JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "Boxes" merupakan lagu Gavin James yang dirilis sebagai singel pada 2020.
Gavin James merupakan penyanyi asal Irlandia yang memulai debutnya pada 2014 lewat album panjang yang berisi penampilan langsungnya.
Sampai hari ini, Gavin James telah merilis tiga buah album panjang.
Baca juga: Lirik Lagu Man on the Moon - Gavin James
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "Boxes" dari Gavin James:
[Intro]
C Dm Am F
[Verse 1]
C
Went to the wrong school
Dm
Wearing the wrong shoes
Am F C
They told me that I should sit down?and?just bite my?tongue
'Cause if you're lucky
Dm
You'll get to?university
Am
Say three hail Marys
F C Dm
And everything bad will be gone
[Refrain]
Am G F
But I'm?so?tired?of standing still
Am G F
And?I'm not buying?what you're trying to sell
[Chorus]
C
So don't wake me up
Dm Am
If you're only going to tell me to give it up
F C
Then say everything I do is never enough
Dm
'Cause you're lying through your teeth
Am
We don't fit into your boxes
F
We're all different underneath
C Dm
Don't wake me up
[Verse 2]
C
When I got my first guitar
Dm
My father told me "Son
Am F C
Four chords is all you need to show people just who you are"
So I played to strangers
Dm
Down by the backstreets
Am F
And everytime they caught me dreaming I'd say
[Chorus]
C
So don't wake me up
Dm Am
If you're only going to tell me to give it up
F C
Then say everything I do is never enough
Dm
'Cause you're lying through your teeth
Am
We don't fit into your boxes
F
We're all different underneath
C Dm
Don't wake me up
Am F
Don't wake me up
[Refrain]
Am G F
'Cause I'm so tired of standing still
Am G F
And I'm not buying what you are trying to sell
C Dm Am
So don't wake me up
[Chorus]
F C
Oh, oh, oh, don't wake me up
Dm Am
If you're only going to tell me to give it up
F C
Then say everything I do is never enough
Dm
'Cause you're lying through your teeth
Am
We don't fit into your boxes
F
We're all different underneath
C Dm
Don't wake me up
Am F
Don't wake me up
C Dm Am F
Don't wake me up
C
Don't wake me up