the Soul and the inner mind

songs and poetry and anything else that doesn't fit anywhere

Friday, February 23, 2007


walked home in the rain last night
after my loved one had gone.
Put on my hood so i wouldn't get my head wet
just the splash of the rain on my face
and the splosh on the leg of my jeans.
Never knew my shoes were that colour wet. It was a darker brown than usual,
they looked like bowler shoes rather than leather Replays.
Made me wonder how things so normal could look so wonderful the next moment.
Saw two girls walking uncovered in the rain
next to the dry of the path under the MRT track.
They were dancing in rain puddles, laughing and singing, dancing in rain puddles.
Wish i felt young enough to dance in rain puddles.
Instead i hide in the shadow of my hood,
under the partial shade of my concrete umbrella.
I am home. The walk is over.
But the memory of laughing in the rain seems so distantly recent.

Sunday, May 28, 2006

Why For You

Music: Anna Yoong
Lyrics: Shane Pereira


I made a stupid mistake today
Falling for you so hard this way
I've given my sanity for an angel
Within my grasp so far away

refrain one:
Drowning in this feeling why
I just don't want to let you go
I just want you to notice
I just wanted let you know.
I just want you to notice
I just wanted let you know

I can't breathe without you
why don't i see that I can't see
My self is dimming my soul for you
Pleading for love to set me free

refrain two:
You just want to break me down.
That smile so cold yet so warm, so set.
I'm getting so sick of this game
But my heart It's not done with me yet.

bridge:
why can't you look past the lies and see me
for who i am
you turn your face away and then you say...

final refrain:
You just want to break me down.
That smile so cold yet so warm, so set.
I'm getting so sick of this game
But my heart It's not done with me yet.

I'm getting so sick of this game
But my heart it's not done with me yet

Thursday, September 16, 2004

for Andrea

i love you
like the rain that plays that soothing tune
Jamie Cullum's jazzy croon
sitting outside my window pane

skin to skin
our souls playing that tender symphony
lying there close to me
a peaceful calm of uniting spirits

Heart to heart
you complete me like noone else ever could
maybe that's all i ever
wished for and all i ever should

i love you, andrea
noone makes me feel the way you do
once it was a dream to imagine
but now it's a dream come true

Monday, April 19, 2004

the spiral revisted

things have spun out of control
and it's out of my hands.
What remains is the heart
that cannot belong to me...

and to be free is to release
my bleeding heart from my hands
and give it up for another,
another who will understand.

the pain is too familiar
but there i would rather be
not broken and forgotten,
but lost and forever empty.

Friday, April 16, 2004

spiral

you said you didn't want
to make things complicated
just simply moulding my palm
with your fingertips

i feel you move within
my lost embrace
here, quiet and secure
with neither at all sure
of the spiral in this place

It was just enough
perhaps one more kiss
to seal love and hate
and ambiguity

the long night again
awake in uncertainty
of things bittersweet
and memories on edge

perhaps once more,
we can be just perfect
never saying, never speaking
just simply spiralling out of control.

here with you
and here with me
and the empty fullness in my heart.

Saturday, February 07, 2004

black curtain

under the blanket of stars
where the black curtains
melt into the sea
and the soft grain sand
caress the rippled lights
as they roll onto shore

my feet lay before me
heels touched with sand
the humble pair rest
on the edge of despair

here at the start of creation
lay a calm breeze fill
that empty space between us
the empty swirls of gentle winds
draw us together but
keep us apart

in the distance glowing lights
play upon the dark night sea
a mirror of lights and moon
the glow of a thousand fireflies
in the whirr of time

and still we are apart,
alone and full of fear.
and here we sit
not there, not here
at the beginning of creation.

Sunday, February 01, 2004

time

brokenness
is all i can offer you
bitterness
is all the praise from my lips
it's times like this i ask of you
only

melancholy
is the cloak i wear
infinte sadness
circles of halo upon my head
On days like this i ask of you
only

You Lord can fill me so full of Grace
my eyes are clear with tears
outpoured curse with your warm embrace
lift me from this lonely place
and mend my hypocricy

stubbornness
to refuse the truth
disbelief
in Your most infinite wisdom
its times like this i turn my back
only

its too late

this is the time to praise him
with all of my heart
this is the time to worship
with all of my strength


loving hearts
become my worship
joyful love
is the music of my prayer
at the hour of death i now know
only

You Lord can fill me so full of Grace
my eyes are clear with tears
outpoured curse with your warm embrace
lift me from this desperate place
and and make me whole again.