Seminggu terakhir, aku mulai membuka lagi album-album lama gubahan Jose Mari Chan, penyanyi pop Filipina. Salah satu kidungnya sempat top di tahun 80-an (atau 90-an?), Beautiful Girl. Salah satu yang paling kusukai dari album-albumnya adalah “Constant Change”. Berulang kali kudengarkan. Makin jernih ia menggambarkan kegalauanku akhir-akhir ini …
Constant Change
We’re on the road
We move from place to place
And oftentimes when I’m about to call it home
We’d have to move along
Life is a constant change…The friends we know we meet along the way
Too soon the times we share form part of yesterday
‘Cause life’s a constant change
And nothing stays the same, oh noClouds that move across the skies
Are changing form before our very eyesWhy couldn’t we keep time from movin’ on?
Hold on to all the years before this moment’s gone?
Why must we live the days at such a frightening pace?We’re all like clouds that move across the skies
And changing form before our very eyesHave we outgrown our Peter Pans and wings?
We’ve simply grown too old for tales of knights and kings
‘Cause life’s a constant change
And nothing stays the same, oh no