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       Wordpress Weekly Photo Challenge: Change

Yehey! i’ll be able to use an original Filipino composition by an iconic songwriter, Jose Mari Chan. Here it is; i’ve also embedded the audio of the song (thru Youtube) below…

                          Constant Change

                   (words and music by Jose Mari Chan)

(OPM: Original Filipino Music)

       [Jose Mari Chan sang this with so much sadness it seemed like he was saying good-bye to something — or someone — or someplace he almost didn’t want to let go.

     Jose Mari Chan was one of those famous Filipinos who had to leave the country when martial law was declared, or at the height of martial law. This song was released post-martial law, after the dictatorship had fallen,  and “exiled” Filipinos had returned. i get the sense that he wrote parts of it while he was somehow packing, writing to friends, closing doors and windows,  preparing to leave what they had known as home for more than a decade to come back to the Philippines … take a look-see. (pls click the audio, too, below… Photo for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Change, by Myra Lambino]

“We’re on the road

 We move from place to place

 And oftentimes when I’m

 about to call it home

 We’d have to move along

 Life is a constant change…

 

Photo by Myra Lambino in New York where she attended her College Silver Jubilee Reunion and  was asked to deliver an impromptu speech to represent her batch — she  found “long-lost friends”.

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“The friends we know

 we meet along the way

 Too soon the times we share

 form part of yesterday

 ‘Cause life’s a constant change

 And nothing stays the same, oh no

 

 Clouds that move across the skies

 Are changing  form before our very eyes

 

 Why couldn’t we

  keep time from movin’ on?

 Hold on to all the years

 before this moment’s gone?

 Why must we live the days

  at such a frightening pace?

xxxx

 Cause life’s a constant change

 And nothing stays the same, oh no” – Jose Mari Chan

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