We Called It Love

(More on long distance relationships. What do you think?)


I believed we could conquer the miles
We had love, we had trust and we had time.
So I threw all my doubts away
I'd choose us over pride any day.

Oh I shared all my pieces with you
No one else can tell my moods like you do
And I called you beautiful 
Even when some of your colors burned

We survived without sleep for a while
I thought dreams were so much sweeter beside you
And though the sun sets on you and rose on me
Our windows only cared that we could see.

In the end I let you break my heart
You said "Baby, we've been drifting apart."
And you called me beautiful.
Even as my whole world turned to blur.

We called it love.
We called it love.
We called it love.
We called it love.

Kiss Me While I Sleep

Barefoot she walks on that yellow brick road
Watching mem'ries play like movies of old
And how he sang to her with his guitar
Under the shade of the sparkling night star

She beckoned and raced him to that apple tree
Where they stole touches and kisses so sweet
That tree that held witness to love in the dark
That tree that held their vow's prints in its bark

Suddenly the sun comes and wakens the dame
With light that meant to her sorrow and pain
Her teardrop falls, as did the wilted rose
The tinkle of wind chimes follows her where she goes.

Salvation comes once again in her dreams
And as before carries her back through the years
Where nothing else mattered but her hand on his
And everything was soothed by one simple kiss

I shall return from the war do not fear
And he bent to kiss away all her tears.
Take care of the bloom I will come in time,
Surely you'll hear me with all your chimes.

She waited and waited held on to his words
Deaf to all else but the chimes that she heard
So she loathed the sun and the warmth that it brought
For sunlight held none of the love that she sought
Sunlight chased all traces of him
She blamed it for memories that had started to dim

She longed for the moon and the quiet it brought
She hears the chime louder, each time, she thought.
But the rose in her room seemed to wilt helplessly,
Same as the wind chimes she heard endlessly

Barefoot I walk in that yellow brick road
Watching memories play like movies of old
How he sang of all of the vows he would keep
Make me whole again, kiss me while I sleep.

(Please tell me what you think.)

I Will Paint The Sea

You giddily showed me how to paint the sky
With your stained hands and color palettes
You showed me royal, sapphire and denim for my blue
Rubies, corals and rust for my red.
And where I could only see an end
You showed me sunsets.

I learned well how to mix and match,
Sighs and shadow,
Scars and meadows,
The salt with the nectarines.
I eagerly showed you this new hued world
And you smiled,
Enraptured.
"Beautiful." you said.
"It looks like hers."

I saw another sunset.

So from your sky I took down my yellow stars,
the pale of the moon,
the dark of my night,
gathered them on the ground
and with almost no sound
I threw matches at the careful mound.

Merciless
I watched as my blues and reds blurred
Until there was only gray.
Here I taught myself
Dim and ash,
Storm and stone.
If embers escaped I put them out with my rain.
Alone.

Unmoved,
I watched and learned more.
Gray is now dove
Gray became steel.
Gray is now platinum.

And as you color her heavens and smile.
I realize I don't have to paint the sky.

Maybe Tomorrow

Everyday you promise yourself you will forget. 

And everyday you break that.

Because the pain is now a comfort.

It's familiar.

It's the pain you know.

It's the pain you know you can live with.

How else could it have lasted this long?

The beauty of the maybe that's never a no,

never an end, nor a closed door.

Who cares that it's never a definitive yes?

Maybes are secret and silent assents.

That is true as long as there's hope.

And you always hope.

Everyday.

Tomorrow you promise to forget. 
Tomorrow.

Maybe

Hibang

Ikaw ay bagyong inibig ko
Magmula nang apoy ay niyakap ko
At ang perlas na kalugkutang hinagkan ko
Naiipon sa nalulunod ko nang puso.

Kasalan ng puso kong tila ba hibang
Hintayin ba ang magpakailanman?
Ang tubig at langis pinaghahalong pilit
At pati ba ang pipi'y hintaying umawit?

Ngunit ang pusong hibang hindi papipigil
Ang ulan na sa Hunyo at Hulyo pa darating
Ang pilit na pinalalabas sa buwan ng Abril
Bakit nga ba sa imposible pa nahumahaling?

At ang kailanpamang hinintay ng isang hibang
Ay sandaling humaplos sa lupang tigang,
At saka lamang naisip na ang nyebe'y di kailanman nababati
Ng haring araw na sa langit na nakatali.

Silaw

When your significant other has dreams that are bigger than your love.

I.
Mahirap ngitian ang ligaya mong namamaalam
Pikit matang susuko, bukas ang mga palad.
Sa tadhanang, alam kong, di ko kayang pagtaguan
At gustuhin ko ma'y di ko dapat, kamuhian.

Koro
Tinatawag ka ng mga pangarap mo.
Sino ako, sino ako, para pigilin ka?

II.
Siyudad ng mga ilaw ang nais mong marating
Gintong dagat ng buhay ang nais mong languyin.
'Di na sapat ang, munting mundo natin.
At kahit katabi, 'di na dapat angkinin.

Koro

Koda
At pag napagod na sa silaw ng mga bituin.
At kung nagsawa na sa lamig at tayog na 'yong narating.
Heto ako, heto ako, para ibigin ka.

Koro:
Tinatawag ka ng mga pangarap mo.
Sino ako, sino ako, para pigilin ka?

At pag nakamit mo nang mga pangarap mo,
Heto ako, heto parin ako... para ibigin ka.

Mr. Paasa

Para sa mga paasa... at sa mga ayaw nang maging asumera.

I. 
Natuto na, talaga.
Nadala na sa makailang dagok
Na kaakibat ng pangako mong "Siguro"

Kilala na kita. 
Mga linyang kaya mo'y di praktisado
Pero memoryado,
at walang kasing labo.

Koro:
Mr. Pa-fall, Mr. Paasa, not now, pero balang araw.
Mr. Kung ikaw na lang sana.
Kunwari bestfriends lang ang turing.
Pero yayakap at aawit ng Kundimang akala mo lang ay sa'yo,
At pag nahulog ay biglaang lalayo.

II.
May sakit, may saklap,
Magtanong kung ano ang kulang sakin?
At di mo magawang umamin.

Sukdulan man ng tanga, 
Alam kong, may dulo rin ang sana.
Masakit yatang matawag na reserba.

Koro

Walang ampalayang katulad ko.
Kung walang paasang tulad mo.

Koro

Natuto na talaga.

Ashes

The debris of a long distance relationship:

Chorus:

You left me with nothing but my pride to hold on to.

As you went around the room and set fire to what was you and me

And ashes drift down to the floor,

I shouldn't beg.

You wouldn't change.

You couldn't turn these black stains back into what once was baby, you and me.

I.

I sit here in the aftermath, 

trying to make sense of what went wrong.

And my memories betray me, 

I thought that we were happy all along.

And I'm looking back through all of our pages,

which of our kisses were true?

Since when didn't you mean it,

when you said "I love you."

Chorus

II.

I learned that forever,

only lasts as long as now.

The two years we have fought for

All in twenty minutes gone.

You say that we're both hurting,

please stop trying to be kind!

You changed your mind, 

About the love that was baby, you and I.

Chorus

Bridge:

Now I have to choke on all their wise, wise words.

Admit I'm wrong, keep all these scars from showing.

You couldn't have touched my heart through all the many, many miles.

And all those hours, those plans are next to nothing.

You left me with nothing but my pride to hold on to.