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Dreamer (2013)

by Bassel & The Supernaturals

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1.
Advertise Me 04:01
Let the steam fold into you and form the wrinkles through your skin Time stops you cold and you’re all bruised You just shoulder all the demeaning clues, you’re afraid to quit until you’ve become too ill Am I too long-winded for you? How would you act if you were younger? You just climb up in the company and advertise your dreams But since I hate claustrophobia, I’ll have to move away to an arbitrary place They’re feeling minute in this disarray Stressed out and bogged down from sitting all day Well they get so anxious to move, nobody taught them how Nobody taught them how Oh you just climb up in the company and advertise your dreams But since I hate claustrophobia Since I hate claustrophobia Since I hate claustrophobia It’s starting to feel too rhythmic to satisfy me It’s just a way I’ve come to know, I’m feeling numb all through my bones I’ll lose my teeth and break my nose It’s quite bothering to use my brain When my soul and my body disdain this self-embodied full time job where we’re alienated and dying You just climb up in the company and advertise your dreams But since I hate claustrophobia Since I hate claustrophobia Since I hate claustrophobia I’ll have to move away
2.
Sweet dreams, oh they're appealing to me because they're so surreal I won't blink in fear of the life I could lead if I wake up… Oh but it's all In my head How could I wait another minute for this? The messages can get overwhelming But it's key to it all… You just hold on If I could make time on any given morning to stop and smile I'd pack up and wouldn't even know it could be a long while So I pray everyday for my peace and strength to carry on I'll be the first To admit That impatience always gets to my head The messages can feel condescending But it's key to it all You just hold on So I think To myself Am I in way over my head? The messages can get overwhelming But it's key to it all… You just hold on
3.
Is it bad that I'm wrapped up with you Just to talk, just to meet someone new I'm a blind man, climbing nowhere else to go It don't mean I believe it It don't mean I don't see it Well I care about us and I want the world to see Is it bad that I'm wrapped up with you Just to talk, just to meet someone new I'm a blind man climbing nowhere else to go now It don't mean I believe it It don't mean I don't see it Well I care about us, and I want the world to see I've got to say, I've changed since you knew me I'm not wild, I'm just embracing my youth I know that in time, well I'll want to raise a family I'd make that sacrifice if I knew that you'd choose me… I wanna make this thing work Is it bad that I'm wrapped up with you Just to talk, just to meet someone new I'm a blind man, climbing nowhere else to go now It don't mean I believe it It don't mean I don't see it Well I care about us and I want the world to see I'm on my way back to New York, girl The feelings remain, but I look the other way My pride has subsided without you My undivided attention belongs to you Only you… I wanna make this thing work Is it bad that I'm wrapped up with you Just to talk, just to meet someone new I'm a blind man, climbing nowhere else to go now It don't mean I believe it It don't mean I don't see it Well I care about us and I want the world to see We can handle the weather With no scarves nor sweaters Just us together again Is it bad that I'm wrapped up with you Just to talk, just to meet someone new I'm a blind man, climbing nowhere else to go now It don't mean I believe it It don't mean I don't see it Well I care about us and I want the world to see Is it bad that I'm wrapped up with you Just to talk, just to meet someone new I'm a blind man, climbing nowhere else to go now It don't mean I believe it It don't mean I don't see it Well I care about us, and I want the world to see
4.
I could do what you want me to my love It's first thing I'd take care of, to be with you I know it's funny that the first five times that you shut me down Made it that more appealing to dream of you So I'm saving all my time and faith In the hopes that maybe you will see one day So I'm praying, praying, praying, praying for a sign That we will be together, we'll be together in a matter of time Am I sane to even think that we could work? When the truth is that under the surface, it could hurt When you dream of how it feels to know that love is real It puts pressure, it puts pressure on how we've got to Save all of our time and our faith In the hopes that maybe we will see one day Why we waited, waited, waited, waited all of these years For the moment we could finally let our guard down My head is so congested with distracting imagery I don't want to face it, and I don't really want to fix it Define love to me cause it's subjective in my dreams I don't want to face it, and I don't really want to fix it
5.
My Woes 04:40
Home really don't bring nostalgia, like the way it used to be Oh I'm alone, as steady as I look The cold tends to feel bleak, a strange convoluted dream Oh I'm atone 'cause I'm buried in woes My woes… I think you know, know too much Believing in ghosts… I wake up to the Jin again with the melancholy songs I wrote Twisted ballistic when all things around me look the same My woes… I think you know, know too much Believing in ghosts and such are around us I think you… We chose the deep end, You chose to depend on what made you lucrative I'm feeling cross-eyed, By God I bought my way back into this This is ludacris to me I can't escape when I'm sleeping, my body's too old Rotting despite of the weekend, and I chase that goal I'm not astute or as stunning, but I'm realizing way too soon There's no way to make sense of what I call home

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BASSEL & THE SUPERNATURALS

"Dreamer" Produced and Performed by Bassel & The Supernaturals

Bassel Al-Madani : Lead Vocals, Electric Guitar
Phil Anderson : Background Vocals
Rami Atassi : Electric Guitar
Katharine Hedlund : Background Vocals
Swen Hendrickson : Bass Guitar
Cameron LeCrone : Drums
Jeremy Levine : Keyboards
Aaron Messing : Trumpet
Eric Pedone : Alto/Baritone Saxophone
Thom Schwartz : Trombone

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released February 28, 2013

Recorded and Mixed May-August 2012 by Jeff Breakey for Good Wolf Music at Hinge Studios in Chicago

Mastered August 2012 by Danny Leake at Urban Guerilla Engineers in Chicago

Songs and Lyrics composed by R. Bassel Al-Madani for Bassel Music (ASCAP)

Horn Arrangements composed by Jeremy Levine and Thom Schwartz

Illustration and Layout by Max Levine

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Bassel & The Supernaturals combines neo-soul and funk with captivating lyrics about love, loss, and a war in Syria that has directly affected Bassel Almadani’s family along with 10,000,000 others.

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