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Siang kusaksikan engkau terduduk sendiri dengan kostummu yang berkilau dan angin sedang kencang-kencang berhembus di Jakarta Dan aku 'kan berada di teras rumahmu saat air engkau suguhkan dan kita bicara tentang apa saja Siang lambat laun telah berganti malam dan kini telah gelas ketiga jam sembilan malam aku pulang personal notes: One of my favorites. It reminds me of the moment when I visited my ex (she was my girlfriend back then) for the first time. For me, this song describes romantic chemistry at its finest in some way. This song was really a hype in 2005 or 2006. I'm not really sure to remember when exactly it released. But one thing for sure, this song was included in a collaboration album of original soundtrack of "Janji Joni", a debut movie for Joko Anwar as a director. Both film and soundtrack list are really magnificent and highly recommended. It offers you a truth about how's life going exactly in Jakarta especia...

Tersungkur di sisa malam kosong dan rendah gairah puisi yang romantis menetes dari bibir Murung itu sungguh indah melambatkan butir darah Nikmatilah saja kegundahan ini segala denyutnya yang merobek sepi kelesuan ini jangan lekas pergi aku menyelami sampai lelah hati Puisi yang romantis menetes dari bibir Murung itu sungguh indah melambatkan butir darah Nikmatilah saja kegundahan ini segala denyutnya yang merobek sepi kelesuan ini jangan lekas pergi aku menyelami sampai lelah hati Melancholia! Melancholia! Melancholia Melancholia

I can't sleep tonight Everybody saying everything's alright Still I can't close my eyes I'm seeing a tunnel at the end of all these lights Sunny days Where have you gone? I get the strangest feeling you belong. Why does it always rain on me? Is it because I lied when I was seventeen? Why does it always rain on me? Even when the sun is shining I can't avoid the lightning I can't stand myself I'm being held up by invisible men Still life on a shelf when I got my mind on something else Sunny days Where have you gone? I get the strangest feeling you'll be long. Why does it always rain on me? Is it because I lied when I was seventeen? Why does it always rain on me? Even when the sun is shining I can't avoid the lightning Oh, where did the blue skies go? And why is it raining so? It's so cold I can't sleep tonight Everybody saying everything's alright Still I can't close my eyes I'm seeing a...

I started a joke, which started the whole world crying, but I didn't see that the joke was on me, oh no. I started to cry, which started the whole world laughing, oh, if I'd only seen that the joke was on me. I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes, and I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I'd said. Til I finally died, which started the whole world living, oh, if I'd only seen that the joke was on me. I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes, and I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I'd said. 'Til I finally died, which started the whole world living, oh, if I'd only seen that the joke was one me.

a green plastic watering can for her fake chinese rubber plant in fake plastic earth that she bought from a rubber man in a town full of rubber plans to get rid of itself it wears her out, it wears her out it wears her out, it wears her out she lives with a broken man a cracked polystyrene man who just crumbles and burns he used to do surgery for girls in the eighties but gravity always wins it wears him out, it wears him out it wears him out, it wears him out she looks like the real thing she tastes like the real thing my fake plastic love but I can't help the feeling I could blow through the ceiling if I just turn and run it wears me out, it wears me out it wears me out, it wears me out if I could be who you wanted if I could be who you wanted all the time... all the time...

Life's bitch but at least we've got our personal entertainer here, what an artistic music video, what a cheerful song. seems we can forget the life for a while and I don't even care what will happen tomorrow I'm disappointed, but who cares? Life is always like a bitch, like it used to be then I have to face this bitch. fuck!

I'm as crazy as a clown tonight A clown without a crown tonight A simple sack of wishes and bones I'm as useless as a memory The day before it came to me To save your town of stitches and stones For once in my life I was the king of the Earth Once in my life... I was I've flown horses on the skies above Bleed enough for you my love To fill these empty castles with ghosts I've married devils to their history Stood when you would bury me Through a time of statues and roads But once in my life I was the king of the Earth Once in my life... I was Now that the stars have frozen in their places Now that our hope seems gone Now that scars have fallen from our faces I will see you on I'll never be your picture presidant But I hope you got the rose I sent To save your town of stiches and bones I'm nothing more then but a simple man Born to be American Out to draw these bridges and motes But once in my life I was the king of the Earth O...

Setelah kemarin saya sempat posting soal fakta-fakta di balik lagu The Beatles , tiba-tiba saya jadi penasaran bagaimana cerita di balik lagu-lagu band favorit saya yang lain: OASIS. Dengan perjalanan musik yang kontroversial dan bumbu perseteruan 2 frontman mereka yang tak lain adalah adik-kakak, Liam dan Noel Gallagher, maka saya coba cari beberapa fakta di songfacts.com . Yah, mungkin ada juga yang suka sama OASIS, silakan dibaca.. Sekilas OASIS Oasis adalah kelompok musik rock yang dibentuk di Manchester pada tahun 1991. Pada awalnya grup musik ini bernama The Rain dan dibentuk oleh Liam Gallagher pada vokal dan tamburin, Paul Arthurs pada gitar, Paul McGuigan pada gitar bass, dan Tony McCarroll pada drum dan perkusi, kemudian ikut bergabung juga kakak sulung dari Liam, yaitu Noel Gallagher yang menempati posisi gitar dan vokal. Menurut Belfast Telegraph sampai pada kurun waktu Juni 2009, Oasis telah menjual 90 juta rekamannya di seluruh dunia. Mereka juga memiliki 8 singel y...

The Beatles adalah band rock besar yang pernah ada. Band yang berasal dari Liverpool ini beranggotakan John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, dan Ringo Star. Mereka sempat menjadi fenomena dan idola banyak kalangan pada beberapa dekade silam. Bahkan perjalanan band yang satu ini cukup seru untuk dicermati karena begitu fluktuatif dan dinamis.  Selain kisah perjalanan musik yang luar biasa, proses penciptaan hits-hits mereka pun tak lepas dari berbagai cerita di belakangnya yang mengandung berbagai macam emosi dan situasi.  Simak beberapa fakta dan cerita di balik beberapa lagu The Beatles berikut: 1. Across The Universe Lagu ini berawal ketika John Lennon tengah bertengkar dengan istri pertamanya yaitu Cynthia. Akibat pertengkaran itu, Lennon merasa kesal sekali dan tidak dapat tidur bersama dengan Cynthia malam itu. Akhirnya ia turun ke lantai bawah rumahnya dan mulai menulis unek-uneknya. Awalnya ia tidak ingin menuliskannya, namun ia merasa tidak tenang jika ia t...