Gianna Branca – Coming of Age

Di sebuah parkiran, hujan terus turun ketika mobil kekasihnya melaju pergi, dan menurut lirik Coming of Age, wajahnya tak pernah ia lihat lagi. Begitulah Gianna Branca menandai hari ketika ia dipaksa dewasa, hari yang kita semua punya versinya.

Coming of Age juga jadi judul album debut penyanyi asal Philadelphia ini, yang seluruh lagunya ia tulis sendiri.

Bunyi elektronik tipis membuka, lalu drum yang irit menemani vokal yang intim. Drum menguat seiring vokal naik, dan reff tiba dengan instrumen elektronik serta drum penuh, padat dan gampang menempel di kepalamu. Ada bagian di tengah yang iringannya menipis lagi. Tidak lama. Ia lalu menanjak bertahap sampai ujung yang bertenaga.

Bagian terbaiknya justru soal klise. Orang-orang bilang patah hati rasanya seperti tak bisa bernapas, dan ia mengira mereka melebih-lebihkan. Lalu ia sendiri ditinggal di parkiran, kalimatnya tersendat di “like- like- like-”, dan perumpamaan yang akhirnya keluar malah yang paling basi. Dihantam kereta. Mirip nasihat orang tua yang baru terasa benar setelah kita mengalaminya sendiri.

Ia bahkan mengakuinya, lengkap dengan satu umpatan kecil, “it’s this they write their songs about”. Lewat Coming of Age, Gianna Branca kini ikut menulis satu.

Lirik Lagu Gianna Branca – Coming of Age

It hits you like a train
Your coming of age
Your before and after day
Your never be the same
Your first real dirty break
Your first fine but not okay
Your first grow up either way
Your coming of age

And they say it’s like you can’t breathe
but you don’t think that they really mean it
And they say it’s like you wanna die
But you’re sure it’s been exaggerated
But then you’re there in the parking lot
And the rain keeps pouring as his car drives off
And you never see his face again
And it’s like- like- like-

It hits you like a train
Your coming of age
Your before and after day
Your never be the same
Your first real dirty break
Your first fine but not okay
Your first grow up either way
Your coming of age

And suddenly you’re not a kid no more
You trade your fun for keeping score
You trade ice cream for alcohol and you
Trade love for screw it all and you
Never thought you’d feel this pain
this heartbreak, okay, fucks sake, you get it now
it’s this they write their songs about and

It hits you like a train
Your coming of age
Your before and after day
Your never be the same
Your first real dirty break
Your first fine but not okay
Your first grow up either way
Your coming of age
Age, Age, Age, Age
Age, Age, Age, Age

Hit the brakes
Take a breath
Take a couple steps back
Cut the tape
Change the track
Screaming I’m not ready yet
Close my eyes
See your face
As you turn the car away
Grow a lifetime in a second
Try a lifetime to forget it
Still got scars
The ones you made
They’re faded but their shape’s the same
Burns from living for a second
Cuts from the crash where it all ended
Should’ve seen what you’d do to me
The way you brought me to my knees
Should've guessed it when we met
That I wasn’t ready yet

It hit me like a train
My coming of age
My before and after day
My never be the same
My first real dirty break
My first fine but not okay
My first grow up either way
My coming of age

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