after all these years this part still hits me 😔

Its so painful to listen to the music i listened to in my freshman year of highschool. Im a senior and i graduate tomorrow. Goodbye childhood🥺

Themesong

A narrated version of my monologue: Wheels.

(also, thanks to the Tumbled Sea)

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You can find it here: http://valenzuelabp.tumblr.com/post/75594238526/wheels

Wheels

new/first song in new side project.


who are you
in the darkest hours of the night
when I’m not looking
and do I really wanna know?

do the city lights
bleed through the blinds
and bounce from your eyes
into the night
from your window 

where does your sorrow go
when you find yourself completely alone?

and it’s cyclical
you say of the way your day is spent
bed, train, work, and back again

but you talk of these streets
like the veins of your urban memories, manifest
and I’m thrown

where does your sorrow go
when you find yourself completely alone?

blocks and blocks
and swathes of roads
non-descript
and standard homes
dim streetlights
and endless freeway
beers outside convenience stores

incidental bodies
wrap our souls at points in time
your lips shut tight to guard
the depth of a kind and tortured mind

lacing digits, touching toes
tell me things that no one knows
where does all your sorrow go
where does all your sorrow go

early/late

Composed by Iego Tan
Produced by Emmanuel Aguila @eanaguila of Eelectric Eel Studios @eelectric-eel-studio
Art by Ches Gatpayat http://chesgatpayat.tumblr.com

Waltz Of Four Left Feet

A song about finding meaning

LYRICS:
Panahon
May mga sikretong binubulong
Kung lumipas na ba
Takdang oras na nakalaan

Sa atin
At parang ihip lang ng hangin
Tayo’y lilisan din
At kailanma’y di maiintindihan

Bakit pilit inaagaw
Ng tadhana ang bukas na tinatanaw
Kung ang buhay ay byaheng balikan
Bakit papunta pa lang ito’y tutuldukan

Ano kayang dahilan?

Panahon
Kay bilis lang minsan na di natin
Namamalayang nasayang
Oras natin sa paghihintay

Sa magpakailanman
At kapag ating naintindihan
Huli na ang lahat
Kaya’t sulitin ang bawat pagkakataon

Kahit pilit aagawin
Ng tadhana ang landas na tatahakin
Wag kang matakot
Mundo ay umiikot
Anumang kalabasan ng kinabukasan

Lahat ng bagay may dahilan

Awitin natin, sa mga bituin
Na ang kalangitan ay magpahiwatig sa atin
Ng liwanag, kanyang kaalaman
Na ang lahat ng bagay ay may dahilan

Lahat ng bagay, may dahilan


Dahilan

The 2nd release off the 2nd album, "Pinoy Pop".
It's a steady, back to basics, all-tagalog album about my observations on Pinoy pop culture.
LYRICS AND CHORDS BELOW!
Check out the rest of the album here:
http://japsuki.bandcamp.com/album/pinoy-pop-2015
You can also get it on iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music, yadi yadi.
Another passion project album written, recorded, mixed by Japs Sergio using GarageBand. Summer 2015.

"Hirap Bago Sarap"
-- capo on 3rd fret, if meron ka. --
(Bb-F)
Nagsimula sa patingin-tingin
Ang daming chances na wala pa rin
Tapos haluan pa ng low self-esteem
Ayan forever kang hanggang tingin

(Gm-Dm-Cm-Eb)
Kung ikaw mapa sa’kin, hindi ka iiyak except for tears of laughter
Pero bago ka mapa sa’kin, tama nang pantasya
Let’s get real
Konting effort din

(Bb-F-Gm-Eb)
Pwede bang tayo na kaagad?
Hirap muna bago sarap
Gusto mong katawang mapapa “Oh my God!”
Hirap muna bago sarap
Ilang sweldo na lang, long vacation na
Hirap muna bago sarap
Aba’y Lunes na agad, ‘di ba pwedeng relax na muna?/
Patapos na ang kanta, nakikinig ka pa. Hay sarap!

Lahat na binigay sa atin para lalong mapansin
Merong pampa puti, merong pampa payat
Merong honeymoon tea para tuloy ang ligaya
Asahang iiba ang aura mo, instant ito
Himala! One click lang nagbago na’ng mundo
Kung pwede lang i-skip na’ng proseso

Walang shortcut sa mga gustong mangyari
Walang shortcut sa pag move on
Walang imposible, kung kayang mag tiyaga
Kung may tiwala sa sarili, edi ikaw na!

Hirap Bago Sarap

I wonder how I can make you feel 
the warmth of my hand
without our fingers tangling,
our pulses raising
Is it possible to hold it back?

But for now,
I can only embrace you with my words
while everything is still a blur

I wonder when 
I'll have the guts to ask you again
to teach me how to dance
Another lame excuse for me 
to hold your hand

But for now,
I will wait for the sun to burn this curse
The only thing I can do
is to let myself drown in your words
while everything is still a blur

Blur (original)

honey go to sleep
it's getting late
do you intend to wait
for the sun
'cause if you're scared of the dark
you can tell me
and i can hold your hand
til you're dreaming

don't be so scared or i'll be too
i'm only tough when i'm with you

honey go to sleep
it's for your health
be good to yourself
once in a while
and if you shake at the thought of tomorrow
i can hold your hand
til it's alright

don't be so scared or i'll be too
i'm only tough when i'm with you

go to sleep

merry christmas :') here's the 2nd single off the Chairman Mouse EP!

personnel:

jerome exmundo - guitars, vocals, lyrics
yego nepomuceno - guitars
emilio fabregas - bass
james marco - drums
kean reformado - production, mixing

i hate me for messing up a good thing
or was it really a good thing?
hate me, it's totally my fault, really
my pain today is my doing

tell me when to stop the car

drove past your three floor apartment building
where we breathed and ate the same things
drove past the place we first got foolish
where i taught the things that made you stupid

drove past the movie house where i met you
i liked the strokes and you did too
drove past the place i bought you a diamond
or am i lying?

tell me when to stop the car

stopped driving at the place where it ended
a beat down cafe where my heart descended
stopped driving when the tears came falling
all i can do at this point is remembering

driving around in my car
watching the stars in my car
leaving your scent in my car, your heartbreak still lingers


Tell Me When To Stop The Car

Additional Vocals by my sister Ana Fe Monica Aguila aka Nica

Di Na Babalik (E. Aguila 2009)

Laging tinitignan
mukha nating dalawa
mga lumang larawan
at mga lumang alaala

dating kinikilig
ngayon ngiti nalang
pinipigilan ang bibig
na sabihing miss kita

'di na babalik ang pagtingin
'di nagwawala ang damdamin

Alam mo naman kasi
sa tagal nating nagsama
kilala mo na ako
nababasa ang aking mukha

buti alam mo
ayoko na kasi ng gulo
masayang masaya ka na
'di na kailangan magkaeksena

'di na babalik ang pagtingin
'di nagwawala ang damdamin

Laging tinitignan
mukha niyong dalawa
sa bagong larawan
ng kasalan niyong langit ang tema


'Di Na Babalik (Demo for Shirley)

Produced by: Dan Tanedo and Yan Abelardo
Arrangement: Dan Tanedo and Yan Abelardo
Music and Lyrics: Yan Abelardo
Recorded and mixed by: Dan Tanedo

Lyrics:

Dahan dahang lumiliwanag ang buwan
At ako'y nandirito
Naghihintay sa muling pagdating
Ang lihim na pagtingin ko
Sa iyo, sa iyo, sa iyo, sa iyo

Araw araw ika'y nasa aking isip
Bakit ba ganito
Nasasabik na sa iyong pagdating
Nais kitang makapiling
Oh, ohhh, oh, ohhhhh

At nang ikaw ay makita
Ako ay biglang sumaya
Ikaw ang laman ng pusong ito
Ikaw ang kailangan ko
Oh, ohhh, oh, ohhhhh

Di mapakali pag nandyan ka
Di makatingin pag tumitingin ka
Gusto kong tumalon sa sobrang saya
Gusto kong sumigaw kung akin ka sana

At nang ikaw ay makita
Ako ay biglang sumaya
Ikaw ang laman ng isipan ko
Ikaw ang kailangan ko
Ikaw ang laman ng pusong ito
Ikaw ang kailangan ko
Oh, ohhh, oh, ohhhhh
Ikaw lang ang kailangan ko




Dapithapon

~tis the season~

on days of rain and of thunder
i make some room on the bed
so i can prepare for companionship
once it's no longer just all in my head

on days of sun and of salt
i sit in the shade and look enviously
at those unafraid of the water
as if they were so different from me

take me to the moon and back, somebody please
i want to know how it feels

on days of work and of thanklessness
how nice it must be to hear,
"hello, how are you, what's wrong
would you like to talk it over a beer?"

it may be so that i'm just a fool
with my lofty fantasies
but it was never for lack of trying 
that love has never come to me

take me to the moon and back, somebody please
i want to know how it feels

(note: i now realize the mixing is quite loud.. i am sorry)

lovelessness

okay okay i'm wrong i'm sorry

you gave me the keys to your apartment
but the next day, you stole it from my wallet
you called me today just to tell me i'm pretty
but the next night, you said you don't wanna see me

i always just pretend that i'm wrong
so we won't fight over who's right

we went on a drive around the city
but the good part was when you actually looked at me
you said i should stay, you'll cook some dinner
but the bad part, you didn't want me to stay over

i always just pretend that i'm gone
so we won't fight over who's right

photos by Phyllis Grande
special thanks to Petersen Vargas

produced by Kean Reformado and Ourselves the Elves
recorded at Wack Wack Studios

Okay Okay I'm Wrong I'm Sorry

From "Tama Na Ang Drama" released by Wide Eyed Records Manila.  TAMA NA ANG DRAMA IS NOW AVAILABLE @ http://wideeyedrecordsmanilashop.bigcartel.com/ 
or email wideeyedrecordsmanila@gmail.com to order!

Iyong

Lahat ng tamis ay may kapalit na hinagpis.

Santan

side-project

half-lit was made in an attempt to channel my post-midnight loneliness into something else ––– and it is something else altogether: a way to reach other people. a way to revel in collective sadness. suddenly i'm not as lonely. - b

http://soundcloud.com/bpvalenzuela


early/late

half-lit

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