Lirik dan Kunci Gitar Lagu The Obvious Child - Paul Simon

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The Obvious Child merupakan lagu yang dipopulerkan oleh penyanyi laki-laki asal Amerika Serikat, Paul Simon. Lagu berdurasi 4 menit 10 detik ini merupakan lagu pertama dalam album bertajuk “The Rhythm Of The Saints” yang dirilis pada 16 Oktober 1990. Album ini memuat 14 trek lagu, di antaranya The Cool, Cool River, The Rhythm of the Saints, dan The Coast. Penasaran seperti apa lagunya? Untuk mengetahui lirik lagu dan chord “The Obvious Child” yang dinyanyikan Paul Simon, simak selengkapnya di bawah ini.

 

Lirik Lagu The Obvious Child – Paul Simon

G

Well, I’m accustomed to a smooth ride

 

   D           G         D        G  

Or maybe I’m a dog who’s lost its bite D G C F

I don’t expect to be treated like a fool no more

 

C G D G I don’t expect to sleep through the night D C G D G

Some people say a lie’s a lie’s a lie D G C

But I say why F C

Why deny the obvious child? F C G Why deny the obvious child? D G C

And in remembering a road sign

 

G D C G D G C I am remembering a girl when I was young

 

F C G D G And we said These songs are true D G

These days are ours D G

These tears are free D G

And hey

 

C F C The cross is in the ballpark F C G The cross is in the ballpark

 

We had a lot of fun D C

We had a lot of money G D C

We had a little son and we thought we’d call him Sonny D G

Sonny gets married and moves away

 

C D G

Sonny has a baby and bills to pay

 

C D

Sonny gets sunnier

 

G C D

Day by day by day by day

 

G Doh, doh, doh, doh Doh, doh, doh, doh D C G Well, I’ve been waking up at sunrise D G D G I’ve been following the light across my room D G C F C G D

I watch the night receive the room of my day

 

G D C G D G Some people say the sky is just the sky D G

But I say

 

C F C Why deny the obvious child? F C Why deny the obvious child?

 

G C/G G

Mm————-

 

C/G G C G D C

Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself D G C G D C How it’s strange that some rooms are like cages D G C G D Sonny’s yearbook from high school C

Is down from the shelf

 

D C G D C

And he id-ly thumbs through the pages G Am Some have died G Some have fled from themselves C G D G D G D Or struggled from here to get there C G C G D C Sonny wanders beyond his interior walls G C G D C

Runs his hand through his thinning brown hair G

Well, I’m accustomed to a smooth ride D G D G

Or maybe I’m a dog who’s lost its bite D G C F

I don’t expect to be treated like a fool no more

 

C G D D I don’t expect to sleep through the night D C G D G

Some people say a lie’s a lie’s a lie D G

But I say

 

C F C the cross is in the ballpark F C G Why deny the obvious child?