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Finally

by The Attempted Band

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DCG 05:08
I love you with the hopelessness of one who'll never be I believe you with the blind faith of one who'll never see I know you and your thoughts are they that are never me Seek your warmth in its ice cold shroud of mystery You're the graveyard of my memories and you'll never die You can always make the truth so sweet and you won't even have to lie I dream of you and the clouds are never grey Your breath that blows the ashes of hurt away You can make the stars shine so bright in the burning light of day The vacuum pulls me deeper, to you I want to stray You can wriggle my toes, my feet, proverbial feet of clay Tie me crucified stretched between tomorrow and yesterday You're the graveyard of my memories and you'll never die You can always make the truth so sweet and you won't even have to lie I dream of you and the clouds are never grey Your breath that blows the ashes of hurt away
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How many days do I stick to you like glue How many years until you know that it's true How many times must I fall in love How many times and always with you Always with you Godzilla Where are you Godzilla You know it's true Godzilla I'm looking for you Godzilla Said I loved you How many seas will my tears they will make How many hearts of mine do you wish to break How many skies will my dreams of you take How many lies will I ever see you fake See you fake Godzilla Where are you Godzilla You know it's true Godzilla I'm looking for you Godzilla Said I loved you
3.
Sara baby Said I love you and I don't mean maybe I just wanna kiss you And when you're not here I miss you Will you be mine I can bring you both kinds of wine I think you're fine On a scale of one to 6 baby you are a 9 Ooooooh (said with utmost sexiness) I bring you some chocolate Your smile I can't forget Gotta get you in my car Learn how to drive and we can go far You're my princess I love you this I must confess You're my princes I love you this I must confess When I look into your eyes I know that you must realize That everything I say is true Spend my days and nights just thinking of you Come baby take my hand I'll give you love, make you understand I'll be your man In the way that only way a Bengali can
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Alyshia 04:33
Sometimes I look at the sky and I count the stars It makes me smile deep down inside because that's where I feel like you are Did god create you on the day he made the flowers Cause when you're not around every moment feels sour And when I'm by myself with my books and my tea My heart skips just a little bit because I think of you and me I feel like a melting snowman because you're just so sweet I'm afraid I'll get diabetes the next time you and I meet Alyshia Alyshia Wish I knew what to do to please ya Alyshia You please me I was just a prisoner here until you came and released me And so I write this little song and it feels like a broken line I long for the days, the day you are mine I promise everything I sing here is true Most days and nights Alyshia I'm right here thinking of you Alyshia Alyshia Wish I knew what to do to please ya Alyshia You please me I was just a prisoner here until you came and released me
5.
I see you walking by With a bastard I hate Your skies are his to fly While I masturbate I see you walking by You're holding his hand When you laugh at me I don't understand Baby baby can't you see There's more than just a loser in me I'm sure that someday you'll belong to me I see you walking by You glisten with sweat I see your little man Smell your jam in his breath I see you walking by I bleed in my soul But you like 'em veiny And I'm so old Baby baby can't you see There's more than just a loser in me I'm sure that someday you'll belong to me
6.
Jibone kicchu pabonare Bhulini shei bhabona Jibone kicchu pabonare Bhulini shei bhabona Phire esho mor kacche bolo amari shathi ar konodin phire jabena Phire esho mor kacche bolo amari shathi ar konodin phire jabena Chole jete chao ojanaye Eka jeyo na Bhebe shune koro kaj Kore bhebona Na na na Bhebe dekho Eka eka jeyona Chole jete chao ojanaye Eka jeyo YEAH Jibone kicchu pabonare Bhulini shei bhabona Jibone kicchu pabonare Bhulini shei bhabona Bhulini shei bhabona
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Finally 06:38
Finally we're getting there Finally we're here
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I love you so much I could shit I feel it all the time You are my wisdom and my wit You're almost a crime You are my ecstasy My candy bar of joy Imploding upon my violence burst Like a flower to enjoy You are so fertile And your breath is me You're my confusion My fantasy You love her so much you could shit I hate that all the time I hate her haircut her every bit Smear me in my own slime With you I be and I just can't think We laugh at me the fool Can't help my own attemptedness And it's all because you rule You're like a thought that I had My flowing wet of love If you could see inside You'd change your mind I am the skin that you clad Your sweating glove Though I'm a bit too wide Let's put it on rewind
13.
Everything's perfect I've got nothing to dream Simplicity blue inside My rainbow screams Cliches to hide behind My brand new skin Recycling my old themes I don't know I've been End of a conversation My gilded cage I call out for my wisdom Otherwise engaged I see through the mirror I am just me Maybe there's something missing That I could never see I know myself and my own plastic wings Shadows never lie but they can't speak a thing You are my illusion that I can bring I am my new allusion for me to cling And when it rains in me I can't make it dry Jump from the cliff I say I'm learning to fly And if it makes you wonder And smile or sigh My naiveté will rescue Me with a lie And this is not the end of Everything near And it won't start no new thought Insincere Though far away from me I'm always here As I feel thoughts that I'd thought Do I feel scared I see myself and I hear my own screams Don't let it bother your own possible dreams As it all shapes up to the final scheme I stand by and I watch it all seem
14.
I will not go gently into that good night, bunky.

about

We formed The Attempted Band in 1996 and wrote most of these songs between 97-99. We finally recorded tracks 1-8 in 2014. Tracks 9 and 10 are remixes. 11-14 are from a demo in 2000.

We recorded this album pretty much over the internet and put it together in three days in Boston. Thankfully, our ineptitude with audio equipment means that we could preserve the live element--most of the instruments are done in one take because we couldn't master the art of the second take until way late in the process, when our doughty sound engineer Mike came into the scene and saved us from ourselves.

This album wouldn't have been possible without the help of many, many people sending us tracks, artwork, ideas, etc over the internet. Every song has individual credits, but here are the people we'd like to thank, in no specific order:

Amreen for the cover art, Rajib bhai for directing the video, Sara for waking up at 5 in the morning to be in it, Anik for starting us out on the recording process, Bill for his awesome arrangement idea, Saad for playing amazing keys at such short notice, Mike for playing bass, playing keys, dealing with our stupid jokes, being just generally fucking awesome and doing such an amazing job with the sound even in spite of all our initial failings, Shakib bhai for acting tough and saying "Waak thu" to the music, all our friends and fans who encouraged us to do this by saying "You know, this isn't as terrible of an idea as you might think. I mean it probably is, but do it and we promise to only laugh behind your back" (except Arif who laughed in our faces), Wasif for letting us record our demo in his studio time back in 2000, Charu bhai for doing an amazing engineering job at Music Man Studios for our original demo. Moomie, Nafi, Rezwan bhai, Mishaal, Fahad, and Milu bhai for the encouragement and giving it a listen. And Seth for being the first to buy the album!!!!

Thank you, Troyer Youth Choir!!!!!!!

Thanks too to all the people who've played in the band at one time or another--Daniel, you're the one we missed the most because we wrote all these songs together. Shafqat, Sadat, Farhan (ki hoyecche?), Oshi, Safina. And Gibran bhai: we love you with so much khatta.

Thank you Guru Azam Khan for bringing rock music to Bangladesh. Thanks to Feedback, Rockstrata, Miles, Feelings, LRB, and all the other great bands who inspired us.

Thanks to our long-suffering families, who paid for equipment and dealt with 2AM drum solos (or drum solos at any time really), made us get singing lessons, and played songs we hated as teenagers that ended up shaping our idea of what music is like. And thank you, with the biggest hugs and kisses and love, to our furry friends--Joe Black, Sammy, Jamila, and Bishu. Sorry it gets loud when we practice.

And thanks most of all to all the girls who refused to have anything to do with us. Without you, we would have never written these songs!!!

credits

released July 14, 2014

Jisha Sarwar: vocals
Farooque Bhai: vocals
Michael Allard: bass, keys
Saad Chowdhury: keys
Bill Burley: keys
Imran Aziz: guitars, vocals
Arafat Kazi: drums, vocals

Special guests Troyer Youth Choir in "Only A Bengali Can" and "I MIght Be Ugly But I'm Not Stupid"

Troyer Youth Choir are:

Mir Jamiur "Jelybean" Rahman
Tahmid "T-Buzz" Mostafa
Faria "Queen Bee" Nuzhat
Shehereen "Nagini" Alam
Rubaiyat "Kho-Money" Hussain
Atif "Artcell" Anwar
Samir "Mad Dog" Abdullah
Je-Flow "Psychotronic Riffer"

All lyrics and music by Imran Aziz and Arafat Kazi except "Jibone Kicchu Pabonare", which is a cover of the great Bangla rock guru Azam Khan

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