Make Believe
by STILL DREAMS
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1. |
Ultra Doomed
05:33
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Please leave us alone
They can't make us warm
Don't get us into the game they're on
We know there's no more
Read between the lines
We don't believe the lies
Watching every word, they sigh
We feel like confined
Nothing like sleeping next to you
To remind I'm safe
Settle down in a place so called "totally unfit life"
We're ultra doomed to be together
I can't hide my love no longer
I don't think I'm the one you hope
But I'm a shoulder for you cry on
We're ultra doomed to be together
The cosmos chose you like no other
You will never feel alone anymore
I’ll be a shore that you belong
I feel like nothing on earth when we sail to the breach
Let's go back where we used to live
Nobody knows us there
Meet me in our own dreams
Without any ways out
You're the only love that I could ever touched
Let us stay as we are
Nothing like sleeping next to you
To remind I'm safe
Settle down in a place so called "totally unfit life"
We're ultra doomed to be together
I can't hide my love no longer
I don't think I'm the one you hope
But I'm a shoulder for you cry on
We're ultra doomed to be together
The cosmos chose you like no other
You will never feel alone anymore
I’ll be a shore that you belong
We're ultra doomed to be together
I can't hide my love no longer
I don't think I'm the one you hope
But I'm a shoulder for you cry on
We're ultra doomed to be together
The cosmos chose you like no other
You will never feel alone anymore
I’ll be a shore that you belong
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2. |
Last True Love
03:50
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Pick up a piece of song you used to dream
Your heartbeat synchronizes to the stream
Got soaking wet with the tears of foreseen
But we still don't give it up
Don't you bring it on
Never looking back
It's time to move on
To the new frontier
Don't you let me down
You're not anyone
Things to be found
Are waiting for us
We are the last true love in this cruel world
Paranoid as it sounds
But we're still untouched
We are the last true love in this cruel world
The galaxy did a whirl
But we're gazing at the same wave
Sick of the feeling you would make mistake
And I know the hate eats you everyday
Even though your eyes are wide awake
Your soul is sleeping inside
Don't you bring it on
Never looking back
It's time to move on
To the new frontier
Don't you let me down
You're not anyone
Things to be found
Are waiting for us
We are the last true love in this cruel world
Paranoid as it sounds
But we're still untouched
We are the last true love in this cruel world
The galaxy did a whirl
But we're gazing at the same wave
We are the last true love in this cruel world
Paranoid as it sounds
But we're still untouched
We are the last true love in this cruel world
The galaxy did a whirl
But we're gazing at the same wave
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3. |
Spell
03:59
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Time will tell
That I'm useless
There's no any kind of view
Without fails
But all to blame
Is your spell
It's a whisper in my ear to embrace
Take off my shame and lay down on my shoulder
It's you that can say "don't think just
Feel"
Make up my mind to get down from the way I keep
Drive me away like you used to
I can't stop loving the band from the stereo
This song won't make me feel so alone
Can't stop loving the band from the stereo
I am spelled now
And it would never let me go
Won't you take
Me as remains
Of a sound inside of you
I can't get
There's nowhere else
But your dream
Nothing turned out to be true
For my head
Take off my shame and lay down on my shoulder
It's you that can say "don't think just
Feel"
Make up my mind to get down from the way I keep
Drive me away like you used to
I can't stop loving the band from the stereo
This song won't make me feel so alone
Can't stop loving the band from the stereo
I am spelled now
And it would never let me go
I can't stop loving the band from the stereo
This song won't make me feel so alone
Can't stop loving the band from the stereo
I am spelled now
And it would never let me go
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They say it's waste of time
I know but I'm feeling alright
Love songs won't mean to me
None of them can't apply to us
We can get better from here
Sometimes it doesn't work well
I'll be there when you need me
Or even if you don't at all
Cheer up!
It's not the end
Focus on taking the wheel
I gonna drive all night
To shake off your smile
It's all trash
If you're not next to me
(I'm out of time and faster than light)
Just let your life slide to mine to live forever
Drive all night
Over billion miles
With no maps
I gonna come out from real
(I'm out of time and faster than light)
Just let your life slide to mine to live forever
I'm out of time!
Faster than light!
I can look but I can't touch
You are always far away
Something keeps my eyes on
I'm about as close as I could be
Days seems longer
And the life seems harder without you
Without you
Cheer up!
It's not the end
Focus on taking the wheel
I gonna drive all night
To shake off your smile
It's all trash
If you're not next to me
(I'm out of time and faster than light)
Just let your life slide to mine to live forever
Drive all night
Over billion miles
With no maps
I gonna come out from real
(I'm out of time and faster than light)
Just let your life slide to mine to live
Forever
I'm out of time!
Faster than light!
I gonna drive all night
To shake off your smile
It's all trash
If you're not next to me
(I'm out of time and faster than light)
Just let your life slide to mine to live forever
Drive all night
Over billion miles
With no maps
I gonna come out from real
(I'm out of time and faster than light)
Just let your life slide to mine to live
Forever
I'm out of time!
Faster than light!
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5. |
One More Kiss
04:23
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Stop pretending like you see
Everything to be satisfied
Don't get me wrong
I'm here to be your sympathy
You'll have to learn
Worry you'd be nobody
Your life is lined up straight
Just a minute to pull me in
Then let me burst
Could you give one more kiss
I don't want us to be separated again
There's nothing for me in this city
I'm getting sick of stories they empathize with
Sometimes you feel lonely
Because nothing is not worth to try
Talk with me
About stealing common practice
It makes us choke
Worry you'd be nobody
Your life is lined up straight
Just a minute to pull me in
Then let me burst
Could you give one more kiss
I don't want us to be separated again
There's nothing for me in this city
I'm getting sick of stories they empathize with
Won't you stay
Here with me until the world's burn down
It must easy on you
You can't escape
It was mortal till you come around
Please take my breath
Could you give one more kiss
I don't want us to be separated again
There's nothing for me in this city
I'm getting sick of stories they empathize with
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6. |
Make Believe
04:37
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So long, my dear friend
I think it's almost time
To go back to my normal life
As if we never met
No more tears for us
We were only stuck in our minds
Coming over countless nights
We know how we should be
I've spent much time to make believe
As if you were best for me
I'm sorry not to unweave your strings
Now you're free to spread your wings to the swell
Don't be afraid of being alone
Just an awake from your daydream
Set your soul on the next stream
Now you're free from the way you've been
It makes you spin
Lean on me again
I still love the way you stare
At the things you love so much
It's just like a spell
We don't need to get
Close to a shiver from inside
Can we sleep away this behind
If we make a wish
I’ve spent much time to make believe
As if you were best for me
I'm sorry not to unweave your strings
Now you're free to spread your wings to the swell
Don't be afraid of being alone
Just an awake from your daydream
Set your soul on the next stream
Now you're free from the way you've been
It makes you spin
It makes you spin
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7. |
Live With Excuse
04:40
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The more I speak
The less I say
I don't know how to express my feel
I'm not right
But I can't hide
I want to sleep in bed to heal
When the morning comes
I'm always afraid
I don't have to wake up
From this shade
Is there any funs
For the one strayed?
I don't have enough luck
To be praised
Have you felt like you want to disappear
Cause all you can find is fear, fear in you
Have you felt like you are almost breaking down
So go away with me
We gonna live with excuses
All you see is nothing real
Live with excuses
All you see is nothing real
Love your own tricks
Take what you only need
Know what make you lift
Blind but no scared
Live with excuses
All you see is nothing real
Letting up
Though worst ideals
These things mean a lot to me
In this sounds
I can get free
And nothing is never as it seems
Have you felt like you want to disappear
Cause all you can find is fear, fear in you
Have you felt like you are almost breaking down
So go away with me
We gonna live with excuses
All you see is nothing real
Live with excuses
All you see is nothing real
Love your own tricks
Take what you only need
Know what make you lift
Blind but no scared
Live with excuses
All you see is nothing real
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2008
03:46
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Do you believe that we stay together
What you feel now is so essential
Don't you think you can be much wiser
We grew up to sing it from here
She stopped sudden crying
And instead begin to laugh a lot
I may still have the bias
Only as she forgives it
We were both 19 but
I thought she would be more
Than anything in my life
Completely know what she wants
Do you believe that we stay together
What you feel now is so essential
Don't you think you can be much wiser
We grew up to sing it from here
Our first selfie in Bangkok
Drunken nights in Shenzhen
With her, they're going
On forever
And ever and ever
Things you can't bear
You don't need to steer
What I know clear is
Keeping her secured
If I weren't there
My thought won't disappear
There ain't no fear
Except it's not without her
Do you believe that we stay together
What you feel now is so essential
Don't you think you can be much wiser
We grew up to sing it from here
Do you believe that we get older
But we still have eyes on each other
Don't you think we miss the time we were young
We grew up to sing it from here
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► Watch the official video-clips of "Ultra Doomed" / "Last True Love" / "Live With Excuse" on bit.ly/36YCw7J
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“New Adventures In Pop” collection [Issue 051]
We do not need to tell you that at Elefant Records we have a weakness for bands from far east Asia. The duo STILL DREAMS reaffirms our feelings about the marvelous music that comes to us from that region, and now they are included in our catalogue with a 12” pink vinyl Mini-LP that, of course, is being released as a part of our “New Adventures In Pop” collection, which we reserve for promising new bands.
Ryuta and Maaya were already playing in bands together, since their high school days. But after getting married, they decided to form STILL DREAMS. And after a couple of EP’s, they are here with Elefant with “Make Believe”, a purification of their musical conceptualization, reaching the sublime. These eight songs comprise a conglomeration of evocative, luminous emotions and an openly pop spirit, close to COCTEAU TWINS, Sarah Records, synth-pop and NEW ORDER.
The album opens with a song that we know as our introduction. “Ultra Doomed” is an exercise in evocative, synthesized pop, with huge melodies, that could fit in somewhere between SAINT ETIENNE and THE HUMAN LEAGUE. The song invites us to dance and get excited in equal parts. “Last True Love” reminds us again of the universe of the Bernard Sumner crew: basses full of energy, ultra-catchy, infinitely luminous and energetic lines. There is an extensive development of unequivocally pop dedication, which little by little is becoming their trademark. “Spell” gives us one of the first surprise twists: touches of funk and disco music, serving a catchy, blissed-out chorus. Muted Stratocasters, percussive synthesizers, an 80s explosion. “Drive All Night (Faster Than Light)” takes it up a notch: we start out with a synth-pop not too far from OMD and end up with techno-pop along the lines of groups like BIS or DUBSTAR. Pure hedonism.
“One More Kiss” opens the B side of this precious, numbered-limited-edition vinyl (that once again has exquisite cover art by Kanutsanan Khemthong, a.k.a., KNN.5) and reminds us again of the marvelous duality of STILL DREAMS’ music: ideal for listening while watching the sunrise; magical for a night of exaltation. Something like the early THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART, but pushed in this case by a drum machine. “Make Believe”, apart from being the title track, reinforces the melancholy factor. Broken hearts and emotions right at the surface in an outstandingly dazzling piece. “Live With Excuse” is epic explosion of euphoria, working from the pop essence of groups like M83 and ARCADE FIRE. A wall of sound hiding major melodies, or a reformulation of MY BLOODY VALENTINE’s universe through synthesizers. “2008”, to wrap things up, returns to the most precious and uninhibited techno-pop, to summer nights, to maximum happiness.
This album is surprising in its ability to inhabit different emotional spaces, from the most festive to the most introspective, always staying true to undeniably pop melodies. This new release, definitely lets us foresee great moments in the company of STILL DREAMS’ music.
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► Watch the official video-clips of "Ultra Doomed" / "Last True Love" / "Live With Excuse" on bit.ly/36YCw7J
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“New Adventures In Pop” collection [Issue 051]
We do not need to tell you that at Elefant Records we have a weakness for bands from far east Asia. The duo STILL DREAMS reaffirms our feelings about the marvelous music that comes to us from that region, and now they are included in our catalogue with a 12” pink vinyl Mini-LP that, of course, is being released as a part of our “New Adventures In Pop” collection, which we reserve for promising new bands.
Ryuta and Maaya were already playing in bands together, since their high school days. But after getting married, they decided to form STILL DREAMS. And after a couple of EP’s, they are here with Elefant with “Make Believe”, a purification of their musical conceptualization, reaching the sublime. These eight songs comprise a conglomeration of evocative, luminous emotions and an openly pop spirit, close to COCTEAU TWINS, Sarah Records, synth-pop and NEW ORDER.
The album opens with a song that we know as our introduction. “Ultra Doomed” is an exercise in evocative, synthesized pop, with huge melodies, that could fit in somewhere between SAINT ETIENNE and THE HUMAN LEAGUE. The song invites us to dance and get excited in equal parts. “Last True Love” reminds us again of the universe of the Bernard Sumner crew: basses full of energy, ultra-catchy, infinitely luminous and energetic lines. There is an extensive development of unequivocally pop dedication, which little by little is becoming their trademark. “Spell” gives us one of the first surprise twists: touches of funk and disco music, serving a catchy, blissed-out chorus. Muted Stratocasters, percussive synthesizers, an 80s explosion. “Drive All Night (Faster Than Light)” takes it up a notch: we start out with a synth-pop not too far from OMD and end up with techno-pop along the lines of groups like BIS or DUBSTAR. Pure hedonism.
“One More Kiss” opens the B side of this precious, numbered-limited-edition vinyl (that once again has exquisite cover art by Kanutsanan Khemthong, a.k.a., KNN.5) and reminds us again of the marvelous duality of STILL DREAMS’ music: ideal for listening while watching the sunrise; magical for a night of exaltation. Something like the early THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART, but pushed in this case by a drum machine. “Make Believe”, apart from being the title track, reinforces the melancholy factor. Broken hearts and emotions right at the surface in an outstandingly dazzling piece. “Live With Excuse” is epic explosion of euphoria, working from the pop essence of groups like M83 and ARCADE FIRE. A wall of sound hiding major melodies, or a reformulation of MY BLOODY VALENTINE’s universe through synthesizers. “2008”, to wrap things up, returns to the most precious and uninhibited techno-pop, to summer nights, to maximum happiness.
This album is surprising in its ability to inhabit different emotional spaces, from the most festive to the most introspective, always staying true to undeniably pop melodies. This new release, definitely lets us foresee great moments in the company of STILL DREAMS’ music.
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