Hating the Rain

Independent well-connected, 
all burns down and she is not affected
Broken letters and empty glasses, 
waves goodbye as she slowly passes
Twitters all about her life - the short days and long nights, 
forget the ending just get it right. 
You don’t slow down in this town. You just don’t slow down..you might drown

You might drown, you might drown, you don’t slowdown you might drown

Fancy places and fancy cars,  Facebook ads from all the stars,
She’s a paparazzi queen, she gives them all what they want to see
Always stands out in the crowd, don’t go too close if you don’t know how
If your play it right, she let you in, she’ll let you in
She’ll put you down on her bbm.

Then when she’s alone you can talk to her, find out what she is
Every moment like a storm, maybe she’s wrong, maybe she is...

Hating the rain, hating the rain, if you look into her eyes
You’ve seen it before , It’s all in the game, and I wonder if she might 
Be like all of us, trying to find out what we’ve lost and..
Hating the rain, Hating the rain.

Time flies when you’re having fun, 
You turn around and you’ve lost someone
All the nights are still the same, 
The sun goes down, there - it’s up again. 

New things come and the old things go, you drive too fast and you walk too slow. 
You never know what we’ve become, you never know what we have learned. 

All the things you thought we had, and all the times that you were slipping.
Never gave enough of what you were and now you’re leaving.

Hating the rain, hitting the rain, have you seen it all before
You know they’ll forget you, because they never met you, and you won’t know why
No, you won’t know why, no you won’t know why you are hating the rain, Hating the rain.

And you won’t know why, no you won’t know why, no, you won’t know why, no you won’t know why you are hating the rain, Hating the rain.

Written, Performed, Mixed and Produced by Lo.
Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound.

Hating The Rain

This song is about how we can just stop talking. Just like that. And whole years could be lost before we reach out again. Or sometimes we are never where we are. Special thanks to Piper from Flipsyde for opening the song.

Single

Operator the Line is Dead

This is a protest song against the unwarranted and inhumane Russian Invasion of the Ukraine. “Last Night I had the Strangest Dream” was written in the 1950s by Ed McCurdy, a staple from the folk genre which I sang sang as a child I never thought I would make a cover song out of it one day. Fast forward to 2022 and the aggressive and violently reckless invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the subsequent collateral  damage and unnecessary loss of human life is an outrage. Just as much as is the continuing war and oppression upon Palestine by Israel, or the oncoming Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan, or the Ethiopian war and suffering of the people of Tigray region, the horrifying Yemen war and proxy funders,  the Gang-lord anarchy in Haiti, the illegal Military crackdown after a decade of reform in Myanmar and the Islamist militancy jihadist wars raging in the African Continent from Mali to Mozambique. I have been fortunate to have been singing as a child..songs born from the ashes of war or the tears from the millions of cries for Peace.. Today the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the subsequent and senseless warcrimes have devastated so many lives and highlight the need to support President Zalensky and Ukrainian people, as they push for new reform to those who may feel there  no accountability from War. I pray for the end to tyranny and if you are affected by such horrors of War, then this is for you, the people suffering from War. God Bless! - Lo

Last Night I had the Strangest Dream

Min came from a dream.  

￼ In it, I was watching television, and it was a shot over water towards the coast line, and I kept hearing this beat and this arpeggiated line, which now carries through the whole song. It was ghostly, and when I woke up it was about 4 AM. I remember, I was just about to fall asleep, thinking, “I wish I knew the name of that song”.

Some urgency within me sparked, and woke me up to realize that it was a dream, and the song within a dream is usually one we’ve never heard before, but it was so organic and real to me and I heard every part of it. So I jump out of bed and leg it to the studio . That time it was Synchrosound Studios, in PJ, Malaysia. ￼ I’m going straight for that sequence that I heard, and every part the song fit like a puzzle bit by bit as I tried to construct exactly what I had been listening to in what must’ve been just the process within my head. Min means a lot to me and comes from the true spirit of songwriting, without any external interaction influencing its creation. I was born in the quiet of the night.

“ You don’t know where I’ve been; from the max right to the min.”

And that’s how Min was born. I’m still trying to figure out what’s it’s about so let me know if any clues come to you. Thanks..

Lo

Min.wav

This is a song about the tragedy of love. It’s about falling in love or pursuing love in the face of adversity. That could mean anything from the circumstance as many throughout history have come up against the forbidden love, by fami￼Lu dynamic, race, color, creed, etc.  

Love is precious and unfortunately there’s something that others sometimes try to control. ￼

On the other hand, sometimes it is us, ourselves who may already be with a partner, to suddenly know that they are in ￼love with someone else. 

And then that realization can come as, “Oh No, I love You.”

Hopefully you can relate. 

Special thanks to Piper from Flipsyde for an awesome performance and lyrical richness. You are an inspiration bro. 🙏

Oh No, I Love You

James - Tomorrow

Coldplay - Fix You (Alesso & Swedish House Mafia Remix)

ILLENIUM:
@illeniumofficial | facebook.com/illenium | twitter.com/illenium

Bahari:
@bahariofficial | facebook.com/baharimusic | twitter.com/bahari

Buy/Stream: https://illenium.lnk.to/CrashingRmx

Lyrics:
Intoxicating your kiss
Intoxicating your lips
Nobody does it like this
I find it hard to resist, oh-ooh
Feeling out of control, beautifully sold
What’s coming over me?
It’s a total eclipse of rationality

I don’t usually say this
I don’t usually play this game
Yeah, I know I’m not faded
But it kinda feels that way
I don’t usually say this
But I think I should let you know
That baby, baby I don’t, I don’t wanna go

How could I go home
When I feel like I belong in your arms
It’s like Champagne, feel it pouring in my veins
Yeah, I got myself too drunk on you to drive
So I’m crashing here tonight
Tonight, tonight
So I’m crashing here tonight

Hey, are you really this good?
Damn, are you really this good?
Baby, you’re just like a drug
I’d bottle you up if I could, oh-ooh
Feeling out of control of your chemicals
What’s coming over me?
It’s a total eclipse of rationality

I don’t usually say this
I don’t usually play this game
Yeah, I know I’m not faded
But it kinda feels that way
I don’t usually say this
But I think I should let you know
That baby, baby I don’t, I don’t wanna go

How could I go home
When I feel like I belong in your arms
It’s like Champagne, feel it pouring in my veins
Yeah, I got myself too drunk on you to drive
So I’m crashing here tonight
Tonight, tonight
So I’m crashing here tonight

How could I go home
When you’re all I wanna know?
Come on, let me see your bed
It’s too late for this to end
Yeah, I got myself too drunk on you to drive
So I’m crashing here tonight

How could I go home
When I feel like I belong in your arms
It’s like Champagne, feel it pouring in my veins
Yeah, I got myself too drunk on you to drive
So I’m crashing here tonight
Tonight, yeah I’m crashing here tonight
So I’m crashing here tonight

Buy/Stream

ILLENIUM - Crashing ft. Bahari (Stripped)

Rocker at heart, couple of albums out, bit of a DJ wannabe and whatevs.

Last Night I had the Strangest Dream

Lo

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