LAGU ITU AKU PUNYA

Interpretasi bagi sesebuah lagu (atau hasil penulisan kreatif yang lain) adalah berbeza bagi setiap orang. Malahan ianya boleh berbeza setiap kali kita mendengarkannya, membacakannya atau menyanyikannya. Bergantung dari sudut mana kita memandangnya, keadaaan emosi kita waktu itu dan untuk apa kita melakukannya. Tiada tafsiran yang salah untuk sesuatu karya itu kerana iainya adalah hak kita untuk menjiwainya.

Pernahkah kamu cuba meinterpretasikan sesuatu karya secara serius. Jika jawapannya tidak pernah, mungkin ada baiknya kita mencubanya kerana iainya adalah satu cara yang baik untuk kita lebih memahami diri kita sendiri. Kerana apa yang kita interpretasikan itu menunjukkan bagaimana cara kita berfikir dan bertindak ketika menghadapi sesuatu keadaan.

Sebagai contoh lagu Breath dari Anna Nalick, pelbagai interpretasi boleh diberikan dari setiap rangkap lagu itu. Dan mungkin setiap rangkap lagu itu kita rasakan tiada kaitan antara satu sama lain dan mungkin juga tidak. Mungkin rangkap itu menceritakan keluhan dari seorang teman dan mungkin juga dari diri kita sendiri. Mungkin juga sesuatu yang tidak pernah kita fikirkan. Jawapannya sentiasa subjektif kerana setiap insan itu berbeza.

BREATH

2 AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake,
can you help me unravel my latest mistake,
I don't love him, winter just wasn't my season
Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to critisize,
hypocrites, you're all here for the very same reason

'Cause you can't jump the track,we're like cars on a cable
and life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button girl,
So cradle your head in you hands
And breathe, just breathe,
Woah breathe, just breathe

May he turn 21 on the base at Fort Bliss
Just today he sat down to the flask in his fist,
Ain't been sober, since maybe October of last year.
Here in town you can tell he's been down for a while,
But my God it's so beautiful when the boy smiles,
Wanna hold him, maybe I'll just sing about it.

Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table.
No one can find the rewind button boys,
So cradle your head in your hands,
And breathe, just breathe,
Woah breathe, just breahte

There's a light at each end of this tunnel, you shout
But you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
These mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again
If you only try turning around.

2 AM and I'm still awake, writing a song
If I get it all down on paper, its no longer
inside of me, threatening the life they belong to
And i feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
Cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud
And I know that you'll use them, however you want to

Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button now
Sing it if you understand.
and breathe, just breathe
woah breathe, just breathe,
oh breathe, just breathe.

By Anna Nalick