Makna Lagu Before Niki Zefanya dan Liriknya
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PerbesarNiki Zefanya merilis album dengan beberapa lagu baru yang enak didengar, salah satunya adalah Before. Makna lagu Before Niki Zefanya ini memiliki latar cerita yang menarik.
Dikutip dari Buku Seni Budaya untuk Kelas XII Sekolah Menengah Atas, Harry Sulastianto dkk, (hal. 81), lagu merupakan ungkapan pikiran dan perasaan. Lagu Before Niki Zefanya menceritakan sebuah hubungan yang hampir kandas, karena salah satu pasangannya merasa tidak sepenuhnya memiliki.
Makna Lagu Before Niki Zefanya
Niki Zefanya sendiri merupakan musisi asal Indonesia yang sukses di kancah Internasional. Ia selalu menghasilkan karya-karya yang bagus. Sebelumnya, Niki juga merilis lagus berjudul Every Summertime yang viral di berbagai media sosial.
Lagu Before yang harus dirilisnya ini, kembali menghadirkan makna yang dalam tentang sebuah hubungan. Berikut adalah makna lagu Before Niki Zefanya selengkapnya.
1. Kerinduan dan Penyesalan
Pada lirik “You hid me in your dorm room It was Hallowekend, I just flew across the globe, 22 hours just to see you”, Niki memposisikan dirinya adalah wanita yang mengunjungi kota di mana pacaranya berada.
Namun, yang ia dapatkan malah kenyataan bahwa hubungannya tidak sama lagi. Rasa rindu itu muncul dan mengharapkan romantisme hubungan mereka justru berujung pada dirinya yang seolah disembunyikan dari dunianya, atau seperti tidak dianggap.
2. Perasaan Kesal
Makna lainnya, Niki juga mengungkapkan kekesalan, karena ia merasa sudah banyak berusaha demi pasangan, tetapi ia malah lebih asik dengan dunianya sendiri.
Perasaan tersebut ia sampaikan pada salah satu liriknya, seperti “Just to barely fit on your twin-sized bed and talk about your cool new friend, who I never met, Who you dated as soon as I left”.
3. Menerima Kenyataan
Di balik semua perasaan yang sampaikan, ada rasa penerimaan. Meskipun lagu penuh perasaan sakit, ia juga mengajak pendengarnya untuk belajar menerima kenyataan.
Lirik Lagu Before Niki Zefanya
Berikut adalah lirik lagu Before oleh Niki Zefanya yang menggambarkan perasaan-perasaan di atas.
You hid me in your dorm room
It was Halloweekend, I just flew across the globe
Twenty-two hours just to see you
Just to barely fit on your twin-sized bed
And talk about your cool new friend
Who I never met, who you dated as soon as I left
Carolina autumn
It had been a year since I saw you
Since we ended it
Had a year to grow into the girl you always wanted
Now we're holding hands as not quite friends
But not quite lovers
Well, we'll just pretend
You say, "It's complicated to make amends"
Well, is that the way that we're headed then?
And you couldn't answer me
Though you could pull me in while I brushed my teeth
And let your hands both freely speak
Like I wasn't ever gonna leave, leave
You were all I'd ever known
And now I'm supposed to love you from a distance
Like it's nothing, like it's instant
And you say, "Let's just see where this goes"
And I don't know how or why you seem just fine
'Cause I'm having to grasp that you're somehow not mine anymore
It's so cruel how things are only almost like they were before
Like they were before
Like they were before
Like they were before
We walk downtown and it's charming
You're alarmingly disarming
Yeah, we've got forty-eight hours left
Before I fly back to my death
While you stay just fine and feel alive
South of the Mason-Dixon line
Where everyone closes shop at nine
Where you could somehow finally find
What you were desperately looking for
Funny how you thought that was gonna be New York
With our chalkboard walls and slanted floors
Oh, we could've had that and so much more
Ask your new lover what it's like to be given
A real fighting chance before you wish her, "Good riddance"
Did anything ever really count
Or was I just a two-year practice round?
You were all I'd ever known
And now I'm feeling stupid, you're forbidden
They say, yeah, we were something, too bad we were children
Ooh, I don't know where to go
And I don't know how or why you seem just fine
'Cause I'm looking at you and God knows you're not mine anymore
It's so cruel how things will never be the way they were before
Like they were before
It's almost just like how it was before
But it's not anymore
Makna lagu Before Niki Zefanya dan lirik lagu ini menyentuh tentang penyesalan, perpisahan, dan kerinduan dengan waktu yang bahagia. Niki menggambarkan perasaan yang sudah berlalu. (ERI)