I'm Not Your Baby... Puh-leez!

I'm Not Your Baby
Performed by U2 and Sinéad O'Connor
Music by U2 / Lyrics by Bono
From Wim Wenders' The End of Violence OST

It's a beautiful day today
Everything is going my way
Even the words doing what I say
Oh babe, got to get away

To be impossible
Isn't that difficult
In the city you're invisible
When you come from a small town

Everything is alright
Everything is alright
I'm not your baby please

A tourist in a traffic jam
Babysham handycam
I'm not your mother, you're not my man
I'm not your baby

Don't treat me like I'm a trick
I won't treat you like you're a prick
Don't need no doctor, I'm not ill
I'm not your baby

Everything is alright
Everything is alright
I'm not your baby please

Cut out the poetry
Let's hit the main artery
No time for a tourniquet
Let the colours all run out on me

You brought me all kinds of goods
Now my heart is so full up it hurts
It's heavy as a shopping bag
It's full of things I should give back

Everything is alright
Everything is alright
I'm not your baby please

I'm not your baby
I'm not your baby

Don't want you to cover me
Smother me or mother me
I like to feel this incomplete
I'm not your baby

Everything is alright
Everything is alright
I'm not your baby please

Bono [while Sinéad sings, *Feels so good, feels so good*]:
Feel not dizzie just busy
Didn't drink nothing fizzy
No pills to feel easy
Don't know what got in to me
Daylight is a kinda robbery
The night is your geography
So you're not white, you're pink and rosy
You could be right but you're way above me
Me I'm in recovery a star of pornography
I'm a tourist there's a lot to see
You don't like the photographs of me
So you've got a lot to say
You don't sleep around but sometimes you stray
You don't believe often times you pray
For something
What is it babe?

Don't treat me like I'm a trick
Won't treat you like you're a prick
Don't need no doctor, I'm not sick
I'm not your baby

Everything is alright
Everything is alright
I'm not your baby please

I'm not your baby
I'm not your baby
I'm not your baby
I'm not your baby
I'm not your baby
I'm not your baby
I'm not your baby

Original post after the jump.
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UP Naming Mahal: Nang Umatak Ang Pagiging Isko

Damang-dama.Three versions of UP Naming Mahal. By the way, the music was composed by National Artist Nicanor Abelardo.

[Download the audio files after jump.]

The original English version:

U.P. Beloved
Teogenes Veles

U.P. beloved, thou Alma Mater dear
For thee united, our joyful voices hear
Far tho we wander, o’er island yonder
Loyal thy sons we’ll ever be
Loyal thy sons we’ll ever be.

Echo the watchword, the Red and Green forever.
Give out the password, to the Hall of Brave sons rare.
Sing forth the message, ring out with courage
All hail, thou hope of our dear land,
All hail, thou hope of our dear land.

The Filipino version we are all familiar with:

U.P. Naming Mahal
Hilario Rubion and Tomas Aguirre

U.P. naming mahal, pamantasang hirang
Ang tinig namin, sana’y iyong dinggin
Malayong lupain, amin mang marating
Di rin magbabago ang damdamin
Di rin magbabago ang damdamin.

Luntian at pula, sagisag magpakailanman
Ating ipagdiwang, bulwagan ng dangal
Humayo’t itanghal, giting at tapang
Mabuhay ang pag-asa ng bayan
Mabuhay ang pag-asa ng bayan.

And the more tibak version, included in Noel Cabangon's *Lean* album:

U.P. Naming Mahal
Noel Cabangon, Cooky Chua, Chikoy Pura, Gary Granada, Bayang Barrios

U.P. naming mahal
Pamantasan ng bayan
Tinig ng masa
Ang siyang lagi nang pakikinggan

Malayong lupain
Di kailangang marating
Dito maglilingkod sa bayan natin
Dito maglilingkod sa bayan natin

Silangang mapula
Sagisag magpakailanman
Ating ipaglaban
Laya ng diwa’t kaisipan

Humayo’t itanghal
Giting, tapang at dangal
Mabuhay ang lingkod ng taong bayan
Mabuhay ang lingkod ng taong bayan

Silangang mapula
Sagisag magpakailanman
Ating ipaglaban
Laya ng diwa’t kaisipan

Malayong lupain
Di kailangang marating
Dito maglilingkod sa bayan natin
Dito maglilingkod sa bayan natin

[Download the audio files after jump.]
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Any Dream Will Do

This is one of Joseph's songs in Andrew
Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. It's actually one of my favorite pieces in that musical. The other two being Song of the King (7 Fat Cows) and Those Canaan Days.

I remember this musical with fondness because it was the very first major production, of any type, that I ever got involved in. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was staged by the OMI (Oblates of Mary Immaculate) at the Notre Dame University in Cotabato City. And since I couldn't (and still can't) sing or dance, I was not made part of the cast.

They thought I was more of a visual artist (whatever that meant) so they made me paint the scenery. At least I got to see the show for free.

Well, it was a hit. And it was f-u-n.

Anyway this Any Dream Will Do version is by Jason Donovan. (For the young ones, and those pretending to be *young*, Jason Donovan is the guy Kylie Minogue is singing with in Especially For You.)

If you're curious about the song, you may download the mp3 by clicking this link.

You think I'm corny? Sue me.

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Any Dream Will Do

[Joseph]
I closed my eyes, drew back the curtain
To see for certain what I thought I knew
Far far away, someone was weeping
But the world was sleeping
Any dream will do

[Joseph & Children]
I wore my coat, with golden lining
Bright colours shining, wonderful and new
And in the east, the dawn was breaking
And the world was waking
Any dream will do

[Joseph]
A crash of drums, a flash of light
My golden coat flew out of sight
The colours faded into darkness
I was left alone

[Joseph & Children] May I return to the beginning
The light is dimming, and the dream is too
The world and I, we are still waiting
Still hesitating
Any dream will do

[Joseph]
A crash of drums, a flash of light
My golden coat flew out of sight
The colours faded into darkness
I was left alone

[Joseph & Children] May I return to the beginning
The light is dimming, and the dream is too
The world and I, we are still waiting
Still hesitating
Any dream will do

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Sinead O'Connor's Cover Of Phil Coulter's *The Shores Of The Swilly*

Sinead O'Connor sings *The Shores Of The Swilly* in Phil Coulter's new album *Lake Of Shadows.*

This is just of the many collaborations of these two icons of Irish music. Earlier, Sinead sung a Phil Coulter original *Scorn Not His Simplicity* for her fourth album *Universal Mother.*

Here's *The Shores Of The Swilly.* You will have to ignore the video, though. The clips are from *Final Fantasy VII.*


Nitramtang's YouTube upload after the jump.

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Sinead O'Connor's *One More Day* From The Cate Blanchett Starrer *Veronica Guerin*

This is the theme song of the film *Veronica Guerin*, starring Cate Blanchett. This song plays during the funeral of the protagonist, and segues to the CBB of the film, if I'm not mistaken.

Never mind the video though, the uploader used clips from *The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King.*


Thanks to Neboola for uploading this video on YouTube. The source after the jump.
Amazon page on the film after the jump.
Amazon page on the soundtrack after the jump.


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Sinead O'Connor's music video for *The Water Horse*

Sinead O'Connor's music video of *Back Where You Belong* for the feature film *The Water Horse*.

A Sinead original. I think.


The official website of the film after the jump.


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I Love U, Torrent

I love Torrent. It makes rare films and music readily available.

I don't feel guilty downloading them because I only download those that:
1. I already own in other formats. Like, if I have the tape already, I feel it's okay to download the mp3.
2. are hard to find. I've been looking for Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy since it was released in 1997, but I can't find it. So I had to resort to downloading it.
3. I had the cd / dvd of, but lost it.

So with those in mind, I downloaded:
1. Pretty in Pink - I was too young when it was released. And none of my older sisters wanted to being me along.
2. Sixteen Candles - Another John Hughes - Molly Ringwald teamup. A landmark in the teenybopper genre.
3. The Black Album - fan-compiled collection of Sinead O'Connor's little-known recordings.
4. Just Because I'm a Woman - tribute album for Dolly Parton. Select Dolly Parton originals sung by younger artists including Norah Jones, Alison Krauss and Sinead O'Connor.
5. Sunset Boulevard - the BW original. Who can ever forget, "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup"?
6. Carne Tremula - damn! It must be karma. I downloaded the version with no English subtitle. Bueno, comprendo Espanol.
7. Flight of the Navigator - I watched it over and over on TV when I was small. Now I can't wait to watch it again for the first time in, well, almost twenty years. I hope the magic is still there.
8. The Butcher Boy - directed by Neil Jordan, with Stephen Rea as the lead. Here, Sinead O'Connor plays the foul-mouthed Virgin Mary. I think it was banned when word got around that it was violent, and it attacked the Catholic Church.

And I'm presently downloading:
1. Summer Lovers - with Daryl Hannah. I don't know why I feel the need to watch it. I was very young when I saw the trailer on TV. I don't remember much of it anymore, but twenty or so years later, it still haunts me. Weird.
2. Fast Times at Ridgemont High - It stars Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Phoebe Cates. This is the film where Phoebe Cates took her top off--nerd boys's ultimate fantasy.
3. Clan of the Cave Bear - a movie based on a Jean M. Auel novel. The film stars Daryl Hannah. I saw it in one of those rundown movie houses in Quiapo. And I thought it was good. I want to see it again.

I wish Mga Mata ni Angelita and Rocco - Ang Batang Bato were also available for download.