Songs from a Room
July Session

Sofar Sounds Singapore

Go to Artist

Debra Khng

Set List
Calypso 
Breakfast
Blackforest Birthday
Spielberg Dream
Orchard

Debra Khng

Verse 1:
Walking beside you
In December’s gold
Rain, falling on your apple cheeks
Scarlet as your soul on fire
Maybe I’m starry-eyed
Watching you speak

Pre-chorus 1:
Words blossoming in mid-air
And a heart so deliciously open
It’s making me cry
But what can I give
Is it forbidden

Chorus:
Will you be patient
While I go tend to my soul
Will you be patient
While I go tend to my soul
And when the night is over
I will bring you a heart
So full of red, ripe love

Verse 2:
Walking alone
In December’s grief
Shadowy inroads
Without your company
I’m going deep
Into the garden tonight
To till the ground
Now broken
And washed with tears

Pre-chorus 2:
Sink my hands into the dirt
Pull out the weeds, the dead roots
Of the old family tree
So the seed of love
You gave to me
Can finally come into the light
Give me light Chorus:
Will you be patient
While I go tend to my soul
Will you be patient
While I go tend to my soul
And when the night is over
I will bring you a heart
So full of red, ripe love

Verse 3:
Let me walk with you
In December
Along this bottle-necked
Cherry jammed street
Long lonely overnights
Peeling back to the core
With a silent knife

Pre-chorus 3:
Let agony sit and mellow with age
Like sweet, sweet cider for you and me
Bubbling out this moment
In the amber of uncertainty
Let me love you

Outro Chorus:
With a red, ripe love
And when the night is over
I will bring you a heart
So full of red, ripe love

Retrofocus

Set List
Wait a Minute (Cover)
Hands Arounds

Retrofocus

[Verse 1:]
Her eyes turn to me
The sight for solemn day
The way he moves so nasty
I hope that he surprises me

[Pre-Chorus:]
Calls of desire hit me
Like waves crashing to the shore
Leaving me in a state of uncertainty
Oh, I’m a mess when you tease

[Chorus:]
I can see it in your eyes
The way you kiss me up at night
Oh baby can’t you see it
The way you run your hands around
Makes me go a little wild
Why won’t you come on down

[Refrain:]
Coming back you know, I’m coming down x3
I’m Coming back now
Coming back you know, I’m coming down x3
I’m coming back to you

[Verse 2:]
Now you’re standing right before me
Yet I wonder if you’re here
Cause it feels like a game
But baby I ain’t playin’ (no I ain't playin no I won't)

[Pre-Chorus:]
Calls of desire hit me
Like waves crashing to the shore
Leaving me in a state of uncertainty
Oh, I’m a mess when you tease

[Chorus: x3]
I can see it in your eyes
The way you kiss me up at night
Oh baby can’t you see it
The way you run your hands around
Makes me go a little wild
Why would you come on down

[Outro:]
You got me running insane
You want me to
You got me running in circles like I’m one of you
You got me running insane
You want me to
Oh, I know you want me
But no I’m not the one for you
Happy Tune

Retrofocus

[Verse 1:]
Open up your eyes so we can go
For a ride in town
So I can take you to the places that have shown me the reason why
You’d like to

[Pre-Chorus:]
Shake up to the beat now darling
Won't you wake up
Pass the money to the cab and then we’ll go on
Come on baby now to the dance floor
So get your freak on

[Chorus:]
Move your body right here next to me
I’ll show you a good time baby
Loosen up your shoulders and rewind
Back to the way we started

[Verse 2:]
Baby just let me in and tell me your emotions
Don’t want another, just wanna hold ya
Cause I’ve been wondering bout’ the time you used to say
How you went on your own way
Why won’t you just

[Pre-Chorus:]
Shake up to the beat now darling
Won't you wake up
Pass the money to the cab and then we’ll go on
Come on baby now to the dance floor
So get yout freak on

[Chorus:]
Move your body right here next to me
I’ll show you a good time baby
Loosen up your shoulders and rewind
Back to the way we started

[Outro:]
In my life, I’ve never seen
A boy like you to call me in
Underneath the moonlight shine so bright
Wildflower

Retrofocus

[Verse 1:]
Spent nights asking where am I going
Everything seems so far away
What am I doing
Am I going the right way
Feels like losing direction
Could you please pull me out
Of this grey
I need some light to carry on

[Pre-Chorus:]
When you know, you gotta keep it in check
Was a struggle now I’m 8 feet high
Climbing out these walls
Gotta empty my cup before I go

[Chorus:]
Do you ever wanna find connection
Draw me a map to start locating
Do you ever wanna search for meaning
Find out where you’re heading to next

[Verse 2:]
Moving slowly, taking it step by step
Checking out the sun & moon
There must something in these charts
Indigo-blue, I don’t think I feel so well
Left or right, climbing up
Oh Jupiter, which way do I go, where do I go?
Just gotta keep moving, I think Mecury’s got me.
Aint nothing, Aint nothing, Aint nothing gonna bring me down from outer space.  

[Pre-Chorus:]
When you know, you gotta keep it in check
Was a struggle now I’m 8 feet high
Climbing out these walls
Gotta empty my cup before I go

[Chorus:]
Do you ever wanna find connection
Draw me a map to start locating
Do you ever wanna search for meaning
Find out where you’re heading to next

[Pre-Chorus:]
When you know, you gotta keep it in check
Was a struggle now I’m 8 feet high
Climbing out these walls
Gotta empty my cup before I go

[Chorus:]
Do you ever wanna find connection
Draw me a map to start locating
Do you ever wanna search for meaning
Find out where you’re heading to next
Distant Memory

Dru Chen

You used to lie on my chest
You used to give me your best
Now you're just a distant memory

You'd fulfill all of my needs
I wanted to give you my seed
Now our love's a distant memory

And I'm trying to get over you, baby
And I'm trying to get over you, baby
And I'm trying, and I'm trying
And I'm trying to get over you, baby

I'd wrap you up in my arms
You used to give me your charms
Now our love's a distant memory

And I'm trying to get over you, baby
And I'm trying to get over you, baby
And I'm trying, and I'm trying
And I'm trying to get over you, baby

It hurts me down to my soul
The way you walked out that door
Now our love's a distant memory
The Space Between Us

Dru Chen

A ring, I could put down all my cash
Run and tell the teller that
It’s what I want to do
‘Cause I want to be with you

So, I could take a lifetime loan
To try and buy your heart a home
To fill the space between love-lost and a dream

Could she ever find a way
A way to escape the demons of her mind
And since she left this town
Her heart was upside-down
From feeling too much pain
So she decided to go away

For love, obsession is a dangerous art
I rolled the dice and played my cards
What else could I do
To convince you I was true

And life has a way of making things unclear
A paralysis of fear
My insecurities laid bare for you to see

Could she ever find a way
A way to escape the demons of her mind
And since she left this town
Her heart was upside-down
From feeling too much pain
So she decided to go away

I tried to bridge the space between us
But you tried to keep your distance
Nothing felt so right
How could I ever let you go
Mirror Work

Dru Chen

Ever look into the mirror, babe
And wonder who she's turned into
All the smoke-screens that fill your mind, babe
Ain't got nothin' to do with you

When it threatens to pull you off the rails
All the white noise upstairs only makes you frail
And all that happens only happens to fail
Oh, mirror work

Three-sixty degrees of shade
People tell you how you ought to be made
Can't complain, don't you strain your brain

Ever look into the mirror, babe
Wonderin' who she is turnin' into
All the smoke screens that fill up your mind, babe
Can't do nothin' to harm you (x3)
When I Look Into Your Eyes

Dru Chen

Mama, it's absurd how we've been apart
When I once was connected to you
Through my umbilical cord
And every inch of you fed every inch of me

When I look into your eyes
There's still a part of me that lives inside
I want to share it with you (x2)

Lover, we share a roof now but we hardly talk
Is this the same girl who'd sneak out at night
To steal away in my dad's car?
When every inch of you felt every inch of me

When I look into your eyes
There's still a part of her that lives inside
I want to share it with you (x2)

This ain't how life was meant to be
I'm here with you; you're with me
Sometimes when I look into your eyes
I get all choked up inside

Brother, when we were three or four we'd dirty our feet
Never knew no colour lines, class, or creed
We just played like the whole world should play
With every grain of sand that fell upon our knees

When I look into your eyes
I want to see the soul that lives inside
I want to share it with you (x4)
I Only Get It From You

Dru Chen

Hush, little darling, don't listen to a word they say
They don't know me like you do there ain't no way
You think I go from one show to the next one-night stand
I'm here to tell you, darling, that ain't part of my plan

'Cause when we get down to it
Love's never felt so complete
It's poetry in motion; addictive devotion
I only get it from you
I only get it from you

You ask me, little darling, what is it that I see
That's so hard to find from any other dame I could meet
I see someone who stands up on her own two feet
And has all the world's riches in her heart, so deep

See, when we get down to it
Love's never felt so complete
It's poetry in motion; addictive devotion I only get it from you
I only get it from you

It's no coincidence that we do
Connect so physically hearts beat on the Two
'Cause when the soul understands another
(Spirits combine)
There's nothing that dares to break us
(Loves intertwined)

When we get down to it
Love's never felt so complete
It's poetry in motion; addictive devotion
I only get it from you
I only get it from you