Songs Of The Ocean
Hanggang Kuya Nga Lang Ba?
Who You Serve
Verse 1
What is this feeling?
What is this pit inside?
It swallows nothing
But still full of pride
I read some shallow verses
Like parade of empty hearses
Meaning but nothing
And by nothing is to mean it all
Chorus
What does this all mean?
And why is it happening?
Scars to scars
We'll bend and break again
Maybe it's for one thing
Who you serve is your king
Head to ground
This is our only war
Verse 2
So real that it feels so fake
Like Sunday goers getting drunk till late
Walking outside the line
Running from the finish line
Running from something
And by something is nothing at all
Downright Ol' Blues
Verse 1
Depression strokes my hair
Can't believe this love affair with you
As we try to pull ourselves down
Disappointments and regrets
We love 'em like they're our pets
But they don't stop to haunt me
In my sleep
Baby, I am tired of being weak
Chorus 1
There ain't a solution
For our imperfections
If we're angles
Then we've got no wings
Our broken storyline
Makes sense when it doesn't rhyme
So, we write a song
And we start to sing
'Bout our downright ol' blues
Verse 2
I'm midway my uphill climb
But the ground seems a comfy sight
That I'm tempted to roll down
And stay there
Maybe, I'm all tired of being weak
I'm not the man with the strong suit that you seek
Just a frightened little boy, afraid to speak
A piece of a puzzle where I don't fit
Bridge
Hey, hey, hey
I'm calling out
Wake, wake, wake
All the kids with broken hearts
Hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
You're not alone
So, wake, wake, wake
All the people with golden hearts
Hey, hey
Chorus 2/Ending
There is a solution
For our imperfections
If we're sinners
He can make us saints
Our broken storyline
Is a candlelight that shines
So, we write a song
And let the whole world sing
'Bout our downright ol' blues
A Long Way
Verse 1
Are You there?
Are You there?
Cause it feels like
No one's been listening
Hear me out
Hear me out
I don't want to throw away my years
But I know You'll never leave me alone
No, You'll never gonna leave me alone
Chorus
A long way
A long way
The loneliest road
I've ever been
I've got a long way
To find my brightest day
The brightest of days
I've ever been
But I got a long way away from home
On my own
On my own
Verse 2
A sigh in my back
Regrets down ahead
Restless is my soul
Knowing I'll fail again
I'm sorry, Mom
I'm sorry, Dad
I've let you down
Again and again
Bridge
Why did You forsake me, Lord?
Why'd You turn Your back?
Don't let me feel alone
Ending
But I know You'll never leave me alone
No, You'll never gonna leave me alone
Beautifully Cruel
Life can be beautifully cruel. As we grow up, we learn that life throws a lot of different things. Life beats, mocks, spits and kicks the hell out of us. It also offers praise, reward, good times and happiness. Then, it beats us again. More. Harder than the last time. Maybe bad times happen more often than the good. But that's okay, because that's living. That's what happens when we're alive. But then, why do bad things happen to good people? Probably, life. Why do good things happen to bad people? Again. Life.
The irony about life is that we should die from time to time in order to appreciate life and to hold it dearly even more. Moment by moment. Breath by breath. We die every now and then so that we can experience life, even just for a minute of it. Though, it beats and kicks our asses, we're still stronger than whatever bad wave comes our way. Life chisels us so that we can be someone far greater than ourselves. Far more than just ourselves.
Equally Yoked
I Need You, Girl
Verse 1
Do you remember when we're first starting out?
You were crazy at me and I'm the guy who went south
You had to show love 'cause I never knew a thing
I know it was real, it was never just a fling
Still you came in
Even in my darkest rooms
I might need a switch for my itch but
Chorus
I might just need you
To be here with me
We'll find forever
Like we always have believed
Hold on tight because tonight
We'll make the wrong things right
I know I need you, girl
I need you, girl
Verse 2
Four years later, you're still on my mind
I may have never ever said it, but craze is all I find
We may be together so old. No, let's not be old as bored
Because I might not find another you, yeah, maybe. Yes, that's just maybe. I'm sorry.
We'll stay up late
And watch movies all night round
We might need another fandom, so random but
Finds No Frown
You Always
Just Learning To Love
I Am My Own Stranger
I saw a man across the street
Fiercely staring back at me
He wears the same clothes just like mine
But his mouth, it doesn't smile
Like a mirror does what I do
This man, again, across the room
He's the real thing of what I fake
A walking truth and myself's mate
Chorus
I am my own stranger
I am my own stranger
I don't know myself
It's not nice to meet myself
Verse 2
I broke my hand, his hand did too
I faked my smile, he frowned so true
Yeah, maybe I'm the hypocrite
I don't know what to do about it
I have an issue of the heart
The politics of true self's mark
Don't let me eat my humanity
So, I'd burn bright like I used to be
Bridge
Why find fault and why do wrong?
It's in our blood
It's in this song
Lie is easier to tell
It's easier to fall apart
I know I can be difficult
But it's not what I used to be
Forgive me for whatever's not true
Let the stranger in me know You
Ending
I am my own stranger
A sail on the sea, let it be
I belong where I don't wanna be
Yeah, let me sail so free
The Pride (Summer's Story)
I'm Gonna Love Someone
There's a kid who jumps off on rooftops
And his cape glides in the air
He said to me, "Fear is my enemy
'bout my dreams. Yeah, it's slowly killing me
But I'm gonna be someone someday
I don't want my head with a crown
I wanna live for more than just cash and girls
I wanna love someone
Yeah, yeah, yeah"
Verse 2
There's a girl who's smile does not cease
With a spark in her eyes showing zeal
Her terminal days is coming 'round
So, I'm gonna go home someday
No more pain and my hair would grow back
I wanna live for more than make-up and fame
I'm gonna love someone
Yeah, yeah, yeah"
Verse 3
I'm waking up from my ambitions
Of my standards just to gain the world
I won't let my soul wander else
I won't let my love be a curse
I'm gonna be someone someday
I surrender this head with a crown
I wanna live for more than what the world has to offer me
I'm gonna love someone
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Ending
I'm gonna love someone
We can start by loving someone
I am loving someone
Oh, What A Birthday
I Wish I Can Take You To Prom
Fall, Stand, Run
Find Favor
Humanity Issues
To's And Is'
"I HAVE NO CHORUS OR WHATEVER YET. HELP ME."
Tara Na
"We've been given the opportunity to write a song for a TV-Radio as their song station ID. It's so rad to do this! And it is an honor. Though this is not the final song or whatever, I'm just glad that I had to write using my mother tongue. It's fun and awkward at the same time! If you don't understand this song, there's google translate (I am ashamed that I have to use Google translate to make this song)."
Sa CARE TV
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
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.
Grand Again
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
4 AM
Oversee
In The Aftermath
Wet Foot
Frailty
Nothing Can Stop Us
Hey, Wake My Soul
Beauty From Pain
Downtown
Friction
John And His Life
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."
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
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
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
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."
Songs Of The Ocean
Suits And Cases
Never Been Too Late
Roots, Goals And Projects
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
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.