A simple lie is all it took
I never gave a second look
The shit you used to bait your hook
I should have closed that goddamned book
Win or lose it doesn't matter at all
Trusting you was my biggest downfall (chorus)
I should have seen it in your eyes
It should have come as no surprise
The way your mouth spewed out those lies
The way your words cut me like knives
Win or lose it doesn't matter at all
Trusting you was my biggest downfall
No one seems to give a shit after all
Knowing you was my biggest downfall
And where did that get you now my friend?
Cast out and back out in the rain again
Win or lose it never mattered at all
Trusting you was my biggest downfall
No one ever gave a shit after all
Knowing you was my biggest downfall
12-13-22
taglamig
(former reedited title: taglamig,
at siya lang kaya ang dahilan?)
nung una pa lang,
ako'y namangha na
sa iyong ginagawa
ako rin ay lubusang
natutuwa sa matimyas
na hitsura ng iyong mukha
tila isa kang dalagang
pumukaw sa aking damdamin
iyong wangis parati
ang nasasalamin
bagkus, malayo ang ating agwat
bakit tila ako'y hindi papa-awat?
dahil kaya'y nasa lugar ka
na isa sa pinakagusto kong
puntahan at tirahan?
o baka naman itong
mismong lugar ko na tinitirahan
ay wala namang laman?
h'wag sana magpapahalata
ang langit sa aking kisame,
ang masulyapan ka'y
para itong asul sa taas,
kaniyang pisngi
ngayong Taglamig na
sa ating mga bayan o kanayunan,
kakaiba talaga ang aking
nararamdaman
sapagkat nasaan ka man,
sa trabaho mo o sa kaniyang
piling man,
marahil wala ng magagawa
ang tulad ko kundi
ang ipagdasal ang iyong
tanging kaligayahan.
Aking Kaagapay
Tila siya ang babaeng parang
hangin para sa aking hininga
Dagliang ito ay mahirap makita
Magiging kasundo sa
lahat ng bagay,
para bang damit
na bumabagay
Puwede bang
isipin na si babae ay
parang isang paboritong
kanta?
Puwede rin ba na si babae ay
maging parang
mga titik sa
librong binabasa?
Kung puwede lang sana..
na ganun nga
at makakasundo
sa maraming bagay—
Matatawag si babae na
aking kaagapay—
tanging ang puso ay magsumamo
palagi raw matamis
ang "oo";
marami-rami
ang nagsasabing
kakilala ko
biglang tingin,
biglang liwanag—
mga awitin nating
nababanaag!
—kumusta ka
lahing bituin?
kay tanyag mong
piliin—
sana lang—sa
hapon na ito,
tanging ang puso
ay magsumamo
Lies
Not eyes
Are on you
You need to demonstrate
Worth to those who hate
Falsehoods and lies
Truth in disguise
Whispers comprise
A doubt in my heart
Blinding my eyes
Sorrow and sighs
Darkness will rise
My world falls apart
To live is to lie
To lie is to fall
To fall from grace
Is the greatest life of all
I'm walking by a place,
A place that has lost its reason to walk by.
Now I look at it with a somber face and a heavy heart.
I do recall the times i was here,
the joy and cause I had to visit here.
But its not those reasons that make me low.
Not the nostolgiac talks or even the cause of the past that weighs on my soul.
It is the joy of then, and lack of it now that brings me low.
The smiles that were, the smiles that aren't and smiles that could have been
The smiles that could have been.
Now instead I walk falsely,
to make light of what weighs heavy.
To make light of what weighs heavy.
I hold my head a little higher, stand a little straighter,
work a little harder; work a little too hard.
Joke a little more, laugh a little louder and smile,
Smile a little too much.
To make light of what weighs heavy at the place I'm walking by.