Songs Of The Ocean: 2014

Pre-2015

2014 has been an awesome year for me. It brought the coldest winter and the hottest summer. This year is ending and still, I haven't figured it all out. That's why God is giving me a chance to do better, to think better, to live life better, to believe more in His ways. There's a lot of space for improvement and learnings. And I am so excited for 2015 and what it'd bring. About writing, I'm not gonna stop because life's not stopping here. Still, I have no sense of direction but I know why I'm doing this and I'm gonna look at that and not the direction. 2015, come at me, bro.

Love Is Love

Verse 1

Nobody ever listens to someone anymore

At least I've told myself the honest thing

Our economy can't afford

We have eyes but fail to see

We have ears but fail to hear

Our every breath is a chance to live

What are we living for?

Chorus

In this round world

Everything feels like turning around, girl

Live like you're not of this world

All will be gone like the rest of the world

But love is love

Yeah, love is love

Forever, love is love

Verse 2

We're like the sand across the shore

Close alike under the skies

But tonight I feel alone on this island moor

I hear someone knocking at my door

A still, small voice asking me

What am I dying for?

Ocean

Music. It's not so much different from life. Actually, it is life. It breathes. Talks and listens. But what separates it from reality is that it feels like it's from some other world. I've always done life by thinking, observing, analyzing and experimenting. The real world troubles me. I have to do an extra effort to understand or cope up with it. But, music. That slice of peace. An aroma of freedom. It's the only place where I don't think. Creeps up my brain. Empty. Void. Calm. When there's so much words to say, you just grab a note and sing tunes. It is the friendly unknown seas. The sweet rushing water in the river. Imagine yourself away from the shore. A long way from home. Stormy. Calm. Rogue. Alive. Just as the way you want it.

Verse 1
I've hold on to too many things around me
To find that all these gold
Are not that grand at all

I've hold on to too many hurt around me
To find that all these pain
Can not take my soul away

Chorus
We've been talking 'bout our dreams tonight
Sleeping through these lonely fights
Your luscious words to the broken ears breaking fears
You make our hearts grand again

Verse 2
There are voices that tell me to stop
To put some realism in my heart
To follow the crowd, to aim for the ground
And bury my love

But there is a voice that tells me to go
To put up my dreams and walk them all
To give my heart away, to thrive it all today
And love it all

Bridge
Oh, please, awake my heart
Oh, please, awake my love

Ending
You've been talking 'bout Your plans for me
I know it's good
I know it's best for me
I'm trusting You for all the world to see
How you can make us grand again
How you made me grand again

Mediums

Writing is one of the common mediums of expression. The ironic thing for me is that I try not to nor tend to write songs because I want to express myself. I've heard many authors and songwriters define writing in their own sense and they inspire me much more. Sometimes, I feel lost when I write, it's the time when the world, life, love or grace aren't making sense. Songwriting is like an ocean. It's wide, vast, deep, often unpredictable but I could throw a thousand adjectives to describe this metaphor but there's a large chance you won't get it because that's what's songwriting means to me. It's a mystery. Wondering how set of words and compounded melodies, synced by vibrations made by strings and whatever you're hitting makes a wonderful, clearer picture of life. I never cared whether the music is soft jazz, blues, reggae or rock. I only cared for what a song means to someone, what a song means to me. It doesn't need to be a "HIT SONG" or whatever that means. Even I'm the only one who knows and sings the song, I'll never care because I believe in it. It's more than just me.

4 AM

Verse 1

We left the party to be alone

Near the campire burning

On the sand

Of the beach we're at

Maybe the story's starting yet

Or maybe near the end

We'll catch a friend

And wait for the sun to shine

I will wait for You

Make my heart brand new

Chorus

For all the years to come

For all the hurtful tounges

For all the broken hearts

Here's our new day

It's not about how we got these scars

But how we carry on

We'll sing loud with our lungs

To a new day

Here's to a new day

A toast to a new day

For a new day

Sunshine, You're my new day

Verse 2

Writing songs and tunes to sing

Love is our remedy

To these scars

From those falls we had

But we grow stronger

We grow heart

In our wide-eyed little dreams

Buoyant whispers in the dark

Verse 3

A thousand things might be left unsaid

But we don't need to talk

Just sit beside me

And watch the stars

Our laughs and cries are all we have At 4 AM

Soul is thicker than blood, my friends

Yeah, soul is thicker than blood, my friends

Oversee

Verse 1

The kingdom of the Heavens

Is calling all the broken

Invade this broken town

Let the light shine bright like stars

Burn our hearts with fire

Let ourselves be found in You

I am found in You

Chorus

Let love come surround us

Look out for each other

Side by side

We'll face these hurricanes together

The bride of Christ will sing

Forever oversee

Our eyes (hearts, lives) are set

To the glory of our King

The glory of my King

Verse 2

The sea of separation

Of love and world is broken

Flood this city now

To all Your sons and daughters

Who wandered back in the darkness

Call and wait for us to be back home

'Cause You know I will come back home

Bridge

This war inside

You don't need to fight it alone

You're not alone

There's hope inside

We believe it's our right to own

We are one

You're one of our own

In The Aftermath

Verse 1

After every storm that passes this city

You grew stronger

After every nightmare you woke upon

You fought harder

After all what's said and done

You learned to be true

A better place

A better you

This is the aftermath

The aftermath

Chorus 1

You got nothing to lose to this world

You gave it all away, away

The sun will rise again

Feel the heat on your skin

Laud in the aftermath

Verse 2

After every storm that passes this city

I grew stronger

After every nightmare I woke upon

I fought harder

After all what's said and done

I learned to be true

A better place

A better me

This is the aftermath

The aftermath

Chorus 2

I got nothing to lose to this world

I've given it all away, away

The sun will rise again

Feel the heat on my skin

Laud in the aftermath

Bridge

We are not ostracized

We are not at arm's length

This is just for a moment

Laud in the aftermath

The aftermath

Chorus 3

We've got nothing to lose to this world

We've given it all away, away

The sun will rise again

Feel the heat on our skin

Laud in the aftermath

Wet Foot

Verse 1

Looking for a phrase to start this verse

But my mouth won't spit it out

In this world that's full of pain and full of dirt

I found a water that could cleanse my heart

It's all I knew

That He made me new

Chorus

I've got a wet foot

I've got a wet foot now

I've got a feeling

Everything's gonna be alright

Lose all the troubles

Pain's gonna say bye bye

I've got a wet foot

I've got a wet foot now

Everything's gonna be alright

Verse 2

Looking for a place to start anew

A place where I call home

I found all of that in You

Show me Your heart and all Your ways

It's all I need

You're the rainfall to a kid

Frailty

Verse 1

Frailty is her friend

In the absence of her strength

To face her issues

Waiting her fake demise

Silent cry by the bedside

Slow it down

Chorus

You are more than what you believe

You are more than what the world sees

In this fire and cold

You and I will get through

Frailty is our friend, yeah

Verse 2

Frailty is my friend

In the absence of my strength

To face my issues

Waiting my fake demise

Silent scream by the bedside

Slow it down

Baby, slow me down

Bridge

Everything that I have I give it up

All the pain that I feel I put it down

I know we can get it through the night

Slow me down

Ending

We are more than what we believe

We are more than what the world sees

We are more than what is set

In the eyes of the ruptured hearts of men

We are more than what we see

In this fire and cold

You and I will get through

Frailty is our friend, yeah

Nothing Can Stop Us

Verse 1

We now move

From the outskirts of this grunge

And never going back

Never going back to that part

We are new

Created by His love

Our story's just begun

So now we make some noise

For the world to hear that

Chorus

Nothing's gonna stop us today

Nothing's gonna stop us now

Nothing's gonna stop us

Verse 2

Loud, love and life

We're the kids that'll burn and rise

Like a city on a hill

'Cause we've been different

We've been separate before

But we are one now

"This Force that resides that gives strength in our lives. We will not break nor fade. But gives us power to be brave. We will not be moved. We will not be shaken. There's no soul that can break even. We won't stop. We won't quit. Nothing can ever stop us."

Bridge

Okay, here we go now

We're here to live

Here to give

And we're bringing up this sound

So everyone can hear

That no one can ever stop us

No weapon

Living or dead

You and I

We're eternity ahead

Hey, Wake My Soul

Verse 1

Cannot keep You out

Cannot keep You from

How Your love overflows

Drown me now

Chorus

Hey, wake my soul

Let Your grace overflow me

Verse 2

Let Your truth shine

Let Your story unroll

You're far more than my means

You're far more than my doubts

You're far more than my dreams

Bridge

My world can't box You in

I try to hide You here

You gave us chance to live

Now, it's high time to gleam

Beauty From Pain

Verse 1

Are we to deserve

This reckless grace?

From the moment of birth

We fall to our faces

I don't know how

The world thinks of me

But I know that

There's beauty from pain

Chorus

Let the feeling go

Let the anger fade and burn

Let our souls roar

We're not meant to be dying

Get free from our chains, go

Verse 2

There is so much to life

Than your four walls

Though we faint and die tonight

I believe there's beauty from pain

Ending

Are we to deserve

This reckless grace?

From the moment of birth

We fall to our faces

Downtown

Verse 1

The time has come

I found a home

You're my home

The time has come

All pain is gone

This is home

Chorus

Downtown in the city of gold

Tears are wiped away, whoa whoa

Downtown is the place I belong

I'm waiting for the dawn, whoa whoa

Verse 2

The time will

But before I'm gone

I will run

My heart is sober

Take me higher

Hold my world

Bridge

Like the river runs for the seas

Like the dessert waits for the rain

I'm looking forward to a place I belong

I belong here

Friction

Verse

I choose to be a fool

I choose not to care

All the words that you say

here and now

Maybe then our story has just began

Or our story's in its end

All that things that you do

Are friction to what you say

Chorus

Just tell me the truth

Tell me the truth

I'm tired of finding all your lies

Look me in the eye

And tell it like it's true

I'm tired of hearing all your lies

Bridge

I am not afraid of finding the truth

I am just looking for love

Let me know that it is you

So I'll stop digging for love

Ending

Saying there's nothing going on in between

Is a friction to what you're doing

Listen To The Light Sides!

John And His Life

Verse 1

Even I can't find you

Even I can't see through

Even I can wish

Even I can cry

I feel alone tonight

When all my dreams are fading

And the future's recreating

When no else believes

When no else can tell

That someone's got my back

Chorus

Keep on going

Keep on pushing hard

Keep on going

I believe in miracles

Keep on believing

Run the race like you're winning now

Hope is what we're fighting for

We're the miracles

Verse 2

For the keeps and our whys

Remembering John and his life

All that we can wish

All that we can cry

It's not the end of the night

Bridge

Our tyranny is our blame

Of all our blood and game

Can you hear me up there?

Oh, can you hear me up there?

You're Precious And Gold

"I know you're going through some things, that's normal. Just don't forget that you're precious and gold."

Verse 1

Do you fear

The storm that's

Coming down your way?

Do you feel

Your heart bursting

From all these pain

Chorus

Come, breathe it all in

And let it go

Oh, honey, let it go

Let it go

Come, sing it all out

And let them know

It's not because of you

So, let it go

Verse 2

Do you believe

You happened for a reason?

Open your fists

Let go and

Wipe your tears

Bridge

You're precious and gold

So, let it go

Let it go

Day 1

Borrowed...gears. Set-up.

"My first day of recording stuff was tough. From technicalities to playing and singing. It was really really challenging. I've been using Adobe Audition every time I record, but this time, I used Audacity and it's actually simple and audacious. LOL. It's one hell of an experience and it's just the first day, more songs will come by and I am excited to do every thing."

Cheap album art for "The Light Sides"

Love Is Made

Verse 1
Twenty-five and something
With a little touch of you
Reminds me everyday
That we should always look for the truth

Cause we're frail and we fail
Like most of the time
So, today is my way
Of saying I'm fine

Chorus
Oh, oh, oh
I belong to you
Oh, oh, oh
Tell me you're mine too

Cause the world will trick me
That love is fake
It's a made-up word
Where the heart's at stake
So, pretty pretty please
Love is made

Verse 2
I've been so sure that
Love is not a feeling nor it is blind
Cause it's a choice
That fuels our soul so it won't run dry

For our feelings change every time
But a choice will stand it's ground
Let your heart follow your rhymes
Our resolution's bound to round

A New Man

Verse 1
I'm searching for something
To fill my hole
But I've found nothing better in this world
Than You

I'm searching for a love
That is so true
But I've found nothing better love than Yours
That's true

Chorus
I am a new man
Happy is a life
I want to live

Until the end
I'm gonna sing this song
Till I will bleed

Like You did
Like You lived
Like You loved
And You taught
How a man of the fall
Can live again
With a new kind of breath, yeah

Verse 2
I looked for a friend when I felt alone
But You were the best that I've ever known
I'll never be alone anymore

When I feel lost in the maze of the world
I will just gaze at the sky and know
That You are there

Bridge
You're undivided
Crazy loving that's endless
When I was broken
You took my brokenness

I surrender
To the stars who watch me day and night
Take my life
Let me breathe again
Let me breathe again

The Same

Verse 1

The same

The love's the same

Yesterday

It's still the same

With your friends

It's still the same

With your family

It's still the same

Everything's sane

It's still the same

I'm just a song

Written for all

We're all the same

Come hear my call

We're all on planes

Or just a train

Oh, this metaphor

Travelling the same

Everything's sane

It's still the same

Chorus

You and I are a part of a story that soon will be history

But the future will remember us that we're the same

Verse 2

Our money is just a fool

And the internet is just a tool

And when we have these

We think we're cool

But in reality

All we do is drool

This is insane

It's not the same

We are born

And made to love

To our family

Our friends and to God

To a wife or a husband

To the children or the orphan

That's where our soul comes out ripping

Full of joy and of love

Bridge

Every color, every race

Every story, every face

Every language, every place

Every music, every ace

Is a part of the picture

A one, whole, bigger stature

That we're the same

Ending

The same

My phone is dead

I'm out of cash

But I'm not in dread

Hey, Jon

You were right

Some things

Will be gone for life

So my friends

Settle or dive

Swim the ocean

The world is so wide

I'm a dropout

But in content

I find rest in a shore

Where there's no pain

With a dream that I alone drew

But we're the same

So it's yours too

I love my girl

I love my Dad

I love my Mom

God loves me a lot

House

"Well, this song is experimental. I'm trying to play the story with oxymorons and talk about myself in first-person and third person arbitrarily. Fun."

Verse 1

Sometimes a part of me dies

And I have no clue of how to live

Maybe I'm kind of a pessimist

Or maybe I'm just too naive to cease

I'm facing a lot of phase changes

I'm melting from solid to daisies

A poor guy just won the lottery

Maybe I'm just tired of my epiphanies

It doesn't mean that you're scared

You can not do it

We're all on planes

Don't jump out of it

Chorus

Do now

Dream now

Fly out

It's a long way down

Be yourself

Undoubt yourself

You're free to fly

We're newborn skies

Verse 2

House told me a lot

He's a mirror in a single flat

Miserable, painful and ill

I'm broken but it doesn't hurt here

It doesn't mean that you're a cripple

You can not run

We're all broken

Give your heart to the sun

Songs Of The Ocean

Verse 1

I am an ocean

I am a song

I am a broken man

Try and prove me wrong

Chorus

I'm alive

I feel alive

Be alive again

You and I

Together up the skies

We'll fly again

Verse 2

My feet sinks deep

My heart's been cold

Even the open world

Still my story's untold

Bridge

I'm not waiting for the afterlife

Instead of a show

We're bringing fiction to life

I'm not gonna be defined by numbers and cash

Instead of a tone

Leave a tune that will last

Suits And Cases

Verse 1

Everybody's been successful

Everybody's making a name

Unashamed of their pretty little suits and cases

Profession is a measure of success

I'm not qualified cause

Chorus

You have your company

I have my guitar

You have your houses and cars

This song is all that I've got

Verse 2

I'm a little hopeful dreamer

I'm writing as honest as I can

I just think it's a little unfair

When you compare me

Is this how you measure success?

Profess

Bridge

We've got different dreams and faces

All of our dreams and races are starting now

I'm taking all the risks to be a writer

You'll be a CEO or Supervisor

I'm quite in doubt

Cause' my path is a dying field

Your path has a greener seed

Will I stop this now?

But I hope I'll find a light

At the end of this tunnel flight

I'm still far

Still far

Never Been Too Late

Verse

We are salt

Scattered on the seas

The love we bring

Will cross all boundaries

We are light

Placed on the mountain top

The truth we believe

Will set our blind eyes free

Chorus

It's never been too late

To make a change today

When we ought to love

Like the love that we live in

Let's believe in liberty

Like the love that set us free

We are moving now

Our mission's possible

Bridge

Love revealed

Across the galaxy

We can live

Forgiven and surrendered

Let this be

A song of a broken heart

Let it be

A day of a brand new start

Roots, Goals And Projects

Amazing things happened today. Of course, I woke up late, like 1 in the afternoon. Then I picked up the guitar and laptop just trying to make sense of what I am doing. Tried writing and reading for a few minutes. Had my brunch, after. Went to the Internet and wasted a couple hours watching videos of Conan O'Brien's Clueless Gamer which was absolutely humorous, novice-gaming review but still it was awesome. Took a bath and continue reading again. So, it was just a normal day.

What makes it atypical is TPO met at Jollibee Mabuhay and just had fun, eating and telling stories - a norm TPO talk. And I got the chance to eat a burger after so many frustrating weeks not having one. Then it got serious after a couple of hours. I just had to clear the air and I needed also someone to talk to, so I opened something to these guys. Hahaha.

It was just awesome that we all, as a band, breathe the same air. Setting our roots, goals and projects. But the coolest thing about these people is they always have my back. I already said that my studies were hanging in the balance and I am really frustrated currently but when I saw their support of my dangerous, deadly, career-dying venture in the music industry...I was relieved like a thorn was taken out from my back. I was uplifted.

So there it is! We'll be continuing our journey. The album "Hey, Sunrise" will be out this year, according to Harold and I am so excited.

Overflow - School Paper

Hey, friends! Great news. The Project Overflow was featured in ACLC's school paper and I was asked to give a short story about the band. I had a hard time putting it into words and definitely making it "short". Haha. Yeah, but still managed. So, for anyone's interest. Here's what I wrote.

The Project Overflow’s reckoning was just an immediate agreement by the band. To put it simply: it was like, “Hey! Let’s do this again and maybe do some projects.” It was fun and rather atypical because I never imagined in my life before that I get to play, sing and make music with these awesome people. Friendship, music and the love for God brought us together.

I’ve known Harold, the drummer, since high school. We were both learning to play instruments and gradually growing. When we were in college, we met also friends who had the same passion. I met Jireh Mae in Mindanao State University and we started having jam sessions. She introduced me his brother, Jeffrey while James was a classmate of Harold at ACLC. Back in 2009, Harold, James, Milo (James’ church mate and also my former schoolmate who plays for Marty’s Playhouse and Sim One) and I played in the “Youth Fishtival”, one of the Tuna fest celebrations at the Oval Gym. We named the band as “Overflow”. Then, awesome people were added to the family; Jeremy and Krismae. By 2012, we started to form and practice together with Jireh on vocals, Jeffrey on guitars, Harold on drums, James on guitars, Jeremy on keys and Krismae on bass. After we played at Mindanao State University’s 2013 intramurals one evening, we agreed to officially name the band “The Project Overflow”.

This year we have also independently released an EP called “Hey, Sunrise” with 7 tracks that’s being shared currently to friends, families and to the youth of Gensan and Davao. The songs were personally written and we set out to make it an album, hopefully. So far, the experience working together with the band, on stage, off stage, the music and the friendship is totally awesome. We look forward to what awaits in the future.

Why are we doing this? Because we love it. We enjoy making sound and songs like the fulfillment of a 5-year old kid who picked up the guitar or thumped the drums for the first time. For me, it is more than just fame, money and rock n’ roll. I wouldn’t trade it for anything because music is priceless.

If you get hold of a copy of the school paper...we'll. Just kind of keep it. Imagine it as a souvenir. Peace all!
Overflow.

PS. I want to thank my editor. You know who you are.

A Memory On This Beautiful Summer Day

Verse 1

All my life I've been sleeping down the flame

Wasting up my time and day

For some reason I'm digging down myself

Finding a way how to say

But I can't move my muscle

Just like before we met at the hallway on the 7th floor

Well I can't speak right now

Because of this estatic tounge that I have

Chorus

"Hey there, beautiful", I said.

She did not glance at me, my bad.

"I guess I'm off here. Off, I go!

I'm done here. Way to go!"

I said to myself when all I got's nothing left

Verse 2

Why should I need to go out of my shell and pursue you so strong?

Let me tell you that it took me time to create these fancy words

And I haven't got the strength to tell you

Yet I can't move my muscle

Just like before we met at the hallway on the 7th floor

And I can't speak right now

Because of this nervous tongue that I have

Bridge

I can ran out of words and just close my mouth

I can be overwhelmed

I'll start screaming and shout

Oh, this song can be such a waste of time

Without me asking you, "Will you be mine?"

Ending

"Hey there, beautiful", I finally said

She glances at me.

Thought wrongly, I have

Then you smiled the most perfect smile

And with your vivid face

You still wonder why

About everything that I just said

"Hey there, charming" She joked at me

She hovers her hand

And smiled a twee

Well, I hovered my hand to greet hers

I discovered that she's nervous

We nervously laughed

Comfortably smiled

Oh, this gravity!

A memory on this beautiful summer day

Homesick

Verse 1
Summer folds
The day is done
Rain will fall
The night has come
Beauty hides from us
Where is love?

Dawn of the tear
Crawls down on our faces
Desperate to hold
On the hope they've erased
I am the weak, the abandoned
And forgotten

Chorus
This is not goodbye
I'm a friend of the foe
But I'm leaving
I can't let it fall
Save my tears and my fears
My time will pass soon
All is fine

Verse 2
The world is unfair
Like the gravity we fall
But the beauty of living
With a hope that is known
Daydreaming of the skies in the night
Oh, is it real?

So make haste of your love
This is all temporary
Our paper and our pen
Is our weapon to the fiery
Let our voices crack
To a song that we know
Let our voices be heard

Bridge
I need a rest
I miss my home
I don't belong here

I feel like I'm homesick
I feel all my blood beats
I feel all the pain

Divergent

Verse 1
A generation of information
Helpless, dauntless, left behind
The age of smart phones and computers
And the internet's making us numb
We feel superior and inferior
We're the kings and queens of our time

Pre-Chorus
Wake up
This world is not enough

Chorus
We are young but we're not foolish
We are one and we've been reckless
We're the flame that keeps on burning tonight

There's a hope in our desperation
We found love and a full redemption
We're the kids that keep on burning tonight

Verse 2
What could possibly be our gain
When we lose our soul in the battle line
The future is us
We are an ocean
Where philosophies gain more trust
But we feel empty
A black hole city
Searching for something we can't find

Bridge
The spirit we have is not of fear
We're the future
The divergent seas
Let's play it out!

What's With "Hey, Sunrise EP"

I never expected that this would happen. I mean, an album? Crazy! Everyone's dreamed of one including me! And this project would never happen without my awesome friends who helped out through and through and the families who've been our backbones since day one. Up until now, my mind still can't process how incredible this is.

What's with the "Hey, Sunrise EP"? What's with these songs? What's with this album? Personally, I don't know. As an introduction, I've said in this blog that my life was not an open book for every one to read. It was hard for me to open and tell stories about myself or what I've been through or going through. Until now, it's tough. If I could just open up the words in my mouth. But I can't work that way. It's through these songs that I can tell anything I want to. So, "Hey, Sunrise EP" is basically a compilation and chosen set of songs that was written through tough times, easy times, happy times, hard times and struggling times. It's the songs of a teenager, a young adult, going through life's adventures. Facing crossroads and challenges.

I really don't know what to say. But what's coming in the next part...it's gonna be an album, FOR SURE. To anyone who bought this CD, you can hear our crazy, awesome "drum kit" that was played on a "keyboard" and honestly it's really crazy, hard and fun at the same time! The next album will be full of songs and experience. Songs of life, of truth, of pain, of grace, of hope and hurt, of desperation and optimism or pessimism. Maybe songs that you can relate to or not. So, to make this project possible, we are encouraging everyone to pray, support, love or in any other way to make this project possible...drum kit, cymbals, studio, productions, finances and etc. I want to honestly tell you that we are struggling with technicalities and stuffs. But what we have is a hope that's been tested and proven throughout the years.

Friends, you can help. This is not for us or for fame, money or power. We do this because we all have lives to share. A journey to ride. A wave to endure.

What can I say? "Hey, Sunrise EP" is an adventure. And so is the next album! I am hoping that we will venture into this together and this EP will be the start of our friendship.

Dear friends, continue to hope in life.

Hey, Sunrise EP album art

Scars Or Fall

Verse 1

Open my eyes to what I can't see

The wonders of Your love is all that's left of me

Spirit fill me so I won't fall

I'm tired of my vices

Can You take it all?

Chorus

I'm bound around to blow

I'm bound around to fall again

On the edge of my seat

Lord, pull me in

I can't fall again

You won't let me fall

Verse 2

I'm grounded as such that I can't fly

Or am I just attached to the world's supply?

Please tell me the meaning of living a life

Am I living it right or I just lie?

Bridge

Scars, scars

Take your toll

I'm not convinced that you'll be my fall

Fall, fall

Take your time

After you, I'm gonna rise and shine

Where Art Thou?

Verse 1

Watching the skies to turn to grey

All of the waters rolled back from the shore

Every piece of the cloud has lost its freedom

Singing freedom now

The ocean can't hear me out

They're passive and roar too loud

They judge you by the looks

And pretend they care for crooks like you and me

Chorus

Where art thou brotherly love?

I stumble and you're there to laugh

You're blind on my burden inside

Stop shrugging at me

I'm imperfect all my life

Verse 2

The ocean's as blind as the ink

They can't see but they speak

Like words of fire

It burns like fire

The World Is Just For A While

Verse 1
Watching the skies turn to gray
I start to wonder how it could be
The ocean lost its freedom
Singing freedom now

Life is simple but it's not easy
It gets tougher everytime
You break down a wall
Another rises up

Chorus
Follow the drum beat
Follow the sound
Hear your voice living out loud
They can't lock you up this time

Look to the skies
Open your eyes
The things in the world won't fill us
The world is just for a while

Verse 2
Boys and girls, c'mon listen closely
We're in the fight of our time
But is it worth living
What we're living for?

Remember the words of our progenitors
Dive in truth, in faith, in love
Our life is a story
Make it worth reading for

Bridge
I won't give up, give up, give up now
I won't go back, go back, go back down
I won't live like, live like, live like dark
Shout it, shout it, shout it out

The Big Bang Of Grace

Verse

Listen to what I say

Cause most of them are the facts i'm hiding

The truth you're throwing at my face

Making music out of the pain

Can you hear all the strings that sound?

The cymbals and heads, they fight all day

I guess we're all the same

Making something out of the pain

Chorus

We both collide

While I breathe

You're not moving

We both collide

While I stay

You are going

Oh, where is our place?

Will the world turn down our face?

Oh, the collision

The big bang of grace

Struggle, Oh, Struggle

Verse 1

Everyone has a fight within ourselves

Everyone has a lie we tell ourselves

We wait for the breaking dawn

But we think it's not coming

So pessimism is our pride

The hope we just deny

I can tell you that I'm really far

I'm reaching out but the wind took me far

I need help from the immediate

My soul's calling for rest

Untie me, oh love, please

I'm trying to fight these

Chorus

Struggles

I'll fight you head to head

I'll strive so won't lose myself

Make it rain

Make it storm

I'm battling you with the hope I own

Struggle, oh, struggle

Verse 2

I can now taste and see

The place where I'm supposed to be

Imagine the glassy sea

The beauty of infinity

While the struggle on the other side

The pain I can't deny

I'll wait for that day

While we resist it everyday

Bridge

Forgive me if I fail You like

Everyday of my life

Cover me with Your

Grace I'm hoping for

Ending

I'll struggle

Overflow Me

Verse 1

I am reckless

I am broken

I feel I'm not the same

I feel so dry like

The tide has ran away

I'm not the same

The current flows

As the body goes away

The world turned me away

But you tell about hope

We can be the same

Chorus

Come and define me

Beautify me now

Let me live again

Overflow me

So the world can't take me down

Let me live again

Together You and I once again

Verse 2

I find it hard to

Say the words but I do really want to say

How can this love be?

Maybe that's why they call it grace, grace

Bridge
Be the song
Be the sound
Be the beat of my heart

Be my world
Be my light
In the depths

And in my life

Nothing Can Stop Us

Verse 1
We now move
From the outskirts of this grunge
And never going back
Never going back to that part

We are new
Created out of love
Forgeting all the chronicles

Pre-chorus
So now we make some noise
For the world to hear that

Chorus
Nothing's gonna stop us today
Nothing's gonna stop us now
Nothing's gonna stop us
Nothing's gonna stop us

Verse 2
Loud, love and life
A generation will rise
Moving out from the depths

With a wondrous sound of love
You can never shut us down
We are not of this world

Bridge
Okay, here we go now
We're here to live
Here to give
And we're bringing up this sound
So everyone can hear
That no one can ever stop us
No weapon
Living or dead
Can overcome
We're eternity ahead

Morning Tide

Verse 1

Can You take away my insecurities?

Can You take away all my fears?

I'm tired of pulling

Tired of strings

But I'm okay

I'm okay

Why am I afraid?

And why do I feel hurt?

The world troubles me with hate

It covers it cold

I'm tired of proving

Tired of flings

But I'm awake

I'm awake

Yesterday is now a history

Let's find a way out of this misery

Chorus

I can feel the sun piercing through my skin, yeah

I can feel the wind taking away my fears, yeah

All I have is You, Love

All I want is Your heart

I'll wait for the sunset to calm the ocean

Like the morning tide

Verse 2

There's a new kind of morning

That shines beyond the shores

I feel the hope like I feel the wind

Fill my empty lungs

I'm tired of running

Tired of fighting

So I'll stand still
Let me feel

Cause' I found a new hope beyond the clouds and I'll

wait for the day when the sunrise comes

Bridge
I found grace even I had doubts
We're here now close to a morning
Let the sunrise come

Look The Other Way

Verse 1

I fell in love with a girl who always knew

How I feel and how I try to be someone new

My desperation for tomorrow

Is against the wind

I feel I'm far off the shores

Listening to how restless the ocean is

And how my heart caves in

If I can't keep up to fight the love

We've been trying to redeem

What's lost and what's found

Chorus

All around me I see so much pain

There's so much hurting and sorrow and shame

The injustice of shallow men

How can we look the other way

There's a child somewhere with a broken hope

Dirty politics going back and forth

The shattered peace of men

How can we look the other way

Verse 2

I fell in love with the words that I always knew

That love is the justice's heart to men

Believe it to be true

My desperation for tomorrow

Is against the tides

Who am I when the music starts to end?

Am I a living proof of hope

In pieces packed in red

I'll gladly give the words of strength

But let me find mine first

In the heart, in the soul

Bridge

I see that we're back to the basics

Where humanity's a static

The world is not ours and it will never be

So, why linger here when there's a place we're meant to be

Hypocrites

Verse 1

The ocean stands for nothing

And well, we keep on running

That's how we roll

That's how we call

We barely believe on fighting

When it's love, we're just bluffing

That's how we fake

What does it take?

Pre-chorus

We don't need an excuse

We've got nothing to lose

I suggest we stop faking, faking, faking it all

Chorus

We are the hypocrites

Crawling in the Church's nest

I suggest we stop faking this

We are bound to blow

Let's rise above the fall

I suggest we stop faking this

Stop faking it

Verse 2

The world keeps on turning

While we stand and do nothing

We close our eyes

Dreams start to fly

We say that we care for the weak

But when the needy comes

We bail and we rebel

We're lesser than the infidels

How Can I

Verse 1

Took my breath

Took my last

As I look into time

Took my shoe

Took me forever to

Remember my life

I have wasted my every try

Just to put a zeal on my selfish life

Chorus

How can I care for the fatherless

How can I feed these hungry kids

How can I stop the widow's cry

When all I think of is myself

Verse 2

I'm a hypocrite

Coated in plastic white

When I say I'm just a kid

I know to myself

That my life is not everything

There's more to life than having everything you ever wanted

Bridge

I always say that love is above everything

But why am I stuck with words and do nothing

If I really care

Then I should find myself more clear

Hey, Sunrise

Verse 1

I'm not afraid

I'm not a fool

I'm born to rise

Above the fall

I can feel the wind

I can see the sun

I can hope and rise

To live again like the morning tide

Hope is rising

Chorus

Hey, sunrise

Waiting for my sunrise

Open, waiting for the ocean wide

Been waiting for it all my life

The clouds see the best of it

Wake up and start believing

The waves are calling

The sun is coming

Been waiting for this all my life

Verse 2

Can you feel the wind?

Can you see the sun?

Can you hope and rise

And live again like the morning tide?

Hope is coming

Bridge

Hope is rising

Hope is coming

We are rising

Famine And Green

verse 1

Life is a series of famine and green

The highs and lows of our living

The grass grows fowl

The wind is frowning

The world keeps on turning

Life is a picture of famine and green

The evening skies

The new morning

The grace, the pain and all the hoping

It makes us feel cold

Chorus

I'm living and I'm breathing

Still surfing and running

In this famine and green

Downside at the ocean

I'm coming out in the open

In this famine and green

Famine and green

verse 2

Life is a sequel of famine and green

The royals are full

The poor are starving

Our injustice, our benevolance

All our hatred, all our inheritance

Muscling our eyes open wide

bridge

Life is a decade of famine and green

This world is not ours

T'was never been

Our place is a city of gold

Where there's no pain, tear, sorrow or cold

I'm watching on Your eyes

Keeping my heart alive

Bigger Than You Dream

Verse 1

Why do we settle for scores

And why do we forget to tie our soles

Just when the moment when we're hurt

We find out that it is ourselves

Staying low, afraid to get hurt

Did you know you're meant to be great

You're just sleeping at all, it's time to wake

It's not about being the highest paid

There's more to life than what we make

Show the world, it's not too late

Chorus

Dream big

Bigger than you dream

Over our little belief in ourselves

Cause you're meant to be greater

Than what you think you can be

You're alive and you're living

Start moving out what you dream

Dream big

verse 2

How can I look to my Father's eyes

There's so much failure that I try to hide

I know that I can't take back time

Whatever I do does not define

The world to myself, for you and I

Bridge

We were given a choice

But what choice will we choose

When the world's voice we follow around

There's nothing much meaning in the crowd

Let's rise above the ocean and the clouds