A Korean ballad where the singer pleads not to hear comforting lies as a relationship ends.
A Korean ballad where the singer pleads not to hear comforting lies as a relationship ends.
Yerin frames 'meant to be' as a hollow comfort, something you'd 'need again' later.
The lyric quietly insists that real love shouldn't require those kind of lies to soften the blow.
A Korean ballad where the singer pleads not to hear comforting lies as a relationship ends.
Don't say we were meant to be
Yerin frames 'meant to be' as a hollow comfort, something you'd 'need again' later. The lyric quietly insists that real love shouldn't require those kind of lies to soften the blow.
The repeated 'I'm helpless' lands hard after lines about resisting kindness. It's not just sadness; it's admitting you'll keep taking the scraps even when you know better. That phrase answers the pressure to pretend a breakup is fate instead of a choice.
It's a direct request to skip the polite fiction, because calling it fate just makes the ending feel cheaper.
The way 'helpless' stacks up in the chorus, almost sighing against the melody.
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Don't say we were meant to be
When you say good bye
You'd need that phrase again
Don't say we were always same
It'd be shame for us
If you turn out like other guys
When your love is kind
I could not resist, oh I'm helpless
I'm helpless, I'm helpless
Don't say we were meant to be
When you quit this love
You'd need that phrase again
Don't say we can't be the same
It would kill my heart
I thought our love was big enough
When your love holds me back again
I could not resist, oh I'm helpless
I'm helpless
When your love is kind
I could not resist, oh I'm helpless
I'm helpless, I'm helpless
A Korean ballad where the singer pleads not to hear comforting lies as a relationship ends. Yerin frames 'meant to be' as a hollow comfort, something you'd 'need again' later. The lyric quietly insists that real love shouldn't require those kind of lies to soften the blow.
Baek Yerin performs "Meant To Be", and this lyric page sits inside the Baek Yerin catalog on LyroVerse.
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