Hanggang Kuya Nga Lang Ba?

Hanggang kuya nga lang ba?

"Kuya" yan ang tingin,tawag at trato ko sayo
Kasama,kalaro at maging kakulitan ko
Sandali lang kuya pansinin mo naman sana ako, pansinin mo ako at pakinggan itong mga sasabihin ko sayo
May aaminin akong pinakatinatago tago ko
Ito'y mula pa noong mga bata pa tayo
Mula noong hinampas mo ng pencil case ang mga kamay ko
Nagsumbong ako at sumigaw ng aray pero tinawanan mo lang ako
Eto na kuya makinig ka
Hinahangaan kita, oo kuya ikaw mula pa nung una
Binalewala ko kasi nga ang bata ko pa
Pero ang totoo nabubuo ang araw ko sa tuwing nakakasalubong ka, kapag nakikita ka sa skwelahan nung tayoy nasa elementarya pa

Haysul ako nang mapansin kitang tumutugtog ng gitara
Simula nun napagtanto ko na mas hinangaan pa kita.

Chill! Sabi ko sa puso ko
Kuya lang kita at malabo yung magbago
Malabo yung magbago kasi siguro hindi naman ako yung tipo ng babae ang magugustuhan mo
Hindi ako sexy, hindi ako talented at hindi ako ganun ka talino
Malabong magbago kasi siguro hanggang kababata lang talaga ang tingin mo
Syempre nasanay kang magkaibigan lg tayo

Hanggang kuya nga lang talaga siguro kasi
Kasi alam kong may syota ka na at siguro naman mahal mo

Pero eto kuya pakiusap pakinggan mo
Masaya at panatag ang puso sa tuwing sumusulyap ako sayo
Takot akong magmahal uli pero gusto ko
Gusto kong maranasan muli ang sarap at saya pero sa pagkakataong ito gusto ko sa piling mo

Kaya ngayon sagutin mo'ko
Hanggang kuya nga lang ba ang tingin ko sayo?
Hanggang magkababata nga lang ba talaga tayo?
Dahil kung oo ang sagot mo
Kahit mahirap iiwas ako

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

Verse 1
I don't get what "equally" really means
Are there lesser or more consuming capabilities?
Maybe, I can't leave you without you hearing me
I still believe that one day you will see

Chorus
Maybe the world is unfair
It smites at us and smears
All I got is my fear of losing you
Instead of praying that you would know
That salvation is for all

I love you with you my whole
But truth is we're equally yoked
I am equally yoked with you

Verse 2 
Baby, there's something else I want you to see
What my other side shows and how big is my family
Maybe someday, you'll get to know this loving industry
To be a citizen of a city where we'll spend eternity

Bridge
In my most private moments
I start to put myself down
Or question my heart

In the morning'll pick myself up again
Hoping that my best friend
Will surrender her reign

Ending 
I know the world is unfair
But I won't back down from her
All I got is my fear of losing you
And I'm praying that you would know
That only Jesus makes us whole

I know, I love you with you my whole
But truth is we're equally yoked
Truth is we're equally yoked
Truth is we're equally yoked
I am equally yoked with you
The hard truth is I am equally yoked with you

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

Verse 1
Burn this silence down
I need to hear a sound
Everybody's gotta feel alone
Blood, they show our pain
Scars, they mark our gain
Everybody's gotta feel strong

Chorus
I lay it all down
Nothing is sound
I'm gonna be a loser
Inside this town

I'm not the only one
Who's broken and undone
Outside this drive
Finds no frown

Verse 2
I fear my doubts
And I doubt my fears
Everybody's gotta feel the same
Masks, they hide our shame
Smiles, they hide our pain
Everybody's gotta feel deranged

You Always

Verse 1
Seventeen years of my failing love
My childhood dreams and all my sweethearts, they end
The lesser I feel, the more I get hurt
When I look at my shame
Disgrace covers my heart

Pre-chorus
Maybe I've been thinking it the wrong way
'Cause all that is in me feels like a hurricane

Chorus
Teach me how to look at You
Teach me how to look at You always
Teach me how to seek You first
Teach me how to seek You first always

Verse 2
My life is a mess and I've been burned out
Well, if my love is in college
It's probably a dropout
Father, I turned my eyes away from You
I just look at myself and in everything that I do

Bridge
I know that I've been doing it the wrong way
I'm learning what to do and what to take away

Just Learning To Love

Verse 1
Let me just say this
Cause one day, maybe I'd forget
It's not like every phrase in
Romcom movies or the one cooking meth

No human is a professional
When it comes to love
We're born rascals
And we are, we are

Chorus
Just learning to love
Where should amateurs start?
Do I pick up the pieces of my heart or fall apart?

To learn to start again
To go on streets and let 'em in
I need to repeat this to myself
That I am just learning to love

Verse 2
Let me just sit this
And think it through again and again
Cause I am broken
And the cure is just in my hand

Honestly, I'm just afraid
To be open and to love what's made
But I guess we are

Bridge
Honestly, I am afraid
To be open and to love and to feel
But I am ready and waiting and

I Am My Own Stranger

Verse 1
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)

Verse 1
"I don't feel like talking
I don't feel like moving at all
Have I ran all races,
Used all my second chances for my faults?

Do I know love?
Do I know heart?
Do I know God?
Do I know life?"

Chorus
Summer falls like she didn't know
In her weakness she is strong
She was taken away

All her questions were left in the air
Everything was not just a love affair
She was carried away

Verse 2
"To the dead and the living
This is our song
For all the questions left unknown

Revealing the story
Of our broken hearts
To cast all what's broken and call it ours"

Bridge
"This is the pride of the crooked souls
This is the pride of the losers' ball
This is the pride of blood and love
This is the pride of letting go, letting go"

I'm Gonna Love Someone

Verse 1
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
Yet, she said, "I'm unafraid cause I'm found

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

Verse 1
Look at how you've grown
You're not a baby anymore
Like a small, cute, squally tot

The party's coming along
We don't care if it's big or small
It's still a celebration

Chorus
Oh,(La la la)
What a birthday
It's a celebration (La la la)
It's another year
A new edition (La la la)
Yeah, yeah, yeah
A new ignition (La la la)

Verse 2
Some of us are coming along
Just to give you our best smiles
To say these 2 words right

Merry be your heart today
The sun is shining bright for you
Have a happy birthday

Bridge
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
May all your dreams come true
We wish the best for you

I Wish I Can Take You To Prom

Verse 1
I wish I can take you to prom
And waltz our way into and back
I'll sing you my sweet, little hum
As we sway to the music of the band

I wish I can take you to prom
And be drunk by your laughs and your smile
When my heart beats like the beat of the drum
I hope it happens when you walk down the aisle

Chorus
Let me sing the tunes of made up memories
Sing the song of tales and fallacies
Of the time I that didn't happen
I'm a genius in daydreaming
That I wish I can take you to prom
I  wish I can take you to prom

Verse 2
So I'm just a wallflower there
I'm the one crowding the walls and the seats
I should ask someone else for a pair
But I can't give up my hopes and my dreams

Fall, Stand, Run

Verse 1
It's time, it's time
To kill our pride
It's time, it's time
To put up this fight

The world is a cage
The chair's lust and crave
The lonely misfits
Ran out of stage

Chorus 1
Where do we go from wherever we're from?
As the road tells us ways to die
Where do we go all who've fallen down?
We're finding our ways to cry
So stand, so stand, so stand

Verse 2
For the men who don't know
What the future even holds
For the kids whose dreams are
Too far and remote to go

The world is unfair
Don't believe whatever it tells
Be bold and take heart
Even though it hurts like hell

Chorus 2
Where do we go from wherever we're from?
As the wind sings us ways to sigh
Where do we go all the losers of games?
We're finding our ways to aim high
So run, so run, so run

Chorus 3
Where do we go from wherever we're from?
We've been waking from our sleepy days' rites
Where do we go all the lost and the found?
We've been running to a city of lights
So take heart, so take heart, so take heart

https://soundcloud.com/mjshem-omay/fall-stand-run

Find Favor

Verse 1
You who've made a way
Cause I can never make me whole
It's the only love
Oh, You are love, that freed my soul

Even I walk through roads unknown to me
I won't fear
I'll trust You more
This new year's trek for You're with me

Let the mountains rise
And the waters run deep
I won't worry a thing
Your word's a light for my feet

Chorus
Set my heart on fire
Take me to You deeper
Let me find favor
Let me find favor in Your eyes

My only heart's on fire
Let me walk on water
Let my trust go higher
Let me find favor in Your eyes

Verse 2
Behold my broken song
Boldly comes to make You smile
Let Your love be strong
Let Your love shine like the sun

Let the valleys grow dark
And the pack of wolves cry
I won't fear nor doubt
Your word's a lamp for my path

Humanity Issues

Verse 1
The world is so crazy
My eyesight is blurry
What I know feels fuzzy
And to think that what I feel 
Is nothing else but emptiness

Hey, honey, please tell me
Did you find a cure?
Did you find a heart?
I need help, I need help
I broke your heart
I need a brand new start again
My thousandth second chance to find

Chorus
A cure for my humanity issues
A song for my less realistic world
Truth for all the lies I told myself
Freedom from indifference
Yeah, humanity issues
Yeah, break my humanity issues

Verse 2
Where to? Where now?
Am I lost or am I found?
You're not the only one
Who feels lost, who feels down
Going back, I'm going back to find

To's And Is'

"I HAVE NO CHORUS OR WHATEVER YET. HELP ME."


Verse 1
To write about drought
Is to write without a pen
To write about love
Is to write under the rain

To write about life
Is to write a book
To write a song
Is to stop and look

Verse 2
To sing about drought
Is to sing without a microphone
To sing about love
Is to sing about a thousand songs

To sing about life
Is to take yourself out
To sing a song
Is to put fire in your mouth

Verse 3
To survive a drought
Is to wait for the rain
To endure love
Is to endure the pain

To live a life
Is to give it all away
To be the song
Is to die before and live today

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)."

Verse 1
Buhi ka ba?
Nagkinabuhi ka ba?
Para sa asa
Ang unod sa kasingkasing mo?

Pre-chorus
Diri nata amigo!
Aduna gyuy pagbag-o
Sa dapit nga ang gugma
Naga awas-awas

Chorus
Higayon sa paghigugma
Naa ra sa atoa
Higayon sa pag-atiman
Tara na, tara na

Ipadungog ang imong tingog
Diri may tingog ka
Tanang tribu magkahiusa
Tara na, tara na

Sa CARE TV
Sa CARE TV
Sa CARE TV
Sa CARE TV 9 ta

Verse 2
Buhi ba ta?
Magkinabuhi na ta!
Para kay kinsa
Ang unod sa kasingkasing ta?

Bridge
Diri nata igsoon ko
Aduna gyuy pagbag-o
Sa dapit nga ang gugma
Naga awas-awas

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?
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?
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.

Grand Again

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
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 
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

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
Do you fear
The storm that's
Coming down your way?

Do you feel
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
Do you believe
You happened for a reason?

Open your fists
Open your fists
Let go and
Wipe your tears

Bridge
You're precious and gold
You're precious and gold
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