Beg Your Pardon

Beg your pardon, where's the way to church? Is it a wedding or a funeral I'm going to, I don't know.

Beg your pardon, can you spot me a hundred? Downed three jugs of wine and I'm still thirsty.

Beg your pardon, can I stand in your shade? My head's wet and my shoes are soaked in mud.

Take me to Quiapo, to the spiritualist under the bridge. Please don't haunt me with your ghost, beg your pardon.

Take me to Recto, to the cathouse of Mama Shon. I hope I see you there, that'd be awesome, beg your pardon.

Mawalang Galang (Beg Your Pardon)

Written and Performed by Easy Fagela

Still from Truffaut's "Jules et Jim"

Pusong Madilim (My Dark Heart)

Pauwiin Mo Na Ako (Let Me Come Home)

Written and performed by Easy Fagela

Still from Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs (2004)

Mayyang

Written and Performed by Easy

Photo from Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960)

Hiningá (Breath)

Ugat (Roots)

Written and performed by Easy Fagela

Still from Mike De Leon's "Kakabakaba Ka Ba?" (1980)

Ugat

Cover of the great Chris Cornell's "Seasons" from the Singles soundtrack.

Seasons (Chris Cornell)

Strangers

Someday, when they invent a real, working soul camera I can claim to have written its first commercial jingle.

White Star

Rockets

You Can Close Your Eyes Now

High School Fair

Leave It Alone

Words and Music by Easy. Lyrics and a brief write-up of the song appears on my blog http://romance-explosion.blogspot.com/

Jolina

Majorette
(Music and lyrics: I. Fagela)

The long parade stopped my car
Traffic stalled, stay where you are.
I stepped to the sidewalk to watch it all play out.

A holy man, fishball stands, wooden saints, the marching band
Gets in position and they start to play.

But I hear
Only ringing in my head
This lonely rhythm in my head
Oh, Majorette.

Their uniforms are sparkling white, the golden trim reflects the light
I smoke a cigarette and take in the view.

The drumbeat pounds against my chest
Brass section blasts like fighter jets
I look at the majorette and think of you.

But I hear
Only ringing in my head
This lonely rhythm in my head
Oh, Majorette.

We twirl in time, we toss it up, it lands back down, we pick it up
The boy and the girl they turn to me and you.

You pass me by, I wave my hand 
I'm somewhere else there and back again
Somehow I could never, never follow through.

So I hear
Only questions in my head
This lonely rhythm in my head
This lonely rhythm in my head
This lonely rhythm in my head

Oh, Majorette.







Majorette

Words and music by Easy Fagela. Artwork by Banksy, used without permission.

Balloon

Music and lyrics by Easy Fagela

Art: Still of Ryan Gosling/ toothpick from the film "Drive"

Gasoline

Words and music by Easy Fagela. Artwork: "Cape Cod Morning" by Edward Hopper, used without permission.

Fair View

Trent'n Quarantino

Cover of Happy End's Kaze Wo Atsumete

Photo from Lost in Translation (2003)

Kaze Wo Atsumete By Happy End, Cover By Easy

Son (Fire and not the Stone)

Cover of The Magnetic Fields' "The Book of Love" from 69 Love Songs

The Book Of Love By The Magnetic Fields

Laglagan Blues

Cover of Jobim's Girl from Ipanema using only a Macbook mic

Antonio Carlos Jobim's Girl from Ipanema

Easy is a singer-songwriter from Manila. He has been performing his music in clubs, cafes, poetry readings, art galleries,weddings and even funerals since he was 19.

In 2008, he became one of the very few non-incarcerated people ever allowed to sing for inmates at the maximum security compound of Bilibid Prison where, fittingly, he sang a murder ballad titled "Patay Na Babae Sa Loob Ng Bahay (Dead Woman In My House)"(available on Youtube). 

Easy's first album (with band Los Chupacabras), recorded a few years ago, can now be purchased from http://easyfagela.bandcamp.com.

Cheers!


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