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Wake Me Up

A K-pop track about memories that won't fade and a plea to be shaken from the pain.

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A K-pop track about memories that won't fade and a plea to be shaken from the pain.

There's a blunt economy to framing heartache as a system error, 'Itami wa tomara nai,' the pain won't stop.

It reads less like a lament and more like a status report on a broken mechanism, which makes the 'Wake me up' pleas sound genuinely desperate, a request for a hard reboot.

Editor's note

B1A4's Wake Me Up and the Lonely Night

A K-pop track about memories that won't fade and a plea to be shaken from the pain.

Itami wa tomara nai kie nai kimi o motome teru noni

There's a blunt economy to framing heartache as a system error, 'Itami wa tomara nai,' the pain won't stop. It reads less like a lament and more like a status report on a broken mechanism, which makes the 'Wake me up' pleas sound genuinely desperate, a request for a hard reboot.

The phrase 'omoide no refrain subete ga over over', 'the refrain of memories, everything is over over', does a lot of work. It's not just saying the past is done; it's that the memory itself keeps looping, a finished thing you can't stop replaying. The pressure is in that repetition, the 'refrain' that won't quit even though it's all supposedly over.

Even while searching for you, the pain doesn't stop and won't disappear. It's a plain statement of contradiction, the act of longing is what sustains the hurt, and there's no exit from that loop.

The way 'over over' gets doubled in the Japanese lines, and then later 'hanare taku nai yo' ('I don't want to be apart') gets that same repeated treatment, it lingers as a vocal tic of someone circling the same thought.

edit_note Ethan Walker · LyroVerse team · Apr 17
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What to keep in your ear

the pull of "Itami wa tomara nai," the pull of "Wake me up" how "omoide no refrain subete ga over over" turns into a mantra
Lyrics

Wake Me Up

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Tozasa re ta yoru dake ga nokosa re te wow

omoide no refrain subete ga over over

kodoku wa kawaki wa shi nai (sou eien ni)

namida wa tada tokeai

Itami wa tomara nai kie nai

kimi o motome teru noni

(just a lonely night, just a lonely time)

nani mo kamo ga tooku naru dake Too late

konna ai nara

Wake me up

Breaking my heart wow

Wake me up tonight (tonight)

Wake me up

Breaking my heart wow

Wake me up tonight (tonight)

Koe no nai maboroshi o dakishime te wow

nukumori wa kare ta bara sa itsuka wa over over

doko ni mo modore yashi nai (sou eien ni)

kioku ja fure aenai

Kokoro wa tomara nai kie nai

kimi o sagashi te shimau (o sagashi te shimau)

(just a lonely night, just a lonely time)

nani mo kamo ga tooku naru dake Too late

It’s to late (Oh baby you’re gone)

Wake me up (Wake me up)

Breaking my heart wow Wow

Wake me up tonight (tonight) Yeah!

Wake me up

Breaking my heart wow Wow

Wake me up tonight (tonight)

Kurui sou na kurayami

karan da shigarami

akkenai Happiness

hateshinai Sadness

Mayoikomu iradachi

kasanaru ayamachi

go ga mie nai Hopeless

owari no nai Faceless

Sakarae nai jikan no naka he

koe rare nai mirai o tozashi

wasure rare nai yo wasure taku nai yo

tokimeki wa mukuwa re nai

hanare rare nai yo hanare taku nai yo

kono mama ja

Itami wa tomara nai kie nai

kimi o motome teru noni

(just a lonely night, just a lonely time)

nani mo kamo ga tooku naru dake Too late

konna ai nara

Wake me up

Breaking my heart wow

Wake me up tonight (tonight)

Wake me up

Breaking my heart wow

Wake me up tonight (tonight)

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What is "Wake Me Up" by B1A4 about?

A K-pop track about memories that won't fade and a plea to be shaken from the pain. There's a blunt economy to framing heartache as a system error, 'Itami wa tomara nai,' the pain won't stop. It reads less like a lament and more like a status report on a broken mechanism, which makes the 'Wake me up' pleas sound genuinely desperate, a request for a hard reboot.

Who performs "Wake Me Up"?

B1A4 performs "Wake Me Up", and this lyric page sits inside the B1A4 catalog on LyroVerse.

Does LyroVerse have an editor's note for "Wake Me Up"?

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Are there related songs to explore after "Wake Me Up"?

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