Lirik dan Chord Lagu Leave dari R.E.M

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - “Leave” merupakan sebuah lagu yang dipopulerkan oleh grup band rock kenamaan asal Amerika Serikat, R.E.M.

Lagu ini diciptakan oleh semua anggota band, yaitu Bill Berry (drum) Peter Buck (gitar), Mike Mills (bass) dan Michael Stipe (vokal).

“Leave” sendiri muncul sebagai trek keenam di dalam album studio kesepuluh mereka yang bertajuk New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996).

Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Monty Got a Raw Deal - R.E.M

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Leave” dari R.E.M.

Key: Bbm

[Intro]
Am F G Am
Am F G Am
Am F G Am
Am F G A

Am F G Am
Am F G Am

[Verse 1]
  Am                                     F
Nothing could bring me closer
  G                                     Am
Nothing could bring me near
  Am                             F
Where is the road I follow
G                   Am
To leave it? Leave
 Am                                        F
It's under, under, under my feet
 G                                       Am
The sea spread out there before me
  Am                                  F
Where do I go when the land touches sea?
  G                             Am
There is my trust in what I believe

[Chorus]
 C                                   Am
That's what keeps me, that's what keeps me
  C                                   G
That's what keeps me down
       C             Am
To leave it, leave it
 G                     F
Leave it all behind

[Verse 2]
  Am
Shifting the dream
  F                                      G                         Am
Nothing could bring me further from my old friend time
  Am                                   F
Shifting the dream, it's charging the scene
  G                                         Am
I know where I marked the signs
    Am                                F
I suffer the dreams of a world gone mad
   G                                Am
I like it like that and I know it
   Am                  F
I know it well, ugly and sweet
    G                                     Am
I temper madness with an even extreme
  Am                                  F
That's what keeps me, that's what keeps me
  G                                 Am
That's what keeps me down
   Am
I say that I'm a bantam lightweight
         F                                         G                            Am
I say that I'm a phantom airplane that never left the ground

[Chorus]
  C                                   Am
That's what keeps me, that's what keeps me
  C                                   G
That's what keeps me down
       C            Am
To leave it, leave it
  G                  F
Leave it all behind

[Verse 3]
 Am          F
Lift me, lift me
   G                 Am
I attain my dream
   Am                   F
I lost myself, I lost the
  G                Am
Heartache calling me
   Am                     F
I lost myself in sorrow
   G                     Am
I lost myself in pain
   Am                     F
I lost myself in gravity
                 G                  Am
Memory, leave, leave, leave

[Chorus]
  C                                   Am
That's what keeps me, that's what keeps me
  C                                  G
That's what keeps me down
      C             Am
To leave it, leave it
  G                 F
Leave it all behind
  C                                  Am
That's what keeps me, that's what keeps me
  C                                  G
That's what keeps me down
      C              Am
To leave it, leave it
  G                  F
Leave it all behind

[Verse 4]
  Am                          F
Lift my hands, my eyes are still
  G                        Am
I'll walk into the sea
  Am                          F
Shoot myself in a different place
        G         N.C.
And leave it
     Am                                F
I've longed for this to take me
    G                          Am
I've longed for my release
        Am                     F
I've waited for the calling
     G           Am
To leave, leave

[Outro]
  Am         F
Leave, leave
G            Am
   Yeah, leave
  Am           F
Leaving, leaving
G    Am