Chorus:
Gone for so long, back then was long gone
If you come home…
You know we’d still be in the game but not the same since you’ve been
Gone for so long, left us to hold on
But if you haven’t flown off
We’d never realize the things that made us strong since you’ve been gone
Verse 1:
We livin’ life like it should’ve been way before
You left the island to get a job and make some dough
I guess you know, I’m doin’ good and that’s fo sho
Man, a lot has changed since you left the floor, oh
I’m reminiscin’ bout the times you were here
Complaining bout shit, you just had to compare
The life here from there and what’s best for us
I’m all grown up marunong naku sumakay ng bus
Papunta ng skwela, kapos sap era
Buhay estudyante araw-araw parang gera
Pero ayos lang naman ako’y pumapasa
Tuition ko’y tumataas, grado ko’y bumababa
But it’s all good evertything’s a brand new scene
And everything is comin’ true like it’s all a dream
You know what I mean, I hope you understand
You don’t know what’s goin’ on with my life now
Since you’ve been…
Repeat chorus
Verse 2:
Hey dad, you’ve been gone for a second now
Now, I’m tryna find out how to break it down
Our situation how do I try to wipe the frown
Our generation now, writing down
Answers that we haven’t found
Criticize, open your eyes
Make the pain part of you, even if it’s hard to do
Give us a reason to believe in a better Philippines
Even though it seems like the seasons
Our loved ones keep leaving
To my peers, all these years going through college
There’s a life much better, than a call center
But there ain’t nothing wrong with that
It’s hard to make a living
Playing cards we were dealt in this life we were given
Nahihirapan magtulung-tulungan
Mahirap kasi gisingin ang nagtutulug-tulugan
Wake up, words from within, since you’ve been…
Repeat chorus
Verse 3:
Since you’ve been gone, since you’ve been gone
Why’d you have to leave your family all alone?
I’m looking at this window pane, tryna reminisce
Why this life is such a burden and I really, really miss
I used to laugh about the misery, that do exist
But now I’m cryin’ about the pain I used to resist
Everything is but a mystery, like an empty fallacy
Don’t you see that life would be
Much perfect if you’re here with me
Help me to regenerate and get thru my everyday
So to say that I have someone beside me all the way
Hey, perhaps it’s just a fantasy
To live my life to the fullest with a family
A Pinoy is incomplete, every kababayan
Can you hear me? Can you feel me? You too busy
Everything I’ve been thru wish that you have seen
But I guess it’s too impossible for me and you
Since you’ve been…
Bridge:
Since you’ve been gone…
A lot of things has changed
Tho many stay the same
Like that smiling faces
That can’t be erased
And that sweet street cuisine
Fight the pain like Pac
Coz you know you like Venus
You Miss Philippines
Repeat chorus
