It Looks Like December (adapted)

I see you through wet eyes
Insane eyes, December
But when I remember
Those long golden lost years
I call you and, breathless,
I leave all my love to the (answering) machine
Oh, how disconcerting it would be to see my love again

It looks like I'm saying I love you, I love you
In the photograph here we're looking so happy
I call you (I'm crazy)
And I confess my love to the (answering) machine
...Forget you

In this photograph here
I love you forever
I call you, and, breathless
I leave all my confusion to the (answering) machine
Oh, how disconcerting it would be to see my love again

I see you through wet eyes
Insane eyes, December
But when I remember
Those long golden lost years
I still sing I love you (I've grown accustomed to our rhyme)
Oh, how I still long to see my love again
...To see my love, never more

To my "Miss Right"...

Must you dance every dance

With the same fortunate man

You have danced with him since the music began

Won't you change partners and dance with me...

Must you dance quite so close

With your lips touching his face

Can't you see I'm longing to be in his place

Won't you change partners and dance with me...

Ask him to sit this one out

And while you're alone

I'll tell the waiter to tell him that he's wanted on the telephone

You've been locked in his arms

Ever since heaven knows when

Won't you change partners and then

You may never want to change partners again...

There's nothing you can do or say...I've thought about this for many a day...

You're the only one I love, and you can't change
that...

You're the only one I need , and you can't change
that...

You can change everything, but you can't change
that...

You can try if you want to, but you can't change
that...

Ang magmahal ng alabok...

For our Filipino project for the Finals, we were asked to write a journal about the experiences that we had during the said grading period...The following write-up is an excerpt from that journal.
I don't really know if my Professor was telling me the truth when she said that my write-up was "Palanca Awards for Literature" material, but I hope you guys like it.
OK...Here it goes...
Isang linggo na ang nakalipas magmula ng ma-busted ako…
Bukod sa aking pamilya, kamag-anak at mga kaibigan, nag-iisa ako sa buhay. Kakatwang isipan na sa gulang na 18 ay wala pa rin akong nagiging kasintahan. Ni isa. Kakatwa sapagkat nauunahan pa ‘ko ng mga taong mas bata pa sa’kin…
Hindi ko talaga alam kung bakit magpahanggang ngayon eh ‘di ako magkaroon ng isang kasintahan. Marahil siguro eh tama nga ‘yung mga taong nagsasabi sa’kin na bata pa ako at ‘di pa panahon para ako ay magkaroon ng isang ka-relasyon. Ang ‘di ko lang talaga matanggap eh kalimitan eh mas bata pa sa’kin ang nagsasabi nun.
Ako ang isang tao na takot sa anumang uri ng rejection. Isa na siguro ‘yun sa mga dahilan kung bakit ako nato-torpe. Mas gugustuhin ko pang ikubli ang mga tunay kong nararamdaman sa mga babaeng aking napupusuan kesa sa ipagtapat sa kanila ang aking tunay na nararamdaman at mawala sila sa’kin ng tuluyan…Oo, alam ko. Maraming beses nang nangyari sa’kin ‘yun.
Masarap ang may minamahal. At masarap ang pakiramdam kapag alam mong may nagmamahal sa’yo. Ngunit aanhin mo naman ang mga ‘yun kung alam mo rin naman na kabiguan at kalungkutan din naman ang kahihinatnan ng mga ‘yun?…
Kaya’t ‘eto ako ngayon, nagmamahal sa isang alabok…Isang alabok na hango sa hubog ng isang magandang dilag na binuo ko mula sa aking imahinasyon…Siya ang kasa-kasama ko sa tuwing ako’y nag-iisa’t nalulungkot. Siya ang pumapawi sa aking mga kalungkutan. Siya ang nagpupunas ng mga luha sa aking mga mata. Kapag wala akong makausap, siya ang aking nilalapitan. Sa pagkain, siya ang aking kasalo. Sa pag-aaral, siya ang aking katulong. Sa panahon ng kalituhan, siya ang nagsisilbi kong gabay. Sa pagtulog, siya ang aking katabi. Sa bawat tagumpay ko ay bahagi siya. At sa aking pananahimik, siya ang aking karamay… Ang alabok na ‘yun ang persona ng lahat ng hinahanap ko sa isang babae.
Kahibangan nga sigurong maituturing ang lahat ng aking mga nabanggit, ngunit totoo ang lahat ng ‘yun. Sa katunayan, kahibangan pa nga ang nagtulak sa’kin para lumikha ng ganun…Hindi naman siguro masamang mangarap ng babaeng iyong mamahalin, ‘di ba?
Ngunit batid ko naman na iba pa rin kung mayroon kang tunay na babae na minamahal. Kaya lang eh suntok sa buwan para sa isang katulad ko ang makahanap ng ganun sa hinaharap…
Dalangin ko ngayon na sana eh magkatotoo na ang aking pinakamamahal na alabok...
Ang pagsusumamo ko ay isang palamara sa karimlan, tiyak 'yun. Ngunit 'pag pinatagal ko pa 'to, tiyak na sasabog na ang dibdib ko. Sasabog na ang nagpupumiglas na damdamin ko na nagmula pa sa kaibuturan ng aking puso.
Kung bakit pa kasi napakahirap sa isang tulad ko na gawin ang mga bagay na 'to...

Watery Eyes

Watery eyes are drifting

Gently to hide

The thought that soon

The time would come

For you to go

I've asked the wind to stop

From blowing my dreams

I've asked the sun to stay

For long in the sky

Watery eyes are  flowing

Cold as the rain

Lonely and sad

That's how our song

Will turn out to be

How can I stop you

From passing through that door

How can I hold the moonbeam

Here in my hands

Watery eyes can now mean

The footsteps going yonder

And soon the day would go away

How can I stop the world from spinning?

What can I still do now?

I only know that when you went away

Gone, oh gone is our love...

...Go...

Go if you wish

Don't try to look back

Because if you do

I'll be blue

Walk away

Without a glance

I don't care if you go without turning

Don't take your time

Run away

Don't wait for me when it's over

You took away all our dreams

Now I know...

And now I cry...

Go with this thought

I loved you once

And I guess I'll always will

Walk away

Without a sigh

I don't care if you go without turning

How can I ask you to stay

When all your heart is away

How can I hold you?

How can I stop you?

Go...

Go away...

Just go...

Please go...

Melancholy Dreams

Why is it that

All the tunes that I can sing

All lead to you?

And all my dreams

Have only one refrain...

And if my musings

Can cross the ocean

I'd take a ride

While I'm lost in wild imagining...

So I just sit

Waiting for the telephone

To break the spell

Or take the wine I've held

With all my endless dreams

If you have eyes for me

Then life will smile for me

Throw these melancholy dreams...

End these melancholy dreams...

Sabihin mo...Tell me.

Sabihin mo

Kung iba na ang tingin mo

Kung ang aking pag-ibig

Ay 'di mo na gusto

At kailangang tantuin

Sabihin mo

Kung bakit ka mailap

Sa piling ko, sinta?

Hindi ba dapat

Malaman ko

Ngayong ikaw ay lumayo

Sabihin mo

Kung ito ay totoo

At nang malaman ko

Kung ano ang dapat gawin

Habang may pag-ibig

Sabihin mo

Pagka't kay hirap, giliw

Ang maghintay sa'yo

Sabihin mo

Aking mahal

At luha ko'y iyong hagkan

Tell me

If I should change my ways

If there's a doubt in my eyes

And the insincere look on my face as I gaze

Tell me

If there's a thing that keeps you

So far from my dreams

Shouldn't I know

What's troubling you

Now that you're cold

Tell me

What dreams are therer left for me

That I may know what to dream

What star to select

While the night is still long

Tell me

If there's a reason to cry

And how to sing away this lonely tear

Oh please, tell me

And let the sunlight bring the day

My thoughts when I dream of her...

Why are my eyes always full of this vision of you?

Why do I dream silly dreams that I feel won’t come true?

I long to show you the stars

Caught in the dark of the sea

I long to speak of my love

But you don’t come to me...

So I go on asking if maybe one day you’ll care...

I told my sad little dreams to the soft of me near

I am quite hopeless it seems

Two things I know how to do

One is to dream to this loving you...

...This is dedicated to the one I love...

Sa bawat pintig

Ng pusong umiibig

Sa isip ko'y ikaw

At ang ating awit

Na kay hirap limutin

Ikaw lang sinta

Ang aking hinahanap

At bawat luha ko'y Iyong nilunasan

Ngayong sumapit na

Ang pag-ibig




'Di ko lubos masarili sinta

Ang iyong tinig

Sadyang kaakit-akit

Kay hirap nang magkunwari,giliw

'Pag 'di ka kapiling

Kaya,giliw ko

Dinggin mo'ng aking nasa

At iyong ipangako

'Di ka magbabago

Sa bawat takbo ng mga araw

'Pagkat ikaw lang sinta ang mahal ko...


When things all go wrong

I just think of all the days

I think of how you came

And all the songs we sang

And all the dreams we had

I know that it's love

That's what all it had to be

You chased the blues away

Erased my tears away

And brought the sunshine back

Into my life


How can I picture all the things you are

Your gaze I want

Your voice I love

It isn't easy to just make believe

And stay away from you

And so with this love

Take this longing to your heart

And promise that you'll stay

In love with me each day

Because my love my life is meant

For loving you...