JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Penyanyi-penulis lagu legendaris, Joni Mitchell, melantunkan lagu berjudul “Trouble Child” pada tahun 1974.
Lagu tersebut merupakan bagian dari album studio keenam miliknya yang bertajuk Court and Spark.
Album yang berisikan 11 trek tersebut sukses menduduki peringkat ke-2 di tangga lagu US Billboard 200.
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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Trouble Child” dari Joni Mitchell.
Intro:
Bb – C – Bb – C – Bb
C – Bb – C – Bb (3x)
D/C C
Up in the sterilized room
Am7
Where they let you be lazy
F7 C
Know-ing your attitudes are wrong
Am7
And you gotta change, and it’s not easy
F7 G
Drag-ons shining with all values known
F7 G F G C
Daz-zling you, keeping you from your own
F7 C
Where is the lion in you to de-fy him
Am7
When you’re this weak and this spacey?
D/C
So what are you gonna do about it
C Am7
You can’t live life and you can’t leave it
F7 C
Ad-vice and religion you can’t take it
Am7
You can’t seem to believe it
F7 G
The pea-cock is afraid to pa-rade
F7 G F G C
You’re un-der the thumb of a maid
F7 C
You real-ly can’t give love in this con-di-tion
Am7
Still you know how you need it
C G7/B
Then open and close you
Am7
Then they talk like they know you
G
They don’t know you
C G7/B
They’re friends and they’re foes too, trouble child,
G/D Dsus4 G
Brea-king like the waves at Malibu
Bb – C – Bb – C – Bb
C – Bb – C – Bb (3x)
D/C
So why does it come as such a shock
C Am7
To know you really have no one?
F7 C
On-ly a river of changing fa-ces
Am7
Looking for an ocean
F7 G
They tric-kle through your leaky plans
F7 G F G
Another dream over the dam
C F7
And you’re ly-ing in some room
C Am7
Feeling like your right to be hu-man
G
Is going over too
C G7/B
But some are gonna knock you
Am7
And some’ll try and clock you
G
You know it’s really hard
C G7/B
To talk sense to you, trouble child
G/D Dsus4 G
Breaking like the waves at Malibu
Bb – C – Bb – C – Bb
C – Bb – C – Bb (2x)