End of the journey

Everything has its shelf-life. Seems like the band's shelf-life might be coming to an end. Of late, things haven't quite been at its rosiest. Although at a 'pending' and 'think about it' stage, I do believe that the brothers in the band going separate ways is only a formality and a matter of time now. Nothing personal, just taking different routes from now on. It shouldn't overflow to our personal relationships with each other. Fumi just likes things done his way all the time so perhaps it's best he ventures into a new phase of his musical career on his own. We'll still support him the best way we can, whenever we can. I'll never forget the times we spent together as good friends and as a band. Ups and downs..we have boatloads of those. We've known each other for almost 10 years. I still remember always wanting to have a bandmate like him because of how well he could sing. He still remembers always wanting to have a drummer buddy like me, though I suck at playing the drums and I still do. These are some of the more 'exclusive'(oh alright! Silly more like!) photos of the band I had the hardest of times looking through thousands for, just to reminisce...







Who knows what will happen from now? I could never imagine myself playing full time with another band and I still find that concept a difficult one to grasp. Fumi cannot accept that he will play with sessionists or strangers or a brand new band again. Could time change this? Who knows? It's not a choice we want to make, but it's more of the fact that we have to. Man...now that sucks.

Here's a song I wrote, it's called 'End of the journey' and was supposed to be on our long-overdue EP but is still incomplete. Not sure if we'll finish this song as well for the EP. I somehow feel we should. It's a song about my journey with Fumi, as friends and also as bandmates. Don't know how it'll apply now...but I guess we just have to hang in there...

End of the journey

When we were young and vulnerable then,
The world made no difference,
Common interest brought us near,
Into a friendship that was dear,
Although we didn’t get to see,
What our futures could be then,
Though you were far and distant at times,
But this what I have to say…

Chorus:
And I hope you find your way,
To the end of the journey,
And I hope you find your way,
To the end of the journey…

Then our paths began to meet,
Opened doors for something big,
But it soon began to fall,
And we could have lost it all,
We didn’t learn to appreciate at all,
Often took things for granted,
Once we came back to it again,
Now it’s time to build it once more…

Chorus:
And I hope you find your way,
To the end of the journey,
And I hope you find your way,
To the end of the journey…

SOLO

Now that we’ve gone through thick and thin,
And we’ve seen each other grow,
But I’ve also seen you fail and fall,
But I’ll be waiting at the end…

Chorus:

And we’ll make it…
Though it won’t be easy…
But we’ll make it…
Just believe…

(Copyright - John's Mistress)

"Wish they weren't breaking up. Wish i knew how he felt. Wish i was with him now, listening to his music while in his arms." (JJ, Jan 2005)

I wish we didn't have to either...