JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Lagu "Old Friends" yang dilantunkan oleh Simon & Garfunkel dimuat dalam album berjudul Bookends.
Album tersebut menjadi karya Simon & Garfunkel yang diluncurkan pada 1968.
Rilis di bawah naungan label Columbia Records, album Bookends kini sudah tersedia di berbagai platform musik digital.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu I am a Rock - Simon & Garfunkel
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "Old Friends" dari Simon & Garfunkel.
[Intro]
F C F C
[Verse]
F C F C
Old friends. Old friends.
Dm G C Am
Sat on their park bench like bookends.
G Am
A newspaper blown through the grass falls on the round toes
Am F C
of the high shoes of the old friends.
[Verse]
F C Dm G F Em
Old friends. Winter companions, the old men.
Dm G C Am
Lost in their overcoats waiting for the sunset.
[Bridge]
G Am
The sounds of the city, shifting through trees
G F Dm Am
settle like dust on the shoulders of the old friends.
[Middle 8]
Dm G C F Fm C
Can you imagine us years from today, sharing a park bench quietly?
Dm G A
How terribly strange to be seventy.
[Verse]
F C Dm G F Em
Old friends. Memory brushes the same years.
G C Am
Silently sharing the same fears.
Bookends theme:
Dm C
Time it was and what a time it was, it was a ...
F C
A time of innocence, a time of confidences
Dm C
Long ago it must be, I have a photograph
F
Preserve your memories,
C
they're all that's left you.