JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Penyanyi-penulis lagu Joni Mitchell melantunkan lagu berjudul “Same Situation” pada tahun 1974.
Lagu tersebut merupakan bagian dari album studio keenam miliknya yang diberi nama Court and Spark.
Album yang berisikan 11 trek tersebut berhasil mendapatkan nominasi Grammy untuk Album of the Year.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu I Don’t Know Where I Stand - Joni Mitchell
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Same Situation” dari Joni Mitchell.
Intro:
D – E/D – G/D
D – A/D – G/D – C/D
(2x)
C G
A-gain and again the same sit-u-a-tion
D/E E Am
For so man-y years
C G
Teth-ered to a ringing tel-e-phone
D/E E Am
In a room full of mir-rors
G D E/D
A pret-ty girl in your bath-room
F D/G
Check-ing out her sex appeal
C G
I asked myself when you said you loved me
D/E E Am
“Do you think this can be real?”
B/A E/B
Still I sent up my prayer
D/E A
Wondering where it had to go
E/A D/A A
With heaven full of as- tro-nauts
F#m7 D/G
And the Lord on death row
A/B Bm7 A
While the mil-li-ons of his lost and lonely ones
D/A D/G
Call out and cla-mor to be found
C G
Caught in the strug-gle for higher po-si-tions
D/E
And their search for love
E Am G/A
It sticks a-round
C G
You’ve had lots of lovely wo-men
D/E E Am
Now you turn your gaze to me
C G
Weigh-ing the beauty and the im-perfection
D/E E Am
To see if I’m wor-thy
G D
Like the church, like a cop, like a mo-ther
E/D F D/G
You want me to be truth-ful
C G
Sometimes you turn it on me like a wea-pon, though
D/E E Am
And I need your ap-pro-val
B/A E/B
Still I sent up my prayer
D/E A
Wondering who’s there to hear
E/A D/A A
I said, “Send me some-bo- dy
F#m7 D/G
Who’s strong and some-what sincere
A/B Bm7 A
With the mil-lions of the lost and lone-ly ones
D/A D/G
I called out to be released
C G
Caught in my strug-gle for higher a-chieve-ments
D/E
And my search for love
E Am G/A Amsus2
It don’t seem to cease