Mixtape: Happily Ever After

Berminggu-minggu lalu, seorang kawan mengirimkan sebuah pesan singkat ke ponsel saya. “Sit, lagu-lagu yang wajib ada di pernikahanmu besok apa?” begitu tanyanya. Pertanyaannya terasa sangat sulit waktu itu. Meski saya tetap memberinya beberapa judul lagu. Hari ini, saya memikirkan kembali pertanyaan kawan saya itu. Hari ini, saya dapatkan lagi beberapa lagu yang wajib ada di pernikahan saya nanti. Oya, dengan senang hati saya kutipkan beberapa baris lirik lagu-lagu itu untukmu.

 Happily Ever After -- A Mixtape

The Cranberries  --  Dreams

Oh, my life/Is changing every day/In every possible way.

And oh, my dreams/It's never quite as it seems

'Cause you're a dream to me/Dream to me.

Stevie Wonders – I Just Called To Say I Love You

But what it is/Though old so new

To fill your heart like no three words could ever do

I just called to say I love you/I just called to say how much I care       

Barry Louis Polisar – All I Want Is You

All I want is you, will you stay with me?

Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

If you were the wood, I'd be the fire.

If you were the love, I'd be the desire.

Kath Bloom – Come Here

Have i never laid down by your side?

Baby, let’s forget about this pride
Come here. Come here.

Slow Club – Dance Till Morning Light

I can tell you that there is no pearl in this clam

Or a diamond maybe, I stole its seed

But it was only to try and get you home with me

When there's always that someone who'll be easier on your eye

So forget the politics of living alone and just dance til the morning light

Beirut – Postcard From Italy

And I will love to see that day

That day is mine

When she will marry me outside

With the willow trees

Feist – Mushaboom

I got a man to stick it out

And make a home from a rented house

And we'll collect the moments one by one

I guess that's how the future's done

Katty McCarty – Living Life

Hold me like a mother would

Like I've always known somebody should

Although tomorrow don't look that good

Zee Avi – Just You and Me

Well, baby i never did stop you from going out to explore

We can do it all together from the colds of the poles

to the tropics of Borneo

Jack Johnson – Better Together

And how come it's so hard?

It's not always easy and

Sometimes life can be deceiving

I'll tell you one thing/It's always better when we're together

Meski pernikahan itu masih jadi rahasia semesta, tak apalah saya membayangkan saat itu sambil mendengarkan lagu-lagu ini. Sembari tersenyum (atau termenung) saat ada lirik yang menyentuh saya. Sembari mengulang-ngulang pernyataan Godard –yang akan saya ucapkan ke laki-laki saya kelak: “To be faithful means to act as if time doesn't exist.”

Catatan: Memutar mixtape di hari pernikahan itu jauh lebih simpel dan hemat kan?