JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "A Letter to Elise" merupakan lagu pop rock dari band lawas The Cure.
Rilis pada 1992, lagu ini merupakan singel ketiga dari album mereka yang berjudul Wish.
Media Pitchfork asal Amerika memasukkan lagu ini ke dalam daftar panjang The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu A Forest Milik The Cure
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "A Letter to Elise" dari The Cure.
[Verse]
A E
oh Elise it doesn't matter what you say
F#m
I just can't stay here every yesterday
D
like keep on acting out the same
the way we act out
A
every way to smile
E
forget and make-believe we never needed
F#m
any more than this
D
any more than this
[Verse 2]
A E
oh Elise it doesn't matter what you do
F#m
I know I'll never really get inside of you
D
to make your eyes catch fire
the way they should
A
the way the blue could pull me in
E
if they only would
if they only would
F#m D
at least I'd lose this sense of sensing something else
that hides away
A
from me and you
there're worlds to part
E
with aching looks and breaking hearts
F#m
and all the prayers your hands can make
D
oh I just take as much as you can throw
A
and then I throw it all away
E
oh I throw it all away
F#m
like throwing faces at the sky
D
like throwing arms around
E
yesterday
I stood and stared
F#m
wide-eyed in front of you
E
and the face I saw looked back
F#m
the way I wanted to
E
but I just can't hold my tears away
F#m
the way you do
[Bridge]
G F#m
Elise believe I never wanted this
G F#m
I thought this time I'd keep all of my promises
G F#m
I thought you were the girl always dreamed about
G
but I let the dream go
F#m
and the promises broke
E
and the make-believe ran out
[Verse 3]
A
so Elise
E
it doesn't matter what you say
F#m
I just can't stay here every yesterday
D
like keep on acting out the same
the way we act out
A
every way to smile
forget
E
and make-believe we never needed
F#m
any more than this
D
any more than this
[Outro]
A E
and every time I try to pick it up
like falling sand
F#m
as fast as I pick it up
D
it runs away through my clutching hands
A
and there's nothing else I can really do
E
there's nothing else I can really do
F#m
there's nothing else I can really do
D
at all