Lirik dan Chord Lagu My Own Version of You - Bob Dylan

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Lagu "My Own Version of You" dari Bob Dylan dirilis pada 2020 lewat album Rough and Rowdy Ways.

Album tersebut merupakan album panjang terbarunya setelah Triplicate yang diluncurkan pada 2017.

Album Rough and Rowdy Ways dirilis di bawah naungan label Columbia Records.

Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Ballad of a Thin Man - Bob Dylan

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "My Own Version of You" dari Bob Dylan.

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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All through the summers, into January
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I've been visiting morgues and monasteries
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Looking for the necessary body parts
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Limbs and livers and brains and hearts

[Turnaround 1]
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I'll bring someone to life, is what I wanna do
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I wanna create my own ?version? of? you

[Verse 2]
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Well, it must?be the winter?of my discontent
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I wish you'd've taken me with you wherever you went
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They talk all night and they talk all day
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Not for a minute do I believe anything they say

[Turnaround 2]
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I'm gon' bring someone to life, someone I've never seen
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You know what I mean, you know exactly what I mean

[Verse 3]
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I'll take the Scarface Pacino and The Godfather Brando
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Mix it up in a tank and get a robot commando
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If I do it upright and put the head on straight
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I'll be saved by the creature that I create

[Verse 4]
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I'll get blood from a cactus, gunpowder from ice
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I don't gamble with cards and I don't shoot no dice
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If you look at my face with your sightless eye
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Can you cross your heart and hope to die?

[Turnaround 3]
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I'll bring someone to life, someone for real
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Someone who feels the way that I feel

[Verse 5]
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I study Sanskrit and Arabic to improve my mind
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I wanna do things for the benefit of all mankind
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I say to the willow tree, "Don't weep for me"
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I'm saying: “To hell to all things that I used to be

[Verse 6]
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Well, I get into trouble, then I hit the wall
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No place to turn, no place at all
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I'll pick a number between a-one and two
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And I ask myself, "What would Julius Caesar do?"

[Turnaround 4]
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I will bring someone to life in more ways than one
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Don't matter how long it takes, it'll be done when it's done