JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - “The Cool, Cool River” adalah salah satu lagu milik penyanyi-penulis lagu asal Amerika Serikat, Paul Simon.
Lagu tersebut dimuat dalam album studio solo keempatnya yang diberi nama Still Crazy After All These Years.
Album yang berisi 10 trek tersebut dirilis pada 17 Oktober 1975 melalui label musik Columbia Records.
Baca juga: Lirik Lagu Trail of Volcanoes, Terbaru dari Paul Simon
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “The Cool, Cool River” dari Paul Simon.
F#m
Moves like a fist through traffic
Anger and no one can heal it
Shoves a little bump into the momentum
It's just a little lump
But you feel it in the...
F#m G#m A G#m |F#m G#m A G#m|
In the creases and the shadows
F#m G#m A G#m|F#m G#m A G#m|
With a rattling deep emo-tion
F#m G#m A G#m |F#m G#m A G#m|
The cool, cool riv-er
F#m G#m A G#m |F#m G#m A G#m|
Sweeps the wild, white ocean
F#m11
Yes Boss. The government handshake
Yes Boss. The crusher of language
Yes Boss. Mr. Stillwater,
The face at the edge of the banquet
F#m G#m A G#m |F#m G#m A G#m
The cool, the cool riv-er
F#m G#m A G#m|F#m G#m A G#m
The cool, the cool riv-er
F#m11 | |Eadd9add11/B |F#m/A
I believe in the future
D/A |A D/A A |Eadd9add11/B
I may live in my car
| |F#m/A
My radio tuned to
D/A |A D/A A |Eadd9add11/B
The voice of a star
Song dogs barking at the break of dawn
F#m/A D/A |A D/A A
Lightning pushes the edge of a thunderstorm
Eadd9add11/B
And these old hopes and fears
F#m/A D/A |A D/A A | |F#m
Still at my side
F#m
Anger and no one can heal it
Slides through the metal detector
Lives like a mole in a motel
A slide in a slide projector
F#m G#m A G#m |F#m G#m A G#m
The cool, cool riv-er
F#m G#m A G#m |F#m G#m A G#m
Sweeps the wild, white ocean
F#m G#m A G#m |F#m G#m A G#m
The rage, the rage of love turns inward
F#m G#m A G#m |F#m G#m A G#m
To prayers of devotion
F#m
And these prayers are
The constant road across the wilderness
These prayers are
|F#m G#m A G#m |F#m G#m A G#m
These prayers are the memory of God
F#m G#m A G#m |F#m G#m A G#m|F#m
The memory of God
|Eadd9add11/B |F#m/A
And I believe in the future
D/A |A D/A A
We shall suffer no more
Eadd9add11/B | |F#m/A
Maybe not in my lifetime
D/A |A D/A A |Eadd9add11/B
But in yours I feel sure
Song dogs barking at the break of dawn
F#m/A D/A |A D/A A
Lightning pushes the edge of a thunderstorm
Eadd9add11/B |D
And these streets
|A
Quiet as a sleeping army
|E7/G# |A |D/A
Send their battered dreams to heaven, to heaven
E/B |A
For the mother's restless son
|D/A
Who is a witness to, who is a warrior
E/B|A
Who denies his urge to break and run
Who says: Hard times?
I'm used to them
D/A
The speeding planet burns
I'm used to that
E/B |A
My life's so common it disappears
|D/A
And sometimes even music
E/B |A
Cannot substitute for tears
Repeat:
F#m11
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