Grenades & Mines

When red roses turn to bloody blades

In our garden where a war is waged

And you feel that you just can’t complain

You’d like to die

Can you take out all the bullets inside

When I bleed in the foxhole I hide

Shaking while pain overides my pride
The die is cast…I can’t deny

Don’t take my life … but I‘m ready to die
For this flag I fly
Throw..throw down your guns
When all ammo is gone
It’s just you and I

Do you know where the barbed wires end?
Or when these shrapnel wounds would begin to mend?
When the enemy surrounds your gate…
You suffocate

You jump and crawl from all the grenades and mines
Eat meager honesty like a rich man dines
But when the swords slashes you up from inside
You begin to fade…

Don’t take my life … but I‘m ready to die
For this flag I fly
Throw..throw down your guns
When all ammo is gone
It’s just you and I

Did you burn your hands holding shells
Firing back at the enemy’s fence
When your back feels the bayonet’s end
You begin to sigh…but hope won’t die

Don’t take my life … but I‘m ready to die
For this flag I fly
Throw..throw down your guns
When all ammo is gone
It’s just you and I

Gazing Haze

Its five o'clock in the morning and still couldn't sleep
the lights are banging the window
my mind a massacre of sheep

day's memories like residual ghosts repeat
closed eyes can't exorcise
a moments peace my request to them i plead

city silhouette yawns and stretches in a lazy haze
beyond my window lies a new day another step in a journey
another run in my mind's maze

Lingon

Isang munting saglit na silip

Sa labi ng bote ng beer

Sabay lulon sa pangalawang tingin

di alam kung ano ang ibig mong sabihin

Sabay dampot sa leeg ng santo

Hawak na kay lupit ng higpit

Sabay lingon papalayo

Itinatanggi ang pinapayo ng utak ko

Maingat na dampot ng pulutan

At dahandahan pagsawsaw

Sinasabay sa pag-iisip...dinadasal

Na di mo mahalata

Para kasaguta'y di mapilit

Isang hudyat...wagayway ng kamay sa waiter

Isang tikum at manipis na ngiti

Isang lingon di mapatingin

Di alam kung anong ibig sabihin

Imperfect

You can’t tell me how you feel
But motions do reveal
I know there’s something more
My world with red days so surreal
Cannot help but deal
But without you I am lost

Fervently holding on to you
Imperfect but calling out to you
There’s no place...none other

I never ever can believe
The heavens can relieve
An angel for a goblin
But still, like life’s reasons can’t conceal
Like the heart can’t help but feel
Someone like you I found

Fervently holding on to you
Imperfect but calling out to you
There’s no place...none other

Ray Gun

Golden afternoon sun I could recall
Busy street down your porch I could see them all

The TV calls with my favorite channel on
Shadows from your window on your bed they dance upon

Can I stop the clock from ticking away
Hoping to have chains strong enough to pin down the day

To stay forever in your warm embrace
Under your spell…a wonderful daze

Shooting Star

Songs like time machines

Bring you back

Lightyears down your universe

Spinning down the wormholes

Whirling up vortices

Like a wind inside a letterbox

It scatters correspondences

Drenching sentences into blots

That collapse into a supermass of thought

Pulsing and gyrating

And exploding into nothingness

Like songs like time machines

Control

The lights blink fast when you know you’re losing control
Seatbelts like stoplights fade away
Like street maps and road flares
Hazy lights beckon you when you know you’ve lost control

Gray looks like a wonderful color when you know you’re losing control
Twilights never looked so brighter
Midnights never looked so youthful
When dreams tell you that you’re not in control

Rattlesnakes and scorpions smile when you know you’re losing control
Cold becomes colder
As the lights become brighter
Reason won't show when you know you’ve lost control