Lirik dan Chord Lagu Straight Time - Bruce Springsteen

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Straight Time merupakan lagu yang dipopulerkan oleh penyanyi laki-laki asal Amerika Serikat, Bruce Springsteen. Lagu berdurasi 3 menit 25 detik ini merupakan lagu kedua dalam album bertajuk “The Ghost Of Tom Joad” yang dirilis pada 21 November 1995. Album ini memuat 12 trek lagu, di antaranya Balboa Park, The Line, dan The Ghost of Tom Joad. Penasaran seperti apa lagunya? Untuk mengetahui lirik lagu dan chord “Straight Time” yang dinyanyikan Bruce Springsteen, simak selengkapnya di bawah ini. Chord gitar di bawah adalah chord yang diturunkan setengah nada dari penyayi aslinya.

 

Lirik Lagu Straight Time – Bruce Springsteen

[Intro]

E Esus2 E Esus2 E Esus2 E Esus2/E

 

[Verse 1]

C# C#sus2/C# C#sus2

Got out of prison back in ’86 and I found me a wife

C# A#m

I walked the clean and narrow

F#

Just tryin’ to stay out and stay alive

C# C#sus2 C# C#sus2

Got a job at the rendering factory, it ain’t gonna make me rich C# A#m

In the darkness before dinner comes

F# C#

Sometimes I can feel the itch

 

[Chorus]

G# C# F#

I got a cold mind to go tripping across that thin line E Esus2 E Esus2 E Esus2 E Esus2/E

I’m sick of doin straight time

 

[Verse 2]

C# C#sus2 C# C#sus2

My uncles at the evenin’ table makes his living runnin’ hot cars

C# A#m

Slips me a hundred dollar bill, says

F#

“Charlie, you best remember who your friends are.”

 

[Chorus]

G# C# F#

I got a cold mind to go tripping across that thin line E Esus2 E Esus2 E Esus2 E Esus2/E

I ain’t makin’ straight time

 

[Bridge]

F# C#

Eight years in, it feels like you’re gonna die F#

But you get used to anything C#

Sooner or later it becomes your life

 

[Verse 3]

C# C#sus2/C# C#sus2

Kitchen floor in the evening, tossin’ my little babies high

C# A#m

Mary’s smilin’, but she watches me

F#

Out of the corner of her eye

 

[Verse 4]

C# C#sus2/C# C#sus2

Seems you can’t get any more than half free

C# A#m

I step out onto the front porch

F# C# C#sus2/C#

And suck the cold air deep inside of me

 

[Chorus]

G# C# F#

Got a cold mind to go tripping cross that thin line

E E Esus2 E Esus2 E Esus2 E Esus2/E

I’m sick of doin’ straight time

 

[Bridge]

F# C#

In the basement, huntin’ gun and a hacksaw F#

Sip a beer, and thirteen inches C#

Of barrel drop to the floor

 

[Verse 5]

C# C#sus2/C# C#sus2

Come home in the evening, can’t get the smell from my hands

C# A#m

Lay my head down on the pillow

F# C#

And, go driftin’ off into foreign lands

 

[Outro]

E Esus2 E Esus2 E Esus2 E Esus2/E