ossie's play list 2017

KNOW YOUR FRIENDS - Words & Music_Swapna Abraham
October 6, 2017_Day 0182

Know your friends
Keep them close to your heart
Know you enemies
Keep them closer to your eye
Sometimes just strangers
Surprise you most of all
They become the best of friends

Ever since we stepped out of our comfort zone
The familiar walls of the place we call home
We keep meeting people, some give us petals
Some give us daggers, some we can’t tell

The world as we see it brought us closer
From corners far such exposure
Careful how you pick and choose and exclude
When you give your hand you include

Colour That Rainbow

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN - Words & Music_Swapna Abraham
October 14, 2017_Day 0190

Something beautiful is about to happen
Something I’ve been waiting for too long
It’s changing every wrong
My old song
Something far beyond my imagination
Something I did nothing about but hope
The end of walking on a rope
I just know it, just sense it

Coming through
Like dew in the morning
Beauty adorning the ashes
It’s falling through
Just around the corner
You don’t have to warn her again
Something beautiful, most beautiful
Is about to happen to me

Something beautiful is about to happen
Something like a chain breaking down
The talk of my town
I didn’t drown
Something out of anybody’s power
Something unbelievable I dared
To dream as I cared
I just see it, just feel it

Something Beautiful Is About To Happen

THESE DREAMS - Words & Music_Swapna Abraham
October 15, 2017_Day 0191

Just me and my own company
Is so much, is too much
In a minor key
An epiphany
Nonsuch, truly nonsuch
Some place I’d rather be

So dreams don’t come true
For I may be with you
Make it seem
It’s not a dream
So extreme
And if dreams did come true
It wouldn’t be with you
You’re not real
An ideal
Don’t unseal

Cannot comprehend
These things that surface, beneath the surface
Of a restless mind
Can’t defend
A furnace, blazing furnace
Undefined

These Dreams

MISSING THE MARK - Words & Music_Swapna Abraham
October 16, 2017_Day 0192

We keep shying, we keep missing the mark
The we start trying in the dark
Hope to be flying well past the dazzling arc
So edifying when we park

Sitting in the middle of a noisy world
We don’t get heard, it’s so absurd
Hitting here and there, up and down about
Not a shout, not a doubt
No time alone, even on your own
Fitting in the universe not easy done
Not splitting in a thousand suns

Waiting can compute into losing time
Or lose your mind and that’s fine
Dating odds and evens, even in-betweens
Figurines from the magazines
Don’t land the part, don’t know the art
Baiting while at it will we reach the mark
Frustrating in the dark

Missing The Mark

YOU ARE MY STRENGTH - Words & Music_Swapna Abraham
October 30, 2017_Day 0206

You are my strength and shield
You are my crest and yield
You are everything I seek
And everything my weak self achieves
You are the length of my days
You are the best of all ways
You are the first and the last
The future and the glory of the past

Don’t give up on me, my only desire
Is to make You proud as I vowed
Never to depend on anyone or me
Take what You allowed, as from the passing cloud

I don’t give up on You, whatever state
Don’t need a sign from Your design
What difference does it make, this way or that
Nothing is mine, keep walking on the line

You Are My Strength

WHO'S ON YOUR SIDE - Words & Music_Swapna Abraham
November 2, 2017_Day 0209

You seem to be on your own
You don’t complain you’re alone
Just you and your ego is a flipping minority
Was this the plan, going solo
Was this the stand, so low
Just you in command, in authority
Is God anywhere on your side
Just He and you, a majority

Who’s on your side *2
Is there anyone beside you
Who’s on your side *3

O’er the years the stance has grown
Living in a square unknown
You and your alter making music with life
None in front, none behind
The only friend, bear in mind
Has all of you in their busy life
Again is God anywhere on your side
For He and you, an abundant life

Who's On Your Side

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH - Words & Music_Swapna Abraham
November 4, 2017_Day 0211

When the going gets tough
The tough get tougher
Tougher than flint
And keep going on
When the going gets rough
The rough get rougher
Rougher than splint
And keep going on

One by one the darts keep coming on
Every way there’s no escaping none
No turning back
Day by day it keeps getting worse
Shake your peace then shake your purse
You start to crack
Then toughen up

Every time you think you’ll withdraw
No suicide, no last straw
Keep looking back
Then brace them, face them, probably embrace them
Keep the spark and beat the dark
The beaten track
All toughened up

When The Going Gets Tough

LESSON LEARNT - Words & Music_Swapna Abraham
November 5, 2017_Day 0212

So easily you cut me off
From someone and thing around the corner
So queasily you will come back
When your imaginary friend becomes a scorner

They’ll toss you around
You’ll bounce and rebound
They’ll have you bound in a spell from hell
The next time they use you
Hope you’ll see
The lesson you learnt the last time
For the next time you use me
You will see
The lesson I’ve learnt the last time
With you

There’s only so much you return to trash
No matter how alluring or how weak you are
You don’t need a crutch that uses you
One would rather crawl and keep them far

Lesson Learnt

WILL YOU FORGET ME - Words & Music_Swapna Abraham
November 7, 2017_Day 0214

Will you forget me
Will you hold on to our promises
Will you upset me
Will you step beyond our premises
Or will you do all and never tell me
Will you stay at all till I return
Will you regret me
Will you always love me more than all
Or reset me
Move out on a sudden brawl
Oh so insecure
I think you’d understand why I burn

Please, please tell me
The world is going crazy
It is hard to believe anyone, just anyone
Oh please (please) impel me
Before it gets too hazy
And I forget
What I’m talking about (you, you)

Will you offend me
Will you still be true when I’m gone
Will you defend me
When they accuse me on and on
Or will you not say a single word
Will you join them all too absurd
Hmm….

Will You Forget Me

WEIRD - Words & Music_Swapna Abraham
November 10, 2017_Day 0217

You make me feel things I shouldn’t
You make me say things I shouldn’t
I keep my distance far more than there is
And then you show up in my dreams
You make me do things I shouldn’t
You make me better and then much worse
There is no reason, no reasoning
It’s weirder than it seems

You make me weird, so weird
It’s so absurd I should run away
It’s getting weirder and more absurd
I should pick myself and stay away

You make me someone I used to be
Someone I don’t wanna be
I just can’t help myself, all too strange
And you don’t need a hand
You’ve been there often just as I have
This isn’t strange, we are
We are on different paths that needn’t cross
Aware and understand

Weird

SWAP - Words & Music_Swapna Abraham
November 13, 2017_Day 0220

You could be the first
You could be the last
You could be my future or my past
You can be in or stay out
You can be me
You can be my friend
You can be my all
You can be my rising or my fall
You can be everything or nought
You can be me

I can only be
The same old me
I can be bound or feather free
Still just me
I should probably be
A happy me
Anonymous or celebrity
Still me

You could be the worst
Or the best of things
You could be an angel without wings
You can be vague or crystal clear
That would be me
You can be special
You can be something
You can be a tease or nothing
You can be the one that I turn to
That would be me

Swap

FIT - Words & Music_Swapna Abraham
November 17, 2017_Day 0224

Always trying to fit
With a special shape and size
That only hit
And give up bit by bit
Hoping sometime soon I’ll fit

What will they think
What will they say
Is it blue or pink
Or another way
Will I stand out
Or stay in file
So much doubt
Should I change my style
To fit bit by bit
Give up sense then all wit
To make it fit bit by bit
When did it matter at all

When all stand, how can I sit
Cannot lose, there is a prize
If i don’t quit
Lose myself or a split
To an uncaring else I want to fit

THANK YOU SAYS IT ALL - Words & Music_Swapna Abraham
November 24, 2017_Day 0231

Never had reason to fear
You didn’t disappear
Never treason to steer my boat
In the clear
Never a seizing out of gear
Sincere, so sincere

Thank you for holding me in the storm
Thank you for your love against the norm
You’re my dearest friend
And I’ve no words to thank you, thank you
Thank you for staying when all of them left
Thanks for believing when I was bereft
If I’d be half the friend
That you’ve been to me
It would do, would do
For now thank you says it all

Forever and ever
Never say never
In every endeavour
What so ever
Here or wherever, you want me to be
I’d be, I’d be

Thank You Says It All

SLEPT ENOUGH - Words & Music_Swapna Abraham
November 25, 2017_Day 0232

Slept enough
Gotta get up and face the world
Kept enough
Fed up being tossed and hurled
There’s only so much sleeping we do
Only so much keeping (we’ve) gotta do
Now do all, do all
There’s only so much weeping to do
Only so much creeping we let do
Now let all, let all

Black out never solved a thing
Hanging in a gap not anything
You’ve gotta stand up and show them what you’ve got
Even walk in your sleep better than not

Flat out didn’t move a thing
Make believe when dreaming
You take a stand and tell them what you’re not
Some listen deep and some forgot

Slept Enough

DEDICATION - Words & Music_Swapna Abraham
November 26, 2017_Day 0233

I dedicate my life, my heart and my mind
My soul and my body
Every part and every kind
I dedicate my purpose, passion and will
All my desires and inclinations
Help me be still

What should be easy is the most difficult
Thing to do, the thing to let You do
I should allow You to be who You are
As You allow me to
Find my way through everything
In everything to You

Everything around pulls me apart
Pulls me away from the plan
You wished to start
All that surrounds me pulls me down
Pulls me off the path I choose
The victor’s crown

Dedication

CHRISTMAS IS NEAR - Words & Music_Swapna Abraham
December 16, 2017_Day 0253

Christmas is near
And everyone’s filled with cheer
Presents shopping for people so close and dear
Carols ringing in the air
The tree aglow amidst the fanfare
Christmas is near
The best time of the year
Strangers stopping by, and there’s no fear
Barrels brimming with sweet wine
A few spirit blows in winter’s shine

The bells are ringing
So much hope for everyone, sparing none
Voices singing
Down the slope sound as one
Love springing
Envelopes, it’s just begun, these days of fun
When Christmas is almost here

When Christmas draws near
The cold bites in your ear
Travel and hopping along, away from peers
Pretzels swinging by the bunch
So much prep for Christmas brunch

Christmas Is Near

WE MADE THE YEAR - Words & Music_Swapna Abraham
January 24, 2018_Day 0282

From two very different worlds
On a campus swirled
The day we met, you and I
After all the imprints
I stopped seeing more tints
The day I saw you, I saw more than I
How could anyone take a leap
In an unknown deep

But you did and so did I
Deeper than another try
Hand in hand, looking eye to eye
We made the year to our baby’s cry

Oh…

The road ahead is rugged
We keep moving unpegged
To that distant land, you and I
I don’t have no worry
These steps don’t make me worry
I’ve a firebrand, better than I
Closed our eyes and took the leap
Into the unknown deep

We Made The Year

START OVER - Words & Music_Swapna Abraham
January 31, 2018_Day 0299

I wish I didn’t say that
I wish I didn’t do those things
Now I’m dealt these feelings
I wish I stopped the combat
I wish I didn’t throw you away
Now I miss our yesterday

I wish I could start over now
A new page and start over somehow, somehow

I wish I didn’t turn around
I wish I walked out slow
May be then I’d know
I wish I felt my feet touch the ground
I wish I held your heart
Now I’ve come apart

Start Over

A THIRD CHANCE - Words & Music_Swapna Abraham
February 8, 2018_Day 0307

Lord You see my heart
The beautiful and ugly part
Lord You weigh my soul
How I toss ‘em all and roll
My desire
When I sink lower or aim higher
Lord, Lord

Lord You see my mind
Seat of good and evil of all kind
Lord You know my will
And yet You love me still
The inmost part
Where all things stop and start
Lord, Lord

You gave me one chance
And then a second
And then I asked You for a third
I’m tired of ever drowning
So much worse letting You down
Lock me in or send me out
Lord, Lord, Lord

ossie's play list 2017

Ossie Pereira