A long, long time ago, I had my first trip to an island paradise known as boracay. I went there with my mom to go after my brother. Boracay was not as commercialized then as it is now. It was a sudden trip and I had to pack hurriedly. And so I bought a couple of shorts, t-shirts, 2 tapes and my walkman… Yup, it was still walkman then.. Come to think of it, I went through the whole music player types - from the walkman to the discman, then the i-pod and now the i-touch.. hmm.. but I digress - … anyway, we were there in bora for 3 days and 4 nights and up to now, I could still remember how peaceful that time was.. all I did was listen to the 2 tapes that I bought ( a james ingram and david foster tape) over and over again.. slept under the coconut tree, eat and sleep again.. though, I’ve been back to bora several times since then.. that first trip was really magical for me… and so, I’m writing down the lyrics of the 2 songs that I played over and over again.. until now, whenever I hear these two songs, I remember bora…. And how I wish, I could go back there again… soon…
There’s No Easy Way – James Ingram
I wasn’t heart-broken at that time, but somehow, the song spoke to me and my only wish is that if I do get my heart broken, I’d have the same style and pride that this girl has…
I held her close to me
Coz I know she breaks so easily
And then I told her
Though I knew no matter how I tried to console her
Then she’d do the best she could
But there are times the best is no damn good
And no matter how you try to be kind
There’s always still a part of you you’ll leave behind
When they fall apart
There’s no easy way to break somebody’s heart.
I lied and told her she’ll be fine
Though we both knew it was just a lie
I had to do it
Coz I had said anything to help me get through it.
And she reached out for my hand
And her simple touch was more than I could stand
And I had to turn away coz I knew
All the hurt that she was feeling, I was feeling too
When they fall apart
There’s no easy way to break somebody’s heart.
She could’ve gotten angry
And made me feel like a guilty child
But I realized that never was her style
I wanted her to hurt me
And not treat me like a friend
I wanted her to say “there’d be someday
I’d come crawling on my knees to ask her back again”
But she acted like a lady till the end
Oh, what a lady!
I thought that she’d break down
But she smiled at me and never made a sound
And I guess she understood in her way
Coz her silence told me everything she could not say
When they fall apart
There’s no easy way to break
There’s just no easy way
There’s no easy way to break somebody’s heart
Anything for Love
Lyrics by Gordon Lightfoot / Music by David Foster
this one, I couldn’t really point out why I soo love the song, but I just do.. against reason and logic, I love this song… at that time, I wondered.. will I really do anything for love?.. but now, several years older and wiser.. I guess, at some point in our life.. we’d really do anything for love….
In my life
In my time and in each line I've ever sung and in my life
Was it my imagination or are you still the one
Who lingers on
I'd anything for you, you'd do anything for me
We'd do anything for love
Oh you'd use any means and I would try any scheme for love
We'd do anything for love
Once or twice, in my loneliness I watched the world go by
There was I, one too many miles beyond where you might say
Some luck was due, after all
We could have touched the sky, you had no alibi because
We'd do anything for love
Oh I would try any means, to have you in all my dreams because
You'd do anything for love
Not long ago as I remember
Once upon a dark and windy day
When love looked like a dying ember
Before you came to call
The beauty of it all I thought I'd lost and yet
Cause in my life, here in my mind in it now shines
A guiding light, never again will I lose my way
Oh I would not tell a lie and you had no alibi because
We'd do anything for love
Oh you'd use any means and I would try any scheme for love
Simply anything for love
Oh I would do anything, just about anything because
We'd do anything for love, anything for love
