Friday, July 8, 2011

Mad World

Mad World 3.mp3

Akhirnya berkesempatan memperbaharui blog ini. Ini adalah 'cover' lagu kedua yang pernah kulakukan dengan rekaman amatir hanya bermodalkan laptop saja, setelah lagu "Falling Slowly" yang akhirnya hanya bersarang di folder antah berantah.

Lagu "Mad World" sendiri pertama kali kudengar melalui Glee Project, reality show Amerika Serikat yang menyaring bakat-bakat muda untuk turut berperan dalam Glee Season 3. I was falling in love at the first hearing out of this song covered by the Glee contenders. Seakan memiliki jiwa, aku dapat merasakan betapa lagu ini berbicara dan membisikkan tiap makna yang ingin disampaikan penulis lagunya. Meski jika dilihat komposisi kunci dan nadanya sederhana dan cenderung banyak pengulangan, ada nuansa dan aura yang terasa saat mendengarkan lagu ini, bahkan untuk pertama kalinya. Tanpa pikir panjang, aku cari lagu versi asli beserta liriknya. Dan berikut lirik lagunya:


Mad World
Gary Jules

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for the daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere

Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles its a very, very
Mad world, mad world

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy birthday, happy birthday
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen

Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me, what's my lesson?
Look right through me, look right through me

And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles its a very, very
Mad world, mad world, enlarging your world
Mad world