if you could see me now..

Oh if you could see me now

It was February fourteen, Valentine's Day
The roses came, but they took you away

Tattooed on my arm is a charm to disarm all the harm

Gotta keep myself calm but the truth is you're gone

And I'll never get to show you these songs

Dad, you should see the tours that I'm on, 

I see you standing there next to Mom

Always singing along, yeah arm in arm

And there are days when I'm losing my faith

Because the man wasn't good he was great

He'd say music was the home for your pain

And explain, I was young, he would say

Take that rage, put it on a page

Take the page to the stage

"Blow the roof off the place"

I'm tryna make you proud

Do everything you did

I hope you're up there with God

Saying that's my kid

I still look for your face in the crowd

Oh if you could see me now

Would you stand in disgrace or take a bow

Oh if you could see me now

If you could see me now would you recognize me

Would you pat me on the back or would you criticize me

Would you follow every line on my tear stained face

Put your hand on a heart that's was cold

As the day you were taken away

I know it's been awhile but I could see you clear as day

Right now, I wish I could hear you say

I drink too much and I smoke too much dutch

But if you can't see me now that shit's a must

You used to say I won't know I will until it cost me

Like I won't know real love till I've loved then I've lost it

And if you've lost a sister, someone's lost a mom

And if you've lost a dad, then someone's lost a son

And they're all missing now, and they're all missing now

So if you get a second to look down at me now

Mum, Dad, I'm just missing you now

I still look for your face in the crowd

Oh if you could see me now

Would you stand in disgrace or take a bow?

Oh if you could see me now

Would you call me a saint or a sinner?

Would you love me a loser or winner?
When I see my face in the mirror

We look so alike that it makes me shiver

I still look for your face in the crowd

Oh if you could see me now

Would you stand in disgrace or take a bow?

Oh if you could see me now

Oh...
You could see, you could see me now

Rootless Tree

by Damien Rice (feat Lisa Hannigan)

i just checked my old multiply site & this song was playing on my homepage. 

reminds me of how sad & moving... 

beautiful & heartbreaking it is

What I want from you
Is empty your head
They say be true
Don't stay in your bed
We do what we need to be free
And it leans on me
Like a rootless tree

What I want from us
Is empty our minds
We fake a fuss
And fracture the times
We go blind
When we've needed to see
And it leans on me
Like a rootless... 

So fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
And all we've been through
I said leave it, leave it, leave it
It's nothing to you
And if you hate me, hate me, hate me
Then hate me so good that you can let me out
Let me out of this hell when you're around 
Let me out, let me out, 
Let me out of this hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out 

What I want from this
Is learn to let go
No not of you
Of all that's been told
Killers reinvent and believe
And this leans on me
Like a rootless...

So fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
And all we've been through
I said leave it, leave it, leave it,
It's nothing to you
And if you hate me, hate me , hate me,
Then hate me so good that you can let me out, let me out, let me out
Let me out of this hell when you're around

And fuck you, fuck you, I love you
And all we've been through
I said leave it, leave it, leave it
It's nothing to you
And if you hate me, hate me, hate me
Then hate me so good that you can let me out
Let me out, let me out, let me out, 
Hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out, let me out...

It's hell when you're around

Coldplay & Charlie Brown

I am a big and a very proud Coldplay fan. And my love for them just keeps getting stronger.
Its amazing how i still get all excited and captivated when i hear a Coldplay song - even after listening to it for the nth time. 

Its terribly difficult to choose which among the Coldplay songs is my favorite but its safe to say that Charlie Brown is by far my most played song of the new album. 

I stole a key

Took a car downtown where the lost boys meet

I took a car downtown and took what they offered me

To set me free

I saw the lights go down at the end of the scene

I saw the lights go down and they're standing in front of me

My scarecrow dreams

When they smashed my heart into smithereens

I be a bright red rose come bursting the concrete

Be the cartoon heart

Light a fire, light a spark

Light a fire, a flame in my heart

We'll run wild oh

We'll be glowing in the dark

Glowing in the dark

All the boys, all the girls

All the madness in the world

All the boys, all the girls

All the madness that occurs

All the highs, all the lows

As the room is spinning, oh

We'll run wild oh

We'll start glowing in the dark

So we'll run wild oh

We'll be glow in the dark

A Drop In The Ocean

The Vampire Diaries is back on!!

Ohhh Stefan
outwardly menacing, inwardly empty 

...It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert

  Ron Pope – A Drop In The Ocean

Make You Feel My Love by Adele

23 May 2008 5:43 PM
12 Apr 2009 10:55 PM

Dates when i publicly declared my love for Adele (via Muliply). 
Bob Dylan will surely agree with me on this one, it is a perfect cover. 

When the rain
Is blowing in your face
And the whole world
Is on your case
I could offer you
A warm embrace
To make you feel my love

When the evening shadows
And the stars appear
And there is no - one there
To dry your tears
I could hold you
For a million years
To make you feel my love

I know you
Haven't made
Your mind up yet
But I would never
Do you wrong
I've known it
From the moment
That we met
No doubt in my mind
Where you belong

I'd go hungry
I'd go black and blue
I'd go crawling
Down the avenue
No, there's nothing
That I wouldn't do
To make you feel my love

The storms are raging
On the rolling sea
And on the highway of regret
Though winds of change
Are blowing wild and free
You ain't seen nothing
Like me yet

I could make you happy
Make your dreams come true
Nothing that I wouldn't do
Go to the endsOf the Earth for you
To make you feel my love

Beyonce in Complex

Everyone (at least my Facebook friends) should know by know how much i love Beyonce!! She is more than just a diva, she is an inspiration!! 

Here's a few pics from her new Complex Magazine cover. 

She looks absolutely fierce!!

RUN

by Snow Patrol

I remember blogging about this song on my cancelled/suspended multiply account. I just feel the need to post it again.

I'll sing it one last time for you
Then we really have to go
You've been the only thing that's right
In all I've done

And I can barely look at you
But every single time I do
I know we'll make it anywhere
Anyway from here

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear

Louder louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say

To think I might not see those eyes
Makes it so hard not to cry
And as we say our long goodbye
I nearly do

Light up light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear

Louder louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say

Slower slower
We don't have time for that
All I wants to find an easier way
To get out of our little heads

Have heart my dear
We're bound to be afraid
Even if it's just for a few days
Making up for all this mess

Light up light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear

The Script

April 12 2011 - Fort Canning Park

If there is any word more stronger than LOVE then that is how i feel about The Script. Thank You for making me genuinely happy that night. It was BEYOND.

FYI: The vid audio sucks because my cam's mic is going haywire and sorry for the shaky hands.

The Script in SG from Ching Lao on Vimeo

Friday Slide

Inspired by my Jam 88.3's friday habit. I listed the first 10 favorite songs that came across my mind right this time (2:18am). Click the song name for the Youtube link.

Once in a lifetime by Gregorian
i will definitely play this song on my wedding day :)

Kissing by Bliss

one word: sexy!

Apologize by One Republic 

i just love this song. end of story.

Other side of the World by KT Tunstall

thank you Grey's Anatomy. i can even remember what exact scene it was played. alex karev's.

Rootless Tree by Damien Rice

the most beautiful F*CK You i've ever heard!

Everybody's Changing by Keene

 I will never get tired listening to this song.

A Sorta Fairytale by Tori Amos

Funny coz even though i love the song soo much, i honestly dont understand the meaning of it. 

Never say Never by The Fray

I love most of The Fray's song but this one is on top of the list.

Please dont stop the rain by James Morrison

Thank you James Campued for introducing me to James Morrison

At the Stars by Better than Ezra

it was a love at 1st hear

2:29am and my list is done. What do u think about it? I added a few of my thoughts on each song and Il try to post my next 10 favorites soon but only when im in 'the' mood. 

I hope you like my list. 

Whats the 1st 10 favorite songs you can think of?

All We Are

Time can tear you apart

But it won't break anything that you are...

So don't say your goodbyes you know its better that way
We won't break, we won't die
It's just a moment of change

 

All we are

is everything that's right

Evie and Ian's last day in SG (March 20, 2011)

Lyrics from my super favorite One Republic's All We Are

Science and Faith

 by The Script

Tried to break her to a science

In an act of good defiance

I broke her heart
There's a pull up on her theories
There's a watch her growing weary
I broke her heart
Having heavy conversations
About the frivolous constellations of our souls, oh
We're just trying to find some meaning

In the things that we believe in

But we got some ways to go
I tried pushing evolution

As the obvious conclusion of the start

But it was all my own amusement

Saying love was an illusion of a hopeless heart

Of all of the things that she's ever said
She goes and says something that knocks me dead
You won't find faith or hope down a telescope
You won't find heart and soul in the stars

You can break everything down to chemicals
But you can't explain a love like ours
It's the way we feel, yeah, this is real

I was watching MTV Asia Music Awards 2008 when i first heard The Man who can't be moved. I didn't know the song nor the band at that point in time so i googled it/them and had never stopped loving The Script since then. I am just soo happy that they are touring Asia and i got my tickets to my musical bliss!!!

Off to a different topic, i had a fun weekend. 

Mang Kiko. Ice Cold Beer. Friends. 

No look post this time coz i was late for work and i didn't even bother thinking of what to wear. haha. I will see you again Ice Cold Beer.