2NB's song imagines returning to a time before love, to avoid the pain of its ending.
2NB's song imagines returning to a time before love, to avoid the pain of its ending.
The lyric's power is in its impossible math: it tries to subtract the knowing from the feeling.
It's a wish to un-love someone, not because the love was wrong, but because the aftermath is too much to carry.
2NB's song imagines returning to a time before love, to avoid the pain of its ending.
charari geudael mollatdeon geuttaero
The lyric's power is in its impossible math: it tries to subtract the knowing from the feeling. It's a wish to un-love someone, not because the love was wrong, but because the aftermath is too much to carry. That's a different, quieter kind of heartbreak.
The phrase "charari geudael mollatdeon geuttaero", back to the time I didn't know you yet, gets repeated like a mantra. It's less about wanting to erase the person and more about wanting to erase the specific, heavy knowledge of what it's like to lose them. The singer is bargaining with memory itself, asking for a reset to a simpler, emptier state.
It's the song's entire argument, stated plainly. Every other line circles back to this one impossible condition: if only I could go back to before I knew you.
The way the Korean phrase for 'cold wind', "chagaun barami", briefly interrupts the wishful thinking grounds the song in a physical, present moment of loneliness.
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malhaji anado geudael neukkijyo
namankeum himdeureohaetdan geol
ireoke natseon geudaen cheoeumin geot gataseo
na, ibyeoreul yegamhaetjyo
charari geudael mollatdeon geuttaero
uriga namieosseotdeon geuttaero
doragal su itdamyeon geudaereul mannagi jeoneuro
saranghaji anatdeon geuttaero doragago sipeo
chagaun barami nareul gamssajyo
eonjebuteo seoisseonneunji
neul naege ttatteuthaetdeon geudaega iksukaeseo
na, yeongwonhal jul aratjyo
charari geudael mollatdeon geuttaero
uriga namieosseotdeon geuttaero
doragal su itdamyeon geudaereul mannagi jeoneuro
saranghaji anatdeon geuttaero doragago sipeo
neol noeul suga eopseo. geuraeseo himdeureo
eotteoke ireoni
charari geudael mollatdeon geuttaero
uriga namieosseotdeon geuttaero
doragal su itdamyeon geudaereul mannagi jeoneuro
saranghaji anatdeon geuttaero doragago sipeo
2NB's song imagines returning to a time before love, to avoid the pain of its ending. The lyric's power is in its impossible math: it tries to subtract the knowing from the feeling. It's a wish to un-love someone, not because the love was wrong, but because the aftermath is too much to carry.
2NB performs "If I Hadn't Known You", and this lyric page sits inside the 2NB catalog on LyroVerse.
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