All The Earth

It had been a long long long time since I last did Quiet Time, and after getting into the swing of things, I found myself lovin’ the Psalms I was reading and pondering over. One of them was Psalm 30, with which, I started a simple repetitive chorus, and then added the beautiful words of Psalm 30 to it.

Love

I was playin’ around with my guitar one evening, and found myself really getting into this bar of chords that I kept repeating.  Before I knew it, I was writing a song, and the basis behind this song is really just expressing how great our God is with His patience, His grace, His mercies, basically how amazing He really is. It is also a chance for me to express my love for him in a song.

At the end of the day, without His love, we wouldn’t have ours to give off to others.

Over and Over Again

I wrote this song after a long absence from the song-writing scene.

This song speaks of that long absence, and the few things that I have learnt from homilies that I was inspired by in recent weeks. One of them that we never really find the time to give thanks. We find ourselves complaining about lives, more than thanking God for what we do have. Something I am definitely guilty of.

It is also about coming back to God after so long. The prodigal child.

Come For Me

I battled a case of fistula in the year 2009/2010 which left me with a life less than perfect. This was an ailment that didn’t threaten my life, but placed a lot of the things I had once taken for granted on hold, or indefinitely dead. Who would think that something I thought was a small matter could blow up to be one of the biggest battles of my life, both physically (in terms of the inconveniences), emotionally (because of the failed surgery), and spiritually.

But God pulled me through because I stood firm to the faith that I was taught by my grandmother and my mother. At the end of the day, I learnt to be stronger in my faith, and I learnt that it will all fall to place, but In His Time.

This song speaks of the battle, and the choice I made during the battle to continue believing. Because really, when we have absolutely nothing left in our hands, faith is all we have to hold on to.

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Soul Invasion

This song was inspired by Father Dominic Savio, Chaplain for the St Thomas More chapel for some time. He reminded me of the need to just stretch my arm out and open them if we want to give to others. It is not just by the situations that we’re being placed in everyday in our lives, but really, it’s our initiative in reaching that really speaks volumes. There is more to life than serving our own needs.

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I Hang On

I still remember sitting in front of my old Compaq laptop in Currie Hall (the college I stayed in for my first year in university), and started penning this song because I had this nagging image of the rosary in my head. It reminded me of my late grandmother who was ever-strong in her faith, and I always remember her holding onto her rosary. This strength she obtains from the Rosary, from the faith, and the grace of God. It is a little reminder of my own journey in life. To always hang onto the faith, the word and the grace of God.

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Peace in the World

I wrote this song round about 1999 as well. At the time, I was really into the songs of Michael Jackson, and songs like “Heal The World”, “We Are The World” really spoke to me at that point in time. I started thinking of the state of the world, and how there was just so much misery, sorrow, hatred going on. This song is not to emphasize this side of the world, but really to bring to people’s attention that whilst we maybe at peace with the people closest to us, the bigger world has issues. Fear is riding the streets of many countries, hunger is present in so many different areas. This song was really written for us to just have a think about the bigger picture. We do need peace. And we need to give this peace off to others.

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I Will See

I wrote this song back in 1999. I tried exploring different chords at first, and then as I started the first two bars of the introduction, the rest just flowed naturally. One of my favourite songs written. It was a time of growing, it was a time where I was slowly becoming mature, and it was a time when I was just getting to know God better and better.

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