JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "Get Better" adalah lagu dengan format akustik yang diciptakan oleh grup trio, alt-J.
Lagu ini keluar sebagai singel kedua dari album keluaran 2021 mereka yang berjudul The Dream.
Sang vokalis, Joe Newman mengatakan lagu ini merupakan penggabungan dari dua lagu yang ia ciptakan pertama kali pada 2018 dan saat mengalami lockdown akibat pandemi.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Every Other Freckle dari alt-J
Simak lirik dan chord lagu "Get Better" oleh alt-J.
[Verse 1]
A Bm D G
Hallelujah, I'm listening to a recording
D A
Of you sleeping next to me
Bm D G D A
A cappella, I'm listening to you cover Elliot Smith's "Angeles"
G D A
It's these times I'll need if you go
G D A
It's these times I'll need if you go, so
[Chorus]
D Bm
Get better, my darling
G D
I know you will
Bm G
Get better, my darling
D Em
I know you will get better
[Verse 2]
D Bm
I'm drawn to the motorway
D G
The cold whoosh of trucks passing
D Bm
This nightmare under sodium light
D G
The orange spread is soul-quietening
D G
A younger you and a younger me
D
Meeting at The Serpentine
G E D
I am yours, you are mine
[Verse 3]
A Bm
Happy birthday
D
Staff smuggled in a card I made
G D A
It rests under your pillow
A Bm D
When out of ICU I'll cringe at all the "I love you"s
G D A
The card retired the life of one biro
G D A
At this time I wanted you to know
G D A
At this time I wanted you to know
[Chorus]
D Bm
Get better, my darling
G D
I hope you will
Bm G
Get better, my darling
D E
I hope you will get better
[Verse 4]
D Bm
I'll start the day with tiramisu
D G
Raise a spoon to front line workers
D Bm
An underfunded principle
D G
They risk all to be there for us
D
A younger you and a younger me
G
Meeting at The Serpentine
Em D
I am yours, you are mine
[Verse 5]
A Bm
You were the baker
D G D A
I'll christen this new era with the smell of freshly baked bread
Bm D
Your Nutella, I'll keep it in the cellar
G D A
You were always a fan of that spread
G D A
Six months on, there's a car crash outside
G D A
The fire brigade using the jaws of life
G D A
No flush at night to sound your return
G D A
I still pretend you're only out of sight
Bm D
Front garden bouquet, I threw it at the fire brigade
G D A
I was admonished and told to go back inside
Bm D
From the living room window I stand and watch the white sheet go
G D A
over the family car and I close my eyes
G D A G
I still pretend you're only out of sight in another room
D A
Smiling at your phone
G D A G
I still pretend you're only out of sight in another room
D A
Smiling at your phone
G D A G
I still pretend you're only out of sight in another room
D A
Smiling at your phone
G D A G
I still pretend you're only out of sight in another room
D A
Smiling at your phone
G
I still pretend
[Outro]
D A G
A younger me, a younger you
D A G
Meeting at The Serpentine
D A G
The beginning of spring, you wore those yellow ripped jeans
D A G
Your look defined my 2009
D A G
Your shyness stoked my boldness
D A G
"Shall we go in?", I smiled
D A G
Your hand warmed walking through the gallery
D Bm
(Get better)
G D
I know I will
Bm
(Get better)
G D Em
My darling, I know I will