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"Ulap sa Magdamag"

 

Ako ay ulap sa magdamag

Ayaw bumaba ngunit dahan-dahang bumabagsak.

Sa ihip ng iyong hangin ako ay nababalisa.                       

Lumuluha habang bumabagsak.

 

O hangin, ibalik mo ako sa yakap mong malambot.

O araw, halikan mo ako ng mainit mong apoy.

Sariwain natin muli ang ulap sa magdamag.

 

Sa batis na tahimik ako ay niyayakap.

Sa gubat ng buhay ako ay iniinom.

Sa ilog na masungit ako ay lumalabnaw.

 

O hangin, ibalik mo ako sa yakap mong malambot.

O araw, halikan mo ako ng mainit mong apoy.

Sariwain natin muli ang ulap sa magdamag.

 

Tumatago sa kuweba ng pusong tapat,

Kumukulog kapag nalilinlang.

Umaagos sa ilog ng bigong pag-ibig,

Dahan-dahang umaalat patungong dagat

 

O hangin, ibalik mo ako sa yakap mong malambot.

O araw, halikan mo ako ng mainit mong apoy.

Sariwain natin muli ang ulap sa magdamag.

 

Ako ay ulap sa magdamag.

 

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/music/watch/v1637392kYXH3hmj#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG3w7xdQQyA

 

 

A Song for Us

 

I see love full of colors

I don't know which one is for me

Just can't get enough about the meaning

I might as well feel that it comes from you

 

I hear speeches without messages

I see people without lines on their faces

I hear promises that made it happen

I tasted the sweet wine of fate

 

Broken heart please let me know the meaning

Joyful heart tell me if I can stay in between

 

Let's give and share what we have

The world will never stop from getting smaller

While our numbers are getting higher

The more we have to hold each other

 

Broken heart please let me know the meaning

Joyful heart tell me if I can stay in between

 

 

"Screw Driver Head"

Screw driver head when will you stop from digging?

The things you create are putting us all in shame

Pinned all the ranking heads to the ground

Scare us all with your pointed ego threat

 

The four seasons became one hot summer

Green fields are turning into a rainbow of dust

I see tired children on a cracked dry playground

It’s cool and safe in the box of the screw driver head

 

Screw driver head don’t lose your hard metal head

You bring barrel of stress at your drilling end

People trying to make things fast as they could

Resulting distressing curses on the road

 

You feast your eyes on fire with gestures of sympathy

No carnation mourners only moans, groans and sobs

Sucking the darkness underneath the ground

The world will be a dwelling place of screws.     

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_PNK5RxE_U

                                                                                                  

KAPITBANSA

 

Kapitbansa tuloy po kayo

Ano pong kailangan ninyo?

Kahoy po ba, ang hangad ninyo?

Noon marami po kami niyan

Sanhi ng aking kabuktutan

Ang lahat ay naging putik

At nailibing ang mga batang mag-aaral

Kapitbansa sa palagay mo ba,

maibabalik ko pa?

chorus:

Sa hangin ng ating panahon ang lahat ay lumalago ng paurong

Libo't daang taong buhay ang ating winawasak

Mukha mo'y anghel nang bilugin mo ang pabaya kong ulo

Ohh-ohh-ohh

Kapitbansa saan mo iminudmod ang mga punong pinutol ko?

Tinalikuran mo ang tanong ko at ikaw ay tuluyang lumaho

Lahi ko'y dumating sa panghihina ng katawan

Nang ako ay mamatay kaluluwa'y hinanap ka't natagpuan

Magarang nakaupo at bayan ko'y naging sunod-sunuran

repeat chorus:

Kapitbansa tuloy po kayo

Ano po ang kailangan ninyo?

Kahoy po ba?

Haaa?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT3DejZKw6Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g84u3O3ozeg

 

Agila ng Timog Silangan

 

Ang likas ng iyong yaman ay sinira ng aming kahangalan

Nanatili ka sa lugar ng iyong mga ninuno

 

Agila sugo ka ni bathala

Hugis mo ay likha ng langit at lupa

Ikaw ay obra ng kalikasan

Tinig mo ay kulay ng maligayang gubat

 

Larawan mo ang dignidad ng aming lahi

Ngunit may lungkot sa iyong mga mata

 

Agila ng timog silangan

Yaman namin ang iyong kalayaan

Ang awit kong ito sana ay marinig mo

Anino ka ng aming kinalalagyan

 

Mabuhay ka pag-asa ng dagat at lupa

Mabuhay ka pag-asa ng hangin at gubat

 

Mga puno ay mahalin natin

Mga pananim ay palawakin

Hindi pa huli ang lahat

Ang lahat

Ang lahat

 

Agila ng timog silangan

Yaman namin ang iyong kalayaan

Ang awit kong ito sana ay marinig mo

Anino ka ng aming kinalalagyan

 

Mabuhay ka pag-asa ng dagat at lupa

Mabuhay ka pag-asa ng hangin at gubat   

"Huwag Mong Isiping Wala Na Sila"

 

Lumingon ka sa pinanggalingan mo

Galangin mo ang sarili mo

Mahalin ang nagkamaling magulang mo

Tulungan mo ang kapatid mo

 

Sa buwan na maliwanag ako ay nagdasal

Na sana ay makapiling ang ginhawa sa buhay

Kain, tulog, kubeta, ligo lang ang aking pahinga

Masiglang sinasalubong ng masikip kong mga ugat ang umaga

Na tanging pag-asa ng tulad kong manggagawa

chorus:

Huwag mong isiping wala na sila

Puso'y itinaya para sa ating kinabukasan

Nakipag-banggaan talino sa ibang dako ng mundo

Upang tayong lahat ay kilalaning makatao

 

Darating ang gabi ng pagbangon

Darating ang araw ng pagbagsak

Ako'y nagising ng hubo't hubad

Nasilayan ang ilaw ng katotohanan

chorus: II

Huwag mong isiping wala na sila

Huwag mong isiping wala na sila

Huwag mong isiping wala na sila

 

 

 

 

"Luzviminda"

 

You made me feel everything

I sense it's simple to understand

Softly as you caress my thoughts

I felt the world breathing in my head

 

Oh, Luzviminda we are one

We are one through night and day

 

It's so wonderful to live with you

You taught me how to walk in the night

You cradle me wherever I go

You brought me up to stand the test of time

 

Oh, Luzviminda we are one

We are one through night and day

 

I played in the warmth of your bosom

I understand your unpretentious love

Thank you for the joy you gave me

My heart forever beats to your songs

 

My, Luzviminda we are one

we are one, we are one

Rainy and sunny days.

 

"Yesterday's Success"

 

Yesterday I saw you

living like a fool

Last week was sunny

you were singing your song

A month old poem

played on the airwaves

Success seems rousing

your spinning head

 

You're throwing yourself all over

Oh, what a creative time

Time, time 

 

Life in the fast lane is

good for those who need

Fifteen minutes fame

 is better than nothing

Living in a world of reason

keeps us on our toes

You shave your head for us to see

the dreadful thing behind it

 

You're throwing yourself all over

Oh, what a creative time

Time, time.

 

"I don't know how to tell you"

 

Hey, hey, hey

Twice a week we meet each other

Passionately singing our song

The west wind embraced our thoughts

With glittering silence of love

I already made my song

Fate had me playing with fear

You know the dream of souls

Please hang on and understand

I don't know,

I don't know how to tell you, baby

I will know.

 

 

 

"Sip and Shake"

Your eyes is like the sky

Standing by the ocean

You are all over me

The breeze whisper's

That I have to see you again

The wind blows your hair

Sun bursts the blue sky

Oh what a lovely sight

Feet are cold

Need direction to meet you again

I walk towards the coffee shop

Fall in a long line

Waiting for my turn

I can't believe,

You smile and ask,

What can I get you?

Oh, ahh

Regular coffee

I sip and shake every time I see you

Sip and shake every time I'm near you

Shake every time I talk to you

Lovely morning

Good for a tough day

Second nature to me

I'll see you after work

Just like this morning

Oh, ahh

Regular coffee

I sip and shake every time I see you

Sip and shake every time I'm near you

Shake every time I talk to you.

                                                                                           

"Departure"

In deafening silence of ruins

How is it to be human?

I'm sick and tired of greediness

It only leads to violence

The paper said it's only time

And numbers being changed

So what am I doing here?

I saw them in the shade of magnolia tree

Reciting speeches while bowing their heads

I approached my best friend,

What's going on here?

No matter how loud I ask

I've never been heard

I found myself on the ground.

 

"Engagement of the Heart and Soul"

What  have I done to burst thy tears?

For love doesn't see the soul

Thy heart pure and mine weak

Tired of collecting thy fiber

For my soul lies at the valley of death.

Underneath,

Tthe heart hammering the nails of woe

Blood bursting into tears

Desires to meet the soul

Tears melt the spectre

And nails become bliss

For thy tears have embraced my heart

And enfolded my soul.

 

 

"If The Ocean Can Only Speak It Will Speak For Me"

I have no intention of letting you go

It’s better if you hated me

By the time you walk away

The more I can see the whole of you

From your background to your foreground

I see you more plainly with others

 

My friend told me that they misunderstood me

They must have a hard time understanding themselves

My eyes can only see what my mind wants to know

We are all strangers in the dust who breathe by chance

Survival is the lesson we have been learning

Some are playing and some were watching the game

 

I told you sister don’t be so sure of yourself

Please be strong if he makes it difficult for you

But strength without love won’t last forever

You are a woman the genesis of the world

Who taught me to see the shadow of kindness

You don’t deserve to be treated that way

 

Big sister if they’ll give you medication for being you

Flush it down the drain , look at yourself in the mirror

And say "If the ocean can only speak it will speak for me".

                                                                                                    

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