A Korean ballad about the exhaustion of a crowded day and the simple need to sleep.
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Quick meaning
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A Korean ballad about the exhaustion of a crowded day and the simple need to sleep.
Yerin frames exhaustion as a space crowded with 'mijigeunhan saramdeullo', unfamiliar people, making the desire to sleep a form of retreat rather than rest.
The lyric holds that tension without resolving it, which feels true to the weight of those days.
Editor's note
Baek Yerin's quiet plea for a break
A Korean ballad about the exhaustion of a crowded day and the simple need to sleep.
geunyang kulkul jamdeulgo sipeo
Yerin frames exhaustion as a space crowded with 'mijigeunhan saramdeullo', unfamiliar people, making the desire to sleep a form of retreat rather than rest. The lyric holds that tension without resolving it, which feels true to the weight of those days.
The repeated 'geunyang kulkul jamdeulgo sipeo', just wanting to curl up and sleep, answers the pressure of a 'haru jongil jaejalgeoryeosseo', a day spent pretending all day. It's not a dramatic cry, just a flat statement of need after too much empty social filling.
It's the plainest possible expression of wanting to vanish into sleep, with 'kulkul' suggesting a fetal curl. After the clutter of the day, that's all that's left.
The way 'Need a break time' sits in English amid the Korean, blunt and childlike, lingers.
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What to keep in your ear
the pull of "mijigeunhan saramdeullo"how "geunyang kulkul jamdeulgo sipeo" turns into a mantrathe pull of "Need a break time"
Lyrics
I want to fall asleep (Zz)
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haru jongil jaejalgeoryeosseo
ireohgerado haeya
gibuni naajil geot gataseo
na wonrae ireon aedo anigo
saram manhi mannajido anhneunde
ireohge haeya
deol uulhal su isseul geot gataseo
uimi eopsneun sigandeullo gadeuk ttaeun haru
binteum manheun nae haengbogeul
nugunga jaba jul georan
saenggakdo an hajiman
yojeum nan amugeosdo japhijil anha
Need a break time
Need a time out
geunyang kulkul jamdeulgo sipeo
Need a break time
Wanna make time stop
geunyang kulkul jamdeulgo sipeo
mijigeunhan saramdeullo gadeuk chaeun haru
dapdaphagiman han nae maeumeul
nugunga ara jul georan
saenggakdo an hajiman
yojeum nan hemaego issneun jung inga bwa
Need a break time
Need a time out
geunyang kulkul jamdeulgo sipeo
Need a break time
Wanna make time stop
geunyang kulkul jamdeulgo sipeo
Need a break time
Need a time out
geunyang kulkul jamdeulgo sipeo
Need a break time
Wanna make time stop
geunyang kulkul jamdeulgo sipeo
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What is "I want to fall asleep (Zz)" by Baek Yerin about?
A Korean ballad about the exhaustion of a crowded day and the simple need to sleep. Yerin frames exhaustion as a space crowded with 'mijigeunhan saramdeullo', unfamiliar people, making the desire to sleep a form of retreat rather than rest. The lyric holds that tension without resolving it, which feels true to the weight of those days.
Who performs "I want to fall asleep (Zz)"?
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