Wednesday, August 04, 2004

Home and National Day

Whenever I am feeling low
I look around me and I know
There's a place that will stay within me
Wherever I may choose to go
I will always recall the city
Know every street and shore
Sail down the river which brings us life
Winding through my Singapore

This is home truly, where I know I must be
Where my dreams wait for me, where that river always flows
This is home surely, as my senses tell me
This is where I won't be alone, for this is where I know it's home

When there are troubles to go through
We'll find a way to start anew
There is comfort in the knowledge
That home's about its people too
So we'll build our dreams together
Just like we've done before
Just like the river which brings us life
There'll always be Singapore

For this is where I know it's home
For this is where I know I'm home

Home
Music & Lyrics: Dick Lee

This has to be one of my favourite NDP song out of the many songs sang every year at the NDP. I think my favourite version so far is till the original by Kit Chan. For many weeks I was mystified by the so-called famous singer, JJ Lin, who is supposed to perform this piece at the NDP. Call me a frog-in-the-well or whatsoever; I really have no idea who the hell this guy was. Neither did any of my band mates. Oh well, I hope he wasn't the one who rearranged the song because I think it's really disfigured and bad.

Have anyone seen the video for Home? If this is a song to remind a Singaporean about home, why are all the kids dressed in black and white? Why are the colours so gloomy? The whole video seems like a morbid setting for a funeral. Tsk tsk.

Oh well, National Day is around the corner! Since the whole of Singapore is displaying the State Flag in celebration, I shall do the same here!

Majulah Singapura!


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fjozn at 8:28 PM