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CREDITS | LYRICS | COMMENT

::credits::

-All tracks written by VJ Manzo

-All tracks Produced, Mastered & Engineered by VJ Manzo at V World Studios, NJ

-VJ Manzo - guitars and vocals

-Chris Manzo - bass guitar

-JP Sosa - guitar

-Steven Paul - drums

-Kristen Botelho - vocals

**use of additional vocals by Rachel Paul and Cheryl Botelho on "Still In Love With You [String Version]"

::lyrics::

Still In Love With You

Words & Music VJ Manzo

VJ Manzo-guitar and vocal; Rachel Paul-vocals; Cheryl Botelho-vocals; Chris Manzo-bass; Steven Paul-drums

I go through the day

Just to get home

When I'm alone with you my love

Time's had its day

But I'm still in love

I'm still in love with you my Lord

People may go

We don't need anyone I'm still in love with you

You'll never go

I'm still in love with you

You captured my heart

And made me smile

I'm still in love with you my Love

Though it was dark

You never left

I'm still in love with you my Love

I'm still in love with you my friend

Before Heaven

Words & Music VJ Manzo

VJ Manzo-keyboard and vocals; Kristen Botelho-vocals; JP Sosa-guitar; Chris Manzo-bass; Steven Paul-drums

I lift my hands before the heavens

I lift my face before the sky

I lift my voice before the heavens

I lift my world before the sky

Be my Hope

Be my guide

Be the calm within my world

In my eyes

In my life

Be the calm within my world

Beyond a Dream

Words and Music by VJ Manzo

VJ Manzo-all instruments and vocals; Chris Manzo- bass

Let's go for a dream

Maybe we can just lose ourselves again

Is the world as it seems

Maybe one day we'll find ourselves again

We can live where our hearts will take us

We can dream of a day we hope to see

Will you take us away to somewhere

Let's live on the dream we hope to see

Will you show me a bright tomorrow

Maybe something ahead that I can't see

Maybe something to heal my sorrow

We can live in a world beyond a dream

Let's go for a smile

And save what was lost forever

Someday when we fly

Maybe then we can find ourselves again

We can walk in a world of wonder

We can dance on the seas of standing time

We can stare in the stars of heaven

We can dream of a day when we can fly

You can fix all the things I've broken

You can mend all the time that's broken me

Maybe just with the words you've spoken

We can live in a world beyond a dream

Before Heaven (Backwards Mix)

Words & Music VJ Manzo

VJ Manzo-remix, vocals & additional looping; Kristen Botelho-vocals; JP Sosa-guitar; Chris Manzo-bass;

Still In Love With You (String Version)

Words & Music VJ Manzo

VJ Manzo-remix, vocals & programming; Rachel Paul-vocals; Cheryl Botelho-vocals

::comment::

Clear Blue - ::still in love with you:: CD single

We got the idea to release "Still In Love With you" as a single over the summer when we were touring and running low on copies of 'titles'. We released this single as a way of holding people over until we finished recording our new material.

This 5-song CD single featured the re-recorded title track "Still In Love With You" as well as an electric version of "Beyond a Dream". It also contained a mildly-varied version of "Before Heaven". Two unadvertised tracks (4 & 5) contained on the CD that are not listed on the front of the disc are the infamous backwards mix of "Before Heaven" and the string version of "Still In Love With You". If you read my comments about 'titles', you know why I didn't advertise these additional tracks.

This single was officially released in October 2003. It came packaged in a "clear blue" plastic clam shell case.

How strange that our first CD release [self-titled album] cost the most money to produce [studio and disc production] up to this point, and here were are now releasing a single that, like 'titles' and 'the Parallel', was homegrown in my little studio. Even the disc packaging has been less costly. This one doesn't even have liner notes--just a disc packaged in a case. Don't most bands start off with cheap stuff and then get better stuff? I guess it's a lesson in humility.

~VJ Manzo October 27, 2003