Sinta by Sugarfree

This is the very song that introduced me to Sugarfree. I've heard of the songs like Mariposa and Burnout but Sinta made me a fan. Watching TV one lazy morning and I crossed upon the video....Arggh!!! It must really feel good to have that someone.

Simplistic lyrics and honest songwriting at its finest!

ako'y
isang malungkot na bata
palakad lakad lang
wala rin namang mapupuntahan
madalas, madulas
at nung parang ayoko na

buti na lang nanjan ka
buti na lang nanjan ka
sinta
pano na lang ako kung wala ka?
sinta
pano na lang ako kung wala ka?
pano na lang ako…

minsan
ako'y naligaw ng daan
tinalikuran ng kaibigan at
biglang napagiwanan
at madalas, ako'y madulas
at nung parang ayoko na

buti na lang nanjan ka
buti na lang nanjan ka
sinta
pano na lang ako kung wala ka?
sinta
pano na lang ako…
pano na lang ako…
pano na lang ako…
ohh ohh uhh ohh...

ako'y
isang malungkot na bata
pano kung ligaya ko'y bigla na lang
mawala?
at sabi mo malayo pang bukas, tapos
na ang kahapon
ang mahalaga'y ngayon
nandito ka ngayon

oh, sinta
pano na lang ako kung wala ka?
sinta
pano na lang ako kung wala ka?
pano na lang ako…
pano na lang ako…
pano na lang ako…
kung wala ka...

Tag-Araw by AfterImage

Tag-Ulan, Tag-Araw is one of the classic albums I heard during my grade school years. It was an OPM blast when this was released... E-heads, Rivermaya, Introvoys, Yano!, The Youth, FrancisM... great OPM music was everywhere.

I was just impressed with the feel good songs that this album carried. It was composed of a solid selection, although some of them might be considered cheesy now adays. I realized how good this album was, when i was listened to it during one of the usual flooded days on our house, when i was already in high school. This album is just plain awesome, and I'm choosing the song Tag-Araw to represent me today, as it reflects how I feel

Ikot ng mundo, tila ay bumabagal
Ngunit alam kong di na rin magtatagal
Ang aking hinihintay ay makakamit
Pagkat bughaw na ang kulay ng ating langit
Pilitin man ay di mo na mapipigil
Ang kanyang pag-ahon, ang kanyang pag-gising

Ikaw lamang ang nais kong kapiling
Kung darating ang tag-araw
Lagi na lamang aking nasa sa isip
Ang pagsapit ng tag-araw

Sana ang init mo'y aking maramdaman
Araw na nagdaan ay di ko mabilang
Sa 'king paghihintay ako'y nasasabik
Pinapanalangin na ang iyong pagbabalik
Wag mo na sana sa akin ipagkait
Ang tanging hangarin na ika'y makapiling

Hanggang kailan kaya ako maghihintay
Upang ang tag-araw sa akin ay kusa nang ibigay

1979 by The Smashing Pumpkins

I just really can't put into words how this song makes me feel. It has this very calming guitar riff that i just can't shake off my head when i first time i heard it. There's also charming about the video... teenagers spending some care free time under the sun, with Billy Corgan at the back seat of some ones car, singing this song!

Every time i ride a taxi or someones car and there's sun glimmering thru the windows i can't help but remember 1979.

Shakedown 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet
Junebug skipping like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we'd never see an end to it all

And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below

Double cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slippin' dues down to see

That we don't even care as restless as we are
We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement, lamented and assured
To the lights and towns below
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we'd go
Beneath the sound of hope

Justine never knew the rules,
Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you fake it to see

That we don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
The street heats the urgency of now
As you see there's no one around

Street Walker by Michael Jackson

This song is really BAD! The Baddest Michael Jackson song ever... this is so bad that it's badder than Bad. With us being dancing maniacs during our early ages (our parents held impromptu dance parties for us, turning off the TV and playing or old stereo systems with Michael Jackson songs and other "in" music at that time, with our neighbors as guests), Augy bought a Special Edition copy of Bad wherein this song appears. You would really have an idea how good MJ was at that time, as this song was taken out of the Original Bad press as they already don't have enough room to cram other songs for it.

I read an article comparing two icons from the 80's... Prince and Michael Jackson. Although Michael Jackson doesn't play any music instruments as compared to the virtuoso Prince, he still finds ways to produce his own music and have his vision be executed by talented musicians behind him. Look for a video of MJ beat boxing the beat of this song just to get a grasp of how good he really is in terms of music.

Why don't you give me some time)
(Won't you give me some time)

Pretty baby
Kisses for your loving
I really get it when you're
Next to me yeah yeah
I'm so excited how you
Give me all your loving
I got it coming and it's ecstasy

Street walking baby

Cause everyday I watch you
Paint the town so pretty
I see you coming in and off
On my thought yeah yeah
You don't believe me then
You can ask my brother
Cause everyday at six
Home alone

Because
Baby I love you
Baby I love you
Baby I want you
Baby come love me
Baby I need you
You're so satisfying

I hear you walking
Cause your body's talking to me
I chase you every step of the way yeah yeah
An invitation to some
Faraway hot island
If I can show you baby
Home with me

You see I never met a girl
Just like you
Come so easy
Don't you break my heart
Cause I love you

You see I never met a girl
Just like you
Come so easy
Don't you break my heart
Cause I love you

Street walking baby

(Why don't you give me some time)
(Won't you give me some time)
(Why don't you give me some time)
(Won't you give me some time)

I have to tell you
That you give me strong hot fever
My every thought is you
And that's a fact yeah yeah
I'd like to take you places
How about New York City
Or Paris, France
What do you think of that

Because
Baby I love you
Baby I love you
Baby I want you
Baby come love me
Baby I need you
You're so satisfying

You see I never met a girl
Just like you
Come so easy
Don't you break my heart
Cause I love you

You see I never met a girl
Just like you
Come so easy
Don't you break my heart
Cause I love you

Street walking baby
I got it coming baby

Baby I love you
Baby I love you
Baby I want you
Baby come love me
Love me baby
Got to have some loving
Got to make you mine
Got to give some loving
Gonna give you loving
Make you mine
Got to get your love
Got to give some love
Got to make somebody
I told you
I told you

You see I never met a girl
Just like you
Come so easy
Don't you break my heart
Cause I love you

Street walking baby

Something About the Way You Look Tonight by Elton John

I remember the most beautiful person I've met when ever I hear this song. No it's not Princess Diana or Marilyn Monroe or a girl that I was infatuated with. Her name was Dionisia and she was my Lola. As usual, my brother Augy bought a copy of this single and we listened to it with her on our living room (which is also Augy's bedroom).

It would be within the year when she would leave us. She's the most generous person I know! No kind words would be able to give justice really. I remember a time wherein I was very afraid of seeing ghosts that she even offered a space in her bed for me to sleep in. That's the kind of grandma she was. Ask my brother Augy, he would know.

There was a time
I was everything and nothing all in one
When you found me
I was feeling like a cloud across the sun

I need to tell you
How you light up every second of the day
But in the moonlight
You just shine like a beacon on the bay

And I can't explain
But it's something about the way you look tonight
Takes my breath away
It's that feeling I get about you, deep inside
And I can't describe
But it's something about the way you look tonight
Takes my breath away
The way you look tonight

With a smile
You pull the deepest secrets from my heart
In all honesty
I'm speechless and I don't know where to start

Bold As Love by John Mayer

Bold As Love is a Jimi Hendrix original and is one of the song's I've never really heard of. It was just only the title that chases me, similar to other Hendrix songs such as Little Wing, All Along the Watchtower, Foxy Lady. The title itself speaks for itself I guess and most critics tout them as great in matters of guitar playing.

I've appreciated other Hendrix songs although they came to me in different forms. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) was used by Hollywood Hulk Hogan as his intro song, Red House was performed by the Satriani, Vai, Johnson version of G3. Machine Gun was everywhere... name dropped by other guitar great as one of the greatest guitar performances ever recorded.

The day came to appreciate Bold As Love. I even thought that the correct title was "Axis:Bold as Love" although upon research i found out that this is the title of the album which the song came from. I guess the appreciation was easier because of John Mayer's voice, which can be easily understood unlike Hendrix's slurs and because it was recommended by JonRay, the best unsigned guitarist in the Philippines! We were on our way to a place were other's wouldn't dare to thread on. But that didn't matter, we listened to the song and I found another one to place in my songlist :)

Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armour
Queen jealousy, envy waits behind him
Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground

Blue are the life-giving waters taken for granted,
They quietly understand
Once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready,
But wonder why the fight is on

But they’re all, they're bold as love,
Yeah, they’re all, they're bold as love, love, love
they’re all, they're bold as love
Just ask the axis

My red is so confident that he flashes trophies of war,
and Ribbons of euphoria
Orange is young, full of daring,
But its very unsteady for the first go round

My yellow in this case is not so mellow
In fact I’m trying to say it’s frightened like me
And all these emotions of mine keep holding me from,
Giving my life to a rainbow like you

But, I’m, I'm bold, I’m bold as love,
Yeah I’m bold, I'm bold as love, love, love, yea..
I’m bold, Im bold as love
Just ask the axis
He knows, he knows, he knows,
He knows everything.....

I'm bold, I’m bold as love,
I'm bold, I’m bold as love... ooh..
Hear me talking to you..
I'm bold, I’m bold as love.

Note: That night, we ended up dancing to the incessant prodding of Side A's Joey G. Damn you Joey G. Damn you!!!!

Hi! by Truefaith

Truefaith was never really a favorite band of mine. But throughout their career they have been churning out tunes that are original and distinctly OPM.

Hi! is a personal favorite. There's a thing about bumping into someone unexpectedly and swapping life stories just amazes me without end. Especially when that someone is very close to your heart and being.

The park is empty, my beer's already warm
And the shoppers have all gone home
Drunken and weary, I almost thought I forgot
About that someone who hit that spot

Love was a thing you wanted to know
And so with one wish, I did gave a show
Now that you're back with a half-baked smile
Just skip the bull, let's talk for a while

Hello, how have you been
Who've you been seeing this past few weekends
I know it's not me
I know that it's you I'd love to be with

When you want to be free
It's so funny how you should hurt someone
And that someone was me
I'm just a man, not much with plans
But I do believe in what I stand

Love was a thing you wanted to know
And so with one wish, I did gave a show
Now that you're back with a half-baked smile
Just skip the bull, let's talk for a while

Hello, how have you been
Who've you been seeing this past few weekends
I know it's not me
I know that it's you I'd love to be with

Hello, how have you been
Who've you been seeing this past few weekends
I know it's not me
I know that it's you I'd love to be with

Love will tear us apart again, and again, and again

Hello, don't say good-bye, don't say good-bye
Just say hello, just say hello
Don't say good-bye, don't say good-bye
Just say hello, just say

Hello, how have you been
Who've you been seeing this past few weekends
I know it's not me
I know that it's you I'd love to be with

Hello, how have you been
Who've you been seeing this past few weekends
I know it's not me
I know that it's you I'd love to be with

Hello, hoh hoh, hoh hoh
Hello, hoh hoh, hoh hoh hoh

Bent by Matchbox Twenty

I was not much of a fan of this song... but wow... I was really impressed when they performed this on VH1 Story Tellers. Maybe because around that time i was pretty much listening to Nu Metal/Rap stuff that I denied in my head that Matchbox 20 is an impressive band. I can't also deny the visual factor of seeing them on a live setting.

I bought the Mad Season album at a sale for 100 pesos. I was familiar with the band's singles but i never expected the album to be that good. Matchbox Twenty's definitely one of those bands that you should not settle for a greatest hits album as they have a solid discography.

If I fall along the way
Pick me up and dust me off
And if I get too tired to make it
Be my breath so I can walk

If I need some other love
Give me more than I can stand
And when my smile gets old and faded
Wait around I'll smile again

Shouldn't be so complicated
Just hold me and then
Just hold me again

Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together

You're breaking me in
And this is how we will end
With you and me bent

If I couldn't sleep could you sleep
Could you paint me better off
Could you sympathize with my needs
I know you think I need a lot

I started out clean but I'm jaded
Just phoning it in
Just breaking the skin

Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together

You're breaking me in
And this is how we will end
With you and me bent

Start bending me
It's never enough
I feel all your pieces

Start bending me
Keep bending me until I'm completely broken in

Shouldn't be so complicated
Just touch me and then
Just touch me again

Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together

You're breaking me in
And this is how we will end
With you and me bent

Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together

You're breaking me in
And this is how we will end
With you and me bent

One of These Days by Michelle Branch

One of my favorite Michelle Branch songs. I admire it's simplicity and the technicality of the programming sounds created by John Shanks. The combination of piano notes and programmed music really struck me.

I included this song on the compilation CD I specifically made for this girl (the only girl I ever made a mixtape of). I remember hearing this song on a bus ride and thinking that "F@CK! they released it as a single". I was hoping that they don't release it as a single as I wanted it to be those songs that are not that available to the masses, making my mixtape "Baduy".

I didn't notice
But I didn't care
I tried being honest
But that left me nowhere

I watched the station
Saw the bus pulling through
And I don't mind saying
A part of me left with you

So one of these days
I won't be afraid of staying with you
I hope and I pray
Waiting to find a way back to you
'Cause that's where I'm home…oh

Did I make you nervous?
Did I ask for too much?
Was I not deserving one second of your touch?

And one of these days
I won't be afraid of staying with you
I hope and I pray
Waiting to find a way back to you
'Cause that's where I'm home… oh

What would you do if I could have you?
oh if I could
I'd let you feel everything I'm thinking
Wouldn't that be nice?

And one of these days
I won't be afraid of staying with you

Note: The girl i gave the CD to may not have listened to the said compilation.I wouldn't blame her... i was really weird. If you want a copy just give me a hit.

She's the One by Robbie Williams

I was never a big fan of Robbie Williams, dismissing him for an attention-craving former member of the UK Boy Band Take That.

When I saw a copy of his Greatest Hits album and checking out the tracks, I begin realize that he has had a string of good songs to his credit, some of which was somehow memorable to me. The music video for Rock DJ was showing on one of the screens of a music store in Ever Gotesco Mall in CM Recto during one of my visits (probably to accompany Dris in one of his shoe shopping forays)... my memory of "Strong" is linked to one of my best friends Roman.

"She's the One" is probably my favorite Robbie Williams single, as I tend to side with the romantic. The music video also shows Robbie Williams as an ice skater.

Searching for the the wikipedia entry for this song, I found out that this is actually not a Robbie Williams original.... Better get a move on trying to search for the original version. :)

I was her she was me
We were one we were free
And if there's somebody calling me on
She's the one
If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one

We were young we were wrong
We were fine all along
If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one
When you get to where you wanna go
And you know the things you wanna know
You're smiling
When you said what you wanna say
And you know the way you wanna play
You'll be so high you'll be flying

Though the sea will be strong
I know we'll carry on
Cause if there's somebody calling me on
She's the one
If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one

When you get to where you wanna go
And you know the things you wanna know
You're smiling

When you said what you wanna say
And you know the way you wanna say it
You'll be so high you'll be flying

I was her she was me
We were one we were free
If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one
If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one

If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one
Yeah she's the one

If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one
She's the one

If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one

Soak Up the Sun by Sheryl Crow

I really enjoyed Sheryl Crow's C'mon C'mon album. This is one one of the girl-albums I enjoyed without thinking of how cute the girl is... hey i'm beginning to musically grow-up and Soak Up the Sun was the lead-off single.

Soak Up The Sun has the 'beach vibe' going. It sounds simple enough that you can play it on an acoustic guitar but it also has complicated parts as well. I love the weird sounds that comes before the song's main riff and the searing siren like sound (try to listen very hard)

The song was co-written and co-produced with long time collaborator Jeff Trott. I've always been curious how are the dynamics when song-writing partners work.

Liz Phair also does backing vocals as mentioned in the liner notes :)

My friend the communist
Holds meetings in his RV
I can't afford his gas
So I'm stuck here watching TV

I don't have digital
I don't have diddly squat
It's not having what you want
It's wanting what you've got


I'm gonna soak up the sun
Gonna tell everyone
To lighten up (I'm gonna tell 'em that)
I've got no one to blame
For every time I feel lame
I'm looking up o I'm gonna soak up the sun
I'm gonna soak up the sun


I've got a crummy job
It don't pay near enough
To buy the things it takes
To win me some of your love
Every time I turn around
I'm looking up, you're looking down
Maybe something's wrong with you
That makes you act the way you do
Maybe i am crazy too

I'm gonna soak up the sun
Gonna tell everyone
To lighten up (I'm gonna tell 'em that)
I've got no one to blame
For every time I feel lame
I'm looking up o I'm gonna soak up the sun
I'm gonna soak up the sun


I'm gonna soak up the sun
While it's still free
I'm gonna soak up the sun
Before it goes out on me
Don't have no master suite
I'm still the king of me
You have a fancy ride, but baby
I'm the one who has the key
Every time I turn around
I'm looking up, you're looking down
Maybe something's wrong with you
That makes you act the way you do
Maybe I am crazy too


I'm gonna soak up the sun
Gonna tell everyone
To lighten up (I'm gonna tell 'em that)
I've got no one to blame
For every time I feel lame
I'm looking up o I'm gonna soak up the sun
I'm gonna soak up the sun

I'm gonna soak up the sun
Got my 45 on
So I can rock on.

Jealous Again by the Black Crowes

Hearing Jealous Again was like a kick in the face... seriously! Starting with a bluesy riff then hitting off with synchronize intro of drum beats and piano notes this song expanded my music horizon like no other, opening my mind to blues (like what Kenny Wayne Shepherd did) and southern rock.

The song has a cocky vibe to it... some sense of bravado... why i don't know. That's just how i see it.

Cheat the odds that made you
Brave to try to gamble at times
Well I feelin' dirty laundry
Sending sickness on down the line

Tell you why!

Cause Im jealous, jealous again
Thought it time I let you in
Yeah, Im jealous, jealous again
Got no time, baby

Always drunk on sunday
Try'n to feel like I'm coming home
Smell the gasoline burning
Boys out feeling nervous and cold

Cause Im jealous, jealous again
Thought it time I let you in
Yeah, Im jealous, jealous again
Got no time, baby

Stop, understand me
I ain't afraid of losing face
Stop, understand me
I ain't afraid of ever losing faith in you

Never felt like smiling
Sugar wanna kill me yet
Find me loose lipped and laughing
Singing songs ain't got no regrets

Cause Im jealous, jealous again
Thought it time I let you in
Yeah, Im jealous, jealous again
Got no time, baby

Stop, understand me
I ain't afraid of losing face
Stop, understand me
I ain't afraid of ever losing faith in you

Don't you think I want to
Don't you think I would
Don't you think Id tell you baby
If I only could
Am I acting crazy
Am I just too proud
Am I just plain lazy
Am i, am i, am i, ever

Preacher's Daughter by The Refreshments

Well i had a hard pressed as to what song I should write about this band, The Refreshments. Coming from Arizona, USA, the same breeding ground for the Gin Blossoms (you would actually hear some similarities between the two) my encounter with the band started buying from a MCA CD music sale at Ortigas. There was a section marked as "library copies" and they we're rather priced cheap, 100pesos, and I was in a mood of trying out music I was unfamiliar with.

I was able to grab a promotional copy of the Bottle & Fresh Horses. I was not familiar with the music and i took the chance of buying the album based on the band's name and the cover art. This turned out to be the best steals of my life.

Preacher's Daughter is very Gin Blossomy. It also has an angry edge in it with the vocalist's (Roger Clyne) emotion poured in! Damnit! This song's just off the hook! The guitar let's the drum beats breathe... and also has a great build-up to the guitar solo!

The album inspired me to take risks at the unknown... if only i could apply that in other parts of my so-called life.

I was born in the thirsty eath
Showed up in Tuscon, fresh out of Leavenworth
Did my time on stale bread and dirty water
Nobody told me that the lady was preacher's daughter

Yeah how her arms would hold me
When we kissed, she never told me
Lamb for a slaughter
Yeah, she's my preacher's daughter

Cut loose from my incarceration
Paid a visit to her Daddy's congregation
Welcome home she said, your lookin' good too
Meet my new husband, he's the sheriff who arrested you

Yeah how her arms would holds me
When we kissed, she never told me
Lamb for a slaughter
'Cause She's my preacher's daughter

YEAH

So I said my congratulations
Before I lost myself to my infatuations
I stole a kiss or two just havin' fun again
Sheriff don't like it
Now I'm back on the run again

How her arms would hold me
When we kissed, she never told me
Lamb for a slaughter
Like the desert needs its water
Give me back my preacher's daughter
Preacher's daughter
Preacher's daughter
Preacher's daughter
YEAH

Beautiful by Marvelous 3

Fronted by Butch Walker, Marvelous 3 was never a huge success but it they surely rock! Any easy listening rocker would appreciate their music. Combining distorted guitars, melodic hooks and lyrics confessing self-pity... they're just my kind of band... singing songs that can be used for partying and similar to the music that I would like to write for myself.

This song is right up my alley. It follows the classic theme of boy loves girl, girl loves some baddie and boy can't do nothing about it, well he has this song to show for it.

Another unrequited-love love song to add in my library.

I don't know, I don't care
If I see you, everywhere
It's gonna hurt, either way
When he looks at other girls when you look away

Don't wash your hair, it's too early
Don't wash your mind if it's dirty
I wouldn't change a thing about you cause

You look like you, and that's just beautiful,
you smell like you and that's just beautiful
You feel like you and that feels beautiful
The only ugly thing about it, is that you're not mine

Its all the same, he's one of those
He doesn't like your madonna nose
A little cut, no one will tell
I really wish you'd tell him he should go to hell

You look like you, and that's just beautiful,
you smell like you and that's just beautiful
You feel like you and that feels beautiful
The only ugly thing about it, is that you're not mine

I know you can't take it, you try so hard to fake it
You're never gonna leave it alone

Everlong by Foo Fighters

I was first mystified by the Foo Fighters because of Dave Grohl. Famous for being the drummer of Nirvana, it's surprising to see him fronting his own band, singing and playing guitar. He was one my of 1st musical idols (the others being Noel Gallagher and later Rico Blanco) for the sheer fact that he wrote most of the songs for Foo Fighters.

In The Colour and the Shape, Grohl played guitar, sang the vocals and did the drum parts. I was amazed of how someone can do all of this things and how I wished I was the same. I remember reading in the Time Magazine (we had a subscription then) that the band even tried to be "intelligent" with the spelling of "colour" in the albums title. The Colour and the Shape was one of my favorite albums during HS.

Hello
I've waited here for you
Everlong

Tonight
I throw myself into
And out of the red, out of her head she sang

Come down
And waste away with me
Down with me

Slow how
You wanted it to be
I'm over my head, out of her head she sang

And I wonder
When I sing along with you
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again

The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
She sang

Breathe out
So I could breathe you in
Hold you in

And now
I know you've always been
Out of your head, out of my head I sang

And I wonder
When I sing along with you
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again

The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
She sang

And I wonder
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again

The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
She sang

When You're Gone by Richard Marx

It's easy to dismiss Richard Marx's music especially if you're very discriminatory. Yes he has sappy love songs that most of us love to hate. Richard Marx is my guilty pleasure.

I remember commuting from Eastwood to Makati on a "kolorum" van and it the speakers where churning out melodic rock songs. Only halfway through the album that I noticed that it was Richard Marx when one of his signature love songs popped out of the mix. Right then and there... I found some respect for Richard Marx.

When I came across his "My Own Best Enemy" album on the bargain bin, I hesitated to buy it, as I cringe on the idea of an album full of sappy love songs... then I remember the fortunate commute. I asked the sales lady if I can test out some of the CDs, never did I regret buying this album... "all killer, no filler" is the term that comes to mind.

Well look at me, the guy who's got it all
Tryin' to read my own writing on the wall
Not happy 'til the sadness comes
To keep me company
Oh, but what becomes of fools who love like me

Who's gonna dry my tears
When I'm crying?
Who's gonna hold my hand
When I'm dying?
Who's gonna set me right when
Everything is wrong
Who's gonna love me
When you're gone?

Sure as winter goes and comes around again
I will be my own undoing in the end
I'll find the answers I've been searching for
In your goodbye kiss
'Cause I don't deserve you and you don't deserve this

Who's gonna dry my tears
When I'm crying?
And who's gonna hold my hand
When I'm dying?
Who's gonna set me right when
Everything is wrong
Yeah, who's gonna love me
When you're gone?

Never happy 'til the darkness comes
And rains down on me
Down on me

And who's gonna dry my tears
When I'm crying?
And who's gonna hold my hand
When I'm dying?
Who's gonna set me right when
Everything is wrong
Who's gonna love me
When you're gone?

Who's gonna love me when you're gone?
Baby when you're gone
Yeah, who's gonna love me
When you're gone?
Who's gonna love me when you're gone?
Who's gonna love me?

Note: I don't know the etymology of the word "kolorum". I searched online and it seems to be a pinoy slang. In case you have any idea, please do let me know.

B.Y.O.B. by System of A Down

System of A Down already had made a name with previous releases, especially the critically acclaimed Toxicity. With a strong following... it's time for political activism.

The song features one of the heaviest riffs I've heard in quite a while... add to that politically motivated-lyrics, SOAD's fast-paced style metal and you have quite of a song. The song comes from SOAD's 4th album Mesmerize which is said to be a 1st of two parts. The second album which came 6 months after was entitled Hypnotize.

In this song B.Y.O.B stands for Bring Your Own Bombs, although there are other popular meanings such as Bring Your Own Booze, Bring Your Own Beer, Believe Your Own Bullshit. You can even try to make your own.

You!

Why do they always send the poor!


Barbarisms by Barbaras With pointed heels
Victorious victories kneel
For brand new spankin' deals

Lalalalalalala oooh!

Marching forward hypocritic and Hypnotic computers
You depend on our protection
Yet you feed us lies from the tablecloth


Everybody's going to the party have a real good time
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine


Kneeling roses disappearing into Moses' dry mouth
Breaking into Fort Knox stealing Our intentions


Hangers sitting dripped in oil Crying freedom
Handed to obsoletion
Still you feed us lies from the tablecloth


Everybody's going to the party have a real good time
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine


Blast off
It's party time
And we don't live in a fascist nation

Blast off
It's party time
And where the fuckk are you?


Where the fuck are you?
Where the fuck are you?

Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?

Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?


Kneeling roses disappearing into Moses' dry mouth
Breaking into Fort Knox stealing Our intentions


Hangers sitting dripped in oil Crying freedom
Handed to obsoletion
Still you feed us lies from the tablecloth


Everybody's going to the party have a real good time
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine


Where the fuck are you?
Where the fuck are you?

Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?


Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?


They always send the poor
They always send the poor

Everything by Fefe Dobson

I came across this song while channel surfing before going to school back into college. The song had a great feel to it and i liked it the first time i heard it. I immediately searched for the song online and did some research on how sang it as i was not able to catch the credits in the music video.

The artist was Fefe Dobson, online articles say that she's someone's answer for Avril Lavigne, who is a fellow Canadian I immediately downloaded a copy of the song and soon enough found myself downloading the whole album (I got a original copy now).

I just found out that the video version has a better edit than the album version. I guess this one's a love song, something about you have to be deserving of someone's love or at least ready for it :)

Ayo ladadayo
Ayo ladadayo ladeeda

Sometimes I give in to sadness
Sometimes I don't
Doo doo doo doo

At times I'm part of the madness
Sometimes I won't
Give in to you

You see in a way
I have been drifting down a river
To nowhere
And you've given me nothing

But if you're ready to be my everything
If you're ready to see it through this time
And if you're ready for love then
This I will bring
But I'm not gonna wait for you forever this time

Ladeeda ayo
ladadayo ladeeda

At times I feel myself smiling
At times I'm not
Doo doo doo doo

Yeah yay
What's with the guilt that you styling baby
Talk don't look good on you
You see in a way
I have been looking for a reason to go there
And you're leading me nowhere


And if you're ready to be my everything
If you're ready to see it through this time
And if you're ready for love then
This I will bring
But I'm not gonna wait for you forever this time

Ladeeda ayo
ladadayo ladeeda

Are you waiting for a special occasion
To give me your heart
Cause I need a little confirmation
To make a real start

Don't wait till it's too late
Are you ready to show me?
Are you ready to love me?

You see in a way
I have been drifting down a river
To nowhere
And you're giving me nothing

And if you're ready to be my everything
If you're ready to see it through this time
And if you're ready for love then
This I will bring
But I'm not gonna wait for you forever this time

ladayo ladadayo ladeeda