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Paalam

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Paalam
Paalam
Paalam
Paalam
Sa ating nakaraan
(Paalam) Sa mga pinagsisihan
(Paalam) Sa aking nadarama
(Paalam) Kaya ko na ng wala ka
Sa naging pagmamahalan
(Paalam) Sa mga pangakong naiwanan
(Paalam) Wala na ‘kong pagsisisihan
At sa wakas ay kakalimutan
At kahit ‘di nagpaalam
‘Di bale na kung nasaktan
Ika’y naging sapat
Kahit tinapon ang lahat
Paalam

I regretted nothing. I’ve flipped everything over in my head and I would still have done the same, whatever the situation would have been. I’ve given whatever I could and I would have done the same thing again. Maybe with a little more restraint and loved myself more?

But there are things that are out of my hands, curve balls to topple me down. That’s what happened.

I pray for all the strength I would need to face this coming year. I don’t think I can take any more pain.

Spotify to save the day

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The PHP 129 I spend every month for Spotify is well worth it compared to the subscription I pay for iFlix (the person who used to watch it is gone) and Viu (haven’t had time) since I use Spotify everyday. Every single day.

Especially now.

It gives me the ability to create a playlist instead of burning cd compilations of all the heartbreak songs I can get my hands on. Or mixed tapes, to be really so ’90s about it.

Here’s the playlist I am creating for this extraordinary time. A mix of really old school songs with new ones.

A photo to go with the songs in my Spotify playlist. Eastridge, Binangonan, Rizal. Photo by callmecreation.com

Then a friend sent me this podcast of an advice column published by the The Boston Globe, which I had been listening to the entire night. Really educational and healing as well.

Here’s a show for you… S1E1: Getting Under to Get Over episode of Love Letters https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ho8z2KnlCjS3nbvpcLQIk?si=e2BQyQzFTOKsJnul2eA4lA

Going against the grain

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People might crucify me if I tell them I prefer Kashmir over Stairway to Heaven. But this live performance of Kashmir is proof that this song is on a different plane. John Bonham is very wicked here.

This next video explains why Bonham is one of the best drummers of all time. Complicated syncopated playing here but gels well with the rest of the band.

Whenever I’m upset, I go to my original music genre. To feel alive.

For all the things I lost

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I struggle to stand up alone against the big wide sky. Among the grasses that are threatening to engulf me. How to go on?

So I lay a dozen roses for the lover that I lost
I stand by all my choices even though I paid the cost
Oh, all those nights, the lows and highs
I share them all with you
So I lay a dozen roses, I lay them there
I lay them there for you

Kapit

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Kaya hihigpitan ko ang yakap sa’yo
Alam ko na hindi ‘to magtatagal
Sana ako’y maalala mo na ganito

Hihigpitan ko ang kapit sa mga kamay ng oras
Nang ‘di na maiwan pa
Nais ko lang ang masilip ang nakaraan


(That’s why I will tighten our embrace
Because I know this won’t last
I hope that you will remember me this way)

(I will tighten my hold on the hands of time
So that I will not be left behind
I only want to peek into the past)

Parallel Universe

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This pandemic has taken everything from me.

Maybe in another lifetime, in another parallel universe, we could be…we could be…

I’m waiting there.

In a parallel universe
Maybe you’d be my first
I could be your only one
Oh, this universe is a curse
Where’s timing so cruel to us
I don’t know how to be alright

Don’t want to live in a world where you are not mine