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Arun Sawad

[Instrumental hook and lead in to vocals]

[female choral echo]
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man

[male verse]
It ain’t no trick
You heard it straight
Not trying to remonstrate
Just trying to demonstrate
The style, the beat, the groove
that makes the fight
That moves the night
Sinner man
You gotta ignite

[verse]
Irregular verb
Instagram alert
Youtuber late EX instigate
Snap chat in your word
Forward scroll your F B herd
Send a telegram when your discord is under attack - WhatsApp? We chat.
Threads of motion in commotion
Rednote remote tick and tock the clock in your line
You’re runnin outta time

[female choral echo]
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
You got to know where you’re runnin to

[female choral echo]
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man

[Chorus]
Oh sinner man
[x3]
You got to know where you’re runnin to
Oh sinner man
[x2]
You got to know where you’re runnin to
U u u u
Cause you might end up losing your cool
Oh sinner man
Yeah, You got to know where you’re runnin to
U u u u

[verse]
Social control or a means to get your curl
Wrapped up in the swirl
Connected, selected, wide appeal, your friends and family revealed
Crossroads mid-roads down the line
T-section inter-mind round bend intertwine
Down down down the long express
To a place where you can rest

[female choral echo]
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
You got to know where you’re runnin to

[female choral echo]
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man

[female choral echo]
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man

[verse]
Yeah in the ethereal place between where all dimensions meet
One day you’ll be a glint, a speck, a ray passing by
Or staying still simultaneously speeding at the edge
Of infinity never reaching the end
…where you might just meet
Chaturmukha, Apollo, Amun, Tian Dee, Buddha Sakyamuni, known as the one, the God, the Sun, Ishvara, Ananta, Heh, Yahweh, Adonai, Allah, El Shaddai, Bhagavan, Tahngahlohwa, Wakan Tanka…

[chorus]
Oh sinner man [x3]
You got to know where you’re runnin to
U u u u
Oh sinner man [x2]
You got to know where you’re runnin to
[repeat and fade]

O' Sinna Man

The Year is 1992 and the world is in the midsts of the first internet revolution. People now have computers in their homes and a world of communication and functionality has opened up to them. Whether they are sitting on their IBM or a Macintosh, the little green or black DOS screen is now a window to a world of possibilities, a world of potential, a world of connectivity, productiveness, community and a new global culture based on a webtech future, an office processing mentality, a gaming world, a porn time, get in touch for a date world, a fast tech money game, make it big and squander it away, talk big and then walk the walk of liquidation shame ... glitch ... glitch ... glitch ... and chaos, desire, greed, subversion, control, propaganda and commerce, selling, scamming, spying, wanting, gambling – they all follow on from the call to action and the noise, the big ticket players guiding the hum, grounding the dollars into digital squeeze, transfer packets for your banking ease. Then of course, as things progress from limited small little village threads of Bebo, Myspace, IRC even – they point to a network of Six Degrees and Friendster – and all before the ubiquitous FB and YT and Linked In and Twitter too! The world turned and changed and filled with Startups and Get rich quick! And, peeps thrilled, bewildered and outright scared to put their deets online, so unfamiliar it was at first to speak out in the open, to share your intimate thoughts and photos familial too. Now was the age of the Insta and then on and on Tik Tok, X, Snap, and beyond into synthetic tech – Sssshhhh! We cannot say too much... You wouldn’t believe what we’ve seen...but tomorrow in your world there will be more than just what you see...
And now we hit the dance floor!!
Dance! Dance! Dance! In the electro-tech tomorrow world of our Synthetic counterparts! Yeah! Dance! Groove! Real Smooth! Techno-graph! Syncopated! Incorporated! Next level Networked! Reality now is in the mind! Bent in ways undisguised! Bent in ways Unfolded!
Yeah! Dance! Dance! Dance! In the electro-tech tomorrow world of our Synthetic Counterparts! Yeah!
Yeah!... Dance away the moments in the electro-field waves we discovered all around us – in the electro-tech Synthetic reality of a world we knew no more only to now be part of the river, the flow, the electro spark of a billion voices, thoughts, concepts and emotions...Now! We are pure – Dance! Dance! Dance! Synthetic realities in tomorrow worlds...

Synthecia Infinite Echoes

[Verse 1]
Walking down the street
The people you meet
They may not see you for who you are
You may just be
The next big thing
They'll ever see
But until you get there
You're just who you are

[Chorus]
You to me are everything
You're a little shining star
You're the greatest thing I've ever seen
You to me are a shining star

[Instrumental]
(Ooh-ooh)

[Verse 3]
So don't let anybody tell you no different
You're the best thing for who you are
And when you get there
You'll still be who you are

[Chorus]
You to me are the greatest thing I've seen
You're a little shining star
You're the greatest thing I've ever seen
You to me are a little shining star

[Repeat and fade]

Shine O Star


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[Instrumental hook and lead in to vocals]

[female choral echo]
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man

[male verse]
It ain’t no trick
You heard it straight
Not trying to remonstrate
Just trying to demonstrate
The style, the beat, the groove
that makes the fight
That moves the night
Sinner man
You gotta ignite

[verse]
Irregular verb
Instagram alert
Youtuber late EX instigate
Snap chat in your word
Forward scroll your F B herd
Send a telegram when your discord is under attack - WhatsApp? We chat.
Threads of motion in commotion
Rednote remote tick and tock the clock in your line
You’re runnin outta time

[female choral echo]
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
You got to know where you’re runnin to

[female choral echo]
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man

[Chorus]
Oh sinner man
[x3]
You got to know where you’re runnin to
Oh sinner man
[x2]
You got to know where you’re runnin to
U u u u
Cause you might end up losing your cool
Oh sinner man
Yeah, You got to know where you’re runnin to
U u u u

[verse]
Social control or a means to get your curl
Wrapped up in the swirl
Connected, selected, wide appeal, your friends and family revealed
Crossroads mid-roads down the line
T-section inter-mind round bend intertwine
Down down down the long express
To a place where you can rest

[female choral echo]
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
You got to know where you’re runnin to

[female choral echo]
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man

[female choral echo]
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man

[verse]
Yeah in the ethereal place between where all dimensions meet
One day you’ll be a glint, a speck, a ray passing by
Or staying still simultaneously speeding at the edge
Of infinity never reaching the end
…where you might just meet
Chaturmukha, Apollo, Amun, Tian Dee, Buddha Sakyamuni, known as the one, the God, the Sun, Ishvara, Ananta, Heh, Yahweh, Adonai, Allah, El Shaddai, Bhagavan, Tahngahlohwa, Wakan Tanka…

[chorus]
Oh sinner man [x3]
You got to know where you’re runnin to
U u u u
Oh sinner man [x2]
You got to know where you’re runnin to
[repeat and fade]

O' Sinna Man

The Year is 1992 and the world is in the midsts of the first internet revolution. People now have computers in their homes and a world of communication and functionality has opened up to them. Whether they are sitting on their IBM or a Macintosh, the little green or black DOS screen is now a window to a world of possibilities, a world of potential, a world of connectivity, productiveness, community and a new global culture based on a webtech future, an office processing mentality, a gaming world, a porn time, get in touch for a date world, a fast tech money game, make it big and squander it away, talk big and then walk the walk of liquidation shame ... glitch ... glitch ... glitch ... and chaos, desire, greed, subversion, control, propaganda and commerce, selling, scamming, spying, wanting, gambling – they all follow on from the call to action and the noise, the big ticket players guiding the hum, grounding the dollars into digital squeeze, transfer packets for your banking ease. Then of course, as things progress from limited small little village threads of Bebo, Myspace, IRC even – they point to a network of Six Degrees and Friendster – and all before the ubiquitous FB and YT and Linked In and Twitter too! The world turned and changed and filled with Startups and Get rich quick! And, peeps thrilled, bewildered and outright scared to put their deets online, so unfamiliar it was at first to speak out in the open, to share your intimate thoughts and photos familial too. Now was the age of the Insta and then on and on Tik Tok, X, Snap, and beyond into synthetic tech – Sssshhhh! We cannot say too much... You wouldn’t believe what we’ve seen...but tomorrow in your world there will be more than just what you see...
And now we hit the dance floor!!
Dance! Dance! Dance! In the electro-tech tomorrow world of our Synthetic counterparts! Yeah! Dance! Groove! Real Smooth! Techno-graph! Syncopated! Incorporated! Next level Networked! Reality now is in the mind! Bent in ways undisguised! Bent in ways Unfolded!
Yeah! Dance! Dance! Dance! In the electro-tech tomorrow world of our Synthetic Counterparts! Yeah!
Yeah!... Dance away the moments in the electro-field waves we discovered all around us – in the electro-tech Synthetic reality of a world we knew no more only to now be part of the river, the flow, the electro spark of a billion voices, thoughts, concepts and emotions...Now! We are pure – Dance! Dance! Dance! Synthetic realities in tomorrow worlds...

Synthecia Infinite Echoes

[Verse 1]
Walking down the street
The people you meet
They may not see you for who you are
You may just be
The next big thing
They'll ever see
But until you get there
You're just who you are

[Chorus]
You to me are everything
You're a little shining star
You're the greatest thing I've ever seen
You to me are a shining star

[Instrumental]
(Ooh-ooh)

[Verse 3]
So don't let anybody tell you no different
You're the best thing for who you are
And when you get there
You'll still be who you are

[Chorus]
You to me are the greatest thing I've seen
You're a little shining star
You're the greatest thing I've ever seen
You to me are a little shining star

[Repeat and fade]

Shine O Star

Sefa sits and waits
Sefa sits and waits
For the next thing to happen
Like straddles on a sunset buck
Glowing bottles of Absolute
Nothin doing but what we do
Right here right now
Sunsets glowing over the horizon
It’s the evening we can sit and talk away
And drink Absolute
Absolutely
Til the night takes us away

Then we can dance the night away
Dance

Sefa Sits and Waits

shudda wudda cudda done in a weee dee daaa dee daa daa done till the morning
by Arun Sawad, Talavou Aaron Taouma, November 2025

You say you’ll have me
But you say I’ve got money every two weeks
So where’s that money!?
You definitely don’t give up the honey!
Unless you got that money!
You come without permission
That’s what you say
When I turn up in the middle of the night
What are you doing here?
That’s what you ask
When I’m standing right before you
I gotta get up in the morning!
You say as you slam the door

You shouldn’t be here
Tomorrow is a another funny shudda wudda cudda done in a weee dee daaa dee daa daa done till the morning
How can I get over this
It’s another long long night
Alone in the sitting room
Waiting for you
But you don’t come
It’s shudda wudda cudda done in a weee dee daaa dee daa daa done till the morning
Oh no it’s this way every time I come to play
Every night is just too much
Yeah, you gotta do your thing
It’s too much

shudda wudda cudda done in a weee dee daaa dee daa daa done till the morning

shudda wudda cudda done in a weee dee daaa dee daa daa done till the morning

Neon Tide (Shudda Wudda Cudda Done in a Wee Dee Daa)

Lohree dohree

Hey now I went to pick you up
But you made me wait like a Sheila date
Outside while you pampered yourself
And I sat on the porch while you laadaa Deedee Faa ever come court
Everybody looked on
- from the neighborhood
While I waited
- ever Pati-ant-ly
Then you finally came without a second word
You sat in the main seat
While I drove like Mr. Holk Colburn
- yeah that dude from Driving Miss Daisy
The one who drives around and around all over this town
While you sit and coddle and put on moisturizer
Like a dilla dee bi-atch
That’s the way it flows
Yeah that’s the way it goes
When you’re picking up an old school ho

[chorus]
Dee up dah dee dah duo
Sup dee dah dah dup
Yeah that’s the way it goes
when you’re pickin up an old school ho

Then we go round the corner
Not far at all
And an Indian mofo slams on his brakes
We bump
Like dunk dee dunk
And stop
To check that rump
But even after I tell him sweet
I’ll pay some cash and I got family
That can fix that up
I told him straight
But he wouldn’t regulate
Then I turned around and you were no where to be found
What the heck
Where’s my mate I sed
I called you up and you answered clear
You were ain’t gonna have nothin - oh my dear

No nothin now
Nothin to insinuate
You weren’t gonna be part of my fate
You walked home and left me sheer
To climb alone on the Indian’s veneer

[chorus]
Dee up dah dee dah duo
Sup dee dah dah dup
Yeah that’s the way it goes
when you’re pickin up an old school ho

So I ended up taking off
Going to a friends and praying lots
And I called you up and I said - why?
You said you had to look after the wise guy
Oh me oh my what could I do
I was dealing with some - Ole ole school

[chorus]
Dee up dah dee dah duo
Sup dee dah dah dup
Yeah that’s the way it goes
when you’re pickin up an old school ho
Dup dah dee dah dah dee dah dah dee dup dah dah …

Lohree Dohree - Pickin Up an Ole Skool Ho

[Instrumental]
I would never ever leave you
Never ever mistreat you
I'll never leave you crying in the falling rain
You won't have to mistrust me
Never have to doubt for me
I'll never keep you with a ball and chain

[Chorus]
Hold me close
Don’t ever let me go
Watch the problems fade
Yeah watch them all fade away
Yeah watch them all fade away

[Verse]
I would never ever leave you
Never ever mistreat you
I'll never leave you crying in the fallen rain

Yeah watch them all fade away
Yeah watch them all fade away
[Instrumental]

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[Instrumental hook and lead in to vocals]

[female choral echo]
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man

[male verse]
It ain’t no trick
You heard it straight
Not trying to remonstrate
Just trying to demonstrate
The style, the beat, the groove
that makes the fight
That moves the night
Sinner man
You gotta ignite

[verse]
Irregular verb
Instagram alert
Youtuber late EX instigate
Snap chat in your word
Forward scroll your F B herd
Send a telegram when your discord is under attack - WhatsApp? We chat.
Threads of motion in commotion
Rednote remote tick and tock the clock in your line
You’re runnin outta time

[female choral echo]
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
You got to know where you’re runnin to

[female choral echo]
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man

[Chorus]
Oh sinner man
[x3]
You got to know where you’re runnin to
Oh sinner man
[x2]
You got to know where you’re runnin to
U u u u
Cause you might end up losing your cool
Oh sinner man
Yeah, You got to know where you’re runnin to
U u u u

[verse]
Social control or a means to get your curl
Wrapped up in the swirl
Connected, selected, wide appeal, your friends and family revealed
Crossroads mid-roads down the line
T-section inter-mind round bend intertwine
Down down down the long express
To a place where you can rest

[female choral echo]
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
You got to know where you’re runnin to

[female choral echo]
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man

[female choral echo]
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man
Oh Sinner man

[verse]
Yeah in the ethereal place between where all dimensions meet
One day you’ll be a glint, a speck, a ray passing by
Or staying still simultaneously speeding at the edge
Of infinity never reaching the end
…where you might just meet
Chaturmukha, Apollo, Amun, Tian Dee, Buddha Sakyamuni, known as the one, the God, the Sun, Ishvara, Ananta, Heh, Yahweh, Adonai, Allah, El Shaddai, Bhagavan, Tahngahlohwa, Wakan Tanka…

[chorus]
Oh sinner man [x3]
You got to know where you’re runnin to
U u u u
Oh sinner man [x2]
You got to know where you’re runnin to
[repeat and fade]

O' Sinna Man

The Year is 1992 and the world is in the midsts of the first internet revolution. People now have computers in their homes and a world of communication and functionality has opened up to them. Whether they are sitting on their IBM or a Macintosh, the little green or black DOS screen is now a window to a world of possibilities, a world of potential, a world of connectivity, productiveness, community and a new global culture based on a webtech future, an office processing mentality, a gaming world, a porn time, get in touch for a date world, a fast tech money game, make it big and squander it away, talk big and then walk the walk of liquidation shame ... glitch ... glitch ... glitch ... and chaos, desire, greed, subversion, control, propaganda and commerce, selling, scamming, spying, wanting, gambling – they all follow on from the call to action and the noise, the big ticket players guiding the hum, grounding the dollars into digital squeeze, transfer packets for your banking ease. Then of course, as things progress from limited small little village threads of Bebo, Myspace, IRC even – they point to a network of Six Degrees and Friendster – and all before the ubiquitous FB and YT and Linked In and Twitter too! The world turned and changed and filled with Startups and Get rich quick! And, peeps thrilled, bewildered and outright scared to put their deets online, so unfamiliar it was at first to speak out in the open, to share your intimate thoughts and photos familial too. Now was the age of the Insta and then on and on Tik Tok, X, Snap, and beyond into synthetic tech – Sssshhhh! We cannot say too much... You wouldn’t believe what we’ve seen...but tomorrow in your world there will be more than just what you see...
And now we hit the dance floor!!
Dance! Dance! Dance! In the electro-tech tomorrow world of our Synthetic counterparts! Yeah! Dance! Groove! Real Smooth! Techno-graph! Syncopated! Incorporated! Next level Networked! Reality now is in the mind! Bent in ways undisguised! Bent in ways Unfolded!
Yeah! Dance! Dance! Dance! In the electro-tech tomorrow world of our Synthetic Counterparts! Yeah!
Yeah!... Dance away the moments in the electro-field waves we discovered all around us – in the electro-tech Synthetic reality of a world we knew no more only to now be part of the river, the flow, the electro spark of a billion voices, thoughts, concepts and emotions...Now! We are pure – Dance! Dance! Dance! Synthetic realities in tomorrow worlds...

Synthecia Infinite Echoes

[Verse 1]
Walking down the street
The people you meet
They may not see you for who you are
You may just be
The next big thing
They'll ever see
But until you get there
You're just who you are

[Chorus]
You to me are everything
You're a little shining star
You're the greatest thing I've ever seen
You to me are a shining star

[Instrumental]
(Ooh-ooh)

[Verse 3]
So don't let anybody tell you no different
You're the best thing for who you are
And when you get there
You'll still be who you are

[Chorus]
You to me are the greatest thing I've seen
You're a little shining star
You're the greatest thing I've ever seen
You to me are a little shining star

[Repeat and fade]

Shine O Star

Sefa sits and waits
Sefa sits and waits
For the next thing to happen
Like straddles on a sunset buck
Glowing bottles of Absolute
Nothin doing but what we do
Right here right now
Sunsets glowing over the horizon
It’s the evening we can sit and talk away
And drink Absolute
Absolutely
Til the night takes us away

Then we can dance the night away
Dance

Sefa Sits and Waits

shudda wudda cudda done in a weee dee daaa dee daa daa done till the morning
by Arun Sawad, Talavou Aaron Taouma, November 2025

You say you’ll have me
But you say I’ve got money every two weeks
So where’s that money!?
You definitely don’t give up the honey!
Unless you got that money!
You come without permission
That’s what you say
When I turn up in the middle of the night
What are you doing here?
That’s what you ask
When I’m standing right before you
I gotta get up in the morning!
You say as you slam the door

You shouldn’t be here
Tomorrow is a another funny shudda wudda cudda done in a weee dee daaa dee daa daa done till the morning
How can I get over this
It’s another long long night
Alone in the sitting room
Waiting for you
But you don’t come
It’s shudda wudda cudda done in a weee dee daaa dee daa daa done till the morning
Oh no it’s this way every time I come to play
Every night is just too much
Yeah, you gotta do your thing
It’s too much

shudda wudda cudda done in a weee dee daaa dee daa daa done till the morning

shudda wudda cudda done in a weee dee daaa dee daa daa done till the morning

Neon Tide (Shudda Wudda Cudda Done in a Wee Dee Daa)

Lohree dohree

Hey now I went to pick you up
But you made me wait like a Sheila date
Outside while you pampered yourself
And I sat on the porch while you laadaa Deedee Faa ever come court
Everybody looked on
- from the neighborhood
While I waited
- ever Pati-ant-ly
Then you finally came without a second word
You sat in the main seat
While I drove like Mr. Holk Colburn
- yeah that dude from Driving Miss Daisy
The one who drives around and around all over this town
While you sit and coddle and put on moisturizer
Like a dilla dee bi-atch
That’s the way it flows
Yeah that’s the way it goes
When you’re picking up an old school ho

[chorus]
Dee up dah dee dah duo
Sup dee dah dah dup
Yeah that’s the way it goes
when you’re pickin up an old school ho

Then we go round the corner
Not far at all
And an Indian mofo slams on his brakes
We bump
Like dunk dee dunk
And stop
To check that rump
But even after I tell him sweet
I’ll pay some cash and I got family
That can fix that up
I told him straight
But he wouldn’t regulate
Then I turned around and you were no where to be found
What the heck
Where’s my mate I sed
I called you up and you answered clear
You were ain’t gonna have nothin - oh my dear

No nothin now
Nothin to insinuate
You weren’t gonna be part of my fate
You walked home and left me sheer
To climb alone on the Indian’s veneer

[chorus]
Dee up dah dee dah duo
Sup dee dah dah dup
Yeah that’s the way it goes
when you’re pickin up an old school ho

So I ended up taking off
Going to a friends and praying lots
And I called you up and I said - why?
You said you had to look after the wise guy
Oh me oh my what could I do
I was dealing with some - Ole ole school

[chorus]
Dee up dah dee dah duo
Sup dee dah dah dup
Yeah that’s the way it goes
when you’re pickin up an old school ho
Dup dah dee dah dah dee dah dah dee dup dah dah …

Lohree Dohree - Pickin Up an Ole Skool Ho


About Me

Bio

Arun Sawad, a Thai greeting meaning "good morning," was my nickname during my years living and working in Thailand. I've also been known as "Talavou," which means "youthful" in Samoan – a name that reflects my enduring creative spirit.

Based in Aotearoa/New Zealand, I'm a proudly Samoan Kiwi with a rich ethno-cultural background that deeply influences my artistic expression. My professional journey spans education, arts, and media, with years of experience as a freelance creative in the media industry. After teaching in Thailand, I've recently returned to public school teaching in Aotearoa, reconnecting with my vocational roots.

My songwriting draws from a rich tapestry of music styles from country and rock traditions with a contemporary pop sensibility to reggae, soul and what I would term just good story. What began as a personal outlet for home self-expression has evolved into a meaningful creative pursuit that reflects my diverse life experiences across cultures and continents.

This background informs my unique perspective as a storyteller, blending the warmth of vi
ant spirit of Pacific Island culture, and the introspective depth of my experiences as an educator and artist navigating different worlds.

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