A quiet Korean ballad about wanting time to stop and just sleep through everything.
Baek Yerinvisibility19 visitsEditor's note liveVideo on page
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A quiet Korean ballad about wanting time to stop and just sleep through everything.
Yerin writes exhaustion as a form of pride.
She insists she doesn't think someone will take her happiness, but the repetition of 'Need a break time' betrays how badly she needs one.
Editor's note
Baek Yerin's Zz and the need to disappear
A quiet Korean ballad about wanting time to stop and just sleep through everything.
geunyang kulkul jamdeulgo sipeo
Yerin writes exhaustion as a form of pride. She insists she doesn't think someone will take her happiness, but the repetition of 'Need a break time' betrays how badly she needs one. The lyric holds both statements true at once.
The phrase 'geunyang kulkul jamdeulgo sipeo', 'I just want to curl up and sleep', doesn't ask for solutions. It's the physical answer to a day that's 'gadeuk ttaeun', stuffed full. The desire isn't for rest so much as for disappearance, a way to stop the clock on a crowded life.
It's the plainest wish in the song, no metaphor, just a body wanting to fold in on itself. That curl is the only quiet space left.
The way 'Need a break time' cuts into the Korean flow, blunt and English, like a status update you'd type but never send.
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the pull of "Need a break time"the pull of "geunyang kulkul jamdeulgo sipeo"the pull of "gadeuk ttaeun"
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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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A quiet Korean ballad about wanting time to stop and just sleep through everything. Yerin writes exhaustion as a form of pride. She insists she doesn't think someone will take her happiness, but the repetition of 'Need a break time' betrays how badly she needs one.
Who performs "zZ"?
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