JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Iron & Wine merupakan penyanyi-penulis lagu asal Amerika Serikat yang memopulerkan lagu berjudul “Passing Afternoon”.
Lagu berdurasi 4 menit 1 detik ini dirilis pada tahun 2004 melalui label musik Sub Pop Records.
“Passing Afternoon” dimuat dalam album studio kedua miliknya yang bertajuk Our Endless Numbered Days.
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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Passing Afternoon” dari Iron & Wine.
Capo 2
[Verse 1]
C D
There are times that walk from you
G C
Like some passing afternoon
G D/F# C D
Summer warmed the open window of her honeymoon
C D
And she chose a yard to burn
G C
But the ground remembers her
G D/F# C D
Wooden spoons, her children stir her Bougainvillea blooms
[Verse 2]
C D
There are things that drift away
G C
Like our endless numbered days
G D/F# C D
Autumn blew the quilt right off the perfect bed she made
C D
And she's chosen to believe
G C
In the hymns her mother sings
G D/F# C D
Sunday pulls its children from their piles of fallen leaves
[Verse 3]
C D
There are sailing ships that pass
G C
All our bodies in the grass
G D/F# C D
Springtime calls her children 'til she lets them go at last
C D
And she's chosen where to be
G C
Though she's lost her wedding ring
G D/F# C D
Somewhere near her misplaced jar of Bougainvillea seeds
[Verse 4]
C D
There are things we can't recall
G C
Blind as night that finds us all
G D/F# C D
Winter tucks her children in, her fragile china dolls
C D
But my hands remember hers
G C
Rolling 'round the shaded ferns
G D/F# C D
Naked arms, her secrets still like songs I'd never learned
[Verse 5]
C D
There are names across the sea
G C
Only now I do believe
G D/F# C D
Sometimes, with the windows closed, she'll sit and think of me
C D
But she'll mend his tattered clothes
G C
And they'll kiss as if they know
G D/F# C D
A baby sleeps in all our bones, so scared to be alone