MICEFOLK – Sher of Aberdeen

Sher of Aberdeen dibangun di atas janji pernikahan paling terkenal sedunia, lalu dipatahkan sendiri oleh MICEFOLK. “In sickness and in health, until death do us part. Well, not really,” ungkapnya. Tiga kata terakhir itu sungguh tega.

Tokoh di lagu ini sedang sakit, sel-selnya terus membelah, dan justru di titik terendah itu Sher pergi. Ke mana? Ke pelukan kakaknya sendiri. “Heard you found another, my healthy older brother,” nyanyinya. Kata healthy di situ menusuk lebih dalam daripada semua pengakuan sakitnya.

Kita punya istilah turun ranjang untuk orang yang menikahi ipar sepeninggal pasangannya. Sher praktis turun ranjang lebih cepat, karena yang ditinggal masih hidup dan masih sempat menulis lagu tentangnya.

Ia memilih mengantar getir itu dengan tenang. Petikan gitar, drum yang santai, dan bass yang merayap di bawah vokal pria yang khas, indie rock yang pahitnya ditelan pelan-pelan. Momen paling sunyi datang saat aransemen surut hingga tinggal gitar dan vokal, lalu vokal latar yang lembut menyusul, dan kita dibiarkan duduk sendirian bersama sisa suaranya.

Di ujung Sher of Aberdeen, MICEFOLK membiarkan tokohnya melambai ke mobil yang melaju ke Aberdeen sambil berusaha tersenyum.

Sempatkah Sher melirik spion?

Lirik Lagu MICEFOLK – Sher of Aberdeen

Go on, girl, take everything you see.
Please, pay me no mind.
Guard yourself, be careful what you dream.
I’ll feed my cancer wine,
Magazines, nicotine, and time.

Leave no trace that you were ever here.
Leave no thing behind,
Except the half-filled cup that you were drinking of.
Red lips forever mine.
Magazines, nicotine,
Your memories will be buried with me.
Under a tree, six feet deep,
Your magazines, my nicotine, and time.

Would you even notice if I hadn’t wrote this?
From my throat hum-note this. Would you hear a sound?
My cells – they keep dividing. For my life I’m fighting.
This nightmare that I’m writing is that you won’t be around.
Heard you found another, my healthy older brother.
Living undercover in another town.
You’ll have a new life there. You’ll be a good wife, Sher.
And you’ll weave your white hair until it comes unwound,
Until it comes around.

Blow a kiss and wave goodbye.
Drive down the road to Aberdeen.
I’ll wave back and try to smile
Like nothing bad is happening here at all.
Like nothing bad is happening at all.

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