“Unfinished Like Your Basement” Credits

Written and performed by Dylan Owen

Produced by naebird and Wes Henry

Piano played Dylan Owen

Violin by Gabe Valle

Mandolin by Devin Arne

Recorded at The Bird’s Nest (LA) and Big & Tall (NJ)

Engineering Ernesto Valenzuela

Mixed by naebird

Mastered by Skinny Atlas

Cover art photo by Tom Flynn

Design by Dylan Owen

Now that the cliches have gone away

These are the only words I have left to say

And I will say them

With so much conviction

As I'm laying here on the floor of your kitchen

Saying that the ceiling

Is spinning too fast

It reminds me of your skin

How it peels and it cracks

I'm not complaining

I just worry on occasion

That we'll always stay unfinished like your basement

And we came of age at your dad's that night

Now you're somebody's mother

And you're some guy's wife

And you're some kid's stepmom

Repainting his houses

I hope you know you'll always

Have a place in my albums

While the poets write songs about the circle of life

I write another song with circles under my eyes

I guess I was never meant

To become one of them

And I'll never have the type of song that everybody sings

Like la da da

La da da

La da da

La da da

La da da

La da da

La da da da da

Now that the cliches have gone away

These are the only words I have left to say

And I will say them with so much intention

As I'm sitting here on the stairs of your deck and I'm

Saying that the best days in life fly by

And when we kill time

It's like homicide

And the hearts that we hid

Under your bed in a shoebox

We watched this sleepy town wake up from a rooftop

Now that the first great one got away

It's just the last two of them that remain

So I'm not complaining

I just worry that I'm chasing

A part of me that's still

Unfinished like your basement

The poets write songs about the circle of life

I write another song about ending mine

I guess I was never meant

To become one of them

And I'll never have the type of song that everybody sings

Like la da da

La da da

La da da

La da da

La da da

La da da

La da da da

Unfinished like your basement