Name: GSC - Child Emmanuel by renatojr3
Duration: 2 min 53 s
Description: Our group practicing Hangad's Child Emmanuel for a benefit concert on November 30.

STILL WE SING ALLELUIA
Music and lyrics by Paulo K Tiról

Through flowing tears: Alleluia.
Through growing fears: Alleluia.
Through the weariness of now,
we still find the voice somehow
to sing Alleluia.
Still we sing Alleluia.

When joy runs thin: Alleluia.
When hurt sets in: Alleluia. 
When our days are long and rough, 
still, our faith is cause enough
to sing Alleluia.
So we sing Alleluia.

For the Lord has risen and conquered sin,
in him we know:
that light and life and love shall win.
And so,

with one thing sure, Alleluia,
one word endures: Alleluia!
What gives meaning to our days
but to lift our hearts in praise
as we sing Alleluia?
Yes, we sing Alleluia!

In fading light: Alleluia.
In deep’ning night: Alleluia.
At the hour of our death, 
with our last remaining breath,
let us sing, Alleluia! 
Alleluia!
Still we sing Alleluia.

April 5, 2020
COVID-19 quarantine day 25
© 2020 Paulo K Tiról

Still We Sing Alleluia

Recorded live at First Presbyterian Church of Dallas 2-22-15

North Texas Voices
Joshua Taylor, Conductor

Here I Am, Lord- arr. Craig Courtney

Millions of prayers are lifted each day,
Millions of questions are asked.
For favors and futures
For healing and hope;
For trials and tests to pass.

And I wait and I wonder when answers will come,
Wonder if You've even heard.
Times that I find myself yielding to doubt,
I call to mind these words:

In Your own way, in Your own time,
In Your own wisdom, not in mine.
By Your love, by Your Holy will,
All pray'rs will be answered in Your own time.

I've had my moments of darkness, O Lord.
I've had my share of pain.
I've felt abandoned, unloved and alone
With no shelter from the rain.

Yet at times when I feel I'm about to give up,
Your love takes me by surprise.
In ways unexpected, Your goodness unfolds
Before my very eyes.

So I know that someday, somewhere, somehow,
You will reveal Your plan.
Give me the grace to surrender to You,
To trust Your loving hands!

All pray'rs will be answered in Your own time.

Music, lyrics & arrangement by Paulo K Tiról
Performed by Joseph Legaspi

In Your Own Way

Music by Norman A. Agatep
Lyrics by Jandi I. Arboleda, inspired by the miracles of Christ
Arranged by Norman A. Agatep
Performed by the Bukas Palad Music Ministry
From the album HINDI KITA MALILIMUTAN (2007)

Now You're Healed

Our group practicing Hangad's Child Emmanuel for a benefit concert on November 30.

GSC -  Child Emmanuel

Home

WILL YOU SEE?
Words and music by Paulo K Tiról
Featuring vocals by Adee David  

Shall I say it?
I’ve kept silent for too long.
But if I say it,
What if everything goes wrong between us?
Can I ask you to promise that nothing will change?
Can I ask you to promise that things won’t get strange?

Still, I need to say it,
Need to push this fear aside,
To finally just say it.
What’s the use of trying to hide any longer
When I crack and I crumble with each passing day,
And I’m certain this secret’s not going away?
I need to say it now.
When I do, somehow,

Will you see
It’s still me standing here?
Still the same smile,
Still the same story,
Still the same heart
In a life that’s been aching to start

If I just say it.
There’ll never be a perfect time,
So might as well just say it.
Might as well begin the climb, ‘cause yes, I know
While there’s so much to gain, there’ll be so much to lose,
And there’s no going back once I finally choose
To let myself be free.
Could you please be there for me?

Will you see
It’s still me standing here?
Still the same smile,
Still the same story,
Still the same heart
In a life that’s been aching to start.

They say, “Stand proud of who you are, and let your colors fly!”
But what’s the use of standing proud if I have to say goodbye?

Will you see
It’s still me standing here?
Still the same smile,
Still the same story,
Still the same heart
In a life that’s been aching to start.
Will you see?
Can you see?
It’s still me.

Will You See? feat. Adee David (P. K. Tirol)

Performed by Paulo K Tiról and Kathleen Wrinn

"The Forgetting of Snow" (Book and Lyrics by Kathleen Wrinn, Music by Paulo K Tiról)is a full-length musical exploring school shootings in America through the eyes of a 9-year-old girl.

How Little We Know

PROUD
Featuring Enrico Lagasca
Words & Music by Paulo K Tiról 
  
I straighten my tie, it’s my turn to stand.
I head up the stage, I raise my right hand. 
On this day I’ve awaited for years,
I’m fighting to hold back the tears,
though it’s soured recounting each word
I’ve heard people say.
Coward, deserter, denouncing your home,
the country that made you who you are today. 
Aren’t you proud?, they ask.
Aren't you proud? 
 
It’s your morning routine:
you’re just barely awake
and the news from the side of the world you were born 
is just too much to take.
And you’re asked through the day
by each well-meaning friend,
and finding the news from back home is becoming 
too much to defend.
So you’re trying to block it all out but the noise 
of the nonsense is far too loud.
Can one really be proud?
it Is hard to be proud

when a promise is cheap,
when a word has no weight,
when a life has no worth in the face of frustration 
and anger and hate,
when the facts are obscure 
and the thieves uncontrite
as the powerful prey on a populace grasping 
at glimmers of light
in a place where forgetting the sins of the past 
and rewriting the truth are allowed,
tell me how to be proud.
It is hard to be proud. 

Call me ungrateful.
Call me unkind.
Call me a traitor.
Try to change my mind.
Show me our history and art, our laughter and warmth, 
our landscapes and oceans,
then show me that pride in our country is more 
than romantic, rhetorical notions.
It’s the place I was born, where I grew, whose language I speak; 
is it anything more?
What debt do I owe?
Is a country not something that one can outgrow?
Please tell me, my country, I want to know:
what’s this talk of pride for? 

Yes, it’s easy to say
when you’ve found a way out.
Yes, with thousands of miles between you and the darkness,
it’s easy to doubt.
You’re not clutching at hope,
you’re not scrounging for nerve,
you’re not spiraling downward as you fight for the life 
which your -- which OUR people deserve.
And a part of you wishes your will was as strong 
and your spirit as unbowed,
and aren’t too proud.
And you want to be proud… 

then you look to the millions and millions comprising 
the blinded, broken crowd.
Tell me how to be proud.
I want to be proud.
I want to be… 

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From the song cycle "On This Side of the World"
Written and recorded on the occasion of the former dictator Ferdinand Marcos' burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes' Cemetery) in Manila
November 18, 2016

Proud feat. Enrico Legasca (P. K. Tiról)

You Are Near

Inspired by Pope Francis' Urbi et Orbi.
Music and Lyrics: Basil Dungo
Arrangement: Barok Gutierrez

GSC - Child Emmanuel

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