im still here… jeo wrote this at 11:06 am • Filed under The Acid Tube, Breakaway Neurons •

i was fixing lunch yesterday when my 4 year old niece pulled on my shirt and, in an odd mixture of thai-brit-tagalog language, asked me to turn off my earbanging music at the living room (i think i got miss billie holiday on that time) because she wanted to watch her kiddy dvds. she was holding a dvd i bought her, a collection of disney movies, so after shutting miss holiday down, i popped it in. she wanted to watch treasure planet, an space-age take on RL Stevenson’s Treasure Island. i watched it with her as i ate lunch, and i gotta say, i should have watched this flick on the cinemas back then. and this is my fave part of the movie… i think i liked the song more after seeing the film haha.

I am a question to the world
Not an answer to be heard
Or a moment
That’s held in your armsAnd what do you think you’d ever say?
I won’t listen anyway
You don’t know me
And I’ll never be what you want me to beAnd what do you think you’d understand?
I’m a boy, no, I’m a man
You can’t take me
And throw me awayAnd how can you learn what’s never shown?
Yeah, you stand here on your own
They don’t know me
Cause I’m not here

Chorus:
And I want a moment to be real
Wanna touch things I don’t feel
Wanna hold on and feel I belong
And how can the world want me to change?
They’re the ones that stay the same
They don’t know me
Cause I’m not here

And you see the things they never see
All you wanted I could be
Now you know me
And I’m not afraid

And I want to tell you who I am
Can you help me be a man?
They can’t break me
As long as I know who I am

Chorus

They can’t tell me who to be
Cause I’m not what they see
Yeah, the world is still sleepin while I keep on dreaming for me
And their words are just whispers and lies thatI’ll never believe

Chorus

I’m the one now
Cause I’m still here
I’m the one
Cause I’m still here
I’m still here
I’m still here
I’m still here