JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - “The Ordinary Boys” merupakan lagu yang dimiliki oleh penyanyi dan penulis lagu kenamaan asal Inggris, Morrissey.
Lagu ini ditulis oleh dirinya sendiri dan diproduseri oleh Stephen Street.
“The Ordinary Boys” muncul sebagai trek kesembilan dalam album debutnya, Viva Hate.
Album tersebut dirilis pada 1988 setelah Morrissey keluar dari band The Smiths.
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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “The Ordinary Boys” dari Morrissey.
Intro: G F (x2)
G D Bb C G
Ordinary boys, happy knowing nothing
D Bb C
Happy being no-one but themselves
G D Bb C
Ordinary girls, supermarket clothes
G D Bb C
Who think it's very clever to be cruel to you
Em D
For you were so different
Em D
You stood all alone
F
And you knew
C D
That it had to be so
G D
Avoiding ordinary boys
Bb C G
Happy going nowhere, just around here
D Bb C
In their rattling cars
G D
Ordinary girls
Bb C
Never seeing further
G D
Than the cold, small streets
Bb C
That trap them
Em D
But you were so different
Em D
You had to say no
F
When those empty fools
C D
Tried to change you, and claim you
G D Bb
For the lair of their ordinary world
C G
Where they feel so lucky
D Bb C
So lucky, so lucky
G D
With their lives laid out before them
Bb
They are lucky
C G
So lucky, so lucky
D Bb C
So lucky, so ...
Outro:
Em D
Em D
F C D
G
Bb C Em