Winded

take from me that hollow depth
and thrust me into an empty void
wish i knew where i was standing
sometimes life ain't got a sense

take from me that endless toil
so my song can stretch the mindless mile
the notes dancing nimbly their melancholic grace
before time shadowed their finale

take from me that silent noise
whispered words aged, worn and torn
puny against a prodigious chant
voicing freedom the way history does

take from me that shattered dream
so that hopes lost can be found
in places where shards first gathered
against the next battled realm.

West Side Story

Tonight song

Tonight, tonight,
Won't be just any night,
Tonight there will be no morning star.
Tonight, tonight, I'll see my love tonight.
And for us, stars will stop where they are.
Today
The minutes seem like hours,
The hours go so slowly,
And still the sky is light . . .
Oh moon, grow bright,
And make this endless day endless night!

abirdinthecity

a lot of ppl have asked me why abirdinthecity for my blog title. let me just tell you my story. on my trip to shanghai, i usually saw sparrows in flocks, but one day, i saw this sparrow alone jumping about and i thought it kind of reflected how humans behaved as well. then back in singapore on my way to school one day, i saw a bird jumping in the fields alone again. so i thought the city makes us lonely people. sort of. not literally. but urbanisation has kind of segregated humanity from mother earth in its primitive form. whatever you can interpret that as, but i just feel that human kind has at some point detached themselves from nature with all this development and big cities. so in a way, we are really all lonely people. at heart and at soul maybe. i dunno, but many feel empty when it comes to the inside and sometimes i wonder if it's not due to the cold walls of solitude that the strangers we meet along the way have set up around themselves. we in some ways live in circles of people, clustered and dependent on each other, but maybe it's reflective that we are lone birds hopping on in the fields as well in life. especially that in the cities. yeah.