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this is where our songs live

by the fake boys

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1.
i'm all ears so sing me home for the pretty girls and the boys dreaming offshore it never ends and I'm fucking lost i don't wanna be let down i don't wanna be let down, again "the only people for me are the mad ones" we're not beautiful anymore someday i will leave this place and never come back but you’ll always be on my mind
2.
be free 02:24
i saw you losing my mind sifting through this brain it's just wasted time a face worn that's pulled a life's worth of thread and covers up the holes burnt in my head alone for days, the nights creep on me i think about it all too much to rent sleep light will keep us young, pretty, and naive i've died too much for some but some never leave am i still warm or is this killing me? am i still worn or is this yesterday? but despite it all i still enjoy some things
3.
i love 01:45
i guess i’m tired of breathing alone her eyes spacing lost and warm lips to neck, girl i can't let go it's the touch, it’s the anticipation you know i'm sleeping in today and we won't dance, tonight you're asking for it
4.
logical ape 01:32
i don't want to make it i just want to make some time growing up american stole every hour that i slept it's your bed and i won't make it again everything's disorderly when the order's not the same growing up american stole every thought i've ever had it's my head and every state's bleeding red we have it all you know just sell the earth to stay ahead and every cop's your fuckin' friend just like god is the end, not dirt
5.
i'll be scratching the walls every time i lose my mind because it's your vocal parts in my head when i write i'll be right down the street until the die we fucking die sleeping through life chasing songs, chasing nights so tell me i'm ok and that the world checked out on me i just want you to know i look for today in yesterday
6.
sucking on cement kept me hanging on for years it nailed me to the floor those we're the days some things will never change and we haven't got a chance she said she'd never quit when the nights are long but mass ave is always on when i'm lost and I’m feeling sure that this world has a place for me i think of my friends and realize i'm dying
7.
we beat that road for weeks just to stay alive do you remember the time we parked in the airport bus station all night? i'd drive for months just to kiss you on the face can i sleep on the floor? it's a long way back to earth, i hate that place i guess i always knew it's just that everything i knew was shot by who i thought i was you're the one i'm running from i sing to you every night on the keys where my heart is sold
8.
hanging like a dog i'll die for sure when you have nothing its all the world because everything's nothing at all living for the memories, they're all i've got and i'm still breathing half the time but they won't take me alive so let them live and die for jesus and pave the road for the unsure because when it's time to go we'll be ok It's just a game and every night it's all the same waiting to die's not as bad as it seems have i failed?
9.
crush 02:20
crushing on legs longer than length kept me dreaming when the clock is dull take my eyes, they're all i've got unless you like talking nothing at all i'll be hanging on your wall tonight chucking lies like blue lines on trucks this room's got pull, it's a heavy world you've got me digging and i know it's on i'm spitting words in my head but i can't scream to save my life is this the heart that beats you sick? there's too much to hide and i can't pick a face
10.
we play from my head, it's a lonely place don't forget i fuck up everything but i'll see you at the show tonight hey earth, i'm dying a free bird when i woke up i sucked the air and left life in the dust
11.
your face has got me crushing on the bends keep in touch when 128 ends i'll be where the ocean meets the sand and if i drown i win i'm not cocky, just realistic yet completely lost and absolutely hopeless the best mess you've never seen monday night's yours for life we never thought twice but it's alright and just like rome this is proof that the best things are built in a day or night
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i quit 02:03
everyday's a sick call and every night's a bust but give me a floor and i'll never walk home again i'm usually boring and/or consistently bored i've got the real world stuck in my head again i remember everything and i can still taste the snowfall there was a time when i never left home without a hand but every night i wake up and i want to fuckin' die i left my life in a litterbox, choking in the road there's no hope for us today girl i just hope you've enjoyed the sounds i love to waste your space

about

once upon a time, a couple of us needed a place to live so we decided to rent a house in lowell and write a record there. a bunch of friends lived there with us and it was always a super fun environment. we jammed in the basement along with our budz in TKC who were and still are some of my favorite musicians. writing in that basement was amazing, it really set the tone for an incredible experience. we wanted to continue with the short, aggressive style but colored with a 60's rock type vibe to help paint a picture of what we were living at the moment. the songs felt good, the process felt right, and living together in lowell was fun. we wrote 10 songs right away and headed to getaway recording to lay them down. shortly after that, i remember jamming in the kitchen for a couple days because our equipment was in the van and we didn't feel like carrying it all downstairs. i think i was inspired by jamming upstairs with the windows open for whatever reason and decided to write a couple more songs for the album. we wrote they don't know and i quit in the kitchen and went back to the studio to lay them down immediately. our time in that house came to an end when we were getting ready to head to europe for the first time with our new friends the real danger from holland. this was exciting not only because we were going to europe but because we had our bud mike foti join the band on second guitar for a bit! some of the last jams in that house were definitely the best. when we went to europe we met fieke and gert jan from shield recordings who basically set up and took care of everything for us which was unbelievable. shield recordings would eventually put out the 'this is where our songs live' CD in europe as well as the 'please, don't go home' LP which was a collection of our first 2 CDEP's and a couple of bonus tracks. at this point we had a euro release for TIWOSL ready to go but our US release situation was a mess. we had started a relationship with a US label who was supposedly down to release the LP for us. pre-orders were taken, test presses were said to have been approved, and we were told that we would have the LP's before we left for europe. we were even sent pictures of stacks of what we were told was our records. needless to say, our records never came and the label completely ghosted us. we left for europe without the record and had to tell everyone who pre-ordered the LP what had happened. the dude eventually reached out to us to apologize and promised that he had refunded everyone who had pre-ordered the record. at this point our good friend johnnie limit who runs arrest records hit me up and saved the day. this dude puts his heart and soul into everything he does and took on the US release of the CD and LP versions of 'this is where our songs live' in 2010. we couldn't ever thank johnnie enough for everything he has done for us over the years and without him our band would have definitely broken up a long time ago.

credits

released January 1, 2010

all songs written and performed by the fake boys
recorded, mixed, and mastered by jay maas
produced by jim domenici and jay maas

'this is where our songs live' CDEP released by arrest records
'this is where our songs live' LP released by arrest records
'this is where our songs live' EURO CDEP by shield recordings

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the fake boys Lowell, Massachusetts

we're neanderthals writing dirty pop songs, we like video games and dogs, we do what we want, this is thick pop.

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