JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "The Motel" adalah lagu yang diciptakan dan dipopulerkan oleh musikus kenamaan, David Bowie.
Lagu ini merupakan trek ketujuh dari studio album yang bertajuk Outside yang dirilis pada 1995.
Di album tersebut juga terdapat singel lainnya seperti “No Control” dan “Wishful Beginnings”
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Alma Matters dari Morrissey
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “The Motel” dari David Bowie.
[Intro]
GbM7 F7 GbM7 F7
GbM7 F7 GbM7 F7
GbM7 F7 GbM7 F7
[Verse 1]
GbM7
For we're living
F7
In a safety zone
GbM7 F7
Don't be holding back from me
GbM7 F7
We're living from hour to hour down here
GbM7 F7
And we'll take it when we can
GbM7 F7 GbM7 F7 GbM7 F7
[Verse 2]
GbM7 F7
It's a kind of living which recognises
GbM7 F7
The death of the odourless man
GbM7 F7
When nothing is vanity nothing's too slow
GbM7 F7
It's not Eden but it's no sham
GbM7 F7 GbM7 F7
[Chorus]
Gb F7
There is no hell
Gb F7
There is no shame
Gb
There is no hell
F7
Like an old hell
Gb F7
There is no hell
AbM7 EbM7/G
And it's lights up, boys
AbM7 Fm7
Lights up boys
GbM7 F7 GbM7 F7
GbM7 F7 GbM7 F7
[Verse 3]
Ebm7 F7
Explosion falls upon deaf ears
GbM7 F7
While we're swimming in a sea of sham
GbM7 F7
Living in the shadow of vanity
GbM7 F7
A complex fashion for a simple man
[Chorus]
Gb F7
And there is no hell
Gb F7
And there is no shame
Gb
And there is no hell
F7
Like an old hell
Gb F7
There is no hell
[Verse 4]
AbM7
And the silence flies
EbM7/G
On its brief flight
AbM7 Fm9
A razor sharp crap shoot affair
Gm7b5 C7 Fm
And we light up our lives
[Outro]
Fm Gm7b5 Ab Eb
And there's no more of me exploding you
Gb Ab Eb
Re-exposing you
Gb Ab Eb
Like everybody do
Gb Ab Eb
Re-exploding you
Gb Fm
I don't know what to use
E
Make somebody move
Gb
Me exploding
Ab
Me exploding you
Ab