LAV DIAZ sings: IMPIYERNO (HELL)

Lav Diaz, probably one of the most important contemporary Filipino filmmakers, has released an album.
His monumental epic films: Ebolusyon ng Pamilyang Pilipino, Batang Westside, Heremias, etc... known infamously for their length, are also acknowledged for it's depth and weight on human and social consciousness.
Hailed as "The Martyr filmmaker" in an issue of Rogue magazine, Philbert Dy writes:

"If I had a thousand lives to offer, I would offer them all to God," said Lorenzo Ruiz defiantly to the tribunal that would put him to death. One would imagine that Lav Diaz, placed before the same judgement, would say much of the same; though he would replace the word "God" with "cinema".

ANG PINAGDAANANG BUHAY

written & performed by Lav Diaz
from the album "IMPIYERNO: Songs From & Inspired By The Cinema Of Lav Diaz"

cinamatography by Albert Banzon
edited by Lawrence S. Ang
translation by Dodo Dayao

produced & directed by Khavn De La Cruz



The Life Lived

When you woke up one morning
No one was beside you
No friend was waiting
Orphaned by your solitude

Playing in your mind
The road once travelled
Abandoned footprints
Dreams that died hard

You walk down the street
Under their stares
The shadows that dog you
Ghosts of days past

Everyday you struggle
Crawling in gloom
Fighting to arrest
Your consciousness weakening

As severe fatigue hits your body
Drowning in times passage
You hope it will lose its gravity
This weight you bear

Hope for the storm to calm
Wade in the rain
Embrace your loss
Dont fear your solitude

And in the end all you will remember
Is a face looking down
Is a name receding
Is a love unrequited

And in the end all you will remember
Is a picture fading
Is a name receding
Is a love unrequited

And in the end all you will remember
Are the names receding
The shadows dissolving
Of the world youre leaving