A very, very old song from way back in the 90’s  crept up to me recently and I can’t get it out of my head. I was being reminded as to how much I had actually loved the song when I was in my teens. Sung and composed by Dulcie Soh, a Singaporean lead vocalist of a band then called DNA (short for Do Not Ask and later renamed themselves Radioactive), I found myself being callously drawn and pulled back into the lyrics. I love her voice too.

I don’t think the song ever made it big outside Singapore, and so search results for the song did not have a lot of hits. It took me a little bit more search queries before I finally found it on YouTube.

A melancholy song but I find this song to be such a gem, and the lyrics, extremely meaningful:

 

I picked up the pieces, that you left behind

Gone is the dawn, out comes the sun

New day’s beginning, yesterday’s gone

Tomorrow’s a mystery, no battle yet won

 

Sometimes it’s better left alone

Sometimes it’s better left untold

Some things were better before

Some things not the same anymore

Life’s full of changes…they say….

 

Life’s like a flower, fading with time

It ticks by the hour, till the  journey is done

Left with a memory, a glimpse of the past

Just for a while, I thought it would last

 

Sometimes it’s better not to know

Sometimes it’s better not to show

Some things were better before

Some things not the same anymore

Well life’s full of changes, they say

 

Life’s full of blunder, betrayal and lies

Regret’s not the answer

For the strong will survive

 

Sometimes it’s better left unread

Sometimes it’s better left unsaid

Some things were better before

Some things not the same anymore

Well life’s full of changes, they say…

Your life’s full of changes….

They say…

Changes they say…changes they say…

 

My old-time-almost-forgotten favourite song has managed to make its way back into my life from the depths of my memory, injecting me with a melancholy sensation that is just too overwhelming to bear. I guess, some things were indeed better before and that there really are some things that just perhaps, won’t be the same anymore.

It’s a cruel world and hopefully, what doesn’t kill you, only makes you stronger to survive.