Until the End of Time by Justin Timberlake

I don't know. There's just something about the music of this song. I never digested what the lyrics are and what they mean (most probably a love song), but the instant I heard this song and knew it was good.

Justin Timberlake, has so far, churned out good-quality music. I hope it continues.

Listen

Woke up this morning
Heard the TV sayin' something
'Bout disaster in the world and
It made me wonder where I'm going
There's so much darkness in the world
But I see beauty left in you girl
And what you give me let's me know
That I'll be alright

'cause if your love was all I had
In this life
Well that would be enough
Until the end of time
So rest your weary heart
And relax your mind
Cause I'm gonna love you girl
Until the end of time

You've got me singing
Oh whoa, yeah
Oh whoa, yeah
Everybody sing
Oh whoa, yeah
Everybody singing
Oh whoa yeah

Now if you're ever wondering
About the way I'm feeling
Well baby girl there ain't no question
Just to be around you is a blessing
Sick and tired of trying to save the world
I just want to spend my time with you girl
And what you're giving me
Let's me know that we'll be alright.

'cause if your love was all I had
In this life
Well that would be enough
Until the end of time
So rest your weary heart
And relax your mind
Cause I'm gonna love you girl
Until the end of time

You've got me singing
Oh whoa, yeah
Oh whoa, yeah
Everybody sing
Oh whoa, yeah
Everybody singing
Oh whoa yeah

This one's for the lovers
If you're out there let me hear you say
Yeah, yeah, yeah
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
This one's for the lovers
If you're out there let me hear you say
Yeah, yeah
(Yeah, yeah)
This one's for the lovers
If you're out there let me hear you say
Yeah, yeah, yeah
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
This one's for the lovers
If you're out there let me hear you say
Yeah, yeah
(Yeah, yeah)

Oh whoa yeah
Oh whoa yeah
Oh whoa yeah
Oh whoa yeah

'cause if your love was all I had
In this life
That would be enough
Until the end of time

Trip to Jerusalem by Eraserheads

There were only 2 singles that I'm familiar with that came of from the Eraserhead's Christmas album aptly titled Fruitcake, one sharing the same title as the album. The other is this song, Trip to Jerusalem.

This is my favorite song of the Fruitcake album. I believe the video for this song might have helped in having that choice. I just remember point of view of the camera traveling and it seems to be flying on some angles.

The guitar riff on the chorus is also SiCk!!! It just sticks in my mind like a glue.

Open your door
Dance on the floor
Hey what’s your name
Let’s play a game
I am the champ
Come see me stomp

It never ends

Oh tell me do you wanna fly
Fly high way up in the sky
Or maybe you don’t even have to try
All you have to do is follow that star

But when the star doesn’t shine
You won’t be able to find your way
And the wiseman will still remain
The king of trip to jerusalem

Sometimes you win
Sometimes you fail
Choose holy blood
Lose holy grail
Just when you think you’ve gone so far
You find yourself back to the start

It never ends

Oh tell me do you wanna fly
Fly high way up in the sky
Or maybe you don’t even have to try
All you have to do is follow that star

But when the star doesn’t shine
You won’t be able to find your way
There won’t be any other chance to be
The king of trip to jerusalem

The music plays like a heavenly choir
Lovely chairs are there if you get tired

Don’t listen to a word he says
He’s just trying to distract you
Do your own thing stick with what you want

Open your drawer
Dance on the floor
And now at last just two of us
Only one chair
Who will sit there
Is it the king or
Is it the heir

It never ends

Oh tell me do you wanna fly
Fly high way up in the sky
Or maybe you don’t even have to try
All you have to do is follow that star

But when the star doesn’t shine
You won’t be able to find your way
The only thing that we can do is pray
On our trip to jerusalem

You Didn't Break It by Steve Vai

I bought my first Steve Vai album at a local record shop for around P100. This was probably one of the more pop oriented songs in the album, a song I definitely loved so much that I included in a mix tape (or more appropriately mixed cd I gave to a girl)

According to the liner notes, it was written by a couple, Bob and Suzannah Harris who goes by the commercial name Rantin and Rayven. On this record, they sang the vocals and backing vocals respectively.

You didn't break it
You didn't break it
You didn't break my heart when you split
You only cracked it just a bit

Somethin's changed
Though I know my heart ain't plastic
I guess through the years it's grown
A little more elastic

'Cause this time cryin' time
Didn't last as long
And my heart just needed minor repairs
And it feels pretty strong
(Feels pretty strong)
And it's movin' right along

You didn't break it
You didn't break it
You didn't break my heart when you split
You only cracked it just a bit

You didn't break it
You didn't break it
You didn't break it
You didn't break my heart

Losin' love, it used to crush me
Now it doesn't
I just figured it was meant to be
Or it wasn't

So if you wanna know
Now that you're gone, the shape I'm in
You never clipped the wings of my heart
It's gonna fly again.

You didn't break it
You didn't break it
You didn't break my heart when you split
You only cracked it just a bit

You didn't break it
You didn't break it
You didn't break it
You didn't break my heart

I got somethin' that keeps me goin'
I got a habit of comin' around, honey
You didn't run me off the highway
You only slowed me down

Hello Again by Hoobastank

Hoobastank was one of my favorite bands during college, especially after getting immersed in Incubus music. Members of both bands were school mates as far as i remember.

The band might be more famous for singles such as the Reason and Crawling in the Dark, but they really had some good songs, one of which is this song, Hello Again.

Dan Estrin, the guitarist, uses a lot of textures and layers for the guitar parts... and I love how the riffs are put together in this song. Bass lines didn't go wrong neither.

I dream that someday we'll be able to
Look back on this together and say
It was for the best and that it made us
Stronger today, stronger today

There's much more for us to see
A brand new day for you and me
And with confidence I say, "We're better than ever"
And I don't know where this will lead
But in my life you need to be
Cause I need to say, "Hello again"

I'm so afraid that if I wait too long
You'll never look in my eyes again
With a look that gave me strength and gave me hope
And made me feel I've inspired


There's much more for us to see
A brand new day for you and me
And with confidence I say, "We're better than ever"
And I don't know where this will lead
But in my life you need to be
Cause I need to say, "Hello again"

Hello again, hello again, yea
Hello again, yea

There's much more for us to see
A brand new day for you and me
And with confidence I say, "We're better than ever"
And I don't know where this will lead
But in my life you need to be
Cause I need to say, "Hello again"

Patience by Guns N' Roses

Wow! This blog has been running for more about 4 years and I haven't written something about the guns who ruled the early 90's with their brand of rock and roll... Guns N' fuckin' Roses.

Me and my brothers started off with the Use Your Illusion albums and gradually gravitated to the older albums... Appetite for Destruction and GNR Lies. GNR Lies seemed to be a sucky album with me listening only to one side of the album as I found the other side not too appealing for my youthful and ignorant taste. (Little did I know that the other side I was not listening to was a copy of the GNR original EP "Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide".

The song starts of with the infamous whistle which every kid listening to Guns N' Roses had to learn at that time.

(1..2...1,2,3,4)
Shed a tear 'cause I'm missing you
I'm still alright to smile
Girl, I think about you every day now
Was a time when I wasn't sure
But you set my mind at ease
There is no doubt you're in my heart now
Said woman take it slow
It'll work itself out fine
All we need is just a little patience
Said sugar make it slow
And we'll come together fine
All we need is just a little patience
(inhale) Patience...
Ooh, oh, yeah

Sit here on the stairs
'Cause I'd rather be alone
If I can't have you right now, I'll wait dear
Sometimes, I get so tense
But I can't speed up the time
But you know, love, there's one more thing to consider
Said woman take it slow
Things will be just fine
You and I'll just use a little patience
Said sugar take the time
'Cause the lights are shining bright
You and I've got what it takes to make it
We won't fake it, Oh never break it
'Cause I can't take it

...little patience, mm yeah, ooh yeah,
Need a little patience, yeah
Just a little patience, yeah
Some more pati... (ence, yeah)
I've been walking these streets at night
Just trying to get it right (Need some patience, yeah)
It's hard to see with so many around
You know I don't like being stuck in a crowd (Could use some patience, yeah)
And the streets don't change but maybe the name
I ain't got time for the game
'Cause I need you (Patience, yeah)
Yeah, yeah well I need you
Oh, I need you (Take some patience)
Whoa, I need you (Just a little patience is all we need)
Ooh, this ti- me....

Shattered Like by Rivermaya

Being a big fan of Rivermaya I have a lot of favorite songs from the band. This probably cracks the top 10 Rivermaya songs for me. The song's structure seems simple and I just like the overall message... again a disappointment in love life.

I distinctly remember this songs video, which was a collage of videos from Rivermaya's tour abroad. They also performed a danceable version of this song for their Araneta concert with Kitchie Nadal, which ranks among the best concerts I've attended.

You're the night in my days,
that I fight to keep from coming
you're the life when I pray, that I feel.

I tried to tame you,
I tried to open your mind.
I tried to save you,
you said it's just a waste of time
'cause you are meant to explode one day
'cause you are built that way,
yeah you are built that way.

I delight in my pain,
and I'm shattered like your promises
though I tried to be sane,
I'm just shattered like,
shattered like your promises.

Had you been drinking?
had you been messing up your life
like you did mine, not long ago.

That's good for ego,
that's good for motherfucking ego
like I need it.
Still, while the record company waits
until our song I say tough luck

But i'm too crazy and
i'm too weak and I'm too busy
remembering how to smile
and how to be happy.

I delight in my pain
and I'm shattered like your promises
though I tried to be sane,
I'm just shattered like,
shattered like.

I'm just shattered, shattered, shattered...

December 2 Ch VII by Taken By Cars

This song is what i would call an "on-switch", it just turns the mood up! Awesome guitar riffs that would make you forget about problems... it just takes you to places.

Kudos to the band for delivering this awesome song.

A sinking call
An out of sight hello
From a thousand wailing walls
It's like you
It's like you never left at all

I throw your word around like child's play
Listen to what I say
I throw your words around like child's play
New blues for a new day

And when I'm gone
I want you to wonder
And when I stop
I want you to play

And let the best of you just see right through me
Cause I can't see

But I wasn't where you were
No I'm never where you are
I'm in my looking glass view
Always almost too close to you
I'm always almost too close to you

Ray of Light by Madonna

This is probably my favorite 90's Madonna song, why? Because aside from being a good song... I distinctly remember listening to thisn song while sitting at a backseat of a car with the sun on my face on the way home from a beach somewhere in the north. I actually felt I was kidnapped because the plan was not shared with me and my brothers... we just became aware a few hours before we would travel. But what the heck it was fun!!

To add: this was performed on MTV VMA's with Fuckin' Lenny Kravitz and his big hairdo on guitars.

Zephyr in the sky at night I wonder
Do my tears of mourning sink beneath the sun
She's got herself a universe gone quickly
For the call of thunder threatens everyone

And I feel like I just got home
And I feel
And I feel like I just got home
And I feel

Faster than the speeding light she's flying
Trying to remember where it all began
She's got herself a little piece of heaven
Waiting for the time when Earth shall be as one

And I feel like I just got home
And I feel
And I feel like I just got home
And I feel

Quicker than a ray of light
Quicker than a ray of light
Quicker than a ray of light

Zephyr in the sky at night I wonder
Do my tears of mourning sink beneath the sun
She's got herself a universe gone quickly
For the call of thunder threatens everyone

And I feel
Quicker than a ray of light
Then gone for
Someone else shall be there
Through the endless years

She's got herself a universe
She's got herself a universe
She's got herself a universe

And I feel

Quicker than a ray of light she's flying
Quicker than a ray of light I'm flying

Hatak by The Dawn

I was trying to choose which song from The Dawn's Sound the Alarm I was going to write about and choose this one over As I Do and Pedestal. I'm a recent The Dawn fan and I would say that this song falls in the company of classic songs from the band.

The album and the song features new guitarist Kenneth Ilagan, who replaced the classic Francis Reyes for lead guitar duties.

Hinihintay ang sikat ng araw
sa pusong madilim
upang makita ang sarili
ligaw at dumaraing

San ba ako huling lumiko
di ko na matandaan
marami nang binuhos ang mundo
isa isa lang mahina ang kalaban
mahina ang kalaban

May kaunting panahon ka pa
para ako ay sagipin
hatak lang ang kailangan ko
ayokong mahulog sa bangin

Kung ika'y aking nasaktan
ako sanay' patawarin
Tao lang, tao lang kaibigan
ang langit ay hanap pa din

San ba ako huling lumiko
di ko na matandaan
marami nang binuhos ang mundo
isa isa lang mahina ang kalaban
mahina ang kalaban

May kaunting panahon ka pa
para ako ay sagipin
hatak lang ang kailangan ko
ayokong mahulog sa bangin

Tignan mo ako ng may pagmamahal
yan lamang aking hiling sa iyo

Isa isa lang..
Isa isa lang..
Isa isa lang..
ang paghakbang

May kaunting panahon ka pa
para ako ay sagipin
hatak lang ang kailangan ko
ayokong mahulog sa bangin

What Light by Wilco

I'm not really familiar with Wilco as a band, but I've heard that they're quite good.

I don't own a copy of the Sky Blue Sky album, but I was able to get a copy of this song by way of Relix Magazine (see www.relix.com), which had a free CD that came along. I love the acoustic feel and the vibe in the song. Simple yet sweet.

This song made me a fan of Wilco

If you feel like singing a song
And you want other people to sing along
Just sing what you feel
Don't let anyone say it's wrong

And if you're trying to paint a picture
But you're not sure which colors belong
Just paint what you see
Don't let anyone say it's wrong

And if you're strung out like a kite
Or stung awake in the night
It's alright to be frightened

When there's a light (what light)
There's a light (one light)
There's a light (white light)
Inside of you

If you think you might need somebody
To pick you up when you drag
Don't loose sight of yourself
Don't let anyone change your bag

And if the whole world's singing your songs
And all of your paintings have been hung
Just remember what was yours is everyone's from now on

And that's not wrong or right
But you can struggle with it all you like
You'll only get uptight

Because there's a light (what light)
There's a light (one light)
There's a light (white light)
...
Inside of you

Bochog by Rivermaya

I'm honestly hardpressed in choosing which Rivermaya songs to write about. I enjoy them alot, even with the transitions of members of the band.

I choose Bochog, because somehow without listening to it for months, it popped in my head yesterday. It has a melancholic feel to it... and another unrequited love song for the books. I got a feeling that Kakoy Legaspi had a lot of influence with the direction of the Rivermaya sound for this album with a lot of great guitar parts. I'm not sure who copped the guitar solo for this song, but DAMN!, that's how I would like my guitar playing to sound.

Tumawag ka agad sa akin
ng matanggap mo ang mga rosas kagabi
Binasa mo ang sulat na
kasama't para kang lasing na pusa sa kilig

Busog na ang 'yong isipan
Busog na ang puso mo
Pero ako

Mula pa sa may kanto ay
tuloy-tuloy kitang pinagmasdan kinaumagahan
Hanggang tenga ang 'yong ngiti
at tila na sa ulap lumilipad sige lipad

Busog na ang 'yong isipan
Busog na ang puso mo
Pero ako

Sa panaginip ko ako ang nagbigay
ng mga rosas at inibig mo ako ng tunay

Busog na ang 'yong isipan
Busog na ang puso mo
at wala ka ng kailangan
Busog na ang 'yong mundo

Busog na ang 'yong isipan
Busog na ang puso mo
Pero ako

Palamig by the Eraserheads

I recently joing a band that's main goal is to jam over Eraserheads covers. We pooled the songs we liked to sing (one of my choices was my favorite Bato), as much as possible we didn't want to cover the most popular ones from the 1st three albums. Palamig took me by surprise.

I didn't appreciate the Eheads' latter albums, but this one was really great. The sound is very different from early Eheads and actually approximates Ely Buendia's and Raimund Marasigan's latter bands (Pupil and Sandwich respectively).

It's just really fun when you re-discover old music!

Wala na bang magagawa
Meron bang dapat sabihin
Di man lang natatawa
Di man lang tumingin sa akin

Meron nga bang dahilan?
Dapat ba itong malaman?

Naglalaro sa ulan
Nanginginig sa lakas ng hanging
Giniginaw ang itong balat
Nagbibigay init sa atin

Nung tayo'y Magkahiwalay
Unti-unting pinapatay

Sa lamig
Tuyo't tigang na ang aking bibig

Putulin ang mga paa
Itapon sa umaapoy na baga
Bawiin ang lahat ng bumabagabag
Sa isip na puno ng galit

Kelan nga ba araw?
Parusa ang bawat galaw

Sa lamig
Tuyo't tigang na ang aking

Kelan nga ba aaraw?
Parusa ang bawat galaw

Sa lamig
Tuyo't tigang na aking

Tuyo't tigang na ang aking bibig...

Lookin' Up in Heaven by Paul Westerberg

I just bought this Paul Westerberg album, Folker, and absolutely loved this song.

Westerberg just writes the lyrics that hits you on the spot. Melodies are simple yet lovely.

Someday morning I felt afraid
Someone leaving in the world today
I looked low, I looked high
Only missed one friend
Before I go, I look high again

So I went lookin' up in heaven
But you wasn't anywhere in sight
They asked me to stick around
But without you it just wasn't right
I went lookin' up in heaven
But you wasn't anywhere in sight

Sunday evening I get the blues
Someone sleeping' in their tennis shoes
I looked low and I looked high
Only missed one friend
Before I go, I look high again

So I went lookin' up in heaven
But you wasn't anywhere in sight
They asked me to stick around
But without you it just wasn't right
I went lookin' up in heaven
But you wasn't anywhere in sight

I met a little angel, she asked me if I could step outside
"I'll make you forget her, I'll make you forget her
Baby, won't you watch me fly?"

Years go by now, now I have grown
Sunday night and I ain't alone
So you look low and I look high
And miss another friend
Before I go, I look high again
(I love you)

Lookin' up in heaven
But you wasn't anywhere in sight
They asked me to stick around
But without you it just wasn't right
So I went lookin' up in heaven
But you wasn't anywhere in sight

They invited me to stick around, you know
But I told 'em there was another place
I had to check out tonight

I went lookin' up in heaven
But you wasn't anywhere in sight

The Great Debate by Dream Theater

This song starts of an instrumental with excerpts of news clips relating to genetic science thus the title of the song.

I feed it very dramatic and powerful.

What if someone said
Promise lies ahead
Hopes are high in certain scientific circles
Life won't have to end
You could walk again

What if someone said
Problems lie ahead
They've uncovered something highly controversial
The right to life is strong
Can't you see it's wrong

Human kind has reached a turning point
Poised for conflict at ground zero
Ready for a war
Do we look to our unearthly guide
Or the white coat heroes
Searching for a cure

Turn to the light
Don't be frightened of the shadows it creates
Turn to the light
Turning away would be a terrible mistake

Anarchistic moral vision
Industries of death
Facing violent opposition
Unmolested breath

Ethic inquisitions breed
Antagonistic views
Right wing soundbyte premonitions
In a labyrinth of rules

Are you justified
Are you justified
Are you justified
Justified in taking
Life to save life
Life to save life
Life to save life


This embryonic clay
Wrapped in fierce debate
Would be thrown away
Or otherwise discarded

Some of us believe
It may hold the key
To treatment of disease
And secrets highly guarded

Are you justified
Are you justified
Are you justified
Justified in taking
Life to save life
Life to save life
Life to save life


Humankind has reached a turning point
Poised for conflict at ground zero
Ready for a war
Do we look to our unearthly guide
Or to white coat heroes
Searching for a cure

Turn to the light
Don't be frightened of the shadows it creates
Turn to the light
Turning away would be a terrible mistake

We're reaching
But have we gone too far

Harvesting existence
Only to destroy
Carelessly together
We are sliding

Someone else's future
Four days frozen still
Someone else's fate
We are deciding

Miracle potential
Sanctity of life
Faced against each other
We're divided

Should we push the boundaries
Or should we condemn
Moral guilt and science
Have collided

Turn to the light
We defy our own mortality these days
Turn to the light
Pay attention to the questions we have raised

No Way by Pearl Jam

My favorite Pearl Jam albums are the first two they released, Ten and VS. I tried to listen to other titles one day on my way home from Makati and decided to try to listen to the Yield Album.

It was a breakthrough in hearing these songs again and No Way was one of the strongest "Pearl Jamm-y" songs of the lot that could be placed in the first two albums. It has the same grit and angst.

Here's a token of my openness
Of my need to not disappear
How I'm feeling, so revealing to me
I found my mind too clear
I just need someone to be there for.. me
I just want someone to be there for.. me

All the static in my attic-a
Shoots down my sciatic nerve
To the ocean of my platitudes
Longitudes, latitudes, it's so absurd
I just need someone to be there for..
I just want someone to be there for..
Someone to be there for..

'Cause I'll stop trying to make a difference
I'm not trying to make a difference
I'll stop trying to make a difference
No way

Ooh, let's call in an angel

'Cause I'll stop trying to make a difference
I'm not trying to make a difference
I'll stop trying to make a difference
No way
'Cause I'll stop trying to make a difference
I’m not trying to make a difference
I’m not trying to make a difference
No way
No way, no way
Let's call in an angel
Who's calling an angel?

Flying High Again (Live) by Ozzy Osbourne

What i remember about this song was reading about it being used as an audition piece by Ozzy Osbourne to find the replacement for Randy Rhoads so that their tour might continue.

I read that Ozzy was on the corner of his hotel room bed and one of the eventual guitarist (could it be Bernie Tormé? ) played his electric guitar acoustically (not plugged in) and the performance moved Ozzy and he asked the guitarist if he would like to help Ozzy continue with the tour and close out the remaining shows.

I prefer the live version (from Tribute) as it has a faster tempo than the studio version which appeared on Diary of a Madman.

Oh no, oh no
Here we go, here we go now
Oh no, oh no
Here we go now

Got a crazy feelin' I don't understand
Gotta get away from here
Feelin' like I shoulda kept my feet on the ground
Waitin' for the sun to appear

Mama's gonna worry
I been a bad, bad boy
No use sayin' sorry
It's something that I enjoy

If you could be inside of me
You'd see, you'd see what light I see
Flyin' high again, alright!

I can see through mountains watch me disappear
I can even touch the sky
Swallowing colors of the sound I hear
Am I just a crazy guy? You bet

Mama's gonna worry
I been a bad, bad boy
No use sayin' sorry
It's something that I enjoy

If you could be inside my head
You'd see that black and white is red

Flyin' high again
Flyin' high again
Flyin' high again
Flyin' high again

Come on and join me

Flyin' high again
Flyin' high again
Flyin' high again
Flyin' high again

Oh no, oh no
Here we go now
Oh no, oh no
Here we go now

Daddy thinks I'm crazy he don't understand
Never saw inside my head
People think I'm crazy but I'm in demand
Never heard a thing I said

Mama's gonna worry
I've been a bad, bad boy
No use sayin sorry
It's something that I enjoy

Flyin high again
Flyin high again
Flyin high again
Flyin high again

Come on And Join Me

Don't Stop by The Rolling Stones

I've had some respect for The Rolling Stones (I was more familiar with the Beatles) for quite sometime before Don't Stop was released as the carrier single for the comprehensive best of collection of the Rolling Stones aptly titled "Forty Licks"

The song just shows how much they haven't changed and that rock n' roll and writing a good song ain't rocket science.

The video for this song featured images referenced from Stone's hits such as Satisfaction, Paint It Black.

Well you bit my lip and drew first blood
And warmed my cold, cold heart
And your wrote your name right on my back
Boy your nails were sharp

Don't stop
Honey don't stop
Don't stop
Baby don't stop

Well I love your screams of passion
In the long hot summer night
But you pepper me with poison darts
And twisted in your knife

Don't stop
Honey don't stop
Don't stop
Baby don't stop

Well the only thing I ask of you
Is to hand me back some pride
Don't you dump me on some dusty street
And hang me out to dry

Ah, Don't stop
Honey don't stop
Baby don't stop
Baby don't stop
Ah Honey

I'm losing you
I know your heart is miles away
There's a whisper there where once there was a storm
And all that's left is that image that I'll find a way
And some memories have tattered as they've torn

Don't stop
Don't stop
Baby don't stop
Baby don't stop
Honey Honey (don't stop)
Baby don't stop
Baby don't stop
Come on honey don't stop
Play on baby
Don't stop
Baby baby don't stop
Ah honey don't stop
Don't ya stop

I know I got ya some picture that I filed away
Honey don't stop
Don't you stop

New Year's Day by U2

I tried to take a listen to U2's War album, having bought it more than a year ago (or was it two) but having never listened to it since. I'm like that, i buy something but don't use it for quite sometime, fairly satisfied that I've already bought the item.

Never did i expect that this is probably once of the Quintessential Albums... an equal to Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby and All That You Can Leave Behind.

The album has Sunday Bloody Sunday, but what striked me was thins song, New Year's Day. It was utterly familiar yet unfamiliar at the same time for me, having heard this song used in a movie or two.

All is quiet on New Year's Day.
A world in white gets underway.
I want to be with you, be with you night and day.
Nothing changes on New Year's Day.
On New Year's Day.

I... will be with you again.
I... will be with you again.

Under a blood-red sky
A crowd has gathered in black and white
Arms entwined, the chosen few
The newspaper says, says
Say it's true, it's true...
And we can break through
Though torn in two
We can be one.

I... I will begin again
I... I will begin again.

Oh, oh. Oh, oh. Oh, oh.
Oh, maybe the time is right.
Oh, maybe tonight.
I will be with you again.
I will be with you again.

And so we are told this is the golden age
And gold is the reason for the wars we wage
Though I want to be with you
Be with you night and day
Nothing changes
On New Year's Day
On New Year's Day
On New Year's Day