JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - David Bowie merupakan seorang penyanyi dan penulis lagu asal Inggris yang melantunkan lagu berjudul “Quicksand”.
Direkam di Studio Trident, London, lagu ini diproduseri oleh Bowie bersama Ken Scott.
“Quicksand” muncul dalam album studio keempatnya yang bertajuk Hunky Dory, dirilis pada 17 Desember 1971.
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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Quicksand” dari David Bowie.
[Intro]
G Am7 G Am7
G Am7 G Am7
C
I'm closer to the Golden Dawn
G
Immersed in Crowley's uniform of imagery
C
I'm living in a silent film
G
Portraying Himmler's sacred realm of dream reality
I'm frightened by the total goal, drawing to the ragged hole
Eb F
G Em C
And I ain't got the power anymore
C G Am7 A7sus2 A
No I ain't got the power anymore
D
I'm the twisted name on Garbo's eyes
A
I'm living proof of Churchill's lies, I'm destiny
D
I'm torn between the light and dark
A
Where others see their targets, divine symmetry
F
Should I kiss the viper's fang
G
Or herald loud the death of Man
A F#m D
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought
D A
And I ain't got the power anymore
[BRIDGE]
A E F#m
Don't believe in yourself
D#dim E
Don't deceive with belief
Edim Bm
Knowledge comes with death's release
D#dim A
Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaah
F#m C#m E
Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaaha
D
I'm not a prophet or a stone age man
A
Just a mortal with potential of a superman, I'm living on
D
I'm tethered to the logic of Homo Sapien
A
Can't take my eyes from the great salvation of bullshit faith
F
If I don't explain what you ought to know
G
You can tell me all about it on the next Bardo
A F#m D
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought
D A
And I ain't got the power anymore
[BRIDGE]
A E F#m
Don't believe in yourself
D#dim E
Don't deceive with belief
Edim Bm
Knowledge comes with death's release
D#dim A
Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaah
F#m E
Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaaha
A E F#m
Don't believe in yourself
D#dim E
Don't deceive with belief
Edim Bm
Knowledge comes with death's release
D#dim A
Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaah
F#m C#m E
Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaaha
D#dim: Edim:
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