PHILPOP 2014: Song on a Broken String

Written by: Jude Gitamondoc and Therese Villarante

Interpreter: Nicole Laurel Asensio

I’m not trying to be anybody’s favorite song

I’m not trying to fit in, I’m not trying to belong

I just wanna be heard, just to hear myself again

I’d show you who I am, if there’s a way I can

Remember the words

Tired of playing out the scene with someone else’s cliché lines

Tired of playing by the scheme of someone else’s perfect rhymes

So here I am listening to the beat of this syncopated heart

How to write the truth, a song that’s not about you

Breathe in, breathe out; 

Courage don’t you fail me now ‘coz here I go singing out loud

Trying to hold my own against the crowd

If all I have is music, then here’s my everything 

There’s beauty in believing I can sing a song on a broken string

I’m facing all my fears now; I’m stepping out into the light

I’m taking back the years now; no holding back, no wrong or right

This heart is for the breaking; this story’s waiting to be told

For once, I won’t resist the undertone; I’ll risk letting go

So breathe in, breathe out

Courage don’t you fail me now; ‘coz here I go singing out loud

Trying to hold my own against the crowd

If all I have is music, then here’s my everything

There’s beauty in believing I can sing…

Woo..ooh..ohh

And nothing anyone can say can break my spirit now

And nothing anyone can do can ever bring me down, no, I won’t let me down

Courage don’t you fail me now

‘Coz here I go singing out loud; trying to hold my own against the crowd

If all I have is music, then here’s my everything

There’s beauty in believing I can sing…

A song on a broken string

A song on a broken string

Yeah..hey...hey…