In Time- Jerby Santo

Song composed by Yuwi Santo. Produced by Jerby Santo.

Asan Ka -Yuwi Santo

Hopes and Dusks -J. Santo

Barb Wires Are Reminders - J. Santo

Mutiny Beauty Baby

It ain’t about your mama
 It ain’t about your papa  
It ain’t about your friends baby 
 It’s  what you want to be  

The closet is a dam full of tears 
but fissure in the flood gates now appears
 It ain’t easy, to be  happy 
 but sweetie you’re  revolutionary  

The fools will try to cut you 
They’re not sophisticated  
But they’re becoming few 
And we’re a rising army   

Mutiny beauty baby It ain’t safe outside  but bask in the sun anyway
 It’s your game now, let us wage now, won’t you   

Put on the shades as of now 
The stares and the loose talk all abound
They don’t know  what you are looking at
 it’s the shock and awe of your grand get-back   
When everything is painted black 
And so relentless is the attack  
Raise the rainbow, lead the charge  
You are the pink guerilla at large

The fools will try to cut you 
They’re not sophisticated  
But they’re becoming few 
And we’re a rising army   

Mutiny beauty baby It ain’t safe outside  but bask in the sun anyway
 It’s your game now, let us wage now, won’t you

Mutiny Beauty Baby - J. Santo

I wrote this song late 2012 in Cambodia. It's a song about the struggle of expatriates to find permanence in situations which are very temporal. The alienation and the emotional consequences of creating relationships that is doomed to quickly end even at the onset. This was recorded in a house. I did all the guitars and vocals and my friend Michael Coronel did the bass. Both of us produced this demo.

Lyrics

Phnom Penh – Jaworski 7
Sometimes, I feel like time is drifting away
Oblivious to the plans that I initially made
All the passing and going, the hellos and goodbye
The could have beens and would have beens, the tears that welled in my eye
And as the moment happens I suck on it till it’s dry
Forever got lost here
Chorus:
Ahh, ahhh, aaah
Phonm Penh is beautiful
But it is missing you
Phonm Penh is beautiful
But it is missing you

Lately, my body’s threatening to decay
Poisoned by love and all that cliché
Shakesperian endings in a city of smile
We laugh, we lust minutes into goodbye
And as the moment happens I suck on it till it’s dry
Forever got lost here
Bridge:
I got a remembrance armory
At war with your fading memory
This is a lost cause now and a massacre of longing await
I feel you everywhere here…


Phnom Penh - Jaworski 7 (Demo)

From my band back home, The Guerillas. This was recorded at KBOX studio in Tacloban City, Philippines. Raymund Elona on bass, Kevin Palana on drums, Yanyan Napoles on guitars and me on vocals and some guitars. The track was produced by the band and Jairus.

Scars Remain
What is faith and what is trust?
Are these vows sacred, or has it been transgressed
I will have to live, I will have to live with it
We will have to live, we will have to swallow it

I know it's cruel but I'll have greed
May isolation guide you back in one piece
Can you ever live, will you ever live lonely
You will have to live, you will have to live coldly

The innocence spent, will never return
Emotions will cave in 
Wounds will heal, but our scars remain 

Maybe you did it and so what can I do
Maybe I'm guilty too, let's just make this through
Do not ever ask, do not ever ask, don't you
Do not ever ask, do not ever ask i beg you


Pain, it's ok
We are old, this ain't juvenile love
Twisted, it's ok
We're jaded, this ain't juvenile love


Scars Remain - The Guerillas

Just another song about being hopeful and being desperate at the same time. 

Relief – The Guerillas

The engine sounds as if wounded
Could be bleeding, tired
The wheels don’t turn as fast
The headlight ain’t as bright and home is far away

I’ve heard it in a conversation
That this a hopeless situation
But here I am now, and there you are now
I need to make a line

If I make it, will you be home
Don’t dare give a cold stare that would  be so unfair
But smile, it’s automatic, it ain’t dramatic, it’s you and me.

So is this our story
The pursuit of a tragic glory
Can the purest endure, or will the tainted mature
And finally saves the day

This road it leads to you


Jerby Salas Santo

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