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What Air Supply Song am I? - I Simply Want to Give it All Avel Manansala's GenSan News Online Mag once again launches another blog contest and outdoes the previous ones on Side A and David Pomeranz!

This time it's the What Air Supply Song Are You? Blog Contest sponsored by Concert Producer Michael Wee and his Dreamworks Ventures, Inc. which brings in quality entertainment to Gensan like the Air Supply Concert in GenSan. Michael Wee also owns the Grab A Crab Restaurant and Coffee Club 101. Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock of Air Supply What Air Supply Song Am I?

Here I am again, I've come to see you smile
I know you understand
I have to say again, it's only for a while.
I didn't immediately take a liking to Air Supply's debut album Lost in Love. That much I'll admit. But when I heard I Want to Give It All, a cut from their second album, I ran out of the house and bought myself a copy of The One that You Love cassette tape. That tape finally lost its sound fidelity from having it played countless of times and was eventually replaced by a CD.

It doesn't happen every day
But it happened to me once before
Those early years I threw away
Now I only have to hear your voice
To make me feel so sure that your love is why I want to give it all.
Unrequited love is bittersweet as it brings exquisite joy and pain. My love story is of the unrequited kind. Unrequited because my beloved does not have an inkling at all of being loved by me. You see, I met my beloved in high school. Our friendship lasted even after college but my beloved never knew my feelings transcended friendship.

My beloved left for abroad and never knew about the love letters I wrote for every year that we were apart. After losing touch with my beloved for almost two decades, imagine my pleasant surprise when my beloved rang me up through an overseas call. And at that moment, all the longing I felt for my beloved simply vanished and I realized that I only have to hear the voice of my beloved to make me feel so sure that my love is why I want to give it all.

Don't the minutes fly
And hours just seem so few with days apart so long
It's hard to spend my time
When I'm so far from you.

These days are made complete by seeing my beloved's smile while we are chatting through webcam, feeling the chasm between us closing in and erasing the thousands of miles separating us. These days are made complete just by hearing my beloved's voice, reassuring me of the friendship between us. My happiness is complete just loving my beloved, albeit unrequited, from afar.

An Air Supply song does that to you. Every song they sing is personal. And hits you where it matters - the heart. No wonder, in every Filipino life, there is an Air Supply theme song playing in the background. And in my life, I Want to Give It All will be playing as long as I live and continue to love my beloved.
Posted by Gilbert Yap Tan at 8:26 PM Labels: favorite songs, songs, What Air Supply Song are You? lito antoque said...

i really really love that song too.di kc masayado mataas ang pitch but super ganda ng melody and the lyrics.
good luck sir...

September 15, 2009 at 7:04 AM bariles said...

Got it Gilbert!

You are Entry #1!

Bilis ha?

Thanks for joining and hope to see you at the GenSan Gym soon!

September 15, 2009 at 8:33 AM jborela said...

wow, i love this, Sir G!

September 15, 2009 at 9:24 AM sheng said...

Oh, the love story behind the song, haha, i feel you sir G, good thing mine's now requited by a good man.

September 16, 2009 at 4:41 AM Daxi Weida said...

this post sets the standard for the blog contest. mahirap abutin to. sasali pa kaya ako? :)

September 16, 2009 at 7:23 AM orman said...

whew... naiyak ako sa sinulat mo gilbert! been there. done that. malay mo... the next time you meet your beloved in person, sya pa ang mauunang magsasabing... I LOVE YOU PALA... hehehehe... good luck!

September 17, 2009 at 6:57 AM ArJay said...

naks! naman..para akong maiyak sa love story, kahit ikaw lang ang nakakaalam na love mo sya..then hindi mo rin pala alam na hindi nya masabi ang ganito..

Here I am playing with those memories again
And just when I thought time had set me free
Those thoughts of you keep taunting me

Holding you, a feeling I never outgrew
Though each and every part of me has tried
Only you can fill that space inside

So theres no sense pretending
My heart its not mending..hehe

Very well said sir..nice post.

September 21, 2009 at 4:29 PM The Itinerant said...

hi sir! i just finished reading your entry for judging hehehhe... nice work!

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