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Mind Games
John Lennon

We’re playing those mind games together,
Pushing barriers, planting seeds,
Playing the mind guerilla,
Chanting the Mantra peace on earth,
We all been playing mind games forever,
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil.
Doing the mind guerilla,
Some call it the search for the grail,
Love is the answer and you know that for sure,
Love is flower you got to let it, you got to let it grow,
So keep on playing those mind games together,
Faith in the future outta the now,
You just can’t beat on those mind guerillas,
Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind,
Yeah we’re playing those mind games forever,
Projecting our images in space and in time,
Yes is the answer and you know that for sure,
Yes is the surrender you got to let it, you got to let it go,
So keep on playing those mind games together,
Doing the ritual dance inn the sun,
Millions of mind guerrillas,
Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel,
Keep on playing those mind games forever,
Raising the spirit of peace and love, not war,
(I want you to make love, not war, I know you’ve heard it before)

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I just watched the film Across the Universe and I don’t know how I felt afterwards. I can’t really express my thoughts after watching the movie cause I just felt all numb. I couldn’t understand the concept of the whole flick. Of course it’s a bunch of stories all rolled into one; however, I don’t know which one to focus more. If it would be the songs played, or the plot of the story.

Don’t mind me, i’m slow.

I’m just liking the fact of being immersed temporarily into this Beatle-mania frenzy and I like the notion that I’m able to recognize 85% of the songs played. Like most people, I’m a fan of this group of talented musicians and composers. They are after all, THE Beatles.

Strangely enough, the song that I posted here wasn’t played in the movie.

I never really liked John Mayer and his music, until my brother downloaded his Continuum album. So we’re a bit outdated with music. I just realized that this album has been released since 2006 and what date is today? OLD.

It’s something about the way he expresses his thoughts that would match the tone of my life. Of course, that’s what songs are for, to be a part of a memory that you cherish or loathe. I just feel that I’m somewhere between being both. Haha, it rhymed again.

Anyway, I’m currently fixated with two tracks most of the time, aside form “In Repair”, I’m finding the song “Vultures” entertaining and light. It just makes you want to… chill. A laidback kind that’s easy and pleasant to the ears but still profound in a John Mayer way; definitely what I need to keep myself sane for now.

Too many shadows in my room
Too many hours in this midnight
Too many corners in my mind
So much to do to set my heart right
Oh it’s taking so long I could be wrong, I could be ready
Oh but if i take my heart’s advice
I should assume it’s still unsteady
I am in repair, I am in repair

Stood on the corner for a while
To wait for the wind to blow down on me
Hoping it takes with it my old ways
And brings some brand new luck upon me
Oh it’s taking so long I could be wrong, I could be ready
Oh but if i take my heart’s advice
I should assume it’s still unsteady
I am in repair, I am in repair

And now i’m walking in the park
All of the birds they dance below me
Maybe when things turn green again
It will be good to say you know me

Oh it’s taking so long I could be wrong, I could be ready
Oh but if I take my heart’s advice
I should assume it’s still unsteady
Oh i’m never really ready, yeah, oh, I’m never really ready
I’m in repair, i’m not together but i’m getting there
I’m in repair, i’m not together but i’m getting there
I’m in repair, i’m not together but i’m getting there
I’m in repair, i’m not together but i’m getting there
I’m in repair, i’m not together but i’m getting there
I’m in repair, i’m not together but i’m getting there
— I don’t know if I’m still in an ‘In Repair’ state, cause it’s really broken hard.

Cannonball
Damien Rice

Still a little bit of your taste in my mouth
Still a little bit of you laced with my doubt
Still a little hard to say what’s going on

Still a little bit of your ghost, your weakness
Still a little bit of your face i haven’t kissed
You step a little closer each day
That i can’t say what’s going on

Stones taught me to fly
Love taught me to lie
Life taught me to die
So it’s not hard to fall
When you float like a cannonball

Still a little bit of your song in my ear
Still a little bit of your words i long to hear
You step a little closer to me
So close that i can’t see what’s going on

Stones taught me to fly
Love taught me to lie
Life taught me to die
So it’s not hard to fall
When you float like a cannon-

Stones taught me to fly
Love taught me to cry
So come on courage
Teach me to be shy
’cause it’s not hard to fall
And i don’t want to scare her
It’s not hard to fall
And i don’t wanna lose
It’s not hard to grow

When you know that you just don’t know

–I heard this song 3 years ago, still it gives that gloomy effect of making me feel lonely after finishing it. But I can’t seem to stop liking it. sheesh

This song, something about it that makes everything sad. Maybe it’s the tone, but I can’t deny the lyrics is good.

The dawn is breaking
A light shining through
You’re barely waking
And I’m tangled up in you
Yeah

I’m open, you’re closed
Where I follow, you’ll go
I worry I won’t see your face
Light up again

Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme
Out of the doubt that fills my mind
I somehow find
You and I collide

I’m quiet you know
You make a first impression
I’ve found I’m scared to know I’m always on your mind

Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the stars refuse to shine
Out of the back you fall in time
I somehow find
You and I collide

Don’t stop here
I lost my place
I’m close behind

Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme
Out of the doubt that fills your mind
You finally find
You and I collide

You finally find
You and I collide
You finally find
You and I collide

Jack Johnson - They Do They Don’t

Tied down against the tracks
Screaming in silent black and white
Why’d you trust us we are such villains
We would tell ourselves anything
we want to hear if we are willing
To listen is to learn
Then too much is what we deserve

And how come when we say that we do
We don’t
Pray to anybody you want
We won’t

But if we’re the ones to blame then the fruit
Shouldn’t taste so good we were used
Used to thinking we got nothing to lose
We’re losing everything but the truth
Is walking straight into a roadblock ending left here bending
Your point of view was chosen by the serpent’s ruse

With all its do’s and don’ts
The future is an empty promise
Unconcerned and so tired of waiting
We could sell it wooden horses
full of nightmares and when they open
This all might recompose
There’s no going back to the good old days
it’s just a phase bring in some new life
Archaism is a dusty road leading us back to nowhere

But if we’re the ones to blame then the fruit
Shouldn’t taste so good we were used
Used to thinking we got nothing to lose
We’re losing everything but the truth
Is walking straight into a roadblock ending left here bending
Your point of view was chosen by the serpent’s ruse

How come when we say we do
We don’t
How come when we say we will
We won’t

—–

Jack Johnson’s tracks are just deep but still chillin’

As I was browsing through some files on my our hard drive, I was playing some new songs on Dan’s playlist. I chanced upon an album that had a collection of songs by different artists in the UK (I believe). There’s this song called JCB by Nizlopi that I found so simple yet so profound. It talks about a the singer’s (Luke) troubles with dyslexia at school and his escape to accompany his dad at work. It reminds me of the uncomplicated life when I was still a kid and some adventures with my pop together with my brothers.

We actually had our own version back in my hometown in Davao. Only my pop used a 10-wheeler truck to drive us one Sunday evening as we were going to church. We had quite a stare from churchgoers who were there after participating in the Mass ceremony. I only realized how awkward it would’ve been if we’d have done it again; but because of our innocent eyes, it didn’t really matter as it looked so cool riding a big truck compared to some 4-wheeled cars around us.

More information here.

Play the song

Nizlopi - JCB