Paolo Nutini – Last Request

Slow down, Lie down,
Remember it’s just you and me.
Don’t sell out, bow out,
Remember how this used to be.

Baby let’s get closer tonight
Grant my last request,
And just let me hold you.
Don’t shrug your shoulders,
Lay down beside me.
Sure I can accept that we’re going nowhere,
But one last time let’s go there,
Lay down beside me

Jason Mraz – You and I Both

Cause you and I both loved
What you and I spoke of
And others just dream of
And if you could see me now
Well I’m almost finally out of
I’m finally out of
Finally
Well I’m almost finally, finally
Well I’m free, oh, I’m free

And it’s okay if you have go away
Oh just remember the telephone works both ways
And if I never ever hear them ring
If nothing else I’ll think the bells inside
Have finally found you someone else and that’s okay
Cause I’ll remember everything you sang

Mandalay – Like Her

I’m not very sure why this airy song reminded me of falling in love. I came across it while watching the opening sequence of a CSI episode, Playing with Fire. I was never really appreciative of the trip hop genre, but I just had to get the CD after hearing this song. Perhaps its the beats that so reminded me of the type of pounding heart beat when you first get when you like someone. It’s my sincere hope that I’ll never get to a point whereby I’m so jaded to forget this feeling in the future ;D

I like it. One of the few Chinese/Cantonese songs I do like in recent years.

陳奕迅 沙龍

填詞：黃偉文
作曲：陳奕迅

對焦 她的愛 對慢了 愛人會失去可愛
記低 這感慨 世事變 有沒有將你淹蓋

只一格 經典的偶遇已 不再 儘量框住目前大概

留住 溫度 速度 溫柔和憤怒 凝住 今日 怎樣 好
捉緊 生命濃度 坦白流露 感情和態度
留下浮光 掠影飛舞

每張 都罕有 拍下過 記住過 好過擁有 光圈愛漫遊
眼睛等色誘 有人性 鏡頭裡總有豐收

雖則那 即影即有售罄 菲林都已拆走 但是衝動用完 又再有

留住 溫度 速度 溫柔和憤怒 凝住 今日 怎樣 好
捉緊 生命濃度 坦白流露 感情和態度
停下時光 靜止衰老

登高峯一秒 得獎一秒 再破紀錄的一秒
港灣晚燈 山頂破曉 摘下懷念 記住美妙
升職那刻 新婚那朝 成為父母的一秒
要拍照的事 可不少

音樂 話劇 詩詞和舞蹈 揉合 生命 千樣好 攝入相簿
絢爛如電 虛幻如霧 哀愁和仰慕
遊樂人間 活得好 談何容易
拍着照片 一路同步 坦白流露 感情和態度
其實 人生並非虛耗
何來塵埃飛舞

I used to have a mantra – to never reminisce the past, There was a period of time when I made myself embrace the latest, most contemporary music. I didn’t want to grow old to be one of those folks who always listen to oldies radio. But eventually I realised the (cliche ) good music, like fashion, never fades with time, and like a good book, great lyrics gives new meaning as we revisit them when we grow older, viewing them with new perspectives and learned temperaments. It is sometimes amusing, embarrassing and humbling to remember the songs that made a difference in the earlier stages of my life. To know that mundane or seemingly irrelevant issues could have such a galvanising effect on a younger me ;P. I may never experience the same pain or joy as I did when these songs were on repeat mode in my *cough* MP3 CD Player back in those days, but sometimes its amazing to learn how much more resilient I’ve grown from those angst-filled teenage years. Though sometimes, I wonder why I let myself wind up in a similar situation again.



This was probably my favourite song in 1997. I’m not sure if its true for all songs, but the songs I was exposed to then had lyrics that were more literal than today. I fell in love with the riffs and melody and the singer’s apparent angst. As an impressionable young girl I thought so by dying, the poor girl who had the abortion took the valium has immortalised her position in the guy’s heart, I loved the song so much I dated a guy with the CD in my teens. When I was in my freshmen year I was in a bad relationship and for the first time in my life, away from the comforts of home, I thought of hurting myself to remind him of the hurt he has caused me time and again. But logic triumphed. Or, quoting MGMT, love must be forgotten, life can always start up anew. Still, the song reminded me of the value of life and living for yourself and no one else, because, shit happens to relationships, and yes we all chose to fall in love in the first place, it is pointless to blame each other when things fall apart.

The Verve Pipe – The Freshmen

When I was young and knew everything
And she a punk who rarely ever took advice
Now I’m guilt stricken,
Sobbing with my head on the floor
Stop a baby’s breath and a shoe full of rice

I cant be held responsible
Cause she was touching her face
I wont be held responsible
She fell in love in the first place

For the life of me I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise and
We’d never compromise
For the life of me cannot believe
We’d ever die for these sins
We were merely freshman

My best friend took a weeks
Vacation to forget her
His girl took a week’s worth of
Valium and slept
Now he’s guilt stricken sobbing with his
Head on the floor
Thinks about her now and how he never really
Wept he says

We’ve tried to wash our hands of all of this
We never talk of our lacking relationships
And how were guilt stricken sobbing with our
Heads on the floor
We fell through the ice when we tried not to
Slip, we’d say