Thanks for the lyrics here hehehehehehehe love you guys

This is all so new
I've never felt this blue
And still at peace
With everything
And everyone
Smiling at the sun

Waking up at noon
Seems to fix my mood
And I'm at peace
With everything
And everyone
Smiling at the sun

I hope that I'd make something great
But there's no guarantee
So right now I'll just let go of the weight
And breathe because I'm free to

I know this won't last
Studying the past will show the harm
Of longing for
And holding on
To something that will pass

But that does not imply
That I should make it die
So soon
These dreams
Are bursting forth
Taking the form
Of music that will last

I hope that I'd be someone great
But there's no guarantee
So right now I'll just let go of the weight
And sing because I'm free to

I lift these songs to heaven's gates
And ask if they could keep them
Locked within a golden safe
Until I come to sing before the king

Until I come to sing before the king
Until I come to sing before the king
Until I come to sing before the king
Someday I'll come to sing before the king

Lightness (draft) - 3:24:22, 8.36 PM

I wrote this song when I was alone. My music cant help me.

Thaddeus

music cant help me today (Live Demo)

i hear them calling
they're calling out to me
they tell me freedom is here
yeah freedom's finally here

all the while rain is falling
just like notes on a symphony
they tell me not to feel fear
'cause freedom's finally here

'take one bite to take the fall
i'll be right next to you through it all'
with these words i saw
with these words i saw

i once was caged but now i'm free
and i don't really wanna go home
i once was blind but now i see
yeah i don't really wanna go home
i've paid the price, i know the cost
don't preach to me, i know i'm lost
and if my father calls for me
tell him i don't wanna go home

tell me again
what's it like on the other side
are you still living in fear?
aren't we all just human
we turn to dust when we die
sacrifice every year
to please the gods we hold dear

'take one bite to take the fall
we'll be right next to you through it all'
with these words i saw
with these words i saw

i once was caged but now i'm free
and i don't really wanna go home
i once was blind but now i see
yeah i don't really wanna go home
i've paid the price, i know the cost
don't preach to me, i know i'm lost
and if my father calls for me
tell him i don't really wanna go, don't really wanna go home

no i don't wanna go back to where i couldn't run
do you see me now? i've only just begun
i won't stop to lay my head
until i've reached the sun
no i don't wanna go back to where i couldn't run

prodigal's anthem (or 'the gods we hold dear')

Our first EP! Special thanks to Kian Ransom for making this EP possible. :) Check out his band, The Ransom Collective: https://soundcloud.com/theransomcollective

To support our music, you can buy this EP on Bandcamp for $3.99. Just click

Vocals & Acoustic Guitar - Benny Manaligod
Back-up Vocals & Lead Guitar - Jan De Vera
Drums & Percussions - Bryant Ayes
Bass - Joric Canlas

All songs written by Benny Manaligod
All songs arranged by Benny Manaligod, Jan De Vera, and Bryant Ayes
All songs recorded and produced by Kian Ransom

Aphrodite EP

Yvaine

02 Yvaine

Meaningful Silence (solo)

Do You Want To Be Mine (solo)

A song based on Psalm 51.

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love (v1)
I was a sinner since birth (v5)
You taught me the wisdom that comes from above (v6)

Don't cast me out I have nowhere to go (v12)
Cleanse me and I will be whiter than snow (v7)

You ask for my life so I'll give it, though this grief has torn me apart (my own words)
Take my broken spirit, take my broken heart (v17)

You ask for my praise so I'll give it (v15)
I'm coming back to the start (my own words)
Take my broken spirit, take my broken heart (v17)

Broken (Psalm 51)

JULY 16, 2019 just making this public now for the band lol hope no one notices

She is a girl I met one January noon
Borrowed some books and said that I’d return them soon
When she asked about them I couldn’t find the words to say
I’ve never read a page until this day

Please be careful
You’ll be careful
Won’t you
Do be careful
Don’t you dare fall for words like these

I won’t dare to make a move
No I won’t dare to make a move

She is a girl who’s made of sugar more than spice
And, by some lovely accident, everything nice
She’s wise beyond her years. It’s in her soul, it’s in her name.
She’s clumsy and childlike all the same.

Please be careful
You’ll be careful won’t you
Do be careful
Don’t you dare fall for words like these

I won’t dare to make a move
No I won’t dare to make a move

Keep this story in a bottle
Throw it out into the sea
It could sink under the water
Or find its way to you and me
And by God if it’s the latter
Then maybe then maybe
Just maybe...

She was a poet who was barefoot on stage
Saw her December under starlight and the rain
I am a troubadour, my feet were meant to roam
But when I heard her voice I longed for home

She (draft)

Raven Black, we made a pact to stay 'til the bitter end
Now you want to leave and I don't want you to pretend
To love me
No you don't love me
That's okay I'll be just fine
This was not a waste of time

I'm not asking you to stay
If you're gonna lie straight to my face
Just tell me honestly
If we're not meant to be

Raven Black, we made a pact to stay 'til the bitter end
Now you want to leave and I don't want you to pretend
To love me
No you don't love me
That's okay I'll be just fine
I was yours and you were mine

Stay (draft)

Mondays should be my day off, but for the past few weeks, work has taken that away from me. Now, I finally get to rest. Here are some tracks I wrote and recorded during my rest day. They're raw and sound awful, but I like them. Hope you do, too.

The first track is something I would usually right. Nothing out of the ordinary.

The second is something I've always wanted to do: a punk rock song with cheesy lyrics and vocals. Glad I got to try making one at least once in my life.

I got tired of recording the third song, which is perfect because it's a song about being tired. I started writing this album hoping I would find answers to questions I've been having lately. Turns out I'm leaving this project with more questions.

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I. Looking For

When I was a boy
Just 5 years of age
I picked up a fiddle
And started to play
Those were
The best years of my life

Learned the guitar
Back in summer ‘09
I made my first tune
And wrote my first rhyme
It wasn’t perfect
But i   was all right
I wasn’t perfect
But I was all right

It began to feel different
When I hit 18
I made some new plans
Set aside all my dreams
And I can’t
Get away from the push and the pull
Of the waves crashing over my heart and my soul

23 and there’s no going back
All i have are these mem’ries intact
It’s hard to move on when I’m stuck in the past
how long will this last

I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
Haven't regained what I lost

II. Every City

Every city that I’ve been to
Feels a little like you
There’s always something new
Always something new

Every pretty little detail
In your photographs
Tells me you’re not far
Stay right where you are

I can’t tell you I’ll go with you
I know I’d be lying
But I’ll see you when it ends
And I can’t tell you that I’ll miss you
You know that I'm trying
I’ll see you when
I’ll see you when it ends

Every city that I’ve been to
Feels a little like you
I’m still not used to
Still not used to you

Every time you take a detour
It’s unclear
If you’ll find your way back here
Or finally disappear

I can’t tell you I’ll go with you
I know I’d be lying
But I’ll see you when it ends
And I can’t tell you that I’ll miss you
You know that I'm trying
I’ll see you when
I’ll see you when it ends

III. Start/End

I started with some questions I need answers to
And now I end with some and 20 more
Do you think you could give me back the time
I wasted
Searching for what I could never find

I looked in every place
Every time
Every face
I got so far thinking that I’ve come so close
But you were always there
To tell me that I’m wrong again

You said, “Turn the other way,
Is it so hard to see
All the things you’re holding on to
Are making you bleed

Neither the past
Nor the future
Are in your hands
So let go

I told you hope is harmful when there’s no guarantee
All the things you’re holding on to
Are making you bleed

Neither the past
Nor the future are in your hands
So let go"

Just let me have my way
Is it so hard to see
That the more you hold on to me
The more you will bleed

I know my past and my future are in your hands
So please let go

I. LOOKING FOR

Sleep (draft)

Fall asleep on a video call
While I blabber on, blabber on
I wonder if you hear me at all
Talking through a machine

Sleep through the chaos
Sleep through the pain
Tomorrow's another day
To face it all again

Blue ocean colors cover your bed
As these words sail into your dreams
What scenes are going on in your head
And what the hell do they mean?

Sleep through the chaos
Sleep through the pain
Tomorrow's another day
To face it all again

Fall asleep on a video call
While I blabber on, blabber on
Blabber on, blabber on

Sleep (draft) - 29:05:2020, 01.42 AM

A place for Benny Manaligod to dump his songs about faith, love, and life.

Check out my band! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpVjgD48Csc

For gigs and other stuff, you can email me at bennymanaligod@gmail.com

check out my other soundcloudz
https://soundcloud.com/the-one-only-i-can-see (used up two hours; cant upload NEmore)
https://soundcloud.com/the-ridleys (my band)

Stay (draft)

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