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Falling Out Of Time (International Version) is Mokhtar’s most expansive and emotionally layered work to date—a minimalist R&B album that speaks in three tongues and countless moods. Written in English, Tagalog, and Malay, the project transcends borders and time zones, capturing the universal ache of change, memory, and quiet rebellion.

Each track is a timestamp from a life lived in fragments:

• From the melancholic refusal in “Ayoko ng Sunset Ngayon” to the cinematic collapse of “The World Is Shaking”,
• From the nostalgic ache of “Childhood” to the poetic defiance of “Cutting My Hair at Home”,
• From the imagined escape in “Life in Another City” to the theatrical finality of “One Last Dance Before My Inevitable Death”,


The album moves like a slow dissolve—velvet vocals over ambient textures, lo-fi percussion, and lyrics that feel handwritten. It’s not just international in language, but in emotional reach: every song is a passport to a feeling you thought was yours alone.

This version is for the listener who’s lived in translation, who’s felt heartbreak in more than one language, who knows that time doesn’t heal—it distorts. Mokhtar doesn’t offer resolution. He offers resonance.


6. Childhood

Unconditional

Lyrics:
[Intro]
Medianoche…
Donde tus mentiras suenan como amor…
(Where your lies sound like love…)

[Verse 1]
Red lights on the dashboard flicker,
Eyes closed but the pulse beats quicker.
Your perfume still burns in my sheets,
But your voice only haunts these streets.

Shadow in silk, you dance with my sins,
You left but your ghost still sings.
City don’t sleep, just like my brain,
Running in circles, calling your name.

[Pre-Chorus]
Tócame, aunque me duela (Touch me, even if it hurts)
Dices que me quieres, pero juegas. (You say you love me, but you play.)
Sigo cayendo, sin frontera — (I keep falling, without borders)
En tu luna llena…

[Drop]
Midnight, no control —
Dancing with your echo, soul to soul.
Tu sombra me llama (Your shadow calls me)
No hay calma…
Medianoche… I lose it all.

[Verse 2]
You send a text like “you up?” at 2,
But I know what that message do.
Toxic in lace, you taste like fire,
But I sip slow, caught in desire.

You break me in rhythms, four on the floor,
Then leave like you paid at the corner store.
I chase the high that your kiss provides,
But it’s just pain in a prettier disguise.

[Bridge]
No eres mía, (You’re not mine)
Pero me tienes. (But you’ve got me.)
Tus labios mienten…
Pero igual vienes. (But still, you come.)

[Hook]
Midnight, no control —
Running with your echo, soul to soul.
Tu sombra me llama,
No hay calma…
Medianoche… I lose it all.

[Outro]
Medianoche…
El amor no siempre salva. (Love doesn’t always save.)
Pero te busco… igual. (But I look for you… anyway.)


Raised by the devil

TLH