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Youth EP

by Joshua Phang

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1.
Years Ago 03:24
Sunlight swift over days that are the same All drawn to their end like moths to a flame Lines are written across your changing face Does your pilgrim heart wander to that place? So beautiful through the viewfinder Catch the light, make a reminder Only we of exuberant youth discern Flesh and flower must fade and to dust return Rhyme and reason our bodies articulate There is only withering for those who wait So beautiful through the viewfinder Catch the light, make a reminder I recall that night Full of heat and light In that masquerade You stayed out too late Come back to me
2.
Father, Father, since the day you rescued me I’ve searched my heart to find the place where you could be Called your name till I was deafened by the sound But you were nowhere to be found Could it be that I am so possessed with sin You couldn’t find a way for me to let you in And still you promise that you’re close enough to love When heaven feels so far above This present world Love or fear Far or near God in every form appearing The lion or the lamb The fire or the ram upon the altar In my heart I see the tearing of the veil But in my hands I see the hammer and the nail No song or sermon did I hear that could explain Or articulate my pain When you look upon the faces of the saved The broken bodies that you gather from the grave Think of all the saints turned sinners you would find Without heaven on the line And hell below We’re united in the victory that you won But it’s a strange divided thing that I’ve become Where half is in the sun and half is in the shade Half in love and half afraid In the end I am a creature of desire Driven always by the flesh into the fire If all the good in me is given from above Tell me what it is you love
3.
X 05:57
Running all the time Running all the time away Till we face ourselves We say the words We make an end Nothing but the truth Nothing but our honesty That’s all we have If nothing more Then nothing less And I cannot see the sun There’s nothing in your eyes Nothing in your gestured words But still I dare To hold my breath In this empty air And I cannot see the sun I cannot show you The love you taught me Now every loving dream Is another world between And these my sentences They are my terms to come But already you’re further than I feel You’re further than I feel You have always been the one
4.
Over Oceans 05:54
The memory of a love Suspended like a dove Above the flood And now that everything was gone The hollow moon still shone Upon the sea And I was standing in the tide When an ocean opened wide Inside my lung And the water turned me blue Choking on the very thought of you Over oceans you will wander While my heart grows fonder for your absent love I’m calling out to you Up above the sea, oh so far away Sometimes it’s you I find Running like a river through my mind Though the water’s over everything we knew With the grief gone underneath to get us through And it seemed to me the surface of the sea Was a mirror gathering light upon the shore To illuminate our history But the waves erase where they break forevermore Over oceans you will wander While my heart grows fonder for your absent love I’m calling out to you I’m reaching out for you Through these parting waters Over oceans you will wander While my heart grows fonder for your absent love Now all my love collides In you, in you, in you
5.
The Road 03:10
I’m parting with the past for good So leave my eyes those tender tears of yesteryears No more sweet sorrow I’m holding on to hope for now The thread that leads me through the night and to the light Into tomorrow Well the wheel it turns away Where it goes no one can say But there’s nothing to it but to lay One foot on the road As summer fades the autumn paves The way ahead in gold Or so I’ve been told But I have no clue And neither do you I’m tending to this tender earth I’ll leave old pastures Take my grace and make a place For good things to grow Well the wind it churns away Where it goes no one can say But there’s nothing to it but to lay One foot on the road As summer fades the autumn paves The way ahead in gold Or so I’ve been told But I have no clue Well how about you (Lay your weary heart upon the ground)
6.
Moon in the sky Sun in the sea The face of the ocean belies the emotion beneath Even the eye Sometimes deceives Sunk in the blue are the false and the true sides of me Well the moon in the sky doesn’t shine like the moon in the sea The man in the eye can’t compare to the memory The moon in the sky doesn’t shine like the moon in the sea The man in the eye cannot stand to the memory Where are the years Promised to me Gone long ago with the river that flows to the deep The heart that yearns Is itself deceived By the old masquerade of love learned from the page and the screen Well the moon in the sky doesn’t shine like the moon in the sea The man in the eye can’t compare to the memory The moon in the sky doesn’t shine like the moon in the sea The man in the eye cannot stand to the memory

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released January 10, 2016

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Joshua Phang
Album art by Chantel Foo

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Joshua Phang is a singer-songwriter from Singapore currently based in New York.

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