JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Grup band legendaris asal Inggris, The Smiths, mempopulerkan lagu berjudul “Stretch Out and Wait” yang rilis pada 1985.
Lagu ini adalah ketiga belas dalam album yang diberi nama The World Won’t Listen.
Album tersebut diproduseri oleh mereka sendiri melalui label Rough Trade Records.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Alma Matters dari Morrissey
Berikut lirik dan chord “Stretch Out and Wait” dari The Smiths.
[Verse]
E B A B
On the high-rise estate
G#m A B
What's at the back of your mind ?
E B
Oh, on a three-day debate
A B
On a high-rise estate
G#m A B
What's at the back of your mind ?
E B A B
Two icy-cold hands conducting the way
G#m A B
It's the Eskimo blood in my veins
E B
Amid concrete and clay
A B
And general decay
G#m A B
Nature must still find a way
E B A B
So ignore all the codes of the day
G#m A B
Let your juvenile influences sway
E B
This way and that way and
A B
This way and that way
G#m A
God, how sex implores you
F#
To let yourself lose yourself
[Chorus 1]
C#m E
Stretch out and wait
C#m E C#m
Stretch out and wait
E A B
Let your puny body lie down, lie down
A B
As we lie, you say
C#m E
As we lie, you say
E
Stretch out and ...
C#m E
Stretch out and wait
C#m E C#m
Stretch out and wait
E A B
Let your puny body lie down, lie down
[Verse 2]
A B
As we lie, you say
C#m F#
Will the world end in the night time ?
A B
(I really don't know)
C#m F#
Or will the world end in the day time ?
A B
(I really don't know)
C#m F#
And is there any point ever having children ?
A B
Oh, I don't know
F# A B
What I do know is we're here and it's Now
[Chorus 2]
E B
So ... stretch out and wait
A B
Stretch out and wait
G#m A B
There is no debate, no debate, no debate
E B A B
How can you consciously contemplate
G#m A
When there's no debate, no debate ?
B E B A
Stretch out and wait
B G#m A
Stretch out and wait
B E B
Stretch out and wait
A B
Wait
E B
Wait
A B
Wait
E B
Wait
[Outro]
C#m F# Am