JAKARTA – MGMT, band indie rock dari Amerika Serikat, kembali memikat pendengar dengan lagu “Time to Pretend” yang dirilis pada tahun 2007 sebagai single dari album debut mereka, “Oracular Spectacular.” Lagu ini telah menjadi salah satu karya terkenal MGMT dan telah meraih perhatian luas di berbagai platform musik.
“Time to Pretend” adalah sebuah lagu yang menggambarkan perasaan keinginan dan imajinasi tentang kehidupan sebagai seorang musisi rock. Dengan melodi yang menggugah dan lirik yang penuh semangat, MGMT berhasil menciptakan karya yang menyentuh dan menginspirasi. Lagu ini menggambarkan pengalaman pribadi duo anggota band, Andrew VanWyngarden dan Ben Goldwasser, saat mereka masih mahasiswa di Wesleyan University dan menggambarkan keinginan mereka untuk menjadi rock star.
[Intro]
D G x4
[Verse 1]
D
I’m Feelin rough I’m
G
Feelin raw I’m in the
D
prime of my life.
Dsus2 D
D
Let’s make some music
G
make some money find
D
some models for wives.
Dsus2 D
D
I’ll move to Paris,
G
shoot some heroin
D
and fuck with the
Dsus2 D
stars.
D
You man the island and
G
the cocaine and the
D Dsus2 D
elegant cars.
[Pre-chorus 1]
G
This is our decision
to live fast and die
young.
We’ve got the vision,
D
now let’s have some
Dsus2 D Dsus2
fun
G
Yeah it’s
overwhelmi
ng, but
what else
can we do?
Get jobs in offices
and wake up for the
D Dsus2
morning commute?
D Dsus2
[Chorus 1]
A
Forget about our
mothers and our
F#m
friends.
G A
We were fated to
D
pretend.
G D
to
pretend.
G
We were fated to
D
pretend.
G D
to
pretend.
[Verse 2]
D
I’ll miss the
playgrounds
G
and the
animals and
D Dsus2 D
digging up
worms.
D
I’ll miss the comfort
G
of my mother and the
D
weight of the world.
Dsus2 D
D
I’ll miss my sister,
G
miss my father, miss
D
my dog and my home.
Dsus2 D
D
Yeah I’ll miss the
G
boredom and the
freedom and the
D Dsus2 D
time spent alone.
[Pre-chorus 2]
G
But there is really
nothing, nothing we
can do.
Love must be
forgotten.
Life can
D
always start
Dsus2 D Dsus2
up anew.
G
The models will have
children, we’ll get a
divorce,
we’ll find some more
models, Everything
D Dsus2
must run its course.
D Dsus2
9
A
We’ll choke on our
vomit and that will
F#m
be the end.
G A
We were fated to
D
pretend.
G D
to
pretend.
G
We were fated to
D
pretend.
G