Lirik dan Chord Lagu Day is Done - Nick Drake

Lagu yang direkam di studio Sound Techniques, London ini dimuat dalam debut album pertamanya yang bertajuk Five Leaves Left.

Album bergenre folk itu diproduseri oleh Joe Boyd dan dirilis pada 1969 melalui label Island Records.

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Day is Done” dari Nick Drake:

[Intro]
Dm A/C# F/C G/B Bb Dm Bb A

[Verse 1]
Dm                       A/C#
When the day is done
F/C                                    G/B
Down to earth then sinks the sun
Bb                                           Dm
Along with everything that was lost and won
Bb                        A7
When the day is done

[Verse 2]
Dm                      A/C#
When the day is done
F/C                                               G/B
Hope so much your race’ll be all run
Bb                                                  Dm
Then you find you’ve jumped the gun
Bb                                          Dm
Have to go back where you begun
Bb                        Dm
When the day is done

[Verse 3]
Dm                        A/C#
When the night is cold
F/C                                     G/B
Some get by and some get old
Bb                           Dm
Just to show life’s no made of gold
Bb                           A7
When the night is cold

[Verse 4]
Dm                                 A/C#
When the bird has flown
F/C                                      G/B
Got no one to call your own
Bb                                      Dm
Got no place to call your home
Bb                           Dm
When the bird has flown

[Instrumental]
Dm A/C# F/C G/B Bb Dm Bb A

[Verse 5]
Dm                                 A/C#
When the games been fought
F/C                                         G/B
Newspaper blown cross the court

Bb                                                          Dm
Lost much sooner than you would’ve thought
Bb                                  A7
Now the game’s been fought

[Verse 6]
Dm                               A/C#
When the part is through
F/C                                 G/B
Seems so very sad for you
Bb                                                        Dm
Didn’t do the things you were meant to do
Bb                                      Dm
Now there’s no time start anew
A/C#                              Dm
Now the part is through

[Verse 7]
Dm                        A/C#
When the day is done
F/C                                    G/B
Down to earth then sinks the sun

Bb                                           Dm
Along with everything that was lost and won

[Outro]
Bb                       Dm
When the day is done