Loving Rachel Alejandro
She has always been my idol. Her vocal range being one of the very few that I could possibly reach.
Ironically, her songs that I’ve always liked are the songs that define how I feel everytime I stumble and fall…
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1994, SENTIMENTAL, Alpha Records
SENTIMENTAL features the multi-awarded track Paalam Na, a song she co-wrote with then-boyfriend Dingdong Avanzado. Little did she know, that despite the fact it was the song that was to establish her as one of the country’s foremost female artists - the song was also a harbinger of things to come in her relationship with Avanzado. The song was, in part, based on a letter he once wrote to her.
"There’s so much truth in every line of the song ‘Paalam Na’. I was not prepared to say goodbye that time," Rachel pondered. "I am very emotional so I thought of writing a song in Tagalog based on Dingdong’s letter."
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Nais ko lang malaman mo
Laman ng aking puso
Baka di na mabigyan ng ibang pagkakataon
Na sabihin ito sa `yo
`Di ko ito ginusto
Na tayo’y magkalayo
Nguni’t di magkasundo
Damdamin laging `di magtagpo ohh
Paalam na aking mahal
Kay hirap sabihin
Paalam na aking mahal
Masakit isipin na kahit nagmamahalan pa
Puso’t isipa’y magkaiba
Maaring `di lang laan sa isa’t isa
Sana’y huwag mong isipin
Na pag-ibig ko’y di tunay
Dahil sa `yo lang nadama
Ang isang pag-ibig na walang kapantay
Nguni’t masasaktan lang ang puso ang pagbibigyan
Kahit pamamaalam ang siyang bulong ng isipan
Paalam na aking mahal
Kay hirap sabihin
Paalam na aking mahal
Masakit isipin na kahit
nagmamahalan pa
Puso’t isipa’y magkaiba
Maaring `di lang laan sa isa’t isa
Darating sa buhay mo
Pag-ibig na laan sa `yo
At mamahalin ka niya
Nang higit sa maibibigay ko wohhhh
Paalam na aking mahal
Kay hirap sabihin
Paalam na aking mahal
Masakit isipin na kahit
nagmamahalan pa
Puso’t isipa’y magkaiba
Maaring `di lang laan sa isa’t isa…
