Friday 30 November 2012

Day 08 – a song that you know all the words to


Lagu yang sungguh kekejuan ini ajaibnya meyihir saya dan saya berani terima tantangan karaoke lagu ini sambil membelakangi layar tv.

Bed of Roses – Bon Jovi

Sitting here wasted and wounded at this old piano
Trying hard to capture the moment this morning I don't know
'Cause a bottle of vodka is still lodged in my head
And some blond gave me nightmares, think that she's still in my bed
As I dream about movies
They won't make of me when I'm dead

With an ironclad fist I wake up and french kiss the morning
While some marching band keeps it's own beat in my head
While we're talking
About all of the things that I long to believe
About love, the truth, what you mean to me and the truth is
Baby you're all that I need

I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses
For tonight I'll sleep on a bed of nails
I wanna be just as close as your Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on a bed of roses

Well I'm so far away the step that I take's on my way home
A king's ransom in dimes I'd give each night
To see through this pay phone
Still I run out of time or it's hard to get through
Till the bird on the wire flies me back to
You I'll just close my eyes, whisper baby blind love is true

Well this hotel bar's hangover whiskey's gone dry
The barkeeper's wig's crooked
And she's giving me the eye
Well I might have said yeah
But I laughed so hard I think I died
Ooh yeah

Now as you close your eyes
Know I'll be thinking about you
While my mistress she calls me to stand in her spotlight again
Tonight I won't be alone
But you know that don't mean I'm not lonely
I've got nothing to prove for it's you that I'd die to defend




Sejujurnya, lagu ini dihapalkan dengan khidmat menyambut naik haji jamaah Bonjoviniyah di Ancol, May 1995. Ga hanya lagu Bed of Roses, lagu-lagu lain lancar dinyanyikan dari mulai Runaway, Lay Your Hands on Me, Livin’ on a Prayer, Never Say Goodbye, In These Arms, Someday I’ll be Saturday Night; dan tentu saja lagu yang bikin radang tenggorokan; ‘Shot through the heart and you’re too bad, darling you give love a batman!’; Tapi untuk meme kali ini saya pilih Bed of Roses saja. Enak buat dinyanyiin dan saya suka sekali liriknya.

Ehem. Ini sebenernya saya yang norak kali ya. Karena sejujurnya perlukan kuulangi lagi, saya suka sekali lirik lagu Bed of Roses. Bukan bagian; ‘I wanna laaaayyy you down on a bed of roses..’; karena bagian ini sungguh gombal, kebayang kalo ketusuk duri mawar. Bagian favorit saya adalah, ‘A king’s ransom in dimes I’d give each night to see through this payphone.’t; Yeah, I know, curcol keseringan LDR :P

Lagu ini ada di album Keep the Faith, album Bon Jovi favorit saya. Pertama karena pada warsa ini Jon Bon Jovi potong rambut dan membuat si sayah abege naksir berat. Kedua, saya suka sekali lagu Keep the Faith, dengan melodi menghentak dan lirik yang sangat positif. Ketiga, si sayah abege yang hopeless romantic (sampe sekarang ding) tentu saja termehe-mehe membayangkan Jon main piano sambil menyanyikan lagu ini. ‘About all of the things that I long to believe. About love, the truth, what you mean to me and the truth is, baby you're all that I need.’ *klepek klepek*

Sayang semenjak album Crush, saya bosan dengan Bon Jovi. Entah kenapa, hati dan otak ogah mencerna lagu-lagunya. Mungkin Bon Jovi memang kehilangan sentuhan midas pada lagu-lagunya atau saya yang berubah selera. Yeah, people change, everything change. Tapi ada satu yang berubah dari diri saya dan membuat saya semakin menyukai lirik Bed of Roses ini. Menurut saya, cowok yang sedang hangover itu seksi ;)

Baiklah, silahkan menikmati Bed of Roses lewat YouTube yang saya sematkan di atas. Sengaja saya pilih versi ‘An Evening with Bon Jovi’ dimana di awalnya Jon cerita sedikit tentang lagu ini. Dan tentu saja, ehm, di mata saya, Jon ganteng sekali dengan rompi hitamnya itu. Dan yang ini hanya berubah dikit.

Video klip aslinya ada disini


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