Silhouettes

Your memories promised not to stay,
but they did it anyway.
Opened up the scars to realize,
what went wrong in the end.

In time you'll learn to say,
that it was better anyway,
to have loved and lost,
than to never had it anyway.

As the sun sets from this dusty room ,
i can see your silhouette.
This night still holds much good.
It's not all that bad.

Permit me to stay awhile.
I wanna wait till the early morn.
To see you laying in sweet surrender,
under shades of grey of the night sky.

Let me be the one who makes it all ok.
If I could make it all go away.
Would you give in to me?
I'll hold you close while we watch the world fade away.

Tragic Death of a Socialite

Kind words are the worst kind.
I put a bullet through this head of mine.
Maybe then you’ll see what it is that you see,
All that is inside of me.

False pretense I’ll fake a suicide
It’s the tragic death of a socialite,
One last chance at martyrdom tonight.
And all I see is black and white.

You were my one and my true,
I can’t just throw that away.
I can’t just keep walking on away,
You meant something to me anyway.

I close my eyes to find one more.
Reasons to keep the faith; to continue believing.
But this world turned cold.
Thorns grow all around and prick my soul.

A lone candle in this storm
The struggle is too great to stay warm
And these gale force winds are just too strong.
I’m all now but gone.

Alas now I’m ready to fall
To save you is for me to simply fall
Its ok, I understand, to do what I must do
But would you understand or would you try to?

Coming Home

More stuff on coming home, a sense of belonging. Guess it was a periodical obsession of mine.

If you had just one chance to make it right,
You'd do it all again, won't you?
From where you were to where you are now,
You'll have to trace your way back home.

The distance from here to there,
There and back again,
You hang on to the thing she said,
And you know everything will be ok.

It doesn't take much to smile back,
Looking back at what has chased you away,
You breathe the breath of freedom,
You don't need to look back.

You barely have enough of her to hang on,
You barely have enough of her to carry on,
And you drag your feet through the sands of time,
Wondering if anything good could have come out of it.

You stretch your hands out to recieve her.
Your tongue is dancing behind your lips for her.
You need her,
You want her.

Jeremiah Abraham Selvaraj
Copyright 2006.

When You Come Home

I finally did get to writing music for this song. One of my later compositions. Before I came back from Singapore.

Verse

Am
Of winding roads and blinding light
F
I’ll write the greatest story,
C G
That this world has ever known, this world has ever known.
Am
You fall back down to hear a sound
F
The city lights have called you around
C G
They’re just fleeting memories, just fleeting memories.

Pre chorus

Em F Am
Now the time has come for one last dance
G
Just take a chance,
Em F
Out there in the streets you run,
G
Just one last time around,

Chorus

C G
If you could take your time
F
To say goodbye
Am G C
Would it be easy if you’re not coming home
G
Would you just stay a while
F
To say goodbye
Am
Coz it is easy when you just come home.

Wake Up and Good Bye

As I burn up entering the atmosphere,
I try to slow down, taking time to ponder.
All these things that have come undone,
All the lies at the tip of my tongue.

There is no purpose in this,
There is no meaning in this.
All the words I had to say,
Together with the thoughts I had, gone away.

Just maybe, I might see,
There’s something there in between.
Then and there I surrender,

It’s over now the worst has gone.
You take away the weeping as I greet the early morn.
And even for a while I won’t let it be,
Nothing will separate you from me.

The Better Part of Me

why not now push away the misery
to the breaking point where love and hate collide
it's not your fault
i'm incapable to love like this

let me clear the air tonight
the city lights are calling to lay down
my guard untill the morning
i'm incapable to love like this

the blinding ligths will guide you now
you left no trail of bread crumbs
but i'm not far behind,
i just fell behind.

you...take the best part of me
and i'm dying here to see
the better part of me
the better part of me

Shout

This piece preceeeds the previous post of "Twas in the time of trouble". Was feeling even more inspired due to the epiphany experienced in the last verse. By the way, it was during the Christmas season of 2006 that crisis did hit me bad. Never to revisit it i told myself. So this is some of the effect or leftovers or products, if you may call it that.

Verse 1
Look around at the world today
Look and all sin and tears
People living from day to day
With no hope and only fear

Pre Chorus
Listen now into the wind
It's carrying a new song of hope
A song of joy and a freedom cry
Can you hear the one voice sing

Chorus
There is hope and it came in a manger
There is life through death on a cross
There is someone who can make things better
And His name is Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God.

Verse 2
Gone are the days of despair and dismay
All of the days that were wasted away
In sin and shame without knowing the name
A name above all names

Jeremiah Abraham
26/12/2006 - 7.42PM

Right Here, Right Now

Verse

And I wait for the rain to stop
Autumn's wind is all around
And then i see your face
Everything is perfect again.

I just want to take you home
I know i can't leave you alone
Coz you just might save my soul
You just might save it

Pre Chorus

Right now we are the only ones here
But we're not alone
Right now there's no time for fear
We're are running out of here.

Chorus

You lead my up through spiral staircases
Holding my hand tight and not flinching a bit.
Every word you wished you told me,
Hanged loose on the tip of your tongue

The New Song

The title was what I gave it when I had just written it. Eventually forgetting I ever wrote it, I never got back to giving it a name proper. This was meant to be a slow number but I've never came around to write the music.

verse 1
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I'm taken away.
The thick midnight air suffocates.
I try to breathe but,
You're taking it away.

Breaking the silence that is,
Passing cars moving slow - fast.
I am able,
To throw it all away but...

chorus
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I'm grabing at you now,
At you and everything you are.
Give me a reason to,
Call home, go home.

verse 2
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Aware, unconscious the desicion we make,
Make up your mind, make up my mind.
This beautiful mess we're in,
Fades away with the setting sun.

All we have is the night.
All we have is tonight.
Take this chance to make right,
The right to be wrong.

bridge
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Now all the pieces don't fit,
But they're all ok.
Now the castle crumbles,
But we'll be ok.


Jeremiah Abraham Selvaraj
copyright 2007.

Twas in the time of trouble

One of the many struggles I had at the time of a crisis that got my faith in God stirred up. But the dust did settle as you may read further. Written quite sometime back when I was in Singapore.

My God why have you forsaken me,
In this time of my need,
When my troubles rain down on me,
Soaking me from head to feet.

I have travelled the road less taken,
I have walked the narrow path,
Trying to hear Your voice,
But I listen into the wind in vain.

My God, my God why have you forsaken me.

And then after...

Be quiet, be still.
Take heart and heed.

I am your God, your Father in heaven,
I am the same, yesterday, today and forever,
I am the air that is in your lungs,
I am the words in this song.
I have never let go of you My child.

Jeremiah Abraham
26/12/2006

Herald Tomorrow

A modest attempt at song writting. Meant to be post Nirvana mix with Foo Fighters kinda grunge.

Verse

I'm your last hope
I'm your last chance
I'm the last redemption
Before the never ending road to the top

So thread carefully
Coz there's a beast that lays inside
Laying in sleep it waits
For you to fall over

Bridge

Coz the only way from the top
Is all the way down

Choruse

No it will not stop
The rot of the land
Consuming from the inside
Till the house of cards comes tumbling down

In The End

I've given all I have,
Given into her to many times,
I'm at the end of the words,
At the end of my day.

There's really no way to reach her,
There's really no way to see her,
But I won't let it go,
If I have to find my way home.

I'm not really gone,
Gone today but not always too soon,
This honesty of mine is not your friend,
This honesty of mine is not your foe.

She brings clarity to mind.
And I rest in the shadows of my doubts.

Her Conspiracy

I’ve come to terms with the conspiracy of love
The wave of sweet surrender and its sublime spell
Weightless in the night I lie and wait
The black sky calls me out to dance in its wake.

These secrets I’ve kept for so long
Like the words of an old song
Dancing on the tip of my tongue
Waiting for the right moment to come.

I scream in silence in to space
These words remain as unheard
Like a pagan’s ode to his Goddess
These words return void back to earth

I hear the words of long goodbyes
I hear the stillness of the early morn
I still hear your whispers in my ear
I hold those words you say so dear

Alas when I find that nothing is permanent
The fleeting thoughts of love unreturned
Remorse for trying to conquer the great unknown
As if I had a choice to hear your voice

Introduction to Nothing

Misplaced writtings i've collected over the years reflecting my mind state at a single point in time. Most of it were reflections of experiences that have shaped me all throughout this times. This is my space, this is my mind's outlet. It may seem to be unpoectic or unartistic at times but the inspiration was profound enough to get me to pen the thoughts in my head.