A song about a dilemma to either let out your feelings but risk letting go or to keep it to yourself in order to keep your current connection. 

YouTube: https://youtu.be/U3wWf75rWUM
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2I4EAl50Jz4s3z4ipN9hZz?si=-u5Zi0n8TXmT9poe2rlL-A

Blur
by DogsAndDinos

So here we go again
Going out as friends

I am yours truly
While you're just with me

And here I wrote a song
Cause it won't be too long

Before you find someone else
As I try to be found, myself

Pre Cho 1:
And now every second is an hour
A table apart never felt so far

Cho:
If only I could say the words I wanna say
If only LOVE finds a way to reciprocate
If only YOU know how much I think of you everyday
But if you'd ever know
Or things would ever change
I wonder if we would still be the same

An opportunity
Weighing possibilities

Should I let it go
But you seem to already know

Am I being gutless?
Or just doing what's best

To forever be a friend
Hide my hopes and pretend

Pre Cho 2:
But your face blurs everything around
Every word you say for me is just profound

Cho:
If only I could say the words I wanna say
If only LOVE finds a way to reciprocate
If only YOU know how much I think of you everyday
But if you'd ever know
Or things would ever change
I wonder if we would still be the same

Bridge
Maybe I'll just keep it 
Cause I know how you'll respond
Enjoy this little friendship
And throw my chance beyond
My face wears a mask
That says I'm fine despite the pain
I'd rather risk breaking my heart
Than what we've made

Cho:
If only I could say the words I wanna say
If only LOVE finds a way to reciprocate
If only YOU know how much I think of you everyday
But if you'd ever know
Should I still hesitate?*
I wonder if we would still be the same

I wonder if we would still be the same (4x)

What if I confess now
And then you'd choose to stay
Telling me you like me too
And you waited for this day
Would this hanging out become a date?

About the song:
Just another cheesy song after Asymptote.
Not really my type of songs to make but I was in the mood so here it goes. 
I just imagined a setting where someone was hanging out with their friend to whom they have a secret crush with. The song goes through particular thoughts, possibilities, and imaginations on such situation.  Actually my cousin requested that I should write a song about being "torpe" and so I used that idea as the song's foundation.

Midnight Mammatus

Blur

A song about frustration and patience, fear and excitement, for the beauty and commitment to be found in romance that is still yet to come.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7KRIgrrfUKLIGBD7JOX4ZI?si=185e41eda20245d8

YT: https://youtu.be/T6dIIAV8SL4

Lyrics
Eros, A Mystery...
by DogsAndDinos
Feat. Lanz Gabor (of Clover Paradise, Violin)

Oh Eros, a mystery I've never held
But soon I hope you'll ring the bells
And wake me up cause I'm alone and cold
Show me the window to throw my stones
The fish are under the ocean deep
I'd fall in a pit just to land on a mountain peak

Oh Eros, I just had a glimpse
But you were gone after a blink
When will I ever possess
A tender heart and a sweet caress
The complement of a complete whole
The other half of a unified soul

Oh Eros, will I ever have a chance?
To sing my songs and to have my dance
Till when is this hunger in gain?
But it won't spell PAtIeNce if there's no PAIN
So I'll keep moving for I know the prize
It'll be worth the wait to be by your side

Refrain
Cause I can't find you my love (my love)
So you, wait for me above (above)
The odds and tempting rush of life (of life)
And I hope we'll meet just right in time (in time)

Lanz Gabor, the violinist, made a sheet music and allowed it to be posted publicly. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yvkbpOgpQDPWOnXJhUbcgpyyE2JhZquO/view?usp=sharing

Eros, A Mystery...

A song about adulthood and living in the real world. 

Composer: DogsAndDinos
Producer: Roe Arevalo

Special thanks to the talented Roe Arevalo for his contribution and creativity to musically complete this song in its specific genre and atmosphere that I have long desired and imagined. 
Check out his music as well on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6nTBAKwaIY7x4tYgh0XVbn?si=S9epXGFMRxmJ-j0rarcHNA

YouTube: https://youtu.be/81s93spB64Q
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6VbVR0YgtYhM9WeLVFA9HA?si=aeiXa1DISRW0nE-1Xonwcg

Lyrics
Slice of Society (SOS) 
by DogsAndDinos

Forced this shell to get up
Take a frozen water bath
A rushing random in the road
With a running time to catch

Will this be another day?
Hoping for tomorrow's change
Is this all that I can make?
For someone made up of mistakes

Was just a kid playing life
Now paying bills to survive
Awake at night to think about
How every next day may turn out
Will the wages be enough?
Pause the plans cause they're for the month
Broken dreams have buried me
Slice me up, society

The masseur's body aches
The guard guarding isn't safe
The food vendor didn't eat
The driver walked home by his feet
The carpenter doesn't own a house
The cashier's money is running out
The tailor can't buy a new dress
The janitor won't clean this mess

Like a leaf in the forest
Together, to make it green
Carve cities with our stories
That only the blind has seen

But is there more to this
Than keeping what exists
To prolong and sustain
Aim to be entertained
Missing the peace back then
Been saving just to spend

All in all in the end
It won't be meaningless
This work will meet its rest

Was just a kid who survived
Now trying to make a life
This lonely mind's been praying loud
I'll face the storm to wet the drought
A happy home is enough
Find a way even when it's rough
Building dreams has carried me
Rising up for family

© C Line: DogsAndDinos
℗ P Line: Roe Arevalo

Slice of Society (SOS)

A song about deep and intimate conversations, wanting to know people  --entering their world while also opening your own.

But recently, after my grandmother died, this song now hits different. My original intent was to make a song about being empty to welcome a new world to your life but turns out, there's also a void that is felt after a world has left. 

Composer: DogsAndDinos
Producer: Roe Arevalo

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6vRvM6khiuzWsVQgowjF4t?si=9d145fbd6a724baf

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV3hsUuMRyc&ab_channel=DogsAndDinos

Void 
by DogsAndDinos

Will you stay awake for me?
Swim into the void's deep sea
Whisper your philosophy...

Open up your mind
Please welcome me inside
I want to take a dive 
Into your life

Speak out your faith
No hour is too late
Let the dark meet the day
I'll stay awake

The stars are crying out light
Our scars won't be hiding tonight

(Also special thanks to a good friend of mine, Sai Teneza, for drawing my art cover idea of a blackhole-eyeball.)

Void

A song about old people and how they romanticize the past through their hyperbolic stories.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/ISDVYQkWp9U

Composer: DogsAndDinos
Producer: Roe Arevalo

Lyrics
Living Legend
By DogsAndDinos 

Back in the old days
When I was young
I used to climb up mountains to touch the sun

Faster than lightning
Stronger than quakes
My looks were striking and I was in shape

And I've been everywhere (I've been everywhere)
Swam across the seas
Cause nothing can bound a body whose soul is free

Cho
But now I'm just a has-been
Thrown into the trash bin
Swept under the world's hidden history
The past is my present
Now I'm living every moment
Through my memories...
Used to be a Big Fish 
Catching all the big fish
In every place where I would be
But the rust has taken over
And I won't be stayin' longer
Unless you speak of me...

Met a lot of good friends
The giants and the dwarves
We fought our battles and we won our wars

I went through the pinhole
Tried every dirty job
But that's where you learn to crawl your way to the top

Then the world slapped me
Every day I faced
From ideal to real, my view had to change

Cho
But now I'm just a has-been
Thrown into the trash bin
Swept under the world's hidden history
The past is my present
Now I'm living every moment
Through my memories...
Used to be a Big Fish 
Catching all the big fish
In every place where I would be
But the rust has taken over
And I won't be stayin' longer
Unless you speak of me...

Bridge
I tell you, my legend is true
But soon it will be lost in time
Yet if you only knew
Then you won't think they're lies
Cause that was just how I saw life through my eyes

Then I got older
Lowered down my gears
The aches are catching up after all these years

I am still the same man
With stories to share
Till they're just silly words floating in the air

PS:

They are exaggerated but does that necessarily mean they weren't real? But maybe, just maybe, they were true -only that they are told in a creative way, a glimpse on how the subject sees the world, in this case, their life through their lenses. 

Many people take pride in their past, especially in their primes, but it's a sad realization to think that billions of people and their stories are already buried under "hidden history". In fact, a couple hundred years from now, almost everyone alive today and their memories would be in that same bin. 

This song is inspired by my encounters from the elderly and how I enjoy their experiences and mode of story telling. Yet at the same time, I leave a thought about how *people's lives* won't really disappear from this world until the moment people stop talking about them. 

The movie Big Fish heavily inspired me about this as seen in the chorus.

Living Legend

A song about value, beauty, and confidence for someone clothed by insecurities. 

Composer: DogsAndDinos
Producer: Roe Arevalo

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/63Ye43tr4GHlwJ0sziIr98?si=7b6cac10b6104883

YouTube: https://youtu.be/6L6SYmtuVdc

Reef 
By DogsAndDinos

They won't see your beauty cause they don't understand your worth
Hidden in this city, inside the clam you find the pearl

The crust's lost child shines above
Though obvious, no one knew
Try the best to work our crop
Till it will reveal a clue
You're the coral reef beneath
And my eyes pierce through the blue
Her heart, an unsung art with a million hues

I'm curiosity, and you're mystery to unearth
This love's my inquiry, it opens but it stays preserved 

Like a taste of nostalgia
On some pretty fixed, moving plane
Yet a glimpse of utopia
She unlocks uncertain ways
If you're a caught astronaut
Then can I be your safe space
Falling while you cling to the dark to fade your face 

You're my favorite secret, that I'm proud the public would see
Searched your soul to meet it, yet you're still a stranger to me

A dusty diamond, but the veiled charm's unstained
An appealing puzzle, unsolved by the mundane
Like a blooming flower, that's shaded in the snow
You're uncovered treasure, whose value's left below

They won't know the fairest, cause they don't try to ask and seek
Though you won't feel precious, I think you're worth more than the keep

Reef

A song about desperation and depression when it comes to our dreams and how reality fails to participate to our desires. 

Composer: DogsAndDinos
Producer: Roe Arevalo

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2aYLS51vTcZ6tlaoUY0Vfa?si=db9ea57522ec4cc3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/9ZA4fKGjooM


NEVERLAND
By DogsAndDinos 

Woke up to reality
Make up with my identity
Hide things that I want to keep
And I can't wait again for this mind to sleep

A blanket for this cold chest to blaze (to blaze)
My pillow has been warm for days
But you're the one I'd want to embrace
Let me fix my bed and wash this face

Precho1 
When I'm down I wanna go high
To the imaginary figments of my mind
From neverland I came to testify 
To only realize, my nightmare is real life

Cho1
You're a dream I wanna live in
But you're just too asleep to be disturbed
Now all I bring are tears in the morning
Since I can't have you in my actual world
So pinch me please to open my eyes
Cause I'm just living in my dreams 
And dreaming in my life

Jump right when I felt your charm
Then suddenly you were in my arms
And I hope we won't fall apart
But then you were gone by the sound of my alarm

Woke up and there's still a little ring
Sit and stare yet it keeps on bothering
Though I don't recall everything
Why do I take emotions out a dream?

Precho2 
Feels so true though it's subconsciousness
How can a stranger have such power to possess
Playing tricks and muddling with my rest
Though I'm tired, I'm awake, cause I'm tired of this mess

Cho2
You're a dream I wanna live in
But you're just too asleep to be disturbed
Now all I bring are tears in the morning
Since I can't have you in my actual world
So kiss me please to open my eyes
Cause I'm just living in my dreams 
And dreaming in my life

NEVERLAND

Some of my fave covers I recorded in Vancouver BC last summer

She Always Takes It Black - Gregory Alan Isakov Cover

Background music and dance music written for the Huntsville High production of "The Mad Hatter".

2 The Real March - 10:11:16, 12.24 AM

A song about a person giving advice to someone he cares about, rebuking her bad choices in the past, for her good.

(Wrote this song for ladies out there who made poor decisions in the past but are now trying to be better.)

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/YEa9lXTpGPc

Anthology: Midnight Mammatus

Lyrics
Miss Used
by DogsAndDinos

Kissed by a fool and was fooled by a kiss
Thought he would complete you so you gave in to his wish
You were wooed
Admit you were a fool

Cried a thousand tears but it never washed your worth
If you keep on acting dirty they will treat you like you're dirt
Though it's true
But it was the old you

Chorus
When will you understand?
That life ain't about lust and romance
You were a flower for the land
But you rushed to bloom and was planted on sand
So you tried to keep what you had
It only crippled you while you were fighting to stand
Treated like garbage by the last man
But I found you like a treasure in a trash can

Bridge 1
You compromised your standards just because you can't wait
Don't awaken love when it's not its due date
Becoming too thirsty can make you drop your taste
Please don't be in a hurry, we're not in a race

You knew from the start you were playing with fire
But you fall for the feeling of having an admirer
Still you pursued
That only left you screwed

Built up attachments that only broke you down
Heavy make up, go to parties, you've been living like a clown
Be renewed
Try to fix your worldview

Chorus
When will you understand?
That life ain't about lust and romance
You were a flower for the land
But you rushed to bloom and was planted on sand
So you tried to keep what you had
It only crippled you while you were fighting to stand
Treated like garbage by the last man
But I found you like a treasure in a trash can

Bridge 2
Choices have consequences, and that's what you got
You believe in fate yet you placed your faith in luck
Stop trying hard to live like a movie plot
You always want a miracle but you need God

Closing
I'll help you understand
That life ain't about lust and romance
Thought you gave yourself a chance
By adding some spice you just made it more bland
But I'm willing to grab your hand
Try to pull you up, try to help you stand
You can do better with a better plan
I know you're a treasure so I know you can

Special thanks to my cousin, Kylene, for her contribution to this output.

Miss Used

DogsAndDinos is a musical project that mainly focuses on writing poetry and capturing particular experiences. The music attempts to express the emotion of a piece, making them songs or as DogsAndDinos prefers to call them - "musical poems".

DogsAndDinos' intent to make and share its musical poems is by hoping that its pieces would capture people's situations and experiences, and be able to expound thoughts, soothe feelings, or be used as emotional coping mediums. 

Its genre revolves around Country, Folk, and Indie style music, or a mix among each.

"As of now, I have no proper recording equipment and mixing talent." 
Official YT:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ-8HvbdgcfKr3mcBh2EYLA/videos?disable_polymer=1
Official FB page: 
https://www.facebook.com/DogsAndDinos
Official Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/dogsanddinospoetry/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6tGWixwfrCGfAKi3tyYW4a?si=TyKD0-cyTTieASLcNaPQ1g

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