A demo of a brand new song. Check out http://www.saywecanfly.net :)

By The River (Demo)

Am I embarrassed. Because I'm not really good at singing pop, I cringe at the cheesy lyrics I randomly come up with and I suck at sound mixing but OOOH WEEELLL I had fun arranging this. Took me about 3 days lol. Haha. Actually, I have a handful of written songs that I really wanna record but you see, I don't really intend to sing them. More like I want some other person to sing them haha, so I really wanna get a band together so that you know, the instruments wouldn't sound all midi-ocre hahaha (heyy I just came up with that!!!) And I hope this wouldn't reach the ears of my fellow college-of-music school mates because they might... feel embarrassed for me... for doing this... BUT HEEEYYY I DON'T CAAREE HAHAHAHA anyway.

Please tell me what you think as this is my first self-written/recorded/sung/arranged song. Not my first compo though, i just chose to record this as it is short and is easier to arrange. And sorry for the various sound qualities because I've been recording in the room, then in the bathroom, then in the closet, then in the... everywhere. Yeah. AND i know my diction sucks so here are the lyrics (uughh so cheesy me!!! hahahaha)

Sweet lips of you deserve a kiss
Eyes so wonderful mustn't have tears
Whisper softly now into my ears 
Tell me something I long to hear


Hands together now, we dance
Under the moonlight till the sunrise

Come to me baby  
Into my arms i'll hold you tightly, safely you'll be
Come to me now and never let go
My heart is with you boy, my beautiful, beautiful boy

My beautiful, beautiful love



Beautiful Love

Takatsu is an award-winning writer of contemporary literary fiction, featured Wattpad author, and kickstarter of the Literary Fiction Network. He pioneered the Japanese “cell phone novel” phenomenon in the English-speaking world, marking a moment in history of a new online literary movement among thousands of young writers and readers globally. The remarkably unique serialized fusion of simple haiku-like poetic technique, visual text flow, multimedia and micro-prose storytelling has re-envisioned technology, youth culture, community and literature. The published print book of the coming-of-age story, “Secondhand Memories”, was released for fans internationally in 2015.

His more recent work includes “Move”, (2013, CPN, Textnovel) a sentimental journey of a struggling musician, and his flagship landmark novel, “Espresso Love” (2014), a dystopian magical-realistic literary fiction journey of spiritual awakening, which satirizes and examines human nature, subjective perception, socio-political systems, digital landscape, capitalist mechanism and consumer culture. It won the Watty’s Award 2014, reached #1 in Science-Fiction, and surpassed a readership of 800,000 in eight months.

Links

Read Espresso Love

http://www.wattpad.com/story/11748510

Song in episode is Pirouette by Made In Heights

https://soundcloud.com/madeinheights/pirouette


Takatsu, award-winnng author, pioneer English cellphone novelist

Composed and arranged by: Ian Tan & Kevin Cheng
Vocals: Mel 


Like You

Ashita no Yume - original song. Complete (for now)

*Originally written in Japanese for the tsunami victims in Japan last year as well as everyone fighting for their dreams. YUI's music has always given me a lot of strength and inspiration to chase after my dreams. I wouldn't be pursuing creating music if I didn't have her music throughout all these years. I hope that my music would also do the same for others :)

*I give up on trying to make it better LOL We'll see if I make a better version but for now, it's complete. After comparing with studio album quality songs, every producer and artist has a different mix and engineering... so this isn't too bad, except i can't get rid of the slight clipping xD

*Music video planned for this song in the summer!

*Show the video of this song some love haha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEVgqnTyRRw

The lyrics (cheesy... cuz my japanese is limited LOL)

ココロ震える 
今挫けそうかも 
強く成りたい 
一人じゃないよ

終わりじゃなくて 
未来見えなくても 
一緒に頑張ろう 
いつも続けている

人生が戦いなら 
君のために生きたい

明日の夢はすぐ叶えるんだ 
いつでも信じてる 
すぐ夜が明ける 
心配しないで

泣きそうの時は希望があるから 
自分の声を忘れないで

決めた道に行こう 
世界で遥か彼方

星空を見ている 
明日は新しいデイ 
僕らも輝き 
チャンスを待っているんだ 
心配しないで

今引き返せって無理だね 
二人で先に進む 
どこ分かない

明日の夢はすぐ叶えるんだ 
星空を見ている 
明日は新しいデイ 
This is our dream 
Our one desire 
Take this night and turn it into day 
これから譲れない 
きっと光見つけた 
心配しないで

明日の夢

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ROMAJI

kokoro furueru 
ima kujikesou kamo 
tsuyoku naritai 
hitori ja nai yo

owari ja nakute 
mirai mienakute mo 
isshou ni ganbarou 
itsumo tsuzuketeiru

jinsei ga tatakai nara 
kimi no tame ni ikitai

ashita no yume wa 
sugu kanaeru n da 
itsudemo shinjiteru 
sugu yo ga akeru 
shimpai shinaide

nakisou no toki wa 
kibou ga aru kara 
jibun no koe wo 
wasurenaide

kimeta michi ni yukou 
sekai de haruka kanata

hoshizora wo miteiru 
ashita wa atarashii DAY (hi) 
bokura mo kagayaki 
CHANSU wo matteiru n da 
shimpai shinaide 

ima hikikaesette muri da ne 
futari de saki ni susumu 
doko wakanai

ashita no yume wa 
sugu kanaerun da 
hoshizora wo miteiru 
ashita wa atarashii DAY

this is our dream 
our one desire 
take this night and turn it into day 
korekara yuzurenai 
kitto hikari mitsuketa

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Our hearts are trembling 
Perhaps we're crushed now
I want to become stronger 
We're not alone

It's not the end 
Even when the future can't be seen 
Let's try our hardest together 
And always continue on

If life is a fight, 
I want to live on for you

Tomorrow's dreams will soon be fulfilled 
At all times we'll keep believing 
That the dawn will break soon 
Please don't worry

When you seem like crying, there's hope 
Please don't forget your own voice

Let's go on the path we've decided 
Faraway in the world

We're watching the starry skies 
Tomorrow is a new day 
We're waiting for our own chance to shine 
Please don't worry

It's impossible to turn back now 
The two of us will go on forward 
I don't know where

Tomorrow's dreams will soon be fulfilled 
We're watching the starry skies 
Tomorrow is a new day 
This is our dream 
Our one desire 
Take this night and turn it into day 
From here on in, don't surrender 
We've definitely found the light 
Please don't worry

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?2wo5sff5csunzqz

Copyright 2012 takatsu

明日の夢 (Ashita no Yume - Tomorrow's Dream)

I'm a singer-songwriter who believes in changing the world, inspiring souls and touching hearts through music :) I enjoy creating and producing many different kinds of music. Coming from pop rock / pop punk / metalcore band roots, eventually as bands had to part ways, I took on acoustic music. But recently I'm returning to producing full band songs! So I'm here with my newer originals which will include Japanese and english and range from pop punk / electronic / metalcore to softer acoustic pop songs? We'll see! Shall be fun!

明日の夢 (Ashita no Yume - Tomorrow's Dream)

Takatsu

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