Benny Manaligod
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Otherwise (final draft)
🕑 Added 2025-09-13 05:08:14 +0000 UTCShe wakes and stretches, checks her phone,
"My God, it's 6am"
Wakes her man, carries her boy, then heads straight to the van
Greets a couple in the back, saying, "Sorry we're late"
Now right beside her is her son askin' 'bout this and that
Going on about meeting and feeding elephants
His dad beside him says, "Quiet, my love, learn to wait,"
Ooh, the child looks out the window and smiles
Ooh, with nothing much to do I join him for while
Then in my mind
I heard my spirit say,
"Blue sky,
Why do we cry?
Is it sorrow or joy
We perceive with our eyes
Are the colors so bright
A trick of the light
The awe of the boy says otherwise
The awe of the boy says otherwise"
End of the day we're driving back and now the family's gone
Rest of the trip was pretty peaceful, there was something wrong
See and hear and touch and taste and (smell) and something else I couldn't put my finger on
I felt it creeping on my lips through a shared cigarette
Bittersweet just like a kiss upon a hospital bed
The thought of losing this moment reminds me that I'm just a sentimental kid
Ooh, they’re laughing at the smoke rings again
Ooh, I curse my lungs and breathe it all in
Tears in my eyes
I turn my gaze away
Blue sky,
Why do we cry?
Is it sorrow or joy
We perceive with our eyes
Are the colors so bright
A trick of the light
The awe of the boy says otherwise
The awe of the boy says otherwise
"Everything will meet its sorry end
Every face is just a fading friend"
This unbelief is just a hindrance
Help me to see with eyes of faith again
"Everything will meet its sorry end
Every face is just a fading friend"
This unbelief is just a hindrance
Help me to see with eyes of faith again
Help me to see with eyes of faith again
Help me to see with eyes of faith again
(This unbelief is just a hindrance)
Help me to see with childlike faith again
