Lirik dan Chord Lagu Hejira - Joni Mitchell

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Penyanyi dan penulis lagu asal Kanada, Joni Mitchell, memopulerkan lagu berjudul “Hejira”.

Lagu bergenre folk tersebut dirilis pada 1976 melalui label rekaman Warner Records.

“Hejira” muncul dalam album studionya yang bertajuk Hejira.

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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Hejira” dari Joni Mitchell:

[Intro]
C#m7 D6
C#m7 D6

[Verse 1]
Bsus2
I'm traveling in some vehicle
E7sus4                   E
I'm sitting in some cafe
E7sus4                         E
A defector from the petty wars
                                   B
That shell shocked love away
Bsus2
There's comfort in melancholy
E7sus4                             E
When there's no need to explain
                   E7sus4            E
It's just as natural as the weather
                                    B    
In this moody sky today
              E7sus4         E
In our possessive coupling
                                     B
So much could not be expressed
                      E9                E
So now I am returning to myself
               F#7
These things that you and I suppressed
                                            E9     E
I see something of myself in everyone
                                          B
Just at this moment of the world
                                    F#7sus4      F#
As snow gathers like bolts of lace
                          E9               E
Waltzing on a ballroom girl

[Interlude]
C#m7 D6

[Verse 2]
Bsus2
You know it never has been easy
E7sus4                          E
Whether you do or you do not resign
E7sus4                                             E
Whether you travel the breadth of extremities
                                        B
Or stick to some straighter line
Bsus2
Now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock
E7sus4                                          E
They're either going to thaw out or freeze
               E7sus4                          E
Listen, strains of Benny Goodman
                                                        B
Coming through' the snow and the pinewood trees
               E7sus4            E
I'm porous with travel fever
                                                             B
But you know I'm so glad to be on my own
                                  E9                            E
Still somehow the slightest touch of a stranger
F#7
Can set up trembling in my bones
                                                       E9           E
I know, no one's going to show me everything
                                          B
We all come and go unknown
                                     F#7sus4 F#
Each so deep and superficial
                                                          E9 E
Between the forceps and the stone

[Interlude]
C#m7 D6

[Verse 3]
Bsus2
Well, I looked at the granite markers
E7sus4                              E
Those tributes to finality, to eternity
E7sus4                                  E
And then I looked at myself here
                                                   B
Chicken scratching for my immortality
Bsus2
In the church, they light the candles
E7sus4                                E
And the wax rolls down like tears
                    E7sus4                              E
There is the hope and the hopelessness
                                   B
I've witnessed thirty years
                   E7sus4                                    E
We're only particles of change I know, I know
                                   B
Orbiting around the sun
                                             E9           E
But how can I have that point of view
           F#7
When I'm always bound and tied to someone
                                      E9      E
White flags of winter chimneys
                                            B
Wave truce against the moon
                                   F#7sus4 F#
In the mirrors of a modern bank
                                  E9           E
From the window of a hotel room

[Interlude]
C#m7 D6

[Outro]
Bsus2
I'm traveling in some vehicle
E7sus4                   E
I'm sitting in some cafe
E7sus4                      E
A defector from the petty wars
                                B
Until love sucks me back that way

C#m7 D6