JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - “Red Rabbits” merupakan sebuah lagu yang dipopulerkan oleh grup band rock indie asal Amerika Serikat, The Shins.
Lagu yang diciptakan oleh James Mercer (vokalis) ini dimuat dalam album studio ketiga band yang bertajuk Wincing the Night Away.
Album tersebut dirilis secara resmi pada 23 Januari 2007 melalui label Sub Pop Records.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu One by One All Day - The Shins
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Red Rabbits” dari The Shins:
CAPO 1
INTRO
G C F
G Em F
G Em Am
Bb D
G C F
Hurled to the center of the earth again
G Em
The place where it's hot love
F G
You know it hurts to breathe in
G Em Am
And the watershed you balance on is begging it
Bb D
Well did he ever know? Will he ever know?
G C F
The trees in the moonshine are a dark lattice
G Em F G
So you catalogue every angle you notice
G Em Am
In a vacuum you are charged to record this
Bb D C
So you won't make it easy on me
CHORUS:
C G F
I can't go into this no more
G C
It puts too many thorns on my mind
D G
And the necessary balloon lies a corpse on the floor
F G F G C
We've pissed in far too ma-ny Sprites
D
And they're all standing up for their rights
G C F
G Em F
G C F
Born on a desert floor, you've the deepest thirst
G Em F G
And you came to my sweet shore to indulge it
G Em Am
With the wan and drilling eyes of an orphan
Bb D
But there was not enough, there is not enough
G C F
Out of a gunnysack fall red rabbits
G Em F G
Into a crucible to be rendered an emulsion
G Em Am
And we can't allow a chance they'd restore themselves
Bb D C
So we can't make it easy on you
CHORUS 2
C G F
Undaunted, you bathe in hollow cries
G C
The boys with swollen sunburnt eyes
D G
A reward for letting nothing under their skin
F G F G C
So help me I don't know, I might
D Bb G
Just give the ole Dark Side a try
BRIDGE
C D
Don't cast your willing eyes on the shore
Bb G
til we even the score
C D
I still owe you for he hole in the floor
Bb G
And the ghost in the hall
C D
Who decides who paddles over the falls?
D
Yeah, who makes the call? Who makes the call?
G C F
G Em F
G Em Am
Bb D
G C F
G Em F
G Em Am
D
CHORUS 3
C G F
I know there's an eventual
G C
Release from every scale of crime
D G
But the necessary balloon lies a corpse on the floor
F G F G F G F G
We've pissed on far too ma-ny good in-ten-tions
F G F G C
Held by cle-ver sprites
D
And they're all standing up for their rights
G
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