Five For Fighting

Bertahun-tahun jadi penggemar musik, tapi tak satupun instrumen musik yang bisa dimainkan. Well, pemain musik itu ibarat kurav normal. Di ujung kiri itu orang yang ga suka musik dan ga bisa main musik, ditengah itu penikmat musik tapi ga bisa main musik. Dan yang paling sakti pasti yang ujung kanan, penikmat musik, dan bisa main musik. Sayang sekali mendapati diri sama sekali tak berbakat bermain musik, selain kletukan (memukul-mukul suatu permukaan layaknya musik acapella).

 

Bertahun-tahun juga jadi penikmat musik, akhirnya punya juga satu pemain musik yang jadi favorit. Nama panggungnya Five For Fighting, nama aslinya John Ondrasik. Kalau teman pembaca pernah dengar lagu Superman (It's not easy) ataupun 100 Years, inilah penyanyinya. John adalah pemain piano-rock, namun sering juga musiknya pop, jazzy, dan terkadang beat-breaking. Jika ada yang mengira FFF adalah band, maka perkiraan tersebut salah. John bermain secara solo. Sama seperti Glenn Fredly, ataupun Stevie Wonder.

Salah satu lagu yang wajib teman-teman cicipi di kuping adalah Chances. Berikut liriknya:

Chances are when said and done
Who will be the lucky ones
Who make it all the way?
Though you say I could be your answer
Nothing lasts forever
No matter how it feels today

Chances are we'll find a new equation
Chances run away from me
Chances are all they hope to be

Don't get me wrong I never say never
Cause though love can change the weather
No act of God can pull me away from you

I'm just a realistic man
A bottle filled with shells and sand
Afraid to look beyond what I can lose when it comes to you
And though I'll see us through yeah

Chances are we'll find two destinations
Chances run away from me
Still chances are more than expectations
And possibilities
Over me

Eight to five or two to one
Lay your money on the sun
Until you crash what have you done?
Is there a better bet than love?
What you are is what you bring
You've got to cry before you see

Chances, chances

Chances lost are hopes torn up pages
Maybe this time
Chances are we'll be the combination
Chances come and carry me
Chances are waiting to be taken
And I can see
Chances are the fascination
Chances won't escape from me
Chances are only what we make them
And all I need 

 

His music is in the level of AWESOME.