Songs That Die (rewritten, incomplete)

Do you feel the cold outside?
I miss the wrong safety your arms provide
Sing me a lullaby
I wish your bedroom concert goes live tonight

I, I

Were all you said lies?
I've never felt so hypnotized
Don't sing a lullaby
and don't try to hug me one last time

I, I
I lost the love inside
I

I think the best way to love you is to leave
Oh, remember your lullabies
about sweet nightingales and songs that die
and how to make our lives divine?
Oh, the beauty you are before i arrived

I, I

Why the sad eyes?
No one can take that love inside
Not broken lullabies
Not even when i made you cry

I, I
I killed that love inside
I

Songs That Die (Rewritten, Incomplete)

If The World Was Ending (Live Cover).mp3

The most awesome postgrad assignment ever: make our own psalm based on Hebrew poetry and Biblical metaphors. 

Eli (A Psalm of Lament)

Forgive me, oh God
for grief has been my god
Sorrow’s consumed me
all that’s within me
Grief is how I think, how I feel, and how I sleep
But are You not the author of thoughts, composer of emotions, the writer of dreams?
So why do You keep refusing to take this heartache away
away from me?

Look at me, my agony and
I will look at you, oh, Eli

Have mercy, oh God
Your staff and Your rod
may they comfort me
all that’s within me
I’ve grown to fear the night, alone, I break and cry
But are You not the Lord of the lonely, the God of the broken, the Jesus who wept?
If I will grieve while You’re far from me
will You kill me now and take me to where You are?

Look at me, my agony and
I will look at you, oh, Eli

Restore me, oh God
of Adam and Eve
make a new creation
from all that’s within me
Calm my troubled seas, be the rock I need
Your miracles of old are all I need to believe
that Your ways are higher and wiser than me
that in all this sorrow and all of this grief
You too are weeping right here with me
My grieving soul, worship your God, sing to the heavens, sing with guitars
for His love is greater than grief
and stronger than sorrow and all that is within me

Look at me, my agony, and
I will look at You, oh Eli

Eli (A Psalm of Lament)

"Kuya J, patulong gumawa ng song for a project. Tungkol sa boy & girl na nagkabanggaan sa hallway. About love." Another overnight job lol. Good to know I still have a passionate, obsessive self that would force me to stay up all night until 10 AM just to finish another phone-recorded song.

Verse 1
Sigurado, naalala ko
magmula pa nung pagkabangga ko sayo
may kuryente, may init, may silakbo
Ano nga ba ito?

Pre-Chorus
Sandali
Mejo madilim
Pano ba alamin?
Pengeng isang tingin

Chorus 1
Kapag dumaan ba ulit
ng saglit sa gitna
ng hallway ng unang banggaan,
liliwanag ba'ng ating daan
patungo sa isat isa?

Verse 2
Sigurado ang puso ko
pero sisiguraduhin kung ano tayo
Ang pag-ibig ay paghanap ng totoo
Nakakalito

Pre-chorus
Sandali
Mejo madilim
Pano ba alamin?
Ano ba'ng iyong tingin sakin?

Chorus 2
Kapag dumaan ba ulit
ng saglit sa gitna
ng hallway ng unang banggaan
liliwanag ba'ang ating daan
patungo sa isat isa?
Kapag maulit ang pagdikit
ng mga balikat
tulad ng unang banggaan
liliwanag ba'ng ating daan
patungo sa isa't isa?

Banggaan

Ours - Taylor Swift (Cover)

I'll tell you everything, they are all secrets.

Secrets- One Republic (cover)

An autobiography. For UPJC's application process and personal expression.

The Finder

I wrote this more than a year ago. Satisfying to finally be able to record it!
Hoping for an upgrade of my equipment though.

Lyrics:
Averting Madness

I. 
It’s been long after you ended
I’m still listening to the same broken songs
It’s been more than what I expected
I’m still failing to be strong
Closing my eyes doesn’t shut me from reality
Screaming louder won’t save me anymore
Maybe dreaming would be the escape I need
But in dreams I see you more

Chorus 1
 Why am I still searching when I know I’ve already lost you?
How am I still fighting when you’re all the strength I had?
I swear if the sun, and the moon and the stars could speak
They’ll tell you how I averted madness
Staying sane through every night, I bleed

II.
I always say that I am always the one who leaves 
You always say you were always the one who’s left
You always say that I would be the one to leave
Now I wonder why you were the one who left
Seems like forever
I am still trying to make the same broken songs
I’m close to madness
And nobody knows

Bridge
Maybe I was mistaken
To show the parts I used to veil
Maybe why I can’t find you
Is because you were never there
Is it just this madness
That I thought you loved me
This madness
Yeah

(Repeat Chorus 1)

Chorus 2
I’m still searching even though I’ve already lost you
I’m still fighting even though you’re the strength I have
I swear if the sun, and the moon and the stars could speak
They’ll tell you how I averted madness
Staying sane through every night, I bleed

Averting Madness

For when the morning speaks after it leaves.

Still hoping for a better microphone; also motivation to learn equalizing and sound mixing.

Already Gone - Kelly Clarkson (Cover)

"We are not infinite." 

A Switchfoot song cover from Cavite a day before a Switchfoot concert in Manila. Stoked!

LYRICS:

"Gone"

She told him she'd rather fix her makeup
Than try to fix what's going on
But the problem keeps on calling 
Even with the cellphone gone
She told him that she believes in living 
Bigger than she's living now
But her world keeps spinning backwards 
And upside down
Don't say so long, and throw yourself wrong
Don't spend today away
'Cause today will soon be 

Gone, like yesterday is gone, 
Like history is
Gone, just trying to prove me wrong 
And pretend like you're immortal

She said he said live like no tomorrow
Every day we borrow
Brings us one step closer to the edge (infinity)
Where's your treasure, where's your hope
If you get the world and lose your soul
She pretends like she pretends like she's immortal
Don't say so long
You're not that far gone
This could be your big chance to makeup 
Today will soon be

Gone, like yesterday is gone, 
Like history is gone,
The world keeps spinning on,
Your going going gone, 
Like summer break is gone,
Like Saturday is gone
Just try to prove me wrong 
You pretend like your immortal your immortal

We are not infinite 
We are not permanent
Nothing is immediate
We're so confident 
In our accomplishments
Look at our decadence

Gone, like Frank Sinatra
Like Elvis and his mom
Like AL Pacino's cash nothing lasts in this life
My high school dreams are gone
My childhood sweets are gone
Life is a day that doesn't last for long

Life is more than money 
Time was never money
Time was never cash,
Life is still more than girls 
Life is more than hundred dollar bills
And rototom fills
Life's more than fame and rock and roll and thrills
All the riches of the kings
End up in wills we got information in the information age
But do we know what life is 
Outside of our convenient Lexus cages

She said he said live like no tomorrow 
Every moment that we borrow
Brings us closer to the God who's not short of cash 
Hey Bono i'm glad you asked
Life is still worth living, life is still worth living

Gone - Switchfoot (Cover)

And if the world made it hard again for you to sleep.

Jeuel

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