JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Elvis Costello merupakan penyanyi dan penulis lagu asal Inggris yang membawakan lagu berjudul “Strict Time”.
Lagu berdurasi 2 menit 40 detik ini diciptakan sendiri olehnya dan pada tahun 1981 melalui label F-Beat Records.
“Strict Time” dimuat sebagai trek kelima dalam album studio kelima Costello yang bertajuk Trust.
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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Strict Time” dari Elvis Costello.
INTRO:
G C G C G C G C
G
There's a hand on a wire that leads to my mouth
I can hear you knocking but I'm not coming out
C
Don't want to be a puppet or a ventriloquist
G
'Cause there's no ventilation on a critical list
D C
Fingers creeping up my spine are not mine to resist
G
Strict time
CHORUS:
D
Toughen up, toughen up
C
Keep your lip buttoned up
G
Strict time
G
Oh the muscles flex and the fingers curl
And a cold sweat breaks out on the sweater girl
Strict time
C
Oh he's all hands, don't touch that dial
The courting cold wars weekend witch trial
G
Strict time
D C
All the boys are straight laced and the girls are frigid
G
The talk is two-faced and the rules are rigid 'cause it's strict time
Strict time
(Chorus) x2
G
You talk in hushed tones, I talk in lush tones
Try to look Italian through the musical Valium
Strict time
C
Thinking of grand larceny
D
Smoking the everlasting cigarette of chastity
Cute assistants staying alive
C G
More like a hand job than the hand jive
Strict time