Lyrics and Music
Dead End
(para sa mga suicidal...hehehe, seriosly, it's about finding light at the end of the tunnel, hope amidst despair)
Life is always changing
Change ain't always fair
If all is pain and suffering
Then wny would I still care
If all your dreams are wasted
If all your hopes are dead
Nowhere you can run, oh boy
No, you'll not be spared
The signs up ahead
Are as dark as the night
Stands the fool on the hill
Calling, calling...
Come here oh my son
Come and throw your baggage
We'll fly into the heavens
Oh son, don't be scared
Don't run away from me
We'll all return to ashes
Stars and Dust
(lahat tayo nagpuputa, fighting our own battles and selling our selves, in one way or another... think of beer houses and war fields while reading...)
Every time that I think about it
Every time I lose my mind
Waiting for a call
I want nothing more
But for salvation ride to come
I'm so weary and I'm so tired
don't know how long I can go on
Strap your leather boots and take your gun
And make love to it all night long
All the soldiers and all the rebels
Taken out in just a flash
Fighting for a cause, for "emancipation"
Comprehension is all that lacks
She's so weary and she's so tired
Don't know how long she can go on
She straps her leather boots
And then dance to them all night long
Chorus:
As she dances along
As she stretches her long, long pearly whites and
You go along and you're singing a song at the back your head
She calls on all the sinners to go to the meatshop baby and enjoy the show and
You go behind the enemy lines and you kill someone
Wasted
("Ang kantang 'to ay para sa mga batang tinatapon sa basurahan" as we always say during the gigs. It's a cry for all of he neglected children who are killed, burnt, dumped in trash cans, in comfort rooms, in planes... etc)
I had fallen, inside this garbage bin
I've been struggling, just to find a way to crawl
I've been twisted in the fiery depths of hell
Why didn't you take me then,
When will you take me when
A roller coaster ride,
Burning twisting
Turning up inside and out
From the moment I was born
Down here I had forgotten
Who I am,
Where I'd been,
Where the hell I am going
One hundred million castaways
One hundred thousand culprits
One barely living, breathing kid
Inside this garbage bin
A roller coaster ride
Burning, twisting, turning up inside and out
Chorus:
Hear my lonely cry
Hear my total misery
I did nothing wrong
Two weeks ago I was born
I'd fallen
'Cause you'd fallen apart
I was made
A result of your enjoyment
And now I'm playing with my self in the dirt
One hundred million castaways
One hundred thousand culprits
One barely living breating kid
Inside this garbage bin
A roller coaster ride
Burning, twisting, turning up inside and out
Chorus
Look Away
("The" break up song...Have you ever been in one of those "last" coffee meet-ups? with you ex, whom you'd broken up with recently? )
Look away, 'cause I can't bear to look at you
When your eyes swell
The piercing pain in my heart wells
Lips quivering when you're about to cry
My guilty heart starts shivering
A thousand times I die
And you know it's time to say goodbye
And you know it's time to finally make a change
And to finally live again
And you know it's time to say goodbye
And you know it's time to leave your lie
And to finally realize
The touch of your hair in my arms
Your fingers intertwined with mine
Now it's just goodbye
A final sip of tea, A final whisper
Then we'll look away, then we'll look away
Canned Laughter
(para sa Pilipinas! at sa ating lahat na bulag, pipi at bingi)
Alone again in a crowd of crowds
My soul is dying
Alone just like before and brew's my only friend
Everybody knows but no one seems to understand
Everybody hears but no one listens
Everybody's going home and they'd do nothing
Everybody laughs and smiles
With canned laughter
We made a choice, we made amends
But all to no avail
Disconcerting idiosyncrasies, round about in my head
Everybody knows but no one seems to understand
Everybody hears but no one listens
Everybody's going home and they'd do nothing
Everybody laughs and smiles
With canned laughter
Blue, red, white, stars and sun
What's with all the colors?
What's with all the symbols?
If I can't remember my grade school lesson that my grade school teacher asked me to memorize and report in front of class
Now it's lost in my head, now it's lost in my soul
And my heart's saying something else
Wanting to run, wanting to flee
I'm washed out, dried up
Make something out of me
Before I crumble again
Everybody knows but no one seems to understand
Everybody hears but no one listens
Everybody's going home and they'd do nothing
Everybody laughs and smiles
With canned laughter
