tags: lyrics

2006

October

2006 Oct 15
morrissey “will never marry”

I’m writing this to say
In a gentle way
Thank you—but no
I will live my life as I
Will undoubtedly die—alone

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2007

May

2007 May 1
tempus fugit

My oldest friend whom I’ve known since we were in third grade is getting married to a wonderful woman sometime in 2008, and I can’t help but marvel. It seems like it was just last week we were playing Wing Commander II and listening to the Cure, the Smiths, Soft Cell, and Front 242, or walking up that godforsaken hill while playing some weird word game. There were all those hours spent in front of the Commodore 64 and the 8-bit Nintendo. There was Robotech. Voltron. Bastketball in my backyard. Junior high football. Watching movies at the AMC in Burbank. I could stop and reminisce for hours on end, and my memories may be astray. But it all goes by so fast.

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September

2007 Sep 6
rivermaya "himala"

It was 1997 when I first heard this song, on the island of Tablas, in the province of Romblon, awaiting a plane to take us back to Manila.

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2009

July

2009 Jul 9
traces

Betrayal? What was there to betray? Abandonment? But what claim did I have, what duty did she have?

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2011

January

2011 Jan 17
random song lyrics

If only I had thought of the right words
I could have held on to your heart
If only I'd thought of the right words
I wouldn't be breaking apart…

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2012

March

2012 Mar 5
the art of not wanting

But everyday I say I'll try to make my heart be still.

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