Kelly Hunt – All the King’s Horses

Kelly Hunt membalik dongeng Humpty Dumpty jadi sesuatu yang jauh lebih dalam di “All The King’s Horses”, bukan cerita tentang kecerobohan, tapi tentang keberanian mengambil risiko demi sesuatu yang layak diperjuangkan.

Vokalnya yang fluttering dan kristalin membawa cerita ini dengan sentuhan yang lembut, dibantu gita yang membiarkan lagu bergerak sederhana tanpa perlu banyak hiasan.

“A heart is better busted wide than a wall that you just hide behind, better to climb and take the fall than to never love no one at all” jadi inti filosofis lagu ini, argumen sederhana bahwa hati yang hancur karena mencoba masih lebih baik dari hati yang aman karena tidak pernah berani. Lalu “that’s the funny thing about the blues, they come for me, they come for you, they come for the king and the pauper too” menambahkan sisi universal itu, kesedihan yang tidak pandang status atau kekayaan.

Kelly Hunt menulis ulang dongeng anak-anak jadi renungan tentang cinta dan kerapuhan, dan hasilnya adalah lagu yang sederhana tapi meninggalkan kesan lama. Kadang kejatuhan memang bukan akhir cerita, melainkan bukti bahwa seseorang pernah berani mencoba memanjat tembok itu.

Lirik Lagu Kelly Hunt – All the King’s Horses

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t find him even one true friend
He thought, ‘I’d rather be a pauper with no kingdom to defend’

As he ate his meat, and he drank his wine
And he laid in his sheets of silk so fine
Laid awake, and he ached for what his money couldn’t buy

That’s the funny thing about the blues—
They come for me, they come for you
They come for the king and the pauper too
If there is one thing that I know for sure
There is one thing we’re all looking for
And nothing else will ever do

Humpty Dumpty, when he got up on that wall
Never dreamed that he’d be fool enough to fall
That’s the funny thing about love—
It makes fools of us all

And all the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put him back together again
That’s one thing, when broken, only time can mend

That’s the funny thing about the truth—
It comes for me, it comes for you
It comes for the king and pauper too
Says a heart is better busted wide
Than a wall that you just hide behind
Better to climb and take the fall
Than to never love no one at all

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