JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "Pastime Paradise" merupakan salah satu lagu yang dinyanyikan oleh Stevie Wonder.
Lagu tersebut dirilis pada 1976 dan menjadi bagian dari album yang bertajuk Songs in the Key of Life.
Lagu ini adalah salah satu lagu pertama yang menggunakan synthesizer (Yamaha GX-1) yang terdengar seperti orkestra penuh.
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Berikut lirik dan chord lagu "Pastime Paradise" yang dinyanyikan oleh Stevie Wonder:
[Intro 1]
| N.C. | F |
[Intro 2]
| F Dm | E Am |
| F Dm | E Am |
| F Dm | E Am |
[Verse 1]
F Dm E Am
They've been spending most their lives, living in a pastime paradise.
F Dm E Am
They've been spending most their lives, living in a pastime paradise.
F Dm E Am
They've been wasting most their time, glorifying days long gone behind.
F Dm E Am
They've been wasting most their days in remembrance of ignorance oldest praise. Tell me...
[Chorus]
F Dm E Am
Who of them will come to be?
F Dm E Am
How many of them are you and me?
[Bridge 1]
F F Em/G Em/G
Dissipation, race relations,
F F Em/G Em/G
consolation, segregation.
F Em Dm E
Dispensation, isolation, exploitation, mutilation.
F Em Dm E
Mutations, miscreation, confirmation, to the evils of the world.
[Verse 2]
F Dm E7 Am
They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.
F Dm E7 Am
They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.
F Dm E7 Am
They've been looking in their minds for the day that sorrow's gone from time.
F Dm E7 Am
They keep telling of the day when the Saviour of love will come to stay. Tell me...
[Chorus]
F Dm E7 Am
Who of them will come to be?
F Dm E7 Am
How many of them are you and me?
[Bridge 2]
F F Em/G Em/G
Proclamation of race relations,
F F Em/G Em/G
consolation, integration.
F Em Dm E
Verification, of revelations, acclamation, world salvation.
F Em Dm E
Vibrations, stimulation, confirmation to the peace of the world.
[Verse 3]
F Dm E7 Am
They've been spending most their lives, living in a pastime paradise.
F Dm E7 Am
They've been spending most their lives, living in a pastime paradise.
F Dm E7 Am
They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.
F Dm E7 Am
They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.
F Dm E7 Am
We've been spending too much of our lives, living in a pastime paradise.
F Dm E7 Am
Let's start living our lives, living for the future paradise.
F Dm E7 Am
Praise to our lives, living for the future paradise.
F Dm E7 Am
Shame to anyone's lives, living in the pastime paradise.
[Coda]
|(Am) Dm | E Am E Am
Itu dia lirik dan chord dari lagu "Pastime Paradise" yang dinyanyikan oleh Stevie Wonder.
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