Baek Ji Young
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Should I Laugh Or Cry

A Korean ballad about the confusion that follows a breakup.

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A Korean ballad about the confusion that follows a breakup.

The lyric circles a single, raw nerve: the absurdity of having to choose an emotion when you're just hollowed out.

It's less about heartbreak and more about the mechanical failure of feeling anything at all.

Editor's note

Baek Ji Young's Should I Laugh Or Cry

A Korean ballad about the confusion that follows a breakup.

Naega useulkka anim ureulkka eotteokae yahani

The lyric circles a single, raw nerve: the absurdity of having to choose an emotion when you're just hollowed out. It's less about heartbreak and more about the mechanical failure of feeling anything at all.

The repeated question "Naega useulkka anim ureulkka", "Should I laugh or cry?", isn't rhetorical. It's the actual stuck place. The singer is pacing in the dark, asking a room that won't answer.

That opening phrase sets the entire tone, not a statement of pain, but a genuine, bewildered question about how to even react.

The way "baby" hangs at the end of a line, tired and pleading, cuts through the formal Korean structure.

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Lyrics

Should I Laugh Or Cry

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Naega useulkka anim ureulkka eotteokae yahani

Dareun sarami saenggyeotdago neol bonaejwoya hani

Na jamkkan danghwangdwae bamgeorileul banghwanghae

Dwicheogigo dwicheogida jamideureo beorin achim baby

Girl you know i’m lost without you

Geuriwo nan neoui itmatchum

Neomu gipi baghyeo beorin neoraseo

(oh my girl)

Kkeutiran mal hajimareo jiundan maldo hajimareo

(amureon mareobsi) ijewa nal ullyeo wae

Eotteoke geudaeneun sarangi iri swibge byeonhae

Geudaega nal ireoke swibge mireonae

Naega aldeon geusarami aningeotgatae

Joheun jogeon apen sarang jocha (neomu gansahae)

Beolsseo ijeungeoni neoran jamulsoee

Deureogalsu itneungeon naraneun yeolsoe

Naega museun jiugae ?

Neol wonhago sipeulttae amuttaena sseugsseug jiuge

Naega useulkka anim ureulkka eotteokae yahani

Dareun sarami saenggyeotdago neol bonaejwoya hani

Na jamkkan danghwangdwae bamgeorileul banghwanghae

Dwicheogigo dwicheogida jamideureo beorin achim baby

Gibun deoreounde naege ireon malhal

Jureun jeongmal mollatneunde

Wae tteonatneunde naman honja namgyeodunchae

Bioneun georireul na honjaseo oeroi geod goisseo

(i can’t take it anymore) alsu eobtneun naemam

Naega useulkka ureulkka neon i gotongeul alkka

Chong majeun geot gata somebody call the doctor

(ireoda jugneungeo anigetjyo, eotteon

Yageulsseo bwado da soyong eobtneyo)

Neon nae bichieosseo nae maeum eodum soge bureul kyeo

Niga eobseuni nae salmeun kkeuti eobtneun mureumpyo

Baby girl i miss you, yeah i miss you

Neoreul bolsu eobtneungeoni

Naega useulkka anim ureulkka eotteokae yahani

Dareun sarami saenggyeotdago neol bonaejwoya hani

Na jamkkan danghwangdwae bamgeorileul banghwanghae

Dwicheogigo dwicheogida jamideureo beorin achim baby

Tteonaneun gotong boda gidarineun

Gotongi deo keungeol neon wae molla

(i just want you to) stay with me

(i just want you to) stay with me

(girl i want you to) stay with me

Naega useulkka ureulkka gominhage haji

Malgo nareul utge haejwo girl

Naega useulkka anim ureulkka eotteokae yahani

Dareun sarami saenggyeotdago neol bonaejwoya hani

Na jamkkan danghwangdwae bamgeorileul banghwanghae

Dwicheogigo dwicheogida jamideureo beorin achim baby

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What is "Should I Laugh Or Cry" by Baek Ji Young about?

A Korean ballad about the confusion that follows a breakup. The lyric circles a single, raw nerve: the absurdity of having to choose an emotion when you're just hollowed out. It's less about heartbreak and more about the mechanical failure of feeling anything at all.

Who performs "Should I Laugh Or Cry"?

Baek Ji Young performs "Should I Laugh Or Cry", and this lyric page sits inside the Baek Ji Young catalog on LyroVerse.

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