Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Bisan Pa

I.
Dili sayon ang hikalimtan ka...
Hangtod karon ako nag-pa-abot pa...
Nga Mahibalik pa ang kagahapon ta
Bisan pa ug ako gikalimtan mo na...

Chorus:
Bisan pa ug may la-in ka na karon
Ikaw lang gihapon ang higugma-on
Bisan pa ug kasakit lang ang ma-angkon
Basta malipay ka ang tanan akong dawaton...

(Repeat Intro)

II.
Nakita ko karon ang kahimtang mo...
Lahi ra gyud sa ako pa ang ka-uban mo... (Ang kauban mo...)
Sa iyang kiliran pagka malipayon mo
Ug ako ani-a naghandom nga balikon mo... Ohh...

(Repeat Chorus)

Bridge:
Hangtod karon ako ming-laom lang gihapon...
Nga mo-abot ang panahon nga imong balikon...
Bisan pa... Bisan pa...

(Repeat Chorus 2x)

Ang tanan akong dawaton...

1 comment:

Callie Lorenzo said...

As I learned when I had to write my essay on poetry writing, it is a common cultural dynamic for people over time to go from one extreme to the other, for example, from exclusive cultures and subcultures that never had anything good to say about the "other," to Knox's banning of "words that hurt people." Unfortunately, it is not just slurs that "hurt" people, but also criticism based on fact, or even just fact that implies criticism. That is why European governments jail people for criticizing certain religious beliefs and practices, and ban police and newspaper reports about crime by immigrants, and why Canadian Human Rights Tribunals forbid people to express opposition abortion or certain sexual practices. Fortunately for the United States, the Supreme Court upholds the First Amendment and definitively rejects the argument that "hate speech," whether defined narrowly or broadly, should limit free speech. Knox is a silencer, joining all too many silencers who present themselves as do-gooders, but are toxic enemies of our rights of conscience and speech.