Lower Dens - Real Thing Lyrics

She has the exact same voice as Bono!

I love this song very much...but...just realized how much it owes to Crywank's "Memento Mori.". The chorus is thematically and melodically VERY COMPRABLE to when Crywank sings "Oh I want to be a baby again" (etc.)

A stunning artistic statement and a real heartbreaker. Invoking Ferry in the best of ways.

Красота

Such a heartbreaking song but so Fucking true 🖤💔

...my new buddy, Geoffrey, used to be in the band...

Jana is beautiful and Lower Dens is beautitful. Little pinpoints of beauty in an ugly pointless world.

This song captured me, "I want to be young, I want to dance with an abandon, and I don't care about the real thing." I have so much in life, a loving wife, wonderful and beautiful children. I've travelled, I've had psychedelic experiences, I have a fulfilling career, I've been full of love and hate, wonder and awe -- I've experienced much and still I feel the urge for "more" and "new." This song isn't about partying and superficial lifestyles, it speaks to the heart of the human condition. We want to be infinite (young), we want to be free (dance with an abandon) and we are faced with limitation and death daily. So we tell ourselves stories and fool ourselves in order to evade the truth (I don't care about the real thing). Early on in the song they say "I'm married to a guy, I never need, until I die". That is a very telling line, the person is aware of the human need for a deep, meaningful and loving relationship. But is betraying a profound desire and suffering for it.

I can’t believe I’m just barely discovering this amazing group 😭 absolutely beautiful

Are you doing a tour in the UK soon? I would love to ge tickets, and so would lots of friends of mine! <3

My favorite song

I'm married to
A terrific guy
I'll never leave
Until I die

[Chorus]
But I just love to get out and get it on
I don't wanna live possessed by a memory
I want to be young, I want to dance with abandon
And I don't care about the real thing

[Verse 2]
Everywhere I go
I'm reporting from the scene
Of somebody's
Missed opportunity

[Bridge]
I love you. But it's not enough (But why?)
Baby, I just know. There's so much more

[Chorus]
But I just love to get out and get it on
I don't wanna live possessed by a memory
I want to be young, I want to dance with abandon
And I don't care about the real thing

Doesn't it make you feel bad when losers get a hold of the good shit?

This makes me want to talk to a girl and see where the night goes

Christopher Rustad the anthem of real people feeling better than everyone else on a girl tonite?

What do you think is better pussy or art

Look how many people on here saying “Beach house.” Yup. Blatantly Beach house. I said this years ago and this chick and her little buddy Codums Critchehooly raised hell. Biters.

Jana <3

Wait! Issa woman?!

I think Jana Hunter is genderqueer and uses they/them pronouns, so no, I don’t think so (:

Genderfluid, excuse me.

my first thought was "New Beach House" -love them both

I love this and I'm so heart broken but every time I see the tear I start cracking up

ini mantep emang si botak

Jana Hunter: "The lyrics were inspired by an advice column in an old copy of Oui magazine I found in Arthur's apartment. The woman writing in to the column seemed genuinely torn between her love for her husband and her desire to fuck around. I find that kind of selfishness entirely relatable, the kind of thing all of us know about ourselves and find nearly impossible to admit. Those kinds of simultaneously internal and yet universal struggles bring me to tears. What if we could all acknowledge just those kinds of flaws, accept them, resolve not to judge each other? I mean, who wants this misery? This alienation? The greed that follows generations of repression? The jealously, oppression and injustice that come next? No. Hell no. If that's reality, I don't care to be a part of it. Or at least that's how I let myself feel from time to time, until I realize I love people and I'm part of the community of humankind and if things are gonna be better for anybody it's on me to do my part. Might seem like a lot but, for me, it's all in this song."

MORE PLEASE!

SPOILER WARNING: leaked footage from Stranger Things 3

This is soo Twin Peaks

intriguing and elegant

onya lass

So heartfelt, this is really beautiful.

This track definitely needed a water droplet sound. That would've given it that little touch.

NPR sent me here. Thank you NPR!

Most tragic song about wanting to party.

The Cure vibes

"i dont want to live possessed by a memory" that lyric really hit me. i spend my life wondering what if, what if i did something differently, what if i didn't push you away. I hold onto memories and I'm too hopeful. I need to move on in order to live my life

Thanks for sharing this. We have to let go of the past, no matter how painful. Then we can move on to new memories :D

No le hables a ese mamoncete...

We love this.

people love to reduce songs to just "good sounds/vibes" or "sounds like this band mixed with this band"

the basest reaction one can have is to equate a new experience with an old one or try to find reference points.

if that was all there was, she wouldnt bother writing lyrics. the sentiment behind this song is the central aspect and shouldnt be cast aside to genre-fy

She sounds like Jehnny Beth from Savages

Çok iyi :')

Holiday jam!

she is beautiful <3

wow I love it

Amo Lower Dens desde que nasci! hahahah essa música ta show.

Feeling a lot of Cocteau Twins vibes, I love it.

وTabitha Stanton

Sounds like a mix between My Bloody Valentine, Starsailor, Suede, and Beach House.

Heard this while riding on a foggy country road just after sunrise. The landscape fit the song well, forgotten and haunting.

Damn, that's what life is about - the right music and the right atmosphere :)

Jesus they just keep on getting better

Chills.

I hear Mum Green Grass of Tunnel at the end

where??

You get points for getting the reference.

Just the fact that you mentioned Mum and especially THAT song, created an explosion of endorphins in my brain that ALMOST makes up for the sad fact that in a span of about 8 years, only one other person has brought up that band in a real life (or virtual) conversation. You're the second.

so good💜

the lead singer sounds like the lead singer from savages

Ripley after she found out she was impregnated with an alien.

This takes me places.

it has nothing to do with beach house... i love them both.. but lower dens is different...

there are definitely similarities though

Denial, buddy. Look it up.

The drums in this song are almost identical to those in Lover of Mine by Beach House, and the guitar arpeggios are also somewhat similar. Jana's voice is very close in range and character to Victoria's, they could almost sing each other's songs. The two bands are different, but they sure have a lot in common, though I also wouldn't say there's any imitation going on. Plus, I'd say Lower Dens make a lot more diverse music, i.e. this is the only song that bears resemblance to Beach House. Great stuff in any case.

Truly fabulous!

FEELING IT too

dear Jana...

Sublime

Sarah Renoult cool filter on ya profile picture! 😉

better than Beach House. thanks.

electrocute1979 they're both amazing

sie ikiside benim bebeklerim

electrocute1979 bullshit

Oh, look. He said “better than beach house.” That’s cute.

omg Yes! This is so Beach Housy! Love it

Yeah. Blatantly Beach house. Kinda pathetic how much they bit off them.

Love the Dens

I'm married to a terrific guy I'll never leave Until I die But I just love to get out and get it out  I don't want to live possessed by a memory I want to be young I want to dance with  ?*an abandon*? and I don't care about the real thing Everywhere I go I'm reporting from the sea Of somebody's Missed opportunity I love you But it's not enough But why?'Maybe I just know there's so much more But I just love to get out And get it out I don't want to live possessed by a memory I want to be young I want to dance with  ?*an abandon*? And I don't care about the real thing

yes that's right "an abandon" they posted it on their FB page yesterday

But I just love to get out and get it ON, not out :)

Lauren Shettlern

I think I hear 'everywhere I go,
I'm reporting from the scene (instead of sea),
of somebody's,
missed opportunity' 🖤

Are you sure she doesn't say: "But I just love to get out and get it ON" ? And I also agree with Syima - I always thought she said reporting from the scene.

I love his music , I love you lower Dens, from mexico ! I liked the video

Mélodramatique fantastique! ♥︎♥︎♥︎

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

I love it so much

excellent

Beach House vibe

Love it! Hope she has more videos!

so glad i saw them at the ottobar in Baltimore . ive seen so many great bands from that legendary venue.

Nice I've been to 6 shows but not Baltimore yet. I bet those are the most intense shows. Do they get a huge crowd there?

Beach House, Twin Peaks, and Stranger Things. I get all the vibes and I'm loving IT!

L Swogs eleven singing about mike 20 years from now

Uh, yeah...blatantly Beach House. 🙄

both Baltimore :)

I'm so glad to have seen them in Lausanne ( Switzerland ) They are so perfect and they interacted with the public.. was amazing can't describe it

Sounds like Beach House

so early 80s , I'm feeling it...

alguien me puede ayudar a traducir a español este video please

Love that woman the way suburban white girls love Prince. Except I'm nothing like a suburban white girl and she's nothing like Prince. But you get the idea.

Fantastic.

nice one, reminds me of beach house

Beautiful!

Gorgeous & lush song.

Lovely and sad song.

10 seconds in and I already love it

and then the chorus hits you unexpectedly

1 year after I first heard this song and still love it

10 seconds and I’m loving your mom.

love this.

Cool Music!

An unexpected pleasure

Sounds like 2012

Alot of these kinds of bands came out during 2011-2014

Ellen Ripley

New album out soon?

i really hope so!

They are working on one now. I read that in an article about this new track :)

Raffy Rillo hope so

I love this sound: nostalgic, wistful.

очень красиво, и голос приятный

lovely!