Kisah di Balik Lagu Foo Fighters: The Pretender, Amarah Dave Grohl Kritik Presiden Amerika Serikat

SEAToday.com, Seattle – The Pretender merupakan lagu Foo Fighters yang ada di dalam album keenam mereka “Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace”. Album ini dirilis pada bulan September 2007. Ada cerita unik di balik lagu The Pretender. Lagu ini mengisahkan tentang kritik kepada pemerintah Amerika Serikat.
The Pretender menceritakan tentang pemerintah yang mengontrol warganya dengan tirani dan tidak membiarkan ada orang yang berani melawan dan hanya pemerintah yang bisa mengendalikan rakyatnya.
Menghadapi pemerintah seperti itu memicu adanya sekelompak rakyat yang berani mengambi sikap untuk melawan pemerintah yang sudah berbohon kepada warganya selama bertahun-tahun. The Pretender artinya penipu yang dimaksud adalah si pemerintah tersebut.
Vokalis dan gitaris Foo Fighters Dave Grohl penulis lirik The Pretender pernah berbicara soal inspirasi dalam menulis lagu tersebut. Hal itu terungkap ketika mantan anggota grup band Nirvana tersebut ketika melakukan sesi wawancara di sebuah radio di Inggris.
Grohl mengungkap rasa kecewanya kepada pemerintah dan rakyat tidak mendapatkan apa yang dijanjikan pemerintah. Lagu The Pretender masuk dalam album Foo Fighters yang rilis tahun 2007. Diduga ia mengkritik pemerintah Amerika Serikat saat itu yakni Presiden George W Bush.
Selama menjadi orang nomor satu di Amerika Serikat memang Bush kerap melakukan kontroversi hingga memicu amarah dari masyarakat termasuk para personel Foo Fighters. Pada masa kepemimpinan Bush banyak musisi yang cukup vocal mengkritik sang presiden.
Salah satunya adalah krisis ekonomi AS berada di ambang resesi hingga keputusan Bush telah mengirim lebih banyak pasukan ke Irak di awal tahun yang memicu kemarahan penduduk di Amerika. Berikut lirik lagu The Pretender milik Foo Fighters:
Keep you in the dark
You know they all pretend
Keep you in the dark
And so it all began
Send in your skeletons
Sing as their bones come marchin' in again
The need you buried deep
The secrets that you keep are at the ready
Are you ready?
I'm finished making sense
Done pleading ignorance, that whole defense
Spinning infinity, but
The wheel is spinning me, it's never-ending, never-ending
Same old story
What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender?
What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender?
In time, or so I'm told
I'm just another soul for sale, oh well
The page is out of print
We are not permanent, we're temporary, temporary
Same old story
What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender?
What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender? Oh
I'm the voice inside your head you refuse to hear
I'm the face that you have to face, mirroring your stare
I'm what's left, I'm what's right, I'm the enemy
I'm the hand that'll take you down, bring you to your knees
So, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
Keep you in the dark
You know they all pretend
What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender?
What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender?
What if I say I'm not like the others? (Keep you in the dark)
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? (You know they all)
You're the pretender (pretend)
What if I say I will never surrender?
What if I say I'm not like the others? (Keep you in the dark)
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? (You know they all)
You're the pretender (pretend)
What if I say I will never surrender?
So, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
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