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

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

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

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