JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Penyanyi-penulis lagu, Billy Joel, melantunkan lagu berjudul “This Is the Time” pada tahun 1986.
Lagu tersebut merupakan bagian dari album kesepuluh miliknya yang bertajuk The Bridge.
Album bergenre rock yang berisikan 9 trek itu dirilis secara resmi melalui label musik Columbia Records.
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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “This Is the Time” dari Billy Joel.
[Intro]
-Piano-
Dm7 Bb x2
[Gitar Solo]
Dm C Bb Dm x4
[Verse]
Dm7 Bb C F
We walked on the beach beside that old hotel
Dm7 Bb
They're tearing it down now
F C
But it's just as well
Dm7 Bb C F
I haven't shown you everything a man can do
Dm7 Bb
So stay with me baby
F C
I've got plans for you
[Chorus]
C F Bb
This is the time to remember
Eb F
Cause it will not last forever
C F Bb
These are the days to hold on to
Eb F
Cause we won't although we'll want to
Bb Bb/Ab
This is the time
Gm7 Gm7/F
But time is gonna change
Eb
You've given me the best of you
F
And now I need the rest of you
[Verse]
Dm7 Bb C F
So we embrace again beyond the dunes
Dm7 Bb F C
This beach is so cold on winter afternoons
Dm7 Bb C F
ah but holding you close is like holding the summer sun
Dm7 Bb F C
a long from the memory from the days to come
Dm7 C Bb C
Sometimes it's so easy to let a day slip on by
Dm7 C Bb C
without even seeing each other at all
Dm7 C Bb C
but this the time you turn back to so so blind ..
Dm7 C Bb C
those will be days you can never recall.
[Gitar Solo]
Dm7 C Bb C x4
[Chorus]
C F Bb
This is the time to remember
Eb F
Cause it will not last forever
C F Bb
These are the days to hold on to
Eb F
Cause we won't although we'll want to
Bb Bb/Ab
This is the time
Gm7 Gm7/F
But time is gonna change
Eb
You've given me the best of you
F
And now I need the rest of you
[Verse]
Dm7 Bb C F
Did you know that before you came into my life
Dm7 Bb F C
It was some kind of miracle that I survived
Dm7 Bb C F
Some day we will both look back and have to laugh
Dm7 Bb F C
We lived through a lifetime and the aftermath
[Chorus]
C F Bb
This is the time to remember
Eb F
Cause it will not last forever
C F Bb
These are the days to hold on to
Eb F
Cause we won't although we'll want to
Bb Bb/Ab
This is the time
Gm7 Gm7/F
But time is gonna change
Eb
You've given me the best of you
F
And now I need the rest of you
[Outro Gitar Solo]
Dm (hold)
Dm7 Bb F C
Dm