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Forgiefan

by Nicholas Chim

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1.
In The End 05:05
take your time you'll know why  in the end we two lovers can never be friends so much for songs to place us where we belong memories still vivid  but your feelings are all gone I still love you after all this time I still need you from the daily grind to pass me by trouble stays  in your gaze eat me up maybe my soul will fill your cup bitter pills taste the same in a winter chill you choose to live on dragging the ball and chain four years long I still feel you your knife in my heart I still see you fucking in the dark so run me dry
2.
and i’m feeling so because of you behind your wall its hard to break through would you let me in, please? would you fill me up with your disease? and i’m falling asleep in these alien sheets but you don’t care as long as you come first and i’m begging you please, would you set me free? but you don’t care as long as you come first beautiful stranger in the night, would you make me safe? cos family isn’t right, in this day and age i’m letting you go to the stars i believe i can love you, even from afar Baby i can never know the songs i can never know the songs you like, you like baby i can never touch your heart i can never touch your heart, your heart
3.
Here’s to feeling unprepared, disbelief at what you’ve chosen Dogs on their bellies, oh they’re scared, water on the street has frozen You say you belong to nowhere and no one, son, but you’re wrong I’d take you for my own but I’m weary to the bone I can’t take another step, another failure in your eyes Previous knowledge understands all that I’m doing is wasting time You say you have the book and my name is written in red I think you’re a liar but I’ll retire for dead Condescending me Falling off the tree How’d you know my heart would stray for these? This new year makes me think of you, flowers in the evening sky Your voice is laughter on the wind, I try to run but my heart won’t die I’ve fallen to my knees but this kingdom and its queen is cruel The vision’s uncertain, February is like a jewel Ten years, life has won Shadows cling to bonds Earthly games you play alone to tease
4.
And you’ve fallen asleep between my arms and cheek to cheek but I know I can never be whole And you’ve found your place wrapped in his arms I’m lost in the space between your head and your heart Which is home? Is he handsome? Is he strong? Does he give you everything besides your own very song? I bet you’re nervous just like me Do I tie you down while he sets you free? Tempting as it is to turn to you Your breath needs to live, your words they find no use In this last embrace, I know that smell You reek of his stench Yes you play this game too well Can I forgive this? No more or less Here I suffer your delusion, your call of distress Yet you’re perfect, so unlike me I sense your hatred, you are so discreet I curse God for my fate Once again I’m too late  To love you To love you always Oh my love, the dawn is near It should be clear you’re not going anywhere The clock strikes three, I failed to see what you mean to me Oh my love
5.
Midnight 05:06
Your love from your slipper to my shoe Is this how you show it? that’s what you do You leave me hanging on a tree You decide without asking me And you have your cushions And i just keep on writing All these sad songs for you My love oh you don’t have a clue All these talks about me and you Your love is like a vine round a tree This box is suffocating me And you have your distractions All I have is in my head But my dreams are not good enough for you Isn’t “no” an answer enough? I keep silent to call your bluff You want to prove you’re doing well Your words ring familiar bells And you have your reasons And I just keep on lying Keep on lying that I'm true Just so you know my heart is cruel This garden of will is not made for you And this time I’m turning my back Sliding down your serenading Just so you know I’d keep you simple Simple so we’d both be free And I doubt you would understand That you were meant for heavenly things Don’t misunderstand (don’t misunderstand) You’re just a minuet
6.
And she’s found herself a way to live her life without me I’m guessing you’ll do the same, you’ll blossom well so near the sea With the wind in your hair and the sand at your feet There’s no person you cannot defeat  So go on, you’ll go on and disarm me Take the fallen to the sides, I moved too fast to savour The morning light in your eyes, sleepy with the dust of silver Rising from these depths as your second not your first Never to quench my longing and my thirst Oh you, take out your wand and charm me I’ll take you, take you far from heights you’ve known I’d price you, you higher than all the diamonds shown My treasure, my pearl turned out to be a lie And the folly, the spray is getting in her eyes I’d hit her, smack her wide awake from dreams I’d save her, even if rescue took all of me But she’s so far away You’re far away
7.
Caterwauling 03:44
Canyons cannot carve that face for me If I stared too hard please excuse me the intrusion I’ve fallen away from following the seasons I’m too gone, too gone to see reasons (to leave you) You’ll never know just how it feels to be on this side of losing you You’ll never show anyone else that softer side of losing you Too proud, I was too proud to see your frown I know you, would you like to me hear me drown Douse my face, maybe I’ll see clearer I need to believe, believe in a future  baby you say you’re alone but your love has arrived just in a shape you’ve never known
8.
You don’t understand the value of time You don’t feel the flowers, see the sun for its shine Your world is so small but you won’t save your friend What do you know other than I want you again? But still I’ll just need you somehow Though you make me so old My journey’s end is nowhere tonight But still I press on through Does the tea taste sweet when your body’s frail? Luxury is all you need in your fairytale I can be a sailor, a lawyer, anything you’d like I’m addicted to you, you’re a fire at night But consider the facts aloud You live your life so bold I’d save you if I knew the way out Its past midnight so you go
9.
And you know there’s no return To the place that we as children burned The riches at stake For the lies we make This house still stands on the hill Waiting for you to make it a home The land has changed  Does hope remain? I can’t understand why I am doomed I fear the worst, my heart’s about to burst As your image grows dimmer everyday with time Seas are rising in the dark As the sun is winding down to rest But I sit here and fear Your presence still lingers dear Fire raging all around Father’s closed the trapdoor above The ashes and smoke Fill my lungs and I choke I can’t control what fortune is due You abuse or I lose Your kindness is an excuse to forget what’s mine I’ll never know why I needed you A hole in black has taken its place And there’s no remaining trace of the life left behind This house still stands on the hill Waiting for you to make your home
10.
Your fire burns deep but this air is cold, I am blind to see you come to seek, I'll do as I'm told but I am not the key heaven won't find us a way to be free sins of our fathers linger with me seasons will change but my love stays the same so kiss her for me kiss her for me This river runs free  a pot of gold lies at the bottom of the stream no word you say takes me the rise and fall of your chest is how you plead I know you'll be gone when the morning comes I'm stubborn, I lie in bed and I yawn hoping your taste will linger on Autumn leaves blow in the wind without fear I'll travel far as long as you are here Winter has gone but your heart won't belong so kiss her for me kiss her for me

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Straits Times Singapore - ★★★★
TODAY Singapore - ★★★★ "This is definitely an album not to be missed"
TimeOut Singapore - "among the vanguard of today’s Singaporean singer-songwriters."

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released August 21, 2011

Recorded by Leonard Soosay at Snakeweed Studios
Mixed by Leonard Soosay
Mastered by Troy Glessner of Spectre Mastering Studio, Seattle, WA USA

ⓟ & ⓒ 2011 Nicholas Chim
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Artwork: Kristal Melson

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Nicholas Chim Singapore

Having grown up in the working class, Nicholas uses songwriting as both catharsis and self- discovery.

His performance highlights include being the first Asian artist ever to perform at Maifeld Derby Festival in Mannheim, Japan Music Week as well as opening for Kina Grannis and David Choi on their Asian tours.
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