With the disastrous debut live performance behind us (see last post), we were on the look out for our next live performance and we were fortunate enough to have been invited to guest in a Love Radio event in Cagayan de Oro. This was through the efforts of Brother Bong Bass, resident Love Radio Cagayan de Oro DJ. We also tagged along Alex Ramirez and Jessie Huyno's band to join us on stage for the live performance. Dubbed as Love Radio Movie at the Park, the radio station incidentally held a film showing of the movie Passion of the Christ. The movie back then was a controversial topic among Christians because of the excessive violence and bloody depiction of the brutality of the Romans on Jesus Christ's suffering and crucifixion. But personally, I found the movie so visually shocking to the point that one of the songs I wrote in our debut album was actually inspired by this move. The song is titled REPENTANCE and it was written in a way where I imagined and put my presence on that actual event and bore witness to Jesus' sufferings. When I wrote the song back then, I had a tinged of anger after the realizations I went through from watching the movie. To this day, lyrically, this is one of the most important lyrics that I have ever made because it in a way was my tacit acceptance of the sinful life that I had taken part of and also as an act of surrendering my life to Jesus Christ written in lyric form, that eventually became a song through Wilbert's music and Thrina's vocals. The song also strongly suggests that Jesus' sacrifice to save us from our sins should lead us to repent and change our ways. Specially if we come to appreciate what Jesus did for us..... at the cost of his life.
As for the event, this performance served us our final tune up before our album launching. And unlike our debut performance that ended in disaster, this time the band had better control on stage and the performance went smoothly and better than expected. This was during the early part of our singing careers and we were all so eager and enthusiastic to bring our songs to a live audience. So we opened the event by singing original songs from our debut album as well as doing covers of Hillsong and Jars of Clay songs. I'll end this post with the link to the song for you to listen and some more photos from the event that I managed to dig up from my old e-mails plus the invitation letter sent out to us.
You can check the song in our Spotify and YouTube Music link below:
SPOTIFY Link:
YouTube-Music Link:
And here's the Lyrics I wrote inspired by the movie:
Repentance
I looked at your bloodied face
And I was caught so amazed
How you did all these things for me
Even though I didn’t come and ask
For you laid down your life
And you breathe your one last breath
It took me quite a while
To realize how wrong I was
How I sinned to you the most
As I see you nailed to the cross
Cause I have finally seen the light
When you breathe your one last breath
God how I’ve been such a fool
To let myself drown into sin
You save me from my sinfulness
For all that I have done
Your blood is now in my own hands
Cleansed by your undying love
I turned away from sinfulness
Now this life is for you to have
You laid down your life for us
Showed us your love will forever last
We’ll offer this life for you
And follow you through and through
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| Thrina Dimaano on Vocals |
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| John Fernandez vocals/guitars |
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| Alvin Carreon on Bass Guitars |
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| Tim Marquez on Lead Guitars |
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| Nelson Dychauco Jr. on Drums |
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