A quiet song about trying to hold onto happiness that keeps slipping away.
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A quiet song about trying to hold onto happiness that keeps slipping away.
It just states the wish, then states the fact that contradicts it, over and over.
The tension isn't in the words fighting each other; it's in the quiet space between the wish and the knowing, which is where the song actually lives.
Editor's note
Baek Yerin's Zero and the days that disappear
A quiet song about trying to hold onto happiness that keeps slipping away.
neul joheun ilman isseul sun eopsdan geol arado
The lyric doesn't build an argument. It just states the wish, then states the fact that contradicts it, over and over. The tension isn't in the words fighting each other; it's in the quiet space between the wish and the knowing, which is where the song actually lives.
She keeps saying 'neul joheun ilman isseul sun eopsdan geol arado', even though I know there can't always be only good days. That's the whole pressure. You know the math doesn't work, that every day can't be bright, but you write it down anyway, 'ttereul sseobwado,' as if putting it on paper could make it true. The wanting itself becomes the thing you can't let go of.
That's the quiet concession the whole song turns on. She admits the premise is flawed right in the middle of repeating it, which makes the longing feel more honest, and a little more heartbreaking.
The way she sings 'kkoccigil baraeyo', I hope it's a small bud, at the end of each verse. It's not a grand hope, just something tiny and not yet open, waiting inside all those disappearing days.
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the pull of "neul joheun ilman isseul sun eopsdan geol arado"the pull of "ttereul sseobwado,"the pull of "kkoccigil baraeyo"
Lyrics
Zero
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eotteon haruneun
neomu haengbokhago jeulgeowoseo
sigani neurigeman gasseumyeon
cham joheul geosman gatgo
tto eoneu naren gureumman kkieoisseodo
nae maeumsogi da beonjyeoseo
modeun geosdeuri da heurishae
neul joheun ilman isseul sun
eopsdan geol arado
neul naeryeonohji moshal ppun
haengbokhago joheun ildeulman
hago sipdamyeo
ttereul sseobwado
jigeumi haengbokhan georago
ireon harudeul soge geudaeneun
naui jeonbu gateunde
ireon naldeullo chaewojil nae ane
geudaeneun saisai pieoissneun
kkoccigil baraeyo
neul joheun ilman isseul sun
eopsdan geol arado
useoneomgiji moshal ppun
haengbokhago joheun ildeulman
hago sipdamyeo
ttereul sseobwado
jigeumi haengbokhan georago
ireon harudeul soge geudaeneun
naui jeonbu gateunde
ireon naldeullo chaewojil nae ane
geudaeneun saisai pieoissneun
kkoccigil baraeyo
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What is "Zero" by Baek Yerin about?
A quiet song about trying to hold onto happiness that keeps slipping away. It just states the wish, then states the fact that contradicts it, over and over. The tension isn't in the words fighting each other; it's in the quiet space between the wish and the knowing, which is where the song actually lives.
Who performs "Zero"?
Baek Yerin performs "Zero", and this lyric page sits inside the Baek Yerin catalog on LyroVerse.
Does LyroVerse have an editor's note for "Zero"?
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