Don't wake me up...

Okay, so this is my Last Song Syndrome for the next couple of days and nights. Oh yeah, I love the beat and the tune of this song. As usual, Chris Brown combines emotion and r n' b into one, plus the touch of love and sometimes, romance in his songs. Aside from the reason that I keep on listening to this sing because I love it, I actually dedicate this song to someone....so, don't wake me up.



Dearly Beloved,If this love only exists in my dreams,Don’t Wake Me Up,
[CHRIS BROWN]Too much light in this window,Don’t Wake Me Up,Only coffee no sugar inside my cup,If I wake and you here still gimme a kiss,I wasn't finished dreamin’ about your lips,
[CHORUS]Don’t Wake Me Up,Up,Up,Up,Up, Up.Don’t Wake Me Up,Up,Up,Up,Up, Up.Don’t Wake Me Up,Up,Up,Up,Up, Up.Don’t Wake Me Up..Don’t Wake MeDon’t Wake Me Up…Don’t Wake Me Up…Don’t Wake Me Up…yeah…Don’t Wake Me Up,Up,Up,Up,Up, Up.Don’t Wake Me Up,Don’t Wake Me
[CHRIS BROWN][ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/dont-wake-me-up-lyrics-chris-brown.html ]So much life in the city you wont believe,Been awake for some days now no time to sleep,If your heart is a pillow, this love the bed,Tell me what is the music inside my head,
{Chours}Don’t Wake Me Up,Up,Up,Up,Up, Up.Don’t Wake Me Up,Up,Up,Up,Up, Up.Don’t Wake Me Up,Up,Up,Up,Up, Up .Don’t Wake Me Up..Don’t Wake MeDon’t Wake Me Up…Don’t Wake Me Up…Don’t Wake Me Up…yeah…
Don’t Wake Me Up,Up,Up,Up,Up, Up.Don’t Wake Me Up,Don’t Wake MeI don’t wanna fall fall fall fall asleep now,I don’t wanna fall unless im falling for you,I don’t wanna fall fall fall fall asleep now,I don’t wanna fall unless im falling for you,Don't Wake Me Up, Up, Up, Up, Up, Up.Don't Wake Me Up.Don't Wake Me.

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Somebody that I used to know

This is one simple yet so meaningful song that caught my ears into listening over and over again. I love this song and the music video (which features Kimbra), and I can definitely relate to the story behind it. The song, along with its distinct beat I should say, is something new to everyone's ears, just like Adele's songs.


"Somebody that I used to know", written by Gotye, a Belgian-Australian singer, had indeed attracted millions of viewers in YouTube and has sold over 4 million copies all over the world. Now, what really is behind the music video and the song itself that everyone can't seem to get over with, including me?

The video is refreshingly different. Unlike the standard sex and swag of contemporary pop music videos, the concept of this (it has one!) is as if Jasper John is painting on Veruschka, if you know your 20th century art history. It starts with the camera panning over the singers naked and almost hairless body. It’s intimate, but not sexual. This is a break-up song. When the camera gets to Gotye’s face, he starts singing, but doesn’t look at us. When he sings the word, “die,” he finally makes eye contact. Clearly this is not going to be a love fest.

A sample of a Brazilian bossa nova guitar riff shuffles in the background as pencil lines are drawn on a white wall. We get it. This is how relationships begin, all possibilites are open. But then we see that triangular areas are forming and then those shapes are getting painted in. The honeymoon is over. Things are starting to get rigid. “When you said we could not make sense, then you said that we could still be friends,” Gotye croons.

Then the tempo picks up and he goes into more of a cry for the chorus, ”You didn’t have to cut me out,” reminiscent of Peter Gabriel. As the tone shifts, the painting which had just been confined to the wall behind him is now beginning to cover his skin. He is inside of the relationship and can’t get out. “Now you’re just somebody that I used to know,” he sings angrily, completely covered in paint, looking a bit like a muted, arty version of Ace Frehley from KISS.

Then we pull back from Gotye and see how he has become part of the painting behind him. As we pull out more we see that his girlfriend is also part of the painting with her back towards us. Then she turns her head and begins to sing, “Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over,” the New Zealand singer Kimbra begins. And here’s the surprise that makes the song. We’re going to get to hear the other side of the story.

But not for long. As she approaches him, her temper rises but he remains cool, impassive. But when she is finally shouting in his ear, he screams back with the chorus and she retreats into background vocals and slowly backs away. When she’s back in her original position, the paint start disappearing from her skin until she is naked, free to go. Gotye is still trapped in the relationship, but Kimbra has moved on.


source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/04/20/gotyes-somebody-that-i-used-to-know-goes-its-own-way-to-no-1-glee-and-snl-helped/

"Somebody that I used to know"

(feat. Kimbra)

[Gotye:]
Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it's an ache I still remember

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end, always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well you said that we would still be friends
But I'll admit that I was glad it was over

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and I feel so rough
No you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

[Kimbra:]
Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
Part of me believing it was always something that I'd done
But I don't wanna live that way
Reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know

[Gotye:]
But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and I feel so rough
And you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

[x2]
Somebody
(I used to know)
Somebody
(Now you're just somebody that I used to know)

(I used to know)
(That I used to know)
(I used to know)
Somebody

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Happy Mother's Day Mama Lucia!

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

- Abraham Lincoln

Mama and I during my college graduation.:)

All the success I have in my life right now, I couldn't have done without you.Thank you also for being an inspiration ever since I was a child.  Thank you for working hard for the whole family, and thank you for not giving up on us brothers and sisters, even though I know at times we become stubborn or hard-headed. Thank you for helping me to become the person I am right now. Thank you for everything, Mama, for all the hard work, support, tender love and care. You are indeed, a Supermom!

Most of all, I thank you, for bringing me into this world. I love you so much! Happy Mother's Day!:)

I love you so much, Mama!

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Only Time by Enya

I love this song by Enya, Only Time. It's about how love changes, so as everything in this world changes. It's about not knowing where love will lead you  in your future, whether you will be happy or sad in the end. No one knows, only time.

Who can say where the road goes

Where the day flows, only time

And who can say if your love grows

As your heart chose, only time

Who can say why your heart sighs

As your love flies, only time

And who can say why your heart cries

When your love lies, only time

Who can say when the roads meet

That love might be in your heart

And who can say when the day sleeps

If the night keeps all your heart

Night keeps all your heart

Who can say if your love grows

As your heart chose

Only time

And who can say where the road goes

Where the day flows, only time

Who knows? Only time

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WHY?

Why?

Drazen A. Evilla

Why do I keep on thinking about you?

When you don't remember me at all,

Why do I always get affected about you?

When you don't even seem to listen or to care about me.

Why is it, that I have fallen for you at the first place?

When I realize that you still love that someone from your past,

Why did fate led the two of us to start something new?

When in fact, we can never possibly be.

Why is it always so unfair for me to love you?

When each time I needed you, you weren't there.

Why do I always keep on forgiving you?

When I know you'v hurt me too many times.

Why can't you see, you made this pain in my heart?

That though I know you love me, you keep on giving me heartaches,

Why can't I stop missing you all the time?

When all those times I walked all alone, you made me sick.

Why is it, that while I am writing these lines by heart?

The good times we had, hasten through my wits,

Why won't you give the two of us enough time?

Before we'll part ways and bid goodbyes...

Why, oh please, tell me why?

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Safe & Sound...

I dedicate this song, this lonely song, to someone out there. Maybe then, that someone will know, how lonely I am right now....You and I, will be safe and sound...

Taylor Swift ft. The Civil Wars - Safe & Sound (The Hunger Games)

[Taylor Swift]

I remember tears streaming down your face

When I said, I'll never let you go

When all those shadows almost killed your light

I remember you said, Don't leave me here alone

But all that's dead and gone and passed tonight...

Just close your eyes

The sun is going down

You'll be alright

No one can hurt you now

Come morning light

You and I'll be safe & sound...

Don't you dare look out your window darling;

Everything's on fire

The war outside our door keeps raging on

Hold onto this lullaby

Even when the music's gone, gone

Just close your eyes

The sun is going down

You'll be alright

No one can hurt you now

Come morning light

You and I'll be safe & sound...

Oooooo, Oooooo,

Oooooo, Oooooo

Lala... Lala...

Lala... Lala...

Oooooo, OooOoo,

Oooooo, OooOoo

Lala... Oh Lala...

Just close your eyes

You'll be alright

Come morning light,

You and I'll be safe & sound...

Oooooo, OoooOooo,

Oooooo, OoooOooo,

Oooooo, OoooOooo,

Oooooo, OoooOooo,

Oooooo, OoooOooo,

Oooooo, OoooOooo...

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Pussywillows, Cattails

This mellow song, by Kenny Rankin, is dedicated to my past love affairs...

Pussywillows, cat-tails, soft winds and roses
Rainbows in the woodland, water to my knees
Shivering, quivering, the warm breath of spring
Pussywillows, cat-tails, soft winds and roses


Catbirds and cornfields, daydreams together
Riding on the roadside the dust gets in your eyes
Reveling, disheveling, the summer nights can bring
Pussywillows, cat-tails, soft winds and roses


Slanted rays and colored days, stark blue horizons
Naked limbs and wheatbins, hazy afternoons
Voicing, rejoicing, the wine cups do bring
Pussywillows, cat-tails, soft winds and roses


Harsh nights and candlelights, woodfires a-blazin'
Soft lips and fingertips resting in my soul
Treasuring, remembering, the promise of spring
Pussywillows, cat-tails, soft winds and roses

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In the Name of Love

I have read this post in a certain Facebook page and after reading it thought if I'd repost it here in my blog to share this story.

This is a true story of a mother’s sacrifice during the recent Japan earthquake. After the Earthquake had subsided, when the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house, they saw her dead body through the cracks. But her pose was somehow strange that she knelt on her knees like a person was worshiping; her body was leaning forward, and her two hands were supporting an object. The collapsed house had crashed her back and her head. With so many difficulties, the leader of the rescuer team put his hand through a narrow gap on the wall to reach the woman’s body. He was hoping that this woman could be still alive. However, the cold and stiff body told him that she had passed away for sure. He and the rest of the team left this house and were going to search the next collapsed building. For some reason, the team leader was driven by a compelling force to go back to the ruined house of the dead woman. Again, he knelt down and used his hand through the narrow cracks to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with excitement,” A child! There is a child! “ The whole team worked together; carefully they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a 3-month old little boy wrapped in a flowery blanket under his mother’s dead body. Obviously, the woman had made an ultimate sacrifice for saving her son. When her house was falling, she used her body to make a cover to protect her son. The little boy was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up. The medical doctor came quickly to exam the little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cell phone inside the blanket. There was a text message on the screen. It said ,” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” This cell phone was passed around from one hand to another. Every body that read the message wept. ” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” Such is the mother’ s love for her child!! Dont forget to click the share button.

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A note to share...

This is a post which I would like to share to readers out there. I got this from a Facebook friend's note. It's really nice to reflect on it. Read on:

"When I was a kid, my mom liked to make breakfast food for dinner every now and then. And I remember one night in particular when she had made breakfast after a long, hard day at work. On that evening so long ago, my mom placed a plate of eggs, sausage and extremely burned biscuits in front of my dad. I remember waiting to see if anyone noticed! Yet all my dad did was reach for his biscuit, smile at my mom and ask me how my day was at school. I don't remember what I told him that night, but I do remember watching him smear butter and jelly on that biscuit and eat every bite!When I got up from the table that evening, I remember hearing my mom apologize to my dad for burning the biscuits. And I'll never forget what he said: "Honey, I love burned biscuits."Later that night, I went to kiss Daddy good night and I asked him if he really liked his biscuits burned. He wrapped me in his arms and said,"Your Momma put in a hard day at work today and she's real tired. And besides- a little burnt biscuit never hurt anyone!"You know, life is full of imperfect things... and imperfect people. I'm not the best at hardly anything, and I forget birthdays and anniversaries just like everyone else. What I've learned over the years is that learning to accept each others faults - and choosing to celebrate each others differences - is one of the most important keys to creating a healthy, growing, and lasting relationship. That's my prayer for you today. That you will learn to take the good, the bad, and the difficult parts of your life and lay them at the feet of God. Because in the end, He's the only One who will be able to give you a relationship where a burned biscuit isn't a deal-breaker!We could extend this to any relationship. In fact, understanding is the base of any relationship, be it a husband-wife or parent-child or friendship!"Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket - keep it in your own"

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One of my favorite mellow love songs...

I dedicate this meaningful and mellow song to someone special...you know who you are.

ALL I WANT IS YOU TODAY

by South Border

SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE 

SOME THINGS WILL REMAIN 

YET I ALWAYS HOPE AND PRAY 

THAT I COULD CHANGE THE DAY 

AND MAYBE FIND A WAY 

TO MAKE YOU COME TO ME AND STAY 

Chorus: 

YESTERDAY DOESN'T MATTER 

TOMORROW YOU MAY NOT EVER KNOW 

(TOMORROW I JUST MIGHT BE GONE) 

SO LISTEN TO ME NOW 

AS I TRY TO SAY 

THAT ALL I WANT IS YOU TODAY 

IF YOU ONLY KNEW 

WHAT YOU PUT ME THROUGH 

YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE GONE AWAY 

HAVE YOU EVER FELT EVEN FOR A WHILE 

SOMETHING'S MISSING IN YOUR LIFE 

(Repeat Chorus) 

THAT ALL I WANT IS YOU TODAY 

IF YOU DON'T NEED ME ANYMORE 

DON'T SAY IT, IF YOU DON'T LOVE ME ANYMORE 

DON'T SHOW IT, BECAUSE THIS LIFE I HAVE IS SHORT 

SO MAYBE YOU COULD TRY FOR NOW TO LOVE ME AGAIN 

(Repeat Chorus) 

ALL I WANT IS YOU TODAY

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The Art of Loneliness

  

Demi lovato

Don't forget

Don't forget

         The Art of Loneliness

Here I am again, dissolved in this false impression.

Sitting all alone and feeling empty, beneath this one-tree hill,

While my heart sank so low, my mind starts to wander,

Into the sweetest memories of you and I.

I let out a sigh to flush out all this emptiness,

And I glance at the expanse of this breathtaking horizon I see,

Where the clouds seemed innocent and the tree branches wave farewell,

While the wind blows softly and the blood-red sun dies.

All this things only reminded me of the two of us,

Those times when I’ve been your knight-in-shining-armor,

But I know, that no promises we’ve made have been fulfilled,

And now, my soul has been imprisoned in this nothingness.

It seems like I could hear and feel nothing from inside,

Except for the weakening beat of my shattered heart,

And yet again, I see myself at this very place and moment,

Feeling so hopeless, faded, and ashamed.

The pain you’ve left bleeds into my vessel,

As my pride continue to tear me apart,

How long will I be stuck in this silly enchantment?

Like I am bound in such an unknown curse.

But the reality is right in front of me—you were gone,

And I know even time can’t change what has been said and done…

Someday, somehow I will realize you’re not the one,

That my fate has planned for me to share my whole life with.

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