Lifehouse in Manila!

Music: Bridges by Lifehouse

I’ve seen it all and it’s never enough

It keeps leaving me needing you.

–“Take Me Away,” Lifehouse (Stanley Climbfall)

Lifehouse is holding a concert on May 26, and I’m giddy with excitement, so much that I think fuzzy wuzzy bunnies and hamsters just about made my tummy their permanent nesting ground until the weekend. Oh yes, they’re doing cartwheels even as I type down these words.

And it’s not even because I’m obsessed with LH’s lead vocalist Jason Wade (or maybe I am, just an itsy bitsy bit). I don’t have the knack for proper fangirling anyway. I don’t squeal (not as loudly as the others, at least), I don’t stalk (except when I search for LH music videos and interviews via YouTube), and I don’t collect his photos (and personal belongings) for my shrine (not that I have one . . . no, seriously, I don’t). And it’s not like I’ve memorized all their songs either. I mean, I know “Hanging By a Moment” by heart (even the little pauses and all), but there are a few songs that I wouldn’t recognize on first hearing, not until I hear Jason’s voice booming in my headset or the speakers.

But while I’m not a full-blown (or all-out?) fan(girl), I am a fan, still. Because Lifehouse introduced “Hanging By a Moment” to the world, and it has become my favorite song of all time ever since. Because that song is not simply a love song (although I don’t mind if it is), but also about a spiritual connection with your God (what? check Jason’s statement about how he wrote the song!). Because although Lifehouse is not a Christian band per se, their songs can very well be considered spiritual, without turning you off or suffocating you because of a sense of forced morality.

So, yes, I am ecstatic at the fact that Lifehouse will be in Manila this Saturday. And while the rest of the population is abuzz with Lady Gaga and her Born This Way ball, I’ll quietly wait for the weekend to come, so I can rock it out with the rest of them Lifehouse fans. Because rather than being content with the fact that we are just born this way, I will choose to believe that someday, we’ll all find it, whatever it is that we’re looking for, inside the disarray J And that when that day comes, we will discover who we (really) are.

Yosh! My dream playlist for Saturday (in no particular order):

1. Hanging By a Moment (No Name Face)
2. Everything (No Name Face)
3. Quasimodo (No Name Face) OR Simon (No Name Face)
4. Spin (Stanley Climbfall)
5. Take Me Away (Stanley Climbfall)
6. Sky is Falling (Stanley Climbfall) OR Stanley Climbfall (Stanley Climbfall)
7. Blind (Lifehouse)
8. You and Me (Lifehouse) OR We’ll Never Know (Lifehouse)
9. Days Go By (Lifehouse) OR All in All (Lifehouse)
10. Disarray (Who We Are)
11. First Time (Who We Are)
12. Make Me Over (Who We Are)
13. Had Enough (Smoke and Mirrors)
14. Falling In (Smoke and Mirrors)
15. Wrecking Ball (Smoke and Mirrors)

Nothing left to do but wait for Saturday then. See you in a few days, Jason, Rick, Bryce and Ben!