HOLOPIS.COM, JAKARTA – Lagu mendiang rapper Mac Miller berjudul Self Care, dirilis pada tahun 2018 sebagai bagian dari albumnya Swimming, tetap menjadi lagu yang menyentuh dan introspektif, yang sangat menyentuh hati para penggemarnya bahkan bertahun-tahun setelah kepergiannya. Lagu yang mengeksplorasi tema kesadaran diri, perjuangan pribadi, dan ketahanan emosional ini menunjukkan kerentanan Miller saat ia menyelami kesulitan dalam menjaga kesehatan mental dan menemukan kedamaian batin dalam menghadapi kekacauan eksternal.
Dalam Self Care, Miller merenungkan perjuangannya melawan kecanduan, ketenaran, dan tekanan hidup. Video musik lagu tersebut, yang menggambarkan dirinya keluar dari peti mati, melambangkan keinginannya untuk terbebas dari perjuangan yang membatasinya. Citra yang kuat ini menggemakan pesan lagu tersebut tentang mengambil kendali atas kesejahteraan diri sendiri, bahkan ketika dihadapkan pada keadaan yang sangat berat.
[Part I: Self Care]
[Intro: Mac Miller]
Gm7 Dm Gm7 Dm
Mhm, mhm
Gm7 Dm Gm7 Dm
Okay
Gm7 Dm Gm7 Dm Gm7 Dm
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Gm7 Dm Gm7 Dm
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Dollars
[Chorus: Mac Miller]
Gm7
I switched the time
Dm
zone, but what do I know?
Gm7
Spendin’ nights
Dm
hitchhikin’, where will I go?
Gm7 Dm
I could fly home, with my eyes closed
Gm7
But it’d get kinda
Dm
hard to see, that’s no surprise though
Gm7
And you could find me,
Dm
I ain’t hidin’
Gm7 Dm
I don’t move my feet when I be glidin’
Gm7 Dm
I just slide in
Gm7
and then I roll
Dm
Out
[Verse 1: Mac Miller & JID]
Yep
Gm7
Well, climbing over
Dm
that wall (Yeah, wall, wall,) mm
Gm7
I remember, yes, I
Dm
remember, yes, I remember it all
Gm7
Swear the height be too tall (Yeah), so
Dm
like September I fall (Down, down, down)
Gm7
Down below, now I know
Dm
that the medicine be on call, yeah (Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme)
Gm7
It’s feelin’ like you
Dm
hot enough to melt, yeah (Melt, yeah)
Gm7
Can’t trust no one,
Dm
can’t even trust yourself, yeah (-Self, yeah)
Gm7
And I love you, I
Dm
don’t love nobody else, yeah (Else, yeah)
Gm7
[Pre-Chorus: Mac Miller & JID]
Tell them they can
Dm
take that bullshit
Gm7
elsewhere (Yeah)
Dm
Self care, I’m
Gm7
treatin’ me
Dm Gm7
Right, yeah
Dm
Hell yeah We gonna be alright (We gon’ be alright)
Gm7
[Chorus: Mac Miller]
I switched the time
Dm
zone (Yeah), but what do I know? (Yeah)
Gm7
Spendin’ nights
Dm
hitchhikin’, where will I go?
Gm7 Dm
I could fly home, with my eyes closed
Gm7
But it’d get kinda
Dm
hard to see, that’s no surprise though
Gm7
And you could find me,
Dm
I ain’t hidin’
Gm7 Dm
I don’t move my feet when I be glidin’
Gm7 Dm
I just slide in
Gm7
and then I roll
Dm Gm7
Out
[Interlude: Devonté Hynes]
Dm
Been on the road
Gm7
Dm
I don’t see it
Gm7
Dm
Out on the road
Gm7
Dm Gm7
I don’t see where I’m
Dm
going
[Verse 2: Mac Miller & JID]
Gm7
Yeah, I been reading
Dm
them signs (Wow, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Gm7
I been losin’ my, I
Dm
been losin’ my, I been losin’ my mind, yeah (Yeah)
Gm7
Get the fuck out the
Dm
way (‘Kay), must be this high to play (Okay)
Gm7
It must be nice up above the lights
Dm
and what a lovely life that I made,
Gm7
yeah (Uh) I know that feelin’
Dm
like it’s in my family tree, yeah
Gm7
(Whoa) That Mercedes drove me
Dm
crazy, I was speedin’
Gm7
Dm
Somebody save me from
Gm7
myself, yeah
[Pre-Chorus: Mac Miller]
Tell them they can
Dm
take that bullshit
Gm7
elsewhere
Dm
Self care, we gonna
Gm7
be
Dm
Good
Gm7
Dm
Hell yeah
Gm7
They lettin’ me
Dm
go-o-o-o-o-o-o-o
[Chorus: Mac Miller]
Gm7
I switched the time
Dm
zone (Yeah), but what do I know? (Yeah)
Gm7
Spendin’ nights
Dm
hitchhikin’, where will I go?
Gm7 Dm
I could fly home, with my eyes closed
Gm7
But it’d get kinda
Dm
hard to see, that’ no surprise though
Gm7
And you could find me,
Dm
I ain’t hidin’
Gm7 Dm
I don’t move my feet when I be glidin’
Gm7 Dm
I just slide in
Gm7
and then I roll
F# Fm7
Out
[Part II: Oblivion]
[Intro: Mac Miller]
Bbm7
I didn’t know, I didn’t know
Gb
I didn’t know, I didn’t know
Fm7
Bbm7 Gb
Yeah, well Didn’t know what I was missing, now I see a lil’ different
Fm7
I was, thinking too
Bbm7
much, got stuck in oblivion
Gb
Yeah, yeah, oblivion, yeah, yeah
Fm7
Oblivion, yeah, yeah
Bbm7
Gb
I got all the time in the world, so for now I’m just chilling
Fm7
Plus I know it’s a, it’s a beautiful
Bbm7
feeling In oblivion, yeah,
Gb
yeah, oblivion, yeah, yeah
Fm7
Oblivion, yeah, yeah
[Verse: Mac Miller]
Bbm7 Gb
Yeah, okay I ride around my city when I come home,
Fm7
yeah The sun set quickly
Bbm7
then get up slow,
Gb
yeah I disconnect and upload
Fm7
Watch it spin around,
Bbm7
we just spin it
Gb
round, yeah Let’s go and travel through the unknown,
Fm7
yeah We play it cool, we
Bbm7
know we fucked
Gb
though, yeah You keep on sayin’ you in love so
Fm7
Tell me are you
Bbm7
really down? Are you
Gb
really down? Yeah Let’s go back to my crib and play some
Fm7
45’s It’s safer there, I
Bbm7
know there’s still a war outside
Gb
We spend our nights all liquored up, our mornings high
Fm7
Can you feel it now?
Bbm7
[Outro: Mac Miller]
Gb
Oblivion, yeah, yeah
Fm7
Oblivion, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Bbm7
yeah, yeah
Gb
Oblivion, yeah, yeah,
Fm7 Bbm7
oohhh
Gb
I got All the time in the world, so for now I’m just chilling
Fm7
Plus, I know it’s a,
Bbm7
it’s a beautiful feeling In oblivion, yeah,
Gb
yeah, oblivion, yeah, yeah
Fm7
Oblivion, yeah, yeah
Bbm7
Gb Fm7 Bbm7 Gb
Fm7 Bbm7
