Bike Ride

by Half Life Half Death
(unreleased, 1988)

One day, I remember, Johnny came home
That was one summer
He had tears in his eyes
A bruise on one elbow
And a wound on his knee

I wondered what had happened
I asked him why
But before he could speak
I noticed an old bike by the door
I couldn’t help laughing as loud as I could

How many times did I say,
Do not ride on that bike
How many times did you have an accident
Because of riding that bike…

"I always wanted a bike,” he said
“Since I was a child
“I always wanted a bike,
But my mom didn’t like;
I want a bike…
I want a bike…
I want a bike…
I want a bike…”

How many times did I say
Do not ride on that bike
How many times did you have an accident…
Accident…
Accident…
Because of riding that bike…

Trust

by The Cure
(Wish, 1992)

There's no one left in the world
That I can hold onto
There is really noone left at all
There is only you
And if you leave me now
You leave all that we were undone
There is really noone left
You are the only one

And still the hardest part for you
Is to put your trust in me
I love you more than I can say
Why won't you just believe?

Light and Shade

by Fra Lippo Lippi
(Light and Shade, 1987)

He will paint the light and shade
The colours of the trees
He will climb the steepest hill
Believing what he sees
He will lay down on the ground
Beneath the old oak tree
He will sleep forever
If you try to set him free

Sail on the wings of a cloud
Where to, well, nobody knows
And cry, cry if you want them to see
Die every day to be free

Be proud to wear the colours that you call your own
Be loud, speak out when you want the world to know
Be strong, hold the flame for everyone to see
Be weak, if you want to love

He will paint the endless sea
A mystery to me
He will reach out for the sun
Not dreaming what he sees
He will fall down on his knees
Angel touching ground
Takes him to the other side
Where love is coming down

Sail on the wings of a cloud
Where to, well, nobody knows
And cry, cry if you want them to see
Die every day to be free

Be proud to wear the colours that you call your own
Be loud, speak out when you want the world to know
Be strong, hold the flame for everyone to see
Be weak, if you want to love

All I Want

by Toad the Wet Sprocket
(Fear, 1991)

Nothing’s so loud
As hearing when we lie
The truth is not kind
And you said neither am I

But the air outside's so soft
Saying everything
Everything

All I want is to feel this way
To be this close, to feel the same
All I want is to feel this way
The evening speaks
I feel it say...

Nothing’s so cold
As closing the heart when all we need
Is to free the soul
But we wouldn’t be that brave I know

And the air outside's so soft
Confessing everything
Everything

And it won’t matter now
Whatever happens will be
Though the air speaks of all we’ll never be
It won’t trouble me

And it feels so close
Let it take me in
Let it hold me so
I can feel it say...

More to Lose

by Seona Dancing
(single release, 1983)

We used to cry
About the days when one of us might fall
Weak and blindly into another's arms

Demands are gained from jealousies
Would flow like water drowning us
But leaving us with just another
Lover's false alarm

And now it's over
Both of us free
But I feel colder

A thousand tortured lives have fallen
Wounded, dying, cut down by the
Questions that we'd sharpened
Just to save our losing days

We thought we'd nothing more to lose
We'd tear our hearts with jagged truths
And everything we'd hung to for so long
Just slipped away

And now it's over
Both of us free
And I feel colder

I was tired of thinking that
Our love could shine your thoughts
Of our arrangements
Were really not like mine

I thought it over
And it was plain to see the love you said
You once needed
Could just not come from me

And now it's over
Both of us free
And I feel colder

And so we're moving to new beginnings
But as we move we look once behind
To see what we might find out
Lost loves and old thoughts of our nights of winnings
That lunge, tear, and grasp
Our thought-wanting minds

Seona Dancing was Ricky Gervais and Bill Macrae.

I Melt with You

by Modern English
(After the Snow, 1982)

Moving forward, using all my breath
Making love to you was never second best
I saw the world crashing all aorund your face
Never really knowing it was always mesh and lace

I'll stop the world and melt with you
You've seen the difference and it's getting better all the time
There's nothing you and I won't do
I'll stop the world and melt with you

Dream of better lives, the kind which never hates
Locked in a state of imaginary grace
I made a pilgrimage to save this human race
What I'm comprehending's a race that's long gone by

I'll stop the world and melt with you
You've seen the difference and it's getting better all the time
There's nothing you and I won't do
I'll stop the world and melt with you

The future’s open wide

I'll stop the world and melt with you
You've seen the difference and it's getting better all the time
There's nothing you and I won't do
I'll stop the world and melt with you

The future's open wide

Hmm...hmm...hmm...
Hmm...hmm...hmm...hmm
Hmm...hmm...hmm...
Hmm...hmm...hmm...hmm

I'll stop the world and melt with you
I've seen some changes but it's getting better all the time
There's nothing you and I won't do
I'll stop the world and melt with you

I'll stop the world and melt with you
I'll stop the world and I melt with you

Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own

by U2
(How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, 2004)

Tough, you think you’ve got the stuff
You’re telling me and anyone
You’re hard enough

You don’t have to put up a fight
You don’t have to always be right
Let me take some of the punches
For you tonight

Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don’t have to go it alone

And it’s you when I look in the mirror
And it’s you when I don’t pick up the phone
Sometimes you can’t make it on your own

We fight all the time
You and I
That’s alright
We’re the same soul
I don’t need, I don’t need to hear you say
That if we weren’t so alike
You’d like me a whole lot more

Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don’t have to go it alone

And it’s you when I look in the mirror
And it’s you when I don’t pick up the phone
Sometimes you can’t make it on your own

I know that we don’t talk
I’m sick of it all
Can you hear me when I sing
You’re the reason I sing
You’re the reason why the opera is in me

Where are we now?
I’ve got to let you know
A house still doesn’t make a home
Don’t leave me here alone

And it’s you when I look in the mirror
And it’s you that makes it hard to let go
Sometimes you can’t make it on your own
Sometimes you can’t make it
The best you can do is to fake it
Sometimes you can’t make it on your own

But Not Tonight

by Depeche Mode
(Black Celebration, 1986)

Oh God, it's raining
But I'm not complaining
It's filling me up with new life

The stars in the sky
Bring tears to my eyes
They're lighting my way tonight
And I haven't felt so alive in years

Just for a day on a day like today
I'll get away from this constant debauchery

The wind in my hair
Makes me so aware
How good it is to live tonight
And I haven't felt so alive in years
The moon is shining in the sky
Reminding me of so many other nights
But they're not like tonight

Oh God, it's raining and I'm not containing
My pleasure at being so wet

Here on my own
All on my own
How good it feels to be alone tonight

And I haven't felt so alive in years
The moon is shining in the sky
Reminding me of so many other nights
With my eyes they've been so red
I've been mistaken for dead
But not tonight

Somebody

by Depeche Mode
(Some Great Reward, 1984)

I want somebody to share
Share the rest of my life
Share my innermost thoughts
Know my intimate details
Someone who'll stand by my side
And give me support
And in return
She'll get my support
She will listen to me
When I want to speak
About the world we live in
And life in gen'ral
Though my views may be wrong
They may even be perverted
She'll hear me out
And won't easily be converted
To my way of thinking
In fact she'll often disagree
But at the end of it all
She will understand me

I want somebody who cares
For me passionately
With every thought
And with every breath
Someone who'll help me see things
In a different light
All the things I detest
I will almost like
I don't want to be tied
To anyone's strings
I'm carefully trying to steer clear
Of those things
And when I'm asleep
I want somebody
Who will put her arms around me
And kiss me tenderly
Though things like this
Make me sick
In a case like this
I'll get away with it

Rockin' Stroll

by The Lemonheads
(It's a Shame about Ray, 1992)

She takes me on a rockin’ stroll
If you won’t wave, guess I won’t know
As by I roll, I hope you’ll throw a smile at me

This here pram is all know
Won’t be walking ‘til I’ve grown
All I’ve been shown is everything I wanna see

People’s knees, and trunks of trees smile at me

Looking upward to the sky
Moving forward all the time
The sidewalk lines – ga-dunk, ga-dunk, ga-dunk, ga-die

If it’s warm in here, is it cold out there?
Around out where I can only stare
I’m still aware of little, but I’m gonna try

I’m gonna try
I’m gonna try
I’m gonna try
I’m gonna try, oh

She takes me on a rockin’ stroll
If you won’t wave, guess I won’t know
As by I roll, I hope you’ll throw a smile at me

This here pram is all know
Won’t be walking ‘til I’ve grown
All I’ve been shown is everything I wanna see

People’s knees, and trunks of trees smile at me

Rudderless

by The Lemonheads
(It's a Shame about Ray, 1992)

Waiting for something to break
Left my heart out to bake
Nothing there in my glass
Wasn’t air made to last

Hope in my past
Hope in my past
Hope in my past
Hope in my past

All the way down to the lake
(Found the lake was wet)
How much more could I take
(Better yet)
Walked back home to my place
(Tired of getting high)
Guess I don’t wanna die

Hope in my past
Hope in my past
Hope in my past
Hope in my past

Waiting for something to break
Left my heart out to bake
Slipped my mind that I could use my brain
I’ll stay up all night, and crash on the plane

Ship without a rudder's like a ship without a rudder's like a ship without a rudder...

It's about Time

by The Lemonheads
(Come On Feel the Lemonheads, 1996)

Bite my tongue
And I won’t say a word against anyone
But I don’t wanna get my fingers wet
Unless it’s an accident

Fell out on the street
Now I’m watching my shoes and I grit my teeth
But I don’t have to look that way
And if I had half a say

It’s about time
It’s about time
Lick my lips
And I won’t hear the end of this

On my knees, a reassurance
Buy some time and come back for it
Before long, before it’s gone

Patience is like bread I say
I ran out of that yesterday

It’s about time
It’s about time

Enough about us
Let’s talk about me
It’s not about you
It’s not about sunshine

It’s about time
It’s about time

Touch my leg
It’s smooth but there’s stubble there
I’ll fall back and let 'em go
Only when I know you know
I don’t know, make me sure

Have your people contact mine
And keep your lawyer on the line

It’s about time
It’s about time
It’s about time
It’s about time

Into Your Arms *

by The Lemonheads
(Come On Feel the Lemonheads, 1996)

I know a place where I can go, when I’m alone
Into your arms, into your arms I can go
I know a place that’s safe and warm, from the crowds
Into your arms, into your arms I can go

And if I should fall
I know I won’t be alone
Be alone anymore

I know a place where I can go, when I’m alone
Into your arms, into your arms I can go

I know a place that’s safe and warm, from the crowds
Into your arms, into your arms I can go

*composed by R. St. Clare

If I Could Talk I’d Tell You

by The Lemonheads
(Car Button Cloth, 1996)

Half past nine, quarter to two, ten fifteen
And we’re coming round again
Hold off, are we going soft
Flushed my Zoloft, and we’re coming round again
Found out and I almost drowned
Walked back down, and we’re coming round again

If I could talk I’d tell you
If I could smile I’d let you know
You are far and away
My most imaginary friend

If I could talk I’d tell you
If I could smile I’d let you know
You are far and away
My most imaginary friend

Khmer Rouge, je ne sais quo
Your place or Mein Kampf, now I’m giving the dog a bone
Slight hunch without the vaguest clue
To keep the blood balanced and we’re coming around again
Half past nine, quarter to two, ten fifteen
And we’re coming round again

If I could talk I’d tell you
If I could smile I’d let you know
You are far and away
My most imaginary friend

If I could talk I’d tell you
If I could smile I’d let you know
You are far and away
My most imaginary friend

I'll Do It Anyway

by The Lemonheads
(Come On Feel the Lemonheads, 1996)

Bless my soul and maybe I should leave it alone
I’m sure it would be safer to stay at home
You’ve made your point, it’s pointless and it’s all gonna burn
I’m in state to skate, but I’m gonna take my turn

I know you may never really understand
Why go through these motions with my hands
It’s a gesture at best, but my body is in the right place
To fall in your arms now, and wait to save face

I’ll do it anyway
No matter what they feel
Ain’t got all the facts
But I got a hunch
And I know the deal

I’ll do it anyway
Shine what you might have heard
There’s something at hand
It just ain’t planned
It’s still a beautiful world

American men you know them, they gotta be right
When it’s left to me often times, I’d rather not bite
They make a big deal out of everything, and they got too many guns
And just to make ‘em mad, I’m gonna do it for fun

I’ll do it anyway
No matter what they fee
lAin’t got all the facts
But I got a hunch
And I know the deal

I’ll do it anyway
Over the barren plains
I’m still a girl
It’s just a horse
And I got the reins

It's a Shame about Ray

by The Lemonheads
(It's a Shame about Ray, 1992)

I’ve never been too good with names
The cellar door was open, I could never stay away
I know it’s prob'ly not my place
It seems as though I’m searching for a simple way to say

It’s a shame about Ray
In the stone, under the dust, his name is still engraved
Something needs to go away
It’s a shame about Ray

If I make it through today
I’ll know tomorrow not to leave my feelings out on display
I’ll put the cobwebs back in place
I’ve never been too good with names, but I remember faces

It’s a shame about Ray
In the stone, under the dust, his name is still engraved
Something needs to go away
It’s a shame about Ray

Blood on Blood

by Bon Jovi
(Slippery when Wet, 1986)

I can still remember
When I was just a kid
When friends were friends forever
And what you said was what you did
Well, it was me and Danny and Bobby
We cut each other's hands
And held tight to a promise
Only brothers understand

But we were so young, so young
One for all and all for one
Just as sure as the river's gonna run

Blood on blood
One on one
We'd still be standing
When all was said and done

Blood on blood
One on one
And I'll be here for you
Till Kingdom come
Blood on blood

Well, Bobby was our hero
'cause he had a fake I.D.
I got busted stealing cigarettes
And he took the rap for me
Danny knew this White trash girl
We each threw in a ten
She took us to this cheap motel
And turned us into men

We were so young, so young
One for all and all for one
Just as sure as the river's gonna run

Blood on blood
One on one
We'd still be standing
When all is said and done

Blood on blood
One on one
And I'll be here for you
Till Kingdom come
Blood on blood

Now Bobby, he's an uptown lawyer
Danny, he's a medicin man
And me, I'm just the singer
In a long-haired Rock 'n Roll band

Through the years and miles between us
It's been a long and lonely ride
But if I got a call in the dead of the night
I'd be right by your side

Blood on blood
One on one
We'd still be standing
When all is said and done

Blood on blood
One on one
And I'll be here for you
Till Kingdom come
Blood on blood

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

by The Smiths
(A Hatful of Hollow, 1984)

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
But heaven knows I’m miserable now
I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
And heaven knows I’m miserable now

In my life
Why do I give valuable time
To people who don’t care if I live or die?

Two lovers entwined pass me by
And heaven knows I’m miserable now
I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
And heaven knows I’m miserable now

In my life
Oh, why do I give valuable time
To people who don’t care if I live or die?

What she asked of me at the end of the day
Caligula would have blushed
Oh, you’ve been in the house too long she said
And I naturally fled

In my life
Why do I smile
At people who I’d much rather kick in the eye?

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
But heaven knows I’m miserable now

Oh, you’ve been in the house too long she said
And I naturally fled

In my life
Oh, why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die?

Cities in Dust

by Siouxsie & the Banshees
(Tinderbox, 1986)

Water was running; children were running
You were running out of time
Under the mountain, a golden fountain
Were you praying at the Lares shrine?

But oh your city lies in dust, my friend

We found you hiding we found you lying
Choking on the dirt and sand
Your former glories and all the stories
Dragged and washed with eager hands

But oh your city lies in dust, my friend

Hot and burning in your nostrils
Pouring down your gaping mouth
Your molten bodies blanket of cinders
Caught in the throes

And your city lies in dust

Vanilla Float

by Dream Kitchen
(unreleased/demo, 1998)

Those were my youthful days
When friends were still there to play
A mouthful of words I can say
Those smiles were not that pale

It was a wish beneath a constellation
Dreaming of gaining the privilege of being iconic
I remember there we laughed and cried
Waiting for a comet to grace the sky

If only my friends are still here
To play along with my songs
Nonsensical they may be
My soul would have smiled

Those were my youthful days
When friends were still there to play
Three hundred ways I can say
Those times are now astray

It was a yearning in my heart
Dying to dwell back in my jaded past
But now here I lie and cry
Waiting for a chance to say goodbye

If only my friends are still here
To play along with my songs
Nonsensical they may be
My soul could have smiled
Once again
Again and again and again...

(instrumental)

If only my friends are still here
To play along with my songs
Selfish we had been in the past
We could have not died

If only my friends are still here
To raise their floats once again
Senseless this may be
I wish I could bring back yesterday

lyric: aLfie vera mella
music: Dream Kitchen

Silver Spoon on My Mouth

by Dream Kitchen
(1998, unreleased/demo)

Every time that I go on with my life, you know
I just smile 'cause I know
That the people around us just don't care
With what you do
With what we do
With what everybody wants to do
And I know
To live in this world
Is survival of the wickedest

Rain, won't you wash away my *gloomeries*
How could I be reborn
With a silver spoon on my mouth?

Every time that I go on with my life, you know
I just smile 'cause I know
To live in this world
Is survival of the wickedest
And all this time
I can see that the people around us just don't care
With what you do
With what we do
With what everybody wants to do

Rain, won't you wash away my gloomeries
How could I be reborn
With a silver spoon on my mouth?

Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma
Ma-ma-ma-ma my mouth
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma
Ma-ma-ma-ma my mouth...

Choo-choo...

Every time that I go on with my life, you know
I just smile 'cause I know
That the people around us just don't care
With what you do
With what we do
With what everybody wants to do
And I know
To live in this world
Is survival of the wickedest

Rain, won't you wash away my gloomeries
How could I be reborn
With a silver spoon on my mouth?

Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma
Ma-ma-ma-ma my mouth
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma
Ma-ma-ma-ma my mouth

How could I be reborn
With a silver spoon on my mouth?
'cause I was born with a freaking fork stuck in my throat!

How could I?
How could I?
How could I?
How could I?
How could I?
How could I?
How could I?
How could I?
How could I?
How could I?
How could I?
How could I?
How could I?
How could I?
How could I?
How could I?
How could
I!

Note: gloomeries is a neologism I coined which means "gloomy memories"

lyric: aLfie vera mella
music: Dream Kitchen

The Never Ending Sun

by Dream Kitchen
(unreleased/demo, 1998)

Why searched for new friends
To make you happy
When I was there to make you smile?
'Twas just a conflict of time
That really mattered
But still we fell
And never finished the stories we tell

Why, the never ending why
Why did it have to end that way?
Why, the never ending why
Keeps lingering in my head

Why search for new trends
To keep you in style
When you can survive
On the things you have?
It's just a matter of priority
In the hierarchy of needs
Relearn to love
The basic gifts of Life

Why, the never ending why
Why did it have to end that way?
Why, the never ending why
Pulsating in my heart

(instrumental)

End your search
Content your restless mind
Broken dreams
Tears unforgotten

End your search
Don't leave me here behind
May frozen tears
Stab! your heart—made of steel

Why, the never ending why
Why did it have to end that way?
Why, the never ending why
Is bothering my soul

Why, the never ending why
Why did it have to end that way?
Why, the never ending why
Pulsating in my heart

Oh wa-ah-ah-ah-ay
Oh wa-ah-ah-ah-ay
Oh wa-ah-ah-ah-ay
Oh wa-ah-ah-ah-ay
Oh wa-ah-ah-ah-ay
Oh wa-ah-ah-ah-ay

Oh tell me why

Lyrics for the Second Vocals:

Moving on with my life without you
Armed with nothing but pain and fear and a glimmer of hope
Bittersweet memories are gnawing inside me
I have to believe that whatever doesn't kill me
Will really makes me stronger

Why, oh why
The heart of a smart man explodes the worst when smashed
Why, oh why
The mind of a smart man couldn't control the pain
Why, oh why
The wound is deep
My spirit bleeds

Carrying on in spite of the pain that's killing me on and on
I've become nothing to the one who used to adore me like God
???
???


Why, oh why
The heart of a smart man explodes the worst when smashed
Why, oh why
The mind of a smart man couldn't control the pain
Why, oh why
The wound is deep
My spirit bleeds


lyric: aLfie vera mella
music: Dream Kitchen

For Her Brilliance

by Dream Kitchen
(unreleased/demo, 1998)

Here I come, my brilliant friend
Knocking on your heart again
The sound of love has called me in
I'm gliding down again and again

Here I come, my brilliant friend
Knocking on your heart again
The pain of love has caught me in
I'm gliding down
And down and down and down I fell

Can you see me?
I'm falling for the thousandth time
Will you be there again with me?
Can you hear me?
I'm calling out your name aloud
Like before, like before
My brilliant friend

Here I come, my brilliant friend
Bothering your time again
The pain of love has caught me in
I'm gliding down
And down and down and down I fell

Can you see me?
I'm falling for the thousandth time
Will you be there again with me?
Can you hear me?
I'm crying out your name aloud
Like before, like before
My brilliant friend

My brilliant friend
My brilliant friend
Brilliant friend

(instrumental)

Can't you hear me?
I'm begging for your time again
Will you be there again with me?
Can't you hear me?
I'm crying out your name aloud
Like before
I'm falling for her brilliance

Brilliance

lyric: aLfie vera mella
music: Dream Kitchen

Buhay-Karnabal

by Dream Kitchen
(unreleased/demo, 1999)

Bakit ang buhay ng tao
Lagi na lang ganito
Paikut-ikot
Nakatatakot
Parang trumpo

Minsan nama'y
Akala mo
Isang payaso
Sa likod ng bawat patawa
Nakatago'y lungkot

Tulad rin lang 'yan ng ating samahan
Parang higanteng lobo
Lumilipad papalayo
O kaya'y ferris wheel
Na taas-baba
Nakahihilo
At bigla-biglang pumuputok

Bakit ang buhay ng tao
Lagi na lang ganyan
Para bang cotton candy
Na ubod ng tamis

Minsan naman
Akala mo'y
Mainit na popcorn
Na unti-unting kumukunat
Sa bawat nguya at ngata
Pero sige okey lang

Tulad rin lang 'yan ng ating samahan
Parang higanteng lobo
Lumilipad papalayo
O kaya'y roller coaster
Na bumibilis-bumabagal
At bigla-biglang bumubulusok

(instrumental)

Paikut-ikot
Nakakahilo
Taas-baba
Nakakasuka

Paulit-ulit
Ang kulit-kulit
Parang paslit
Kulit-bulilit

Nakakatakot
Bumubulusok
Bumabagsak
Nakakasindak

Kulit-bulilit
Parang paslit
Ang kulit-kulit
Paulit-ulit

Paikut-ikot
Taas-baba
Bumubulusok
Pailalim

Bata-batuta
Samperang muta
Kulit-bulilit
Ang kulit-kulit

Bata-batibot
Samperang kulangot
Bata-baluga
Samperang luga

Bata-batuta
Samperang muta
Kulit-bulilit
Ang kulit-kulit

Paulit-ulit
Ikut-ikot
Kakatakot
Bubulusok
Babagsak
Taas-baba
Pailalim
Nakakasuka
Umiindayog
Lumilipad
Papalayo...

lyric: aLfie vera mella
music: Dream Kitchen