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The Way Back: 12 Years of My Writes

by My Writes

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1.
Red Tracks 04:02
Golden light shines on the street And the sky is smiling bluer than blue Some magic is playing on my feet Keeping my head on by not Picking up your imagined calls Flying, I don’t intend to fall And today, I wake up and I’m alright And today, I feel fine on my own ride Someone new's holding my hand I think of you and I feel blue “Sorry, I don’t know what I do” Pulling out of this car crash When I’m cleaned up it’s not so bad Brushing off all the things we had And today, I wake up and I’m alright And today, I feel fine on my own ride And now they’re distant memories to me Opened my eyes, now I see I see... Spoken: Red tracks reach for the sky Plunge back into my heart Numbed and I played my part Coming back now, 1, 2, 3 Never guessed who I’d see Suddenly now I’m free (aaaaahhhh....!!!) And today, I wake up and I’m alright And today, I feel fine on my own ride
2.
The Answer 05:13
I know it took some time But it came to me after a million lonely nights If I stay here in my fear I’d still be wishing for the day that I would live another life I couldn’t stay away from the love of You Crazy but it’s true In the cold, cold night, I prayed, and I vowed to leave the dark nights and days Now I’m onto something good, and if you could see see this like I do You’d jump in with no fear, and I’d watch you diving in as I am standing here You couldn’t stay away from the love of me Crazy but it’s true In the cold, cold night, you prayed, and you vowed to leave the dark nights and days If I do not answer, would it bring me back here? Would it bring me back here? Would it bring me back here again? If I do not answer, would it bring me If I do not answer, would it bring me If I do not answer, would it bring me Back here, back here If I do not answer, would it bring me back here? (Bring it back, bring back the answer) Would it bring me back here? (Bring it back, bring back the answer) Would it bring me back here? I don’t wanna be back here again Don’t wanna be back here again Don’t wanna be back here again Don’t wanna be back here again
3.
Missing Out 04:03
If you cannot wait Well that’s ok But where’s your faith? Is it time you lack? Is it a crime that I am sad? And I confess my life is blind But soon I’ll be high I know I can feel it You’ll be missed but you’ll be missing out Maybe someday we Will bump on the morning train A handshake would do And I confess my life is blind But soon I’ll be high I know I can feel it You’ll be missed but you’ll be missing out And now you’ve moved on to another And now you’ve moved on to another Now you’ve moved on to another Boy, you’ve moved on to another side And I confess my life is blind But soon I’ll be high I know I can feel it You’ll be missed but you’ll be missing out Missing out Missing out
4.
Baby, you’re so blue Heaven stripped away Midnight sky and glue and The pasted stars we made At the start The waves, they pulled me in Candlelight for two All the things that I’d contained Served on a plate for you Crossed my heart The truths are in your eyes They’re blinding with their hues What I wanted from the start but It left me feeling blue Lost my part I soar skinless through the seven layers of heaven Not knowing if it’s night or day, or me or you And with your kisses and your dulcet tones I leaped off the edge with my eyes closed Oh... Midnight sky and glue And the pasted stars we made At the start
5.
Stars 04:07
Now here we are; the irony What a beautiful dream It’s all a simple mystery What you’ve done to the world indeed Oh what more do you need? Like the stars above You’re shining out for all to see You’re bright and lovely, all for real But you don’t really wanna be like what it is Now here we are; the irony What a beautiful sin It’s all a simple mystery What you’ve done to the world indeed Oh what more do you need? Like the stars above You’re shining out for all to see You’re bright and lovely, all for real But you don’t really wanna be like what it is Scream it out, take it back You couldn’t take them all Still the stars; They still shine for you It’s all a simple mystery What you’ve done to the world indeed Oh what more do you need? Oh what more do you need?
6.
The days with you are flying by And I’m so glad that we’re together I never used to be like this And every day was just another The day we met I never thought That I would ever have your number I wrote it in my diary I have it in my head Ooo-wah-ooo Ooo-wah-ooo You always try to do the things that make me happy I always try to do the things that make you happy The sun is shining for us and it makes you happy The stars are shining for us and it makes me happy These words now come so easily Since the day I said, “I love you” I baked for you a cake last week I hope it’s not too sweet Daddy says I should be careful But I know I’m safe when I am with you He speaks of you, “That nice young man” Now the 60’s gone, our children are all grand Ooo-wah-ooo Ooo-wah-ooo You always try to do the things that make me happy I always try to do the things that make you happy The sun is shining for us and it makes you happy The stars are shining for us and it makes me happy
7.
Sitting in a room Wondering where to go The day is hot outside My mind is on a roll Wondering where you are Wonder what you do Every time you call I gun it out on you Say it again... You don’t know me, do you? You told me I was everything to you But everything just makes you lose your cool I used to have to tolerate your moods But now I’m free, so let me be I used to be so blind But now I can see you I took it all the time Now I take it out on you You stole my neighbour’s bike You stole away my heart I guess I should’ve known that you were bad news from the start Say it again... You don’t know me, do you? You told me I was everything to you But everything just makes you lose your cool I used to have to tolerate your moods But now I’m free, so let me be Say it again... You don’t know me, do you?
8.
I feel like checking up on you again And I feel dumb when nothing’s changed (most of the time) I heard you’re doing well, you’ve got someone new You’ve been together about a year Sometimes I feel like I’m just bobbing lazily wherever the currents take me And after all that’s said and done I kinda miss you I was never a lake; I was only a shallow pond Sometimes it’s just too late, and you just gotta carry on I’m great on the surface, can’t let anyone drag me down I only think of you every time I screw up Sometimes I wonder if I will ever get out of this drift You’re proving yourself with somebody else And I wanna do it too If the water was deeper, If I had known the truth Would it still be real? You’re the one I can’t forget And I know that my face reflects my heart My face reflects my heart
9.
Don’t listen to the things they say When we’re really all the same And the colour of our skin can’t change I will shower you with love And whatever else you want You’ll depend on me, I’ll be the one I shall bring you the rainbow, night or day I will make you laugh just to brighten your day All these words I say will not go astray It’s a promise I’ll be there for you every single day I can’t promise you the world Or a cruise on the Black Pearl Still we should give us a try, a whirl What’s our future? You might say But let’s just live for today The future’s overrated anyway If you agree to be with me tonight You would make my day and change my life All these words I say will not go astray It’s a promise I’ll be there for you every single day
10.
Goldilocks 03:00
I sit back and watch the box as it talks How we all love Goldilocks when she rocks She came by from a faraway land to stay today “Her hair’s lovely,” we say I skip out and smell the breeze brush the leaves Suits push by; they’re chasing greens through the screen Step on me, you start carving on the trees They reach for the sky in your name and your glory I wish I could watch her play every day But I can’t sit here and stay, not today They come by from their material land To take me away from this dream and this story Step on me, you start carving on the trees They reach for the sky in your name and your glory
11.
Cyrcles 03:48
You’re blanking, shaking your head at the world People come and go That’s just the way it is They don’t care how you feel And nothing revolves around your universe I would try and make it revolve around you I’ll see how you like it ‘Cause you don’t know how I feel I’m a bleeding mess of sadness by myself I thought I’d learn to be happy on my own Why can’t we be self-contained in the land of the dead? I’m observing you observing your own head Why can’t we be self-contained in the land of the dead? I’m observing you observing your own head Drawing myself into circles
12.
Scene Kid 04:07
Little girl pulls on her skirt She’s got smoke in her eyes When does the party stop tonight? Her mom was just sixteen She drank and danced all night With dark kohl on her eyes, her eyes She never liked to cry And it was always different at night Little girl just wants some fun She dances to the beat And she claps as the band starts to play Her daddy’s on the stage He makes the crowd go wild He knows just how to make them high His name will never die And it was always different at night
13.
The Way Back 05:18
Closing in on my heels The ground is slipping out from under me Didn’t know where to go But the more I ran I thought I would be free Since I’ve gone, I’ve been finding my way back home Tried to grow But I went too far from where I wished to go All the things I’d known All the love you’d shown Saved me All the jaded souls All the seeds you’d sown Showed me I tried my best to see But their veils covered my heart, entangled me Almost overthrown, Couldn’t kill the flowers of the seeds you’d sown Since they’ve gone, I’ve been finding my way back home You should know That this time I’ll stay and find out on my own All the things I’d known All the love you’d shown Saved me All the jaded souls All the seeds you’d sown Showed me Spoken: I didn’t know where to go but The more I ran the more I thought I would be free I didn’t see that all the times I was sinking You were the one holding me All the things I’d known All the love you’d shown Saved me All the jaded souls All the seeds you’d sown Showed me the way back
14.
And it won’t feel the same And it doesn’t feel the same And it’s just not the same anymore But we wouldn’t want to change Yeah, we wish it’d stay the same Though things are not the same anymore Woke up from a dream with a song in my head There’ll always be many things left unsaid And even as you went we hung on to the seams Broken lovers do it all the time when they can’t leave And it won’t feel the same And it doesn’t feel the same And it’s just not the same anymore But we wouldn’t want to change Yeah, we wish it’d stay the same Though things are not the same anymore We’re just a bunch of kids building castles in the clouds Don’t know if it’ll hold us long enough to make you proud And it’s not easy working in this monsoon-summoned rain And it gets harder holding on with dreamers every day And we wish it were the same Wondering why things have changed But they’re just not the same anymore But we wouldn’t want to change Yeah, we wish it’d stay the same Though it’s just not the same anymore Been staring at the wall in my office-covered shoes And they all chase me down but I’ve nothing left to prove But if I picked up my guitar and did those things again I don’t know how we’d live despite the things we said And I don’t feel the same And I haven’t felt the same And I’m just not the same anymore So we wouldn’t want to change Despite the things they say Though it’s just not the same anymore Anymore
15.
We built our dreams in melted glass With a promise we would last It made no difference, right or wrong To the world we would shine on What we wanted for so long But it wasn’t what we thought Shot to hell, we carried on With our heads held high and It all would run in our own time Tore my heart out, made yours mine This world was yours and mine alone But what we felt, we couldn’t own The fall was long, the battle fought Fists held high and You stood high and I stood tall And we turned to face it And we take it away Leave it all behind We take it away We’re finding our own light We take it away And there is where we’ll find A safer place to lie Our heads were clouded up in space Ran out of time in our own race With just a thread, I would hold on And pull myself where we belong Suddenly, it was so clear In the shattered fragments I kept the flowers as they died As their beauty faded So we take it away Leave it all behind We take it away We’re finding our own light We take it away And there is where we’ll find A safer place to lie A safer place for us to lie
16.
I’ve waited so long So long, so long To be in your arms So warm, so warm But you have sworn upon the thunderstorm The leaves begin to fall, our memories wash away In our hearts, we all long for company But if all the world was right, then you’d be here with me Oh the days of fairy tales And warm caresses But you’ve gone away Away, away from me And you have sworn upon the thunderstorm The leaves begin to fall, our memories wash away In our hearts, we all long for company But if all the world was right, then you’d be here with me Then you’d be here with me

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released November 11, 2019

Recorded by Bob @ The End of Recordings; except for "Safer Place to Lie" recorded by Leonard Soosay @ Snakeweed Studio.

Produced by Muhaimin Ali & Dhaniah Suhana.

Mixed by Ojoe; except for "Midnight Sky and Glue" & "Missing Out" mixed by Fred @ The End of Recordings.

Mastered by Steve Corrao @ Sage Audio (Nashville, TN).

Artwork by Azri @ azridjokoloro, Dhaniah Suhana & Haider Amir.

Songs written, arranged and recorded by:

Dhaniah Suhana (Vocals & Keyboards), Shaun Lin (Guitar), Muhd Zul-Azri (Bass), Muhd Hanifi (Guitar), Muhd Lukman (Drums), Muhammad Raham (Drums), Ridhuan Syah (Bass), Rashid Mohamad (Drums), Nadiy Sabiq (Guitar & Vocals), Ahmady Hassan (Guitar), Akid Amir (Guitar), Chris Gomez (Bass), Nick Scully (Guitar) and Clarence Ng (Drums). Special thanks to Germaine Tay without whom we wouldn’t have met and formed the band.

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My Writes has evolved from an after-school garage band into something that has become bigger than the individuals that have left their indelible marks on the band's music over the past 9 years.

My Writes released their first full-length album entitled 'It's Okay, I'm With The Band' on 13th June 2009 at the Substation. It was fully recorded and mixed at The End of Recordings.
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