Lirik dan Chord Lagu Play For Today - Belle and Sebastian

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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Play For Today” dari Belle and Sebastian:

Intro:

C - Am - F - C (2x)

Verse:
             C                                         Am
I'm in a play written today about a boy
                                               F
Who hides in attics when the sun is up
                       C
Everyone is at work
                  C
What will I do? Where will I go?
                      Am
Show me the way
                                                 F
The truth, the anger, show me rules of thumb
                                    C
Show the way to grow old

                G
Love is a guide
                                       Am
The endless river of the soul
                   F
But we are mean
                                          C
The dried up riverbeds of rock and stone
                   G
Lust is my friend
                                              Am
She comes to me when I am tired

Chorus:
              C                        Caug
Life is a road, death is a myth
               C6                           C7
Love is a fraud, it's misunderstood
                  F                              C
Work is a sentence, family's a drag
                         G
This house is a trap

C - Am - F - C

Verse:
              C                                       Am
I'm in a play written today about a girl
                                          F
She gets on perfectly with young and old
                           C
Everybody loves her
                           C
What would she wear? The cut of her hair?
                             Am
The way that she slides
                               F
Gracefully into the working week
                                        C
She hides her baggage inside

                   G
She's got a friend
                                         Am
An ugly monster that will eat your face
                   F
She has to cry
                                 C
A hefty catalogue of wasted time
                   G
She's got a friend
                                          Am
A lonely monster that will prey on you

Ulangi Chorus (2x)

C - Am - F - C (2x)

Verse:
         C                                         Am
I'm a play written today about a boy
                                     F
Tired and melancholy, takes the weight
                                      C
Takes the weight of the world
                C
I walked alone, loving the sun
                     Am
Walking the earth
                                            F
A worn-out sister who is twenty three
                                 C
Dried and wrinkled, alone

                       G
I'll give you a month
                                               Am
To see past shadows in your sacred night
                  F
Give you a week
                                     C
To look Medusa in the eye
                      G
I'll give you a month
                                       Am
To notice heaven at the side of stage

F - C - F - C

F/C                                C
You're king inside your head
F/C                              C
You're sitting on a throne of sand
F/C                                  C
You're pushing back the tide
F/C                            C
So lift the mountain up
F/C                  C
So tie the writers' ribbons down
F/C                         C
Assemble all your troops
F/C                         C
We go to war with metaphors
F/C                        C                                  F/C
You suddenly see sense, (I suddenly see sense)
                                      C
And when you do, I'll have the higher ground
F/C                          C
You're not the king of me
F/C                                C
I'll take my chance and play for tyranny
F/C                      C
I build the sets, I light the scene
F/C                          C
We're prettier when we are on the screen
F/C                       C
I build the sets, I light the scene
F/C                                  C
We're braver when we're on the sacred screen
F/C                               C
The backstage of your life
F/C                                   C
It's filled with dust and lines you should have sung
F/C                               C
The backstage of your life
F/C                             C
It's filled with echoes of the ones you loved