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kali ini saya akan membahas dua penyanyi (sebenarnya yang satu solo, yang satu band …) yang sedang saya dengarkan lagunya.
sami yusuf:
coba baca biografi nya di
http://www.samiyusuf.com/biography/index.htm
dan buat anda yang suka dan senang sama Mas Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Yusuf
jadi sebenarnya beliau ini sudah lama bermusik (album pertamanya taun 2003), tapi saya baru dengar sekarang-sekarang, mungkin sekitar 2-3 bulan lalu, jadi saya baru tahu.
soal lagunya, yang sering saya dengar itu My Ummah dan Free.
Berikut lirik-liriknya:
Free
What goes through your mind?
As you sit there looking at me
Well I can tell from your looks
That you think I’m so oppressed
But I don’t need for you to liberate me
My head is not bare
And you can’t see my covered hair
So you sit there and you stare
And you judge me with your glare
You’re sure I’m in despair
But are you not aware
Under this scarf that I wear
I have feelings, and I do care
CHORUS:
So don’t you see?
That I’m truly free
This piece of scarf on me
I wear so proudly
To preserve my dignity…
My modesty
My integrity
So don’t judge me
Open your eyes and see…
“Why can’t you just accept me?” she says
“Why can’t I just be me?” she says
Time and time again
You speak of democracy
Yet you rob me of my liberty
And all I want is equality
Why can’t you just let me be free?
For you I sing this song
My sister, may you always be strong
From you I’ve learnt so much
How you suffer so much
Yet you forgive those who laugh at you
You walk with no fear
Through the insults you hear
Your wish so sincere
That they’d understand you
But before you walk away
This time you turn and say:
But don’t you see?
That I’m truly free
This piece of scarf on me
I wear so proudly
To preserve my dignity
My modesty
My integrity
So let me be
She says with a smile
I’m the one who’s free
My Ummah
My ummah, my ummah
He will say
Rasulullah on that day
Even though we’ve strayed from him and his way
My brothers, my sisters, in Islam
Let’s struggle, work, and pray
If we are to
Bring back the glory of his way
CHORUS:
Ya Allah ya rabbal ‘alamin
Ya rahmanu ya rahim
Ya rabbi
O Allah Lord of the Worlds
O Merciful and Beneficent
O my Lord
Let the Ummah rise again
Let us see daylight again
Once again
Let’s become whole again
Proud again
’Cause I swear with firm belief in our hearts
We can bring back the glory of our past
My ummah, my ummah
He will say
Rasulullah on that day
Even though we strayed from him and his way
Look at where we were
And look at where we are
And tell me
Is this how he’d want it to be?
Oh no! Let us bring back our glory
CHORUS
buat saya, My Ummah itu mengharukan.. dan Free membangkitkan semangat. buat Anda?
next is
Keane
saya baru tahu Keane release album baru mereka kemarin. padahal mereka sudah release di bulan Juli 2008. hua. kok ga nelpon2 saya sih?
btw, lagu yang paling sering saya dengerin yaitu ‘Spiralling’
here’s the lyric:
Spiralling
Ooo
Ooo
I’m waiting
For my moment to come
I’m waiting
For the movie to begin
I’m waiting
For a revelation
I’m waiting for someone
To count me in
Cos now
I only see my dreams
In everything I touch
Feel their cold hands on
Everything that I love
Cold like some
Magnificant skyline
Out of my reach
But always
In my eyeline now
We’re tumbling down
We’re spiralling
Tied up to the ground
We’re spiralling
I fashioned you
From jewels and stone
I made you
In the image of myself
I gave you
Everything you wanted
So you would never know
Anything else
But everytime
I reach for you
You slip
Through my fingers
Into cold sunlight
Laughing at the things
That I had planned
The map of my world gets
Smaller as I sit here
Pulling at the loose
Threads now
We’re tumbling down
We’re spiralling
Tied up to the ground
We’re spiralling
When we fall in love
We’re just falling
In love with ourselves
We’re spiralling
Did you wanna be a winner?
Did you wanna be an icon?
Did you wanna be famous?
Did you wanna be the president?
Did you wanna start a war?
Did you wanna have a family?
Did you wanna be in love?
Did you wanna be in love?
I never saw the light
I never saw the light
I waited up all night
But I never saw the light
When we fall in love
We’re just falling
In love with ourselves
We’re spiralling
We’re tumbling down
We’re spiralling
Tied up to the ground
We’re spiralling
Ooo
Ooo
hmm. kalo mengartikan liriknya, aga miris juga sih. saya mengingat fenomena keegoisan dan kenarsisan, seperti yang ditulis pada lirik tersebut. lagu ini seperti Somewhere Only We Know dan Atlantic, bernuansa ‘alone’..
selain lagu ini, sebenarnya lagu lain di album Keane ini (Perfect Symmetry) ada juga yang liriknya menarik, tapi saya kurang suka lagunya. mungkin karena saya baru mendengarkan sekali. entah kalau sudah dua atau tiga kali.
jadi penasaran, memangnya first sight, first hearing itu ga mempan ya?
apakah dengan next sight dan next hearing, penilaian kita bisa berubah terhadap hal yang sama?
hohoo.
cukup sekian dulu ah.
sudah pagi, ikan bangun!
semoga kita semua selalu dapat mengingat-Nya. aamin
wasswrwb