a colored spectrum

1984

my many heroes hail from the 70's - 90's. bands that made it a global hit in 1984.
exalted to the highest accomplishments in the music industry.
they were never forgotten. their music has always been remixed by various DJs.
every Wed and Fri, they're spun at Zouk. Mambo Nights and Dr. Mix @ Zouk KL.

yepz, retro hits! Alphaville, Belinda Carlise, Bananarama, Depeche Mode, Bon Jovi etc...
personalities etched into my memory, their songs played out in me, like a perfect melody.
electronica, keyboards, synthesized rhythms, floor-moving beats.
i've always appreciated German and Scandinavian alternative to the mainstream genres.

songs that sung of my aspirations and disappointments.
all in pure cynicism and rage. like cups filled with fury... flamed by the combustion of oxygen in galsoline. songs that comforted me, songs that made me dance in the alien moonlight.

Alphaville took the world by storm in 1984 with their debut album containing hits like Big In Japan, Forever Young and Sounds Like A Melody. in Dec 1986, they released Jerusalem.

FOREVER YOUNG
lyrics: Gold/music: Gold-Lloyd-Mertens

let's dance in style, lets dance for a while
heaven can wait we're only watching the skies
hoping for the best but expecting the worst
are you going to drop the bomb or not?
let us die young or let us live forever
we don't have the power but we never say never
sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip
the music's for the sad men
can you imagine when this race is won
turn our golden faces into the sun
praising our leaders we're getting in tune
the music's played by the madmen
forever young, i want to be forever young
do you really want to live forever, forever and ever
some are like water, some are like the heat
some are a melody and some are the beat
sooner or later they all will be gone
why don't they stay young
it's so hard to get old without a cause
i don't want to perish like a fading horse
youth is like diamonds in the sun and dimonds are forever
so many adventures couldn't happen today
so many songs we forgot to play
so many dreams are swinging out of the blue
we let them come true

isn't it so sad but yet self-revelation strikes the chord of truth?
we've wasted my time with big illusions... about various countries, grandeur future, graduation...
talking to the walls but Jericho will never fall...
we've sold our trumpets long ago, exchanging all the best we had into atomic masterplans.
we read the books, we had our chance. Agent Orange scars Vietnam. Landmines in Cambodia.
politicians make me sigh, democracy is just a lie!
as long as we are rich enough each government will do for us.

the world is a cruel place. led by various politcians who engage in proxy wars.
fought on other land. all these nukes they own, for fossil fuel they raid Iraq.
MNCs and giant corporations are nothing, but a large industrialized economy, exploiting the Earth.
Ruwanda, Somalia and Ethiopia... who ever wondered where they were in this new world.
Human has became worshippers of Lucifer, each for his own.
churches how true they claim themselves to be are just plain blasphemy.
words like violence, pierce my silence. comes crashing in to my little world.
terrorism, the new catchphrase, for everything that represent threat to the US of A.

i am a angst filled youth. seeking to express my ambitious fears,
in the world that no one wants to hear.
let this island sink like Altantic.
the Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit don't deserve our votes.
can we be even considered a democratic republic? or a politcally closed society?
only Plato sees us in his dreams. Aristotle mocks at the progress of the world.
my brain is burnt, lay me in chains. i'm on my knees but Jesus doesn't hear my pleas.
i gave up on Novena prayers, fling my rosary beads into the sea!
let Virgin Mary not stop His Hand from striking planet Earth.

oh, Jared sprained his ankle!
the last time he hurt his hips, had one week MC.
this time i don't know how many days would he request. haha!
but yah, he also doesn't know why he's always getting injured.
may God bless with care and love, protect him from harm and temptations;
may the holy spirit guide his words and deeds.

Eunice is back from Perth! yay! can't wait to catch up with her!
but she's going to Bangkom with Kai for the first week of Dec...
Andy... when are you coming back as well? *wide eyed curious expression*
yepz, will send u a big prezzie together when Eun goes back k? cheerios!
miss you guys so much! the LAME Gang rules yah!
you made my TJC life a vibrant colorful one... =)

posted by Veen @ 23:19