JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Penyanyi dan penulis lagu asal Kanada, Leonard Cohen, memopulerkan lagu berjudul “Night Comes On”.
Lagu bergenre pop tersebut dirilis pada 1988 melalui label rekaman Columbia Records.
“Night Comes On” muncul dalam album studionya yang bertajuk I’m Your Man.
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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Night Comes On” dari Leonard Cohen:
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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I went down to the place where I knew she lay waiting
D Dsus4 A
Under the marble and the snow
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I said: "Mother I'm frightened, the thunder and the lightning
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I'll never come through this alone"
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She said: "I'll be with you, my shawl wrapped around you
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My hand on your head when you go"
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And the night came on, it was very calm
F C
I wanted the night to go on and on
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But she said: "Go back, go back to the world"
[Verse 2]
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We were fighting in Egypt, when they signed this agreement
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that nobody else had to die
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There was this terrible sound, my father went down
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with a terrible wound in his side
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He said: "Try to go on, take my books, take my gun
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Remember, my son, how they lied"
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And the night comes on, it's very calm
F C
I'd like to pretend that my father was wrong
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But you don't want to lie, not to the young
[Verse 3]
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We were locked in this kitchen, I took to religion
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And I wondered how long she would stay
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I needed so much to have nothing to touch, I've always been greedy that way
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But my son and my daughter, climbed out of the water
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Crying: "Papa, you promised to play!"
D Am
And they lead me away to the great surprise
F C
It's papa, don't peek, papa, cover your eyes
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And they hide, they hide in the world
[Verse 4]
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Now I look for her always, I'm lost in this calling
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I'm tied to the threads of some prayer
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Saying: "When will she summon me, when will she come to me?
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What must I do to prepare?
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When she bends to my longing, like a willow, like a fountain
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She stands in the luminous air"
D Am
And the night comes on, it's very calm
F C
I lie in her arms she says: "When I'm gone
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I'll be yours, yours for a song"
[Outro]
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