I thought I was born a single note
Playing on and on without sound of hope

I thought I was made a solitary light
Shining on forlorn in this lonely vast and empty
Night
Till that night
I fell into your eyes

I thought we were made to disagree
With everything they wanted us to be
I thought we were made to sing out of tune
To sing until we changed the face, the face of the
Moon
The moon
The moon and the stars

And the skies will part, and our hands we will raise
One constellation through all our days
Like comets through the void we will light up the sky
And you will fill my eyes 
With starshine

I heard a voice from the future say
Your time is coming, prepare ye the way
For a sign in the sky, a day drawing nigh
When our love is sung into rhyme
The rhyme
Of the galaxies
The song of nebulae free from strife
The sound of our love brought to life

And the skies will part, and our hopes we will raise
A brave new world for the rest of our days
Like meteors through the dark we will light up the night
And you will fill my heart
With starshine

Though the distance seems so great
Though the stars seem far away
Though we are light years to the day
We are one

And the skies will fall, and our lives we will raise
To infinity's edge, and to the start of our days
Like fires through the heavens we will light up their eyes
And you will fill my world
With starshine

Starshine

Korasang
Kunisang bong kriseh
Andasang
Ngka chegah pra kuniseh
Ati amiang eradu
ja skiseh premetesang
Koitadu
Kora kaminyu seng rezang

Kantu anoti
Nteh berdadi
Ki mas, mas fazeh?
Ta kai trindadi
buskah jenti
Ki sabeh, sabeh
Bentu bai, bentu beng
Buskah nubis, buskah feng
Nali
Sertu teng

Ardansa
Kada dia mang lantah
Bergonya
Mang lagreza mistih sperah
Ati seu pedreh azul
inda prendeh klai fortidang
Kambradu
Bida morti tudu ladrang

Teng
Korsang
Afesang
Durasang
Finasang

Pancharoba

Kora yo krensa
Jenti impodih intindeh
Kifoi yo sa saiki
ja impoku diferenti kriseh
Tantempu yo nteh palabra
Nteh forsa gadrah onsong
Mistih brigah
Pra mostrah yo sa korsang teng bong

Sertu teng midu
Sertu kaminyu lonzi
Sertu fila-filu di mundu tudu pun podih
Sertu teng bergonya
Sertu teng trabalu
Nang asih, fikah pesua
Sertu bai na rentu

Kora yo mestri
Studanti impodih kriseh
Kifoi olotu sa saiki
Ngka sabeh klai rakuleh

Prumiru yo nteh amostra
Ngka sabeh klai andah bong
Bagah prendeh
Klai bai buskah tudu sa song

Kora teng naki
Yo impodih skundeh
Kifoi isti saiki
Ta mutu tantu diferenti kureh

Membes yo nteh speransa
Nadi olah seu
Aguentah!
Isti tudu jenti presizu

Kabesa di ila
Komprador bai na mar
Nusenti di lunga
Animu beng di strela

Saiki
Animu
Saiki
Birah mundu
Saiki
Alebah
Alegrah
Ardansa
Nubu

Ja chegah
Mistih
Trukah andasang
Mulera korpu
Saiki kung korasang

Armador gadrah
Beng konselu
Fitiseru kantah
Trukah-trukah diabu 
Anju, rejidor
astrang  marineru
Desperadu, jaga
brigador stranjeru

Mbai
Mbai lonzi
Ja beng
Ja beng berdadi

Saiki
Kaminyu
Saiki
Andah nubu
Saiki
Impeh
Kriseh
Sandeh
Fogu
Ja kemah
Mistih
Buskah fortidang
Mulera korpu
Saiki kung korasang

Kantiga di Mundu Rentu / Bersu di Kuartu

Orion Sa Gordel (Parti Prumiru)

Lunga di anju
Skundeh istoria nubu
Naufrajiyu antigu
Abrih kaminyu pra pasadu
Subih, subih, subih
Andah, abuah bai lonzi
Isti nomi
Deus-deus tudu ta parah drumih
Strelaneru Kristang
Pra fing bos sertu teng rezang
Semesta sa katra sa trukasang
Ja komesah

Lonchil sa afesang
Kureh, kemah, balah chuma ung gran ladrang
Parseh ja furtah kara di Blangkang
Justu eli gadrah jenti sa korsang
Subih, subih, subih
Bremelang sa olu teng naki
Nagraliya
Pun buskah pra eli sa korua
Anumbes teng na Tigrelis sa anela
Anumbes Pedragayu ja ntarah
Drakar sa matra tudu pichah

Isti strela
Pedra
Familia

Isti lumi
Deus-deus tudu kereh igrih
Strelaneru Kristang
Pra fing bos buskah andasang
Semesta sa kara sa trukasang
Ja chegah

Strelafamilia

Stesang MRT Kristang: Riska Filu Jemelu-Praya Lesti / Thomson-East Coast Line

Adrazang Kristang: Adra

Medensa Kristang: Ngua kung Wirung

Ajundra Kristang: Kumpridang

Sidadi
Naki
Trindadi
Ta sperah

Paredi
Nali
Klai subih
Ta kai chua

Morti seng fing
Naki naki naki
Ta beng ta beng
na
sidadi

Sidadi
Naki
Trindadi
Ta sperah

Paredi
Nali
Klai subih
Ta kai chua

Bentu di fing
Nali nali nali
Bai beng bai beng
kung
Oh
kantah na mar di dretu
Sertu
Sigredu
Oh
Santah kaladu
Pra fing, pra fing, pra fing

Berdadi
Nala
Remedi
Kereh buskah

Beng jenti
tudu
diferenti
Kereh largah

Tristeza seng fing
Naki nali nala
Dali, dali brengbreng

Oh
Andah na mar di dretu
Abertu
Danadu
Oh
Kureh juntadu
Pra fing, pra fing, pra fing

Spektrung

Amor Ultra

Alma

Alma Ozempria

Alma Helang

Alkrestamezi Piatra Impopu

Alkimibiyeru

Aletra

Akiura

Agu Di Bida

Abrasah Largumbes

Kabesa duru, korsang animu, kantiga uniku. New songs from a small island, a critically endangered language, a little creole heart, and a head filled with the sea.

"The first non-European to have a contract to play at the Hotel L'Europe was Tommy Martens in the 1920s who also played with a string band. Dad, who was his brother-in-law, told me that his way of practising a piece, like 'Kitten on the Keys', was to stop when he made a mistake and return to the beginning, no matter how many times he had to do this. By the time he had worked his way through the piece, after umpteen runs through, he knew it by heart."
Denyse Tessensohn, 'Some Early Eurasian Musicians' in 'Elvis Still Lives in Katong: Personal Singapore Eurasiana'

"Lulled into a false sense of familiarity by the music, swirling dances, costumes, and general ambience, most spectators accept the body of music and dance uncritically as Portuguese. Closer examination, however, reveals that the repertory is as eclectic as the "tradition" is opportunistic."
Margaret Sarkissian, 'D'Albuquerque's Children: Performing Tradition in Malaysia's Portuguese Settlement'

"In both Malacca and in Singapore, markers of Eurasian identity today have created a “traditional” image, based on traditions that never existed, as a way for the community to be accorded recognition and status at an official level. Thus, mixedness can be invented and inherited simultaneously, drawing together ideas of biology, culture, ancestry and heritage."
Zarine L. Rocha & Brenda S. A. Yeoh, 'Tracing Genealogies of Mixedness: Social Representations and Definitions of "Eurasian" in Singapore'

"Music, too, seems to be in the Eurasian blood."
Gladrags, 'Having Fun: The Good Old Days', in 'Singapore Eurasians: Memories, Hopes & Dreams'

Kevlarhead / Kabesakevlar

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