KENNETH PRAHARA.COM >> Songs Part 1

Here and There
Music and lyrics by Kenneth Prahara
© 2003

All the backstabbing drama in high school. Definitely my number 1 personal favourite, hopefully a hit if it's ever released.

Here and there
Just today's loneliness for you to save and embrace
Here and there
I breathe in your favourite pain
My courage glues are melting

Here and there
I feared with all those scenes of your silent creations
Here and there
You swallow the snow
You think that your scars are not broken

The dark lights have come out again
Needed the sun to shine

Chorus:
Don't you dare laugh at me
I know where your bomb is
I know who'll explode
Don't you burn my sky
I know where the cross is
I know who's crucified

Here and there
I was the open fire of your very cold night
Here and there
Not that I know of
I just can't recall that you were falling

The fire wraps your eyes up again
Wait for the rain to cry

Don't you dare laugh at me
Don't you dare laugh at me
I know you’re crucified
Don’t you burn my sky
Don’t you burn my window
I know you'll explode too

Bridge:
the child whispers in your eye
he wants to feel your protection
you know I can save you
but I know I can’t save him
then I appear in your mind
I want to see your direction
I know I might save you
But you know I can’t save him tonight

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'Til the Light Breaks Down
Music and lyrics by Kenneth Prahara
© 2003

This is about killing your addiction, but sadly people tend to do it by adopting a new one. I wrote this for three days in Chemistry class during high school.

Tied up in the cold
Freezing out my scars
Believing the clowns
In the mirror

Numb and feeling old
Kicking out the stars
Escaping the crowns
Out of the door

Yet it happens again
To the mind
To the core
To the air I inhale...

Chorus:
Nights are heavy
But I'll carry on
'til the sun calls up
'til the sun goes down
And I am standing on your shore
'til the light stands out
'til the light breaks down

After all
I can be the things
That You know I'll be

The nights are blurry
Chased down by the blaze
Deleting the holes
In the spirit

Lost and world-weary
Solving out the maze
Refusing the moles
From my knowing

Yeah it happens again
To the mind
To the soul
To the air I inhale...

Bridge:
You'll see this one change
Can drive you crazy
You’re swimming alone
Beyond my way
You’ve got to save yourself
From now on
You’ve got to save yourself
From now on
From now on

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Always Be There
Music and lyrics by Kenneth Prahara
© 2003

I still refuse to believe that I really wrote this, not a type of song I would love to perform. I later decided to put in some 'dark' phrases just to make the song less cheesy and much more in my comfort zone.

When you're nothing, I'm gonna draw a picture in your fear
When you're charmless, I'm selling out my beauty
When you trip over, I'll be the bed for your fall
When there's a deadly heat out there, I'll carry you away

'cause I'm like a mother who taught you to sing
And you know I always feel you

Chorus:
I shaped you in my arms
I've studied your lies and also your truth
I've paid all your mistakes
I'm still being wise, still sublime my mercies
I pray more than a prayer can do
Know that you'll walk back here in my door
I face down your enemies
It always shines back at you

When you're crying, well you'll have to flow your tears to me
When you're faced down, I can take your shame
When it hit you, got to grow the swell on my knee
When the spines are all over you, I release them away

'cause I'm like a mother who told you to live
And you know I'm always be there

Bridge:
Well I'll always be right
I'll always be hoping
I'll cover your feet
Away from the darkness
And you know that I will always be there
On the pavement myself
I've promised you life
I'll be drowning in it
Just to keep you alive
So remember this that I'll always be there

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Black Rose Boy
Music and lyrics by Kenneth Prahara
© 2004

It's about accepting all kinds of differences in people. And when you do, it's a fine line between being genuinely supportive or try to impress people around you.

You danced around me
With your girlfriend's song
I used to paint your heart
Now the color is yours

I laughed at myself
that I am no nothing like you
I used to tame your heart
Now the ice is yours

Wish the world listens to you

Chorus:
You and I are different
But we pull the same red cloud
Walking like a lad
And running like a little man
Black rose oooo...
Where the real beauties are
I'll give what you want
Even when you don't become one

You smiled at my eyes
well I'm not there
I used to write your heart
Now the story is yours

Wish they would listen to you

Bridge:
Violet fades the blue away
Violet breaks your heart apart
Tells why the rainbow disappears
Tells why everyone falls alone
You’re wanting so ugly to stay
You’re crying so loud tonight

Wish your world listens to me

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Future Fire
Music and lyrics by Kenneth Prahara
© 2003

A story of a woman trapped in a fire, with her baby in her arms, yet still had faith of being rescued. I adore the human vs. nature (fire) vibe in the song.

The kingdom has come
in my eye
and in the other one
that's dry as your really sore deed
I am the faith and you're not
but you can be one
If I was too violent for you

The child is in my shade
listen to my fearful breath
cause it soon will fade
the moonlights are dead

Chorus:
…and so is my future
But I can see a future
in my gun fire
I know it will save her
though the fire will undress me
I pray for a storm
I pray for the rain
just to remind me
just to remind me
when you're drowned

The golden has shone
in my eye
and in my other one
that's wet like your bloody murder
I am the faith and you're not
but you can steal mine
If I was so losing to you

The child is in my bone
bearing down my fearful soul
cause it kills itself
the hopes were all gone…

Bridge:
the child is in my eyes
listen to my fearful mind
guess I will not fade
The moonlights are dead

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Unkissable
Music and lyrics by Kenneth Prahara
© 2004

When people dramatically change who they are for an unrequited love.

She's posing her soul
on the street below
where the lust of the dead men
came up with cash

Kisses and bruises
in her very bright mind
she's thinking about life
and the waste of her wounds
'cause tonight has never been the same
well he's on her knees
he's on her knees

Chorus:
She's falling ahead oo wo ow
She's gunning down the moon
twisting the sunlight oo wo ow
breaking her mask for you

But her heart is unkissable
even with your filthy mind
But she knows how to kiss it herself
(kill all the lies that took you down)
It's a journey of my pride

She's walking down the ladder
to the city ground
with roses and bad news
spilling in the night

Cookies and justice
at her criminal jars
she's dreaming about life
and a room for her fight
'cause tomorrow will never be the same
well she got the mind
she got the mind

Bridge:
you’re a heart of lion
kill all the lies that took you down
run 'til she's dirty

Outro:
but my heart's still unkissable

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Ourselves
Music and lyrics by Kenneth Prahara
© 2003 Melbourne

Perpetually being abused and sometimes to cure that feeling is to acknowledge we're not the only abuse victims.

Fantasised combats
of drugs that we fooled
our only religion
for once to believe
we were abused
we've been here before
just too much losing
confidence in ourselves

Chorus:
I'm not in my way tu du du du du
I'm just like your world tu du du du du
completely empty
I break your knees down
('til you fall apart)
then we can start praying
So pour me the blood of Heaven

Constant denials
of lies that we ate
we have had enough of
those robberies we played
we were confused
we've been here for long
we just can't defeat
the mistakes by ourselves

we were refused
we've been here alone
there's no one to trust
and believe but ourselves

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Corruptions and life secrets.

Dangling dangling
we eat snows of addiction
reaching the completion
pick those sleepless fingers

Twinkling twinkling
we sell angels of money
in our weekend's journey
watch those smiling blue eyes
to play iayaiya (2x) your mind

Chorus:
tricked down, cheaters found
glass of sorrows you've shown
filthy rail ways
slide into your pocket
light figther, light color
cigarettes and dollars...
(powerful deception)
flow into your pocket
take it out...oww take it out ooow ouuut

Verse 2:
blink blink blink blink
I think you've pulled your hand
you're missing my grand
you dont know where to stand
so you think you've got away from this

Hanky panky
the full moon that you touch
you're scheming too much
and your bulls are piling up
you lie aiyaiaya (2x) oh why

Verse 3: so goodbye aiyaiaya goodbye

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I honestly don't know what this song has to be about. It popped out of my head just like that. But at times I can picture someone's nearing death and craving for their loved ones. Sort of a hospital setting I reckon.

She was running
behind the future
burning every meaning in her life
she walks to my shoulder
my invincible girl
she's keeping every sunlight in my eye

Do you believe in faith
Do you believe in guns
I know they believe in what you see through me
Do you believe in wombs
Do you believe in pain
I know you believe in what I feel

Chorus:
and the truth is running like the moon
running to our golden fall
I will survive the rain in my room
as this life ends, we'll never say goodbye

He was running
after the many suns
sailing every weather of her night
he walks into the lights
finding his invisible girl
call out every storm ahead

Do you believe in pride
Do they believe in spites
I know they believe in what you see through me
Do you believe in cold
Do you believe in blood
I know you believe in what I feel

Don't want these breakers
Keep them together
For breaker is a broken dream
And together is a sunlight in my eye

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People losing their courage just because they choose not to battle it out. Let them know time is ticking.

turning off this crazy light
the darkest tears were in my eye
I feel the world with my cold skin
but that's just who I am
one last breath for one last fight
as turning time came back to me
wish there's something that I could compare
to these fears I've had mmm

the sky has broke down
into pieces, into my grave

Chorus:
I'm turning my fate
I'm making myself alive
I'm ceasing the madness
I'm citing the angels

I'm turning my time
I’m singing in the dark
I'm splitting the night sky
I call out the fears yeah

pulling down the spinning light
silent scream is in my head
I twist the world with my surprise
but that's just what I am
one last look for one last drop
as turning time came back to me
wish there's something that I could confess
of these fears I've had mmm

the air is frozen
stillness in time, stillness in me

Bridge:
fears…
a time of making
a time of faking
a time to bleed your mind
fears…
a time of falling
a time of failing
a time to bleed your prayers

(guitar solo)