Lirik dan Kunci Gitar Lagu Manhattan Skyline - a-ha

Ilustrasi konser musik. Foto: Anthony Wallace/AFP.

Manhattan Skyline merupakan lagu yang dipopulerkan oleh a-ha. Lagu berdurasi 4 menit 50 detik ini merupakan lagu kelima dalam album bertajuk “Scoundrel Days” yang dirilis pada 6 Oktober 1986. Album ini memuat 10 trek lagu, di antaranya The Weight of the Wind, We’re Looking for the Whales, dan October. Penasaran seperti apa lagunya? Untuk mengetahui lirik lagu dan chord “Manhattan Skyline” yang dinyanyikan a-ha, simak selengkapnya di bawah ini. Chord gitar di bawah adalah chord yang dinaikkan satu nada dari penyayi aslinya.

 

Lirik Lagu Manhattan Skyline – a-ha

[Intro]

G

 

G

We sit and watch umbrelas fly,

Em Cmaj7

I’m trying to keep my Newspaper dry. G Em Cmaj7

I hear myself say “My boats leaving now” so we shake hands and cry

 

D/G Em F# Em

Now I must wave good-bye, wave good-bye, wave good-bye,

G C

wave good-bye, wave good-bye,

A Em

wave good-bye. You know G C D Am Em

I don’t wan’t to cry again. I don’t want to cry again. G C D A Em

I don’t want to say good-bye, I don’t want to cry again, G C

I don’t want to run away, D Am Em G C D

I don’t want to race this pain, I’ll never see your face again.

 

G#m D#m F# G#m D A#/C# D#m

Oh but how, how can you say that I didn’t try,

Am Em G Am D

You see things in the depths of my eyes

B/D# Em Am

That my love’s run dry, no

G

We leave to their goodbyes Em Cmaj7

I’ve come to depend on the look in their eyes G

My blood’s sweet for pain Em Cmaj7

The wind and the rain bring back words of a song

D/F# Em

And they say wave goodbye

G Em

Wave goodbye,wave good-bye,

G C

wave good-bye, wave good-bye,

A

wave good-bye. Em

But you know G C/D Am Em

I don’t want to fall again Don’t want to know this pain G C/D Am Em

Don’t want another friend Don’t want to try again G C/D Am Em

Don’t want to see you hurt Don’t let me see you hurt G C D Am Em

I don’t want to cry again I’ll never see your face again

 

F# B C#/G#m Em G Am D

How can you say that I didn’t try,

B/D# Em

You know I did

Am Em G Am D

You see things in the depths of my eyes

B/D# Em

That my love’s run dry D A G

I don’t want to cry again

 

G

So I read to myself Em Cmaj7

A chance of a lifetime to see new horizons

G Em

On the front page a black and white picture of

Cmaj7 G

Manhattan Skyline