"MUSIC JUNKIE"

I love music. I’m literally addicted, I listen to all kinds, and my ipod could very well be my de facto best friend.

Of course, the top of my music consumption food chain remains to be U2, Smashing Pumpkins, Chicane, Radiohead, Snow Patrol, House, Chillout, Kaskade, Pavement, Hum, some classical, inspirational music. (Although I really have to share that my favorite band of the moment is Sigur Ros, this band from Iceland. Their music will take you to aural vistas you’ve never been to.)

I love music so much that I actually write some songs on the side. Very amateurish, and really more of a very personal interest and creative outlet more than anything. For the longest time, these songs just resided in my hard disk, and were listened to by some friends. And well, I was thinking, in this age of the internet, what the heck? Might as well post it on my site.

Anyway, the first songs I wrote were about getting over a breakup around four years ago. That served to be more cathartic than anything, and I’m not really that open to share those songs. Not because I’m still hung up, but really because they’re so downright sad and kahit paano, kahit paano, may hiya naman ako. But I will post some songs I wrote after that period. Bahala na.

http://markruiz.multiply.com/music

1. HOME

written in my head while driving up to la union last 2004. my trip buddies were sleeping and I remember that it was literally around dawn. it’s about a journey that everybody goes through, and finding one’s own personal sanctuary. With lyrics.

2. BREATHING AGAIN

A relatively dark song about picking oneself up after a troubling period. Written 2004, no lyrics.

3. IF I COULD LIVE A THOUSAND LIVES

A song about a love affair with life. Written 2005, no lyrics.

4. OUR LOVE WILL DROWN THE SEA

At that time, written for a girl I haven’t even met yet, a similar theme to john mayer’s ‘love song for no one’. Written 2005, no lyrics.

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HOME

And I wake into a dream
Rays of sunlight piercing trees
And the road it stretches free
All the way to open sea

And I feel the love in you
As the sky is bleeding blue
Silent mirror of the truth
Of the waking morning

My heart
Was awash with tears when I gave you
All these broken dreams that wouldn’t come true
All these tired reveries beneath your feet
And I sing

My heart, my thoughts
My fears, my hopes
My love, my thorns
My songs

And I’ve found home
And I’ve found home

Through the waves and turning tide
In the whispers of the mind
Swimming through this space and time
Of the waking morning

My heart is a flowing stream when I give you
All these new-found dreams
That have come true
These shining memories beneath your feet
And I sing

My heart, my thoughts
My fears, my hopes
My love, my thorns
My songs

I’ve found home
I’ve found home

And now I clearly see
Your love has set me free

I am home
I am home