert wrote in 2018 and brought to me. It's an amazing song in my opinion. I took the original song/kept most of his lyrics and produced it a little more)

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released May 4, 2021

All songs written, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Sara Abdelbarry (except track 5, which was co-written with Robert Bergin)

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