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Semisonic

Basement Tapes

Release date: 18th September 2020

From You’re Not Alone - EP
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About This Track

"Basement Tapes" is a track by Semisonic, from the album You’re Not Alone - EP, released 18th September 2020. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Semisonic

Semisonic

Lyrics

Basement Tapes

[Verse 1]

So we get

Loaded in the van and drive through the suburbs

And we set

Out on Highway 35 to discover

What's the plan?

Slidin' through the dark in all kinds of weather

Where's the map?

One of us is barely holdin' it together

[Chorus]

I still got all your basement tapes

I'm still hearin' you drift away

Saying those things that you just don't say

Right to your brother

Hide your head in the evergreen

Ply your heavenly alchemy

Still just livin' that big star dream

Live with each other

Yeah

[Verse 2]

So we tool

Down to Kansas City to sleep on a sofa

And we're cool

Temporarily 'cause we're from Minnesota

Later on

Walkin' in the dark with a sweet babysitter

On the lawn

Talkin' while inside you made out with her sister

[Chorus]

I still got all your basement tapes

I'm still hearin' you drift away

Saying those things that you just don't say

Right to your brother

Hide your head in the evergreen

Ply your heavenly alchemy

Still just livin' that big star dream

Live with each other

[Bridge]

Summer diamonds rushin' by us

Wake me up when you get there

[Guitar solo]

[Chorus]

I'm still crankin' your basement tapes

I'm still hearin' you drift away

Saying those things that you just don't say

Right to your brother

Hide your head in the evergreen

Ply your heavenly alchemy

Still just livin' that big star dream

Live with each other

Yeah

[Outro]

Yeah

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2020
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    Credits

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    Writer
    Dan Wilson, Jenny Owen Youngs, Mike Viola
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