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Songs For Lit Crit
Songs For Lit Crit
[Rico Blanco:]
Magdalena ano'ng problema
Bakit 'di ka makawala sa kadena?
At sa gabi gabi ikaw ay nasa selda
Na hanap buhay mo ngayon
Magdalena ano'ng problema
Alam naman natin na dati kang nena
At sa iyong ama ikaw ay prinsesa
Ano'ng nangyari sa'yo?
[Gloc 9:]
Ako'y kanyang matalik na kaibigan
Ernesto ang aking pangalan
Kwentong dapat 'nyong malaman
'Wag nang magbulag bulagan
[Rico Blanco:]
Bakit ang nais natin ay malaman ang baho ng iba?
Pagbibigyan kita
Kilala mo ba si Magda?
[Gloc 9:]
Na aking kababata mula pa ng pagkabata
Kami lagi magkasama mga bangkang papel sa sapa
Kanyang ngiti lumiliwanag ang paligid
At pag siya'y dumadaan mga leeg ay pumipilipit
Ubod ng ganda noong siya ay nagdalaga
Tuwing kausap ko na malimit akong tulala
Kahit may nararamdaman pinilit kong isara
Ang bibig at pintig ng puso para sa kanya
At sa sayawan matapos kaming makapagtapos
Dahil pinawis ang mukha ako'y nagpunas ng pulbos
Kahit parang hindi pantay ay nagmamadaling hinila
Pinakilala niya lalaki na taga Maynila
[Rico Blanco:]
1
Magdalena ano'ng problema
Bakit 'di ka makawala sa kadena?
At sa gabi gabi ikaw ay nasa selda
Na hanap buhay mo ngayon
Magdalena ano'ng problema
Alam naman natin na dati kang nena
At sa iyong ama ikaw ay prinsesa
Ano'ng nangyari sa'yo?
[Gloc 9:]
Maraming taon ako'y nalipasan
Pinilit ko mang takasan
Bagkus ay aking nalaman
Ang tunay kong kailangan
[Rico Blanco:]
'Di ko maibaling ang pagtingin ko sa iba
Minamahal ko s'ya
Hahanapin ko si Magda
[Gloc 9:]
Lumuwas habang nagdarasal na maabutan
Sa lugar na ang sabi'y kanyang pinagtatrabahuhan
Nakita ko'ng larawan niya na nakadikit sa pintuan
Iba man ang kulay ng buhok 'di ko malilimutan
Ang kanyang mata at tamis ng kanyang ngiti
At dahil ubod ng saya hindi na nag atubili
Agad pumasok sa silid pero bakit ang dilim
Madaming lamesa't mga nag-iinumang lasing
Nang biglang nagpalakpakan may mabagal na kanta
Sa maliit na entablado ay nakita ko na
Ako ay nagtaka, nagtanung, nagkamot
Bakit s'ya sumasayaw na sapatos lang ang suot?
[Rico Blanco:]
Ito'y kwento ng isang babaeng
Tulog sa umaga, gising sa gabi
Ang kanyang mukha'y puno ng kolorete
Sa lugar na ang ilaw ay patay sindi
Ituloy natin ang istorya
[Gloc 9:]
Agad siyang sumama sa'kin walang kakabakaba
Ang trato niya sa'kin ay nobyo tila katakataka
Bumaba sa taxi-ng pinara sa may Sta. Mesa
Parang ako'y bida sa mga sumunod na eksena
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Kung ito ay panaginip ayoko nang magising
Ngunit ako'y nanaginip umaga na nang magising
Ang naabutan ko lamang ay may sobre sa lapag
Liham para sa'kin na isinulat niya magdamag
Kahit gulong gulo ang isip pinilit kong basahin
'Di malilimutan ang mga sinabi niya sa akin
[Rico Blanco:]
Magdalena ano'ng problema
Bakit 'di ka makawala sa kadena?
At sa gabi gabi ikaw ay nasa selda
Na hanap buhay mo ngayon
Magdalena ano'ng problema
Alam naman natin na dati kang nena
At sa iyong ama ikaw ay prinsesa
Ano'ng nangyari sa'yo?
3
"Shy"
Jai Waetford
PSYCHOLOGICAL GROUP
4
When I look into your eyes
5
"Big Yellow Taxi"
(feat. Vanessa Carlton)
READER-RESPONSE GROUP
[Adam Duritz]
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
[Vanessa Carlton]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[Adam]
They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them
No, no, no
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot
[Vanessa]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[Adam]
Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT
I don't care about spots on my apples,
Leave me the birds and the bees
Please
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey now, they paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not?
[Vanessa]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[Adam]
Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi took my girl away
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Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Well, don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey hey hey
Paved paradise and put up a parking lot
[Vanessa]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[Adam, Vanessa]
I don't wanna give it
Why you wanna give it
Why you wanna giving it all away
Hey, hey, hey
Now you wanna give it
I should wanna give it
Now you wanna giving it all away
[Vanessa]
Why do you want me?
why do you want me?
[Adam]
Cos' you're givin it all away,
Hey, paved paradise to put up a parking lot
7
"Hotel California"
Eagles
DECONSTRUCTIONISM
8
And in the master's chambers
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives
But they just can't kill the beast
9
"Can't Hold Us Down"
Christina Aguilera (feat. Lil' Kim)
FEMINIST GROUP
10
The guy can get away with it, the girl gets named
All my ladies come together and make a change
And start a new beginning for us everybody sing
[Lil' Kim:]
Here's something I just can't understand
If a guy have three girls then he's the man
He can even give her some head or sex her raw
If a girl do the same, then she's a whore
11
This is for my girls all around the world
Who've come across a man who don't respect your worth
Thinking all women should be seen, not heard
So what do we do girls?
Shout louder!
12
"We Didn't Start The Fire"
Billy Joel
HISTORICAL GROUP
13
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
14
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
15
ODE TO A GRECIAN URN
John Keats
BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM
16
Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.
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