Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Pupil: Dulo ng Dila
Pupil: "Dulo ng Dila"
At meron lang naisip
nang merong mailagay
para lamang may laman
para lang merong kulay
Ano’ng kailangan mong marining?
makasaysayan? pandaigdig?
ano’ng sinabi ng iyong dibdib?
parang ganyan, ganyan, ganyan…
Sisindihan ko muna
nang aking maalala
makita ko na muna ang
mensahe na kilala
Hindi na baleng ‘di marinig
hindi na baleng ‘di mabatid
basta’t nasabi ng aking dibdib
mensahe na walang laman
This track is taken from Pupil's debut success, "Beautiful Machines". To cut things shortly, this track is all about better things left unsaid. Actions speak louder than words. Picture says a thousand words. Chaos in silence. All those arbitary and abstract essence that could not be written or spoken.
But it is not as simple as that. The first stanza mocks the futility of thinking.
At meron lang naisip
nang merong mailagay
para lamang may laman
para lang merong kulay
Before speaking, one must think. We cannot just spurt out words from our mouth just because we felt it. Our brains process each word that we are going to utter. And most of the time, we resort to too much thinking that we end up not making any sense at all. Just for the sake of having something to say, that's why we think, and then we speak. The last line of this stanza divulges "flowering of words". We tend to become verbose, just for the creative side of elevating ourselves when in comes to language.
Dulo ng Dila (tip of the tongue) is a Filipino idiom that reminds us how often we forget knowledge. But this forgetting is not always a negative thing. This forgetting is the only way how we can be true to ourselves by showing and not speaking, by feeling and not thinking.
posted by Eloisa at 9:57 AM
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