saija pergi jauh

gak ngerti deh apa yang terjadi sama link antara blogspot dan youtube. apa cuma di gue aja, atau emang lagi gak bisa insert video dari youtube ke blogspot? padahal banyak banget materi blog yang butuh inserted video dari youtube :| kaya di posting kali ini, gue butuh banget masukin beberapa video. tapi apa daya tiap di search selalu keluar notifikasi "video tidak ditemukan" kenapa ini kenapaaa... 

jadi tadi gue buka youtube, buka channel Dimas Wisnu dan terhenti di video Saija - The Trees and The Wild. jadi inget dulu pernah dikatain budek sama sang vokalis gara-gara iseng ngetwit lirik saija yang gak terdengar jelas di kuping gue. dan lirik yang gak jelas itu, gue karang sendiri aja. dan kurang lebih gue twit kaya gini; "saija... jangjijyaaan jiangnyaa... yang tak diam dengannya hanya wakchuuu~ ♫ " pada saat ngetwit, gue gak mention siapa-siapa. eh tiba-tiba diritwit sama mas national geographic. gak lama, si vokalis ikutan ritwit + nambahin ngatain gue budek. PAKE CAPSLOCK SEGALA. yakaliii.. galak amat -____-

yaudahlahya. ngapain juga diladenin. video lengkap saija bisa dilihat dengan klik link ini (disini, gitar elektrik-nya masih iga. masih sadis). lagi seru browsing, gue pun terdampar di tumblr seseorang yang cerita tentang siapa sosok saija sebenarnya. dan ternyata dia adalah tokoh pria dalam buku Douwes Dekker, Max Havelaar.

gue copas aja yah, biar baca langsung dari sumbernya.

Saidjah & Adinda

Recently, I’ve been listening to The Trees & The Wild’s song, Saija. Then I browsed on google what is Saija? Saija they meant on the song was Saidjah, a character on Eduard Douwes Dekker (Multatuli)’s book, Max Havelaar. 

“Saija remuk, dan dia kan sadar yang tak diam dengannya hanya waktu.”That’s the Saija’s lyric said.

It was a tragic love story from the Dutch-colonialism era, Saidjah was a very poor young man, what he did was taking care of his father’s buffalo, but one day the Dutch took the buffalo away and putted his father in jail because he couldn’t pay the tax. Adinda was his neighbor, and before his father went he asked Saidjah to marry Adinda one day. After Saidjah’s mother died in grief, he left Lebak to Batavia for the job as bendi boy. Before he left, he asked Adinda to wait for him. He promised that he will marry Adinda when he come back, he promised he will go for 36 months.

Time went away, and Saija got enough money to marry Adinda already. He went back home and he waited under the ketapan, as they promised together and he couldn’t wait to see Adinda,

“He paid much attention to the sinking of the stars in the west, and as each star disappeared in the horizon, he calculated how much nearer the sun was to his rising in the east, and how much nearer he himself was to seeing Adinda.”

But it was such a pain when the morning came and Adinda didn’t come, he decided to walk to the village where she lived but he found nothing but Adinda’s house turned into ashes. His heart broke, and he fell sick. Days went by, after his health went back to normal he decided to leave to join the insurgents against the Dutch in Lampoons.

Shockingly after he arrived at the burned village, he found Adinda’s father corpse with bayonet’s wound on his breast, and beside him laid down the corpse of Adinda’s brothers and a little further lay the corpse of Adinda, naked, and mutilated. This story ended with this;

“Then Saidjah went to meet some soldiers who were driving, at the point of the bayonet, the surviving insurgents into the fire of the burning houses; he embraced the broad bayonets, pressed forward with all his might, and still repulsed the soldiers, with a last exertion, until their weapons were buried to the sockets in his breast.”

copied from http://liasparingga.tumblr.com here

ternyata lirik yang cuma terdiri dari 12 suku kata itu latar belakangnya paaaanjaaaangg... 

jadi inget sama lagu Stereomantic - Pergi Jauh. berdasarkan nanya langsung  ke om Aroel via twitter, lagu ini juga bercerita tentang kisah cinta di masa lalu. tepatnya Maria Duchateau, istri pertama Sutan Syahrir. berdasarkan info yang gue dapet dari googling, mereka nikah di Belanda waktu Syahrir lagi sekolah hukum disana. tapi begitu Syahrir balik ke Indonesia, Maria gak bisa ikut karna sedang bergejolak Perang Dunia 2. 

my fave lyrics of this song: "apa yang ternyata terjadi, kau tak lagi mengenalku. wanita berparas sendu telah bersanding denganmu. ku merasa sia-sia. begitu mahal harganya mencari cinta yang tercuri dariku~ ♫". lirik ini gue interpretasiin sebagai perasaan Maria yang terpaksa harus menerima kenyataan kalau ternyata pada saat dia udah bisa nyusul Syahrir ke Indonesia, Syahrir malah deket dan akhirnya memutuskan menikah sama Siti Wahyunah aka Poppy Syahrir. 

untuk video, bisa dilihat dengan klik link ini.

ini nih yang gue suka dari band indie. lagu mereka ada isinya. buat yang suka penasaran dan hobi cari tau, malah jadi nambah pengetahuan. 

and I proudly announce that both of the band above are my fave. :)