Girl In Park
Fronted by singer/songwriter/guitarist Jaja Manuel, Girl In Park is a Philippines-based alternative rock band with dreamy, melancholy vocals and music that captures both the turbulence and softness of human emotions. Girl In Park is signed to the U.S. label Know-It-All Records at http://www.knowitallrecords.com
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Thursday, November 10, 2005
NEVERENDER
When you've gone about things all wrong,
Bury them here, with a lifetime you would never regret
in savoring sleep, what do you mean i toss and turn everywhere?
i'll miss you when you're gone
with pretending that you weren't the world to me
with that you'd call me a liar and in making mistakes
you'll rest incomplete...
The hand reads seven-thirty
and your night begins to sink in the short but faster fall
anxious but calm retort to a mirror that frames your face
baring the finest swell
And the day begins to break,
like the tears that run across your cheek
stand straight and imagine you then
in things and the way they could have been
when the thoughts they race across your chin
here in the neverend
(before you walk home)
when he's found figuring, will he be home again?
(signal loss and stereo)
with wide open windows will she be waiting for
(the sounds surround the overpass)
with severed arm placement when the day's DARK, old and dead
(a dead man against you)
we'll write her a letter with long time passing by
In graver mistakes (i'll be home)
dear mom and dad, i'll write you in this letter that states (i'll be moving on)
when the new day's begun, (new day's begun)
forget your son when he's out on his own
point your gun in another direction
now that you've cried yourself to sleep
point your gun in another direction
now that you've cried yourself to sleep
here and there
after the fire
after the fire
i'll be home...
~DARKEST~
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
SUNSET, OYSTER COVE
I know better than to lie down
In sunshine late afternoon
To drowse and wake at twilight with torturing midges
When those who know me so well
They could find me on any shore on earth
Take for the breath the nightwind’s: Exile, exile.
To all, to lovers, to friends
Secure beyond falling out of love,
Time brings at the last time on earth together.
Let memory lie like sunlight
On this desolation of weeds.
You are raked with pain, but alive, and paintings stand
Round the cave of your room; in the shadow
Of death, your death, they are binding
Your life to inviolate space.
For what do we grieve
If death is only an image
In the mirror of time’s abyss,
The prior darkness when earth did not contain us?
How long, how late we would talk
Of death, love, art, the enchanting
Confusion of mortal questions. We could have talked
For a thousand years, and changed
Our minds a thousand times,
Like Goethe changing “For all must melt away
To nothing,” after his friends
Had it set in golden letters
For a scientific assembly.
I fear those dreams
When those I loved, now dead,
Are speaking to those who died
In earlier times; they did not meet on earth
But smile, and know. They bid me:
Restore, repair, remember.
Be with me here as you were, in pain but smiling,
Here where the dying race
Posed stiffly" as grim dolls
For their last likeness, history closing around them.
As sunset paints neglected
Damson and lively thistle,
And the tide returns to send the semaphore crabs
Each to his burrow, flaunting
A pugilistic nipper,
Affirm, “No being can dissolve to nothing.”
R.I.P
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