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Dalam unggahan beberapa foto di akun Instagram pribadinya @rocknal pada 29 Juli 2025, ia yang akrab disapa Kang Ronal mengenakan kaus bertuliskan DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GRIND YOU DOWN. Menurutnya, kalimat tersebut merupakan baris lirik terakhir dalam lagu U2 berjudul Acrobat.
"Penyemangat hari ini adalah lirik Acrobat, lagu dari U2. Silahkan googling aja sendiri lirik lengkapnya seperti apa. Saya hanya mau mengutip bagian terpenting dari liriknya yang saya tuliskan di baju saya....SO DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GRIND YOU DOWN," tulis Ronal dikutip detikKalimantan, Sabtu (2/8/2025).
Lirik Lagu Acrobat
Don't believe what you hear
Don't believe what you see
If you just close your eyes
You can feel the enemy
When I first met you girl
You had fire in your soul
What happened your face
Of melting in snow
Now it looks like this
And you can swallow
Or you can spit
You can throw it up
Or choke on it
And you can dream
So dream out loud
You know that your time is coming 'round
So don't let the bastards grind you down
No, nothing makes sense
Nothing seems to fit
I know you'd hit out
If you only knew who to hit
And I'd join the movement
If there was one I could believe in
Yeah I'd break bread and wine
If there was a church I could receive in
'Cause I need it now
To take a cup
To fill it up
To drink it slow
I can't let you go
I must be an acrobat
To talk like this
And act like that
And you can dream
So dream out loud
And don't let the bastards grind you down
Oh, it hurts baby
(What are we going to do now it's all been said)
(No new ideas in the house and every book has been read)
And I must be an acrobat
To talk like this
And act like that
And you can dream
So dream out loud
And you can find
Your own way out
You can build
And I can will
And you can call
I can't wait until
You can stash
And you can seize
In dreams begin
Responsibilities
And I can love
And I can love
And I know that the tide is turning 'round
So don't let the bastards grind you down
Sekilas tentang Lagu Acrobat
Acrobat merupakan lagu kesebelas dalam album studio U2 bertajuk Achtung Baby. Album tersebut dirilis pada 1991.
Lagu tersebut dikembangkan dari riff yang dibuat sang gitaris, The Edge. Sementara itu, liriknya ditulis sang vokalis, Bono dan diproduseri Daniel Lanois.
Sekilas, liriknya mengekspresikan tema kemunafikan, keterasingan, dan kebingungan moral. Salah satu kalimat yang terngiang dari lagu tersebut yakni kalimat terakhir yang berbunyi so don't let the bastards grind you down.
(sun/aau)
