JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Grup band rock Rise Against melantunkan lagu berjudul “Survivor Guilt” pada tahun 2011.
Lagu tersebut diciptakan oleh Tim McIlrath (vokalis) dan muncul dalam album studio keenam band yang bertajuk Endgame.
Album yang diproduseri oleh Bill Stevenson dan Jason Livermore itu sukses mencapai peringkat ke-2 di tangga lagu US Billboard 200.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu The Dirt Whispered - Rise Against
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Survivor Guilt” dari Rise Against.
[Intro]
C#m A
B
"What are you talking about? America is not going to be destroyed."
C#m A B
"Never?
C#m A B
Rome was destroyed, Greece was destroyed, Persia was destroyed, Spain was destroyed
C#m A B
All great countries are destroyed, why not yours?
B C# A
How much longer do you think your own country will last?
C# A
Forever?"
C#m A C#m A
C#m A C#m A
[Verse 1]
F#m C#m A C#m A
Block the entrances, close the doors
F#m C#m A C#m A
Seal the exits because this is war
F#m A
All gave some, some gave all
B
But for what? I want to know
[Chorus]
C#m A B
Carry on, don't mind me
F#m
All I gave was everything
C#m A B
And yet you ask me for more
C#m A B
Fought your fight, bought your lie
F#m A
And in return I lost my life
B
What purpose does this serve?
C#m A C#m A
C#m A C#m A
[Verse 2]
F#m C#m A C#m A
A folded flag, a purple heart
F#m C#m A C#m A
A family all but torn a part
F#m A
I fought with courage to preserve
B
Not my way of life, but yours
[Ulangi Chorus]
[Bridge]
C#m
C#m
E B F#m G#m
C#m
C#m
E B F#m G#m
C#m
The cowards preach from pedestals
C#m
With words like "courage" and "resolve"
E B
But what they meant was "Fuck them all"
F#m G#m
Because freedom isn't free
C#m
They send our daughters and our sons
C#m
To deserts under burning suns
E B
A sacrificial slaughtering
F#m G#m A
To fill the pockets of the weak
A F#m G#m A B
An artificial enemy, are we so easily deceived?
[Intrerlude]
C#m A B
C#m A B
C#m A B
C#m A B
[Chorus]
C#m A B
Don't carry on, just walk away
F#m C#m
How many more sent to their graves?
A B
In this lesson ignored
C#m A
I fought your fight
B
Bought your lie
F#m A
And in return I lost my life
B
What purpose does this serve?
A B
What purpose did I serve?
C#m