My Romance / Let's Fall in Love

Oh, come on

Did you really think I was gonna do the entire show in Filipino?

My romance doesn't have to have a moon in the sky

My romance doesn't need a blue lagoon standing by

No month of may, no twinkling stars

No hide away, no soft guitars

My romance doesn't need a castle rising in Spain

Nor a dance to a constantly surprising refrain

Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true

My romance doesn't need a thing but you

Let's fall in love

Why shouldn't we fall in love?

Our hearts are made of it

Let's take a chance

Why be afraid of it

Let's close our eyes and make our own paradise

Little we know of it, still we can try

To make a go of it

We might have been meant for each other

To be or not to be

Let our hearts discover

Let's fall in love

Why shouldn't we fall in love

Now is the time for it, now is the time for it

Let's fall in love

To be or not to be

Let our hearts discover

Romance

Why shouldn't we romance?

Romance

Let's make our own romance

Little we know of it, still we can try

To make a go of it

We might have been meant for each other

Let our hearts discover

Let's fall in love

Why shouldn't we fall in love

Now is the time for it, while we are young

We can make our dreams come true

My romance

My romance

My romance

Doesn't need a thing but you

Just you

I am from the Philippines

That is where I was born and raised

And that is where I now live with my own family

And that first song, Salamat Salamat Musika, is actually a thank you

To the music

And it's not just that I'm being polite, but

In my home country, music is an essential part of our daily lives

I've been singing for as long as I can remember

And if anybody was to ask me when exactly I started singing

I don't think I could pinpoint an exact time or place or event

I do come from an artistic family

Sculptors, actors, even prima ballerinas

And my mother encouraged my brother and me to continue in the tradition

I think I was about nine years old when my mom had the bright idea

That I should record an album

But the question is, what songs?

Usually in the Philippines you'll see these

Pretty little girls in their pretty little dresses

Singing "The minute you walked in the joint"

Or they would be singing love songs

And my mom would say

"She has no right to sing love songs"

"She's only nine, what does she know"

So we went with this