A breakup song where the details stick harder than the goodbye.
The plea 'Girl, tell me little lie' does the heavy lifting.
It's not asking for a grand deception, just a small, kind untruth to make the leaving bearable for a moment longer.
Lyric guide
Kiss Shita Mama Sayonara
A breakup song where the details stick harder than the goodbye.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Editor's note
TVXQ's Longway People and a Kiss Goodbye
A breakup song where the details stick harder than the goodbye.
Girl, tell me little lie
The plea 'Girl, tell me little lie' does the heavy lifting. It's not asking for a grand deception, just a small, kind untruth to make the leaving bearable for a moment longer. That specificity undercuts the drama of the 'Sayonara' and makes the whole thing feel more real, and more quietly desperate.
The lyric keeps circling back to small, physical things left behind. 'Nakushita katahou no kutsu', a lost shoe. 'Oreta chiisai tsume', a broken little nail. 'Koboshita atsui coffee', spilled hot coffee. These aren't metaphors for heartbreak; they're just the stuff that was there when things fell apart. The song holds onto them because the bigger feeling, 'Longway people', is too big to hold any other way.
It's a request for mercy, not honesty. In the middle of cataloging broken nails and spilled coffee, it's the one direct ask, for a small fiction to ease the truth that's already happened.
The way Jaejoong delivers the final 'Sayonara' almost like a sigh, after all the pleading and the listing of lost objects.
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What to keep in your ear
the pull of "Girl, tell me little lie"
the pull of "Nakushita katahou no kutsu"
the pull of "Oreta chiisai tsume"
Lyrics
Kiss Shita Mama Sayonara
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[Yoochun]
Blink... Smell it... and feel it...
Open, open your eyes
Just look at me now
Boku no sekai no subete datta
Nakushita katahou no kutsu mo oreta chiisai tsume mo
Koboshita atsui coffee mo iroaseta namida mo
[Jaejoong]
Girl, tell me little lie
Please, tell me little lie
Kikoeru you ni
[Yunho]
Demo yawarakaku kono te kara koboreta kimi
[Junsu]
Longway people
Longway people
Sou, kizukanakatta ano hi hanashi kakeru
Longway people
Longway people
Tada naite naite naite wasureru shika nai?
[Yunho]
Nagaku tsuzuku kono michi ni ima wa inai kimi e
Kiss shita mama goodbye
[Junsu]
Girl, tell me little lie
Please, tell me little lie
Kikoeru you ni
[Changmin]
Ima furitsumoru konayuki ga boku wo dakishimeru
[Jaejoong]
Longway people
Longway people
Sou, kizukanakatta ano hi hanashi kakeru
Longway people
Longway people
Tada naite naite naite wasureru shika nai no?
[Yoochun]
Kioku ni nijinda namida no kazu wa kawaite iku boku no kokoro
[Changmin]
Kazoe kirenai, hoshi no you ni
[Junsu]
Long way people
Long way people
Tada naite naite naite wasureru shika nai
[All]
Long way people
Long way people
I know...
[Changmin]
Kimi wa mune no naka ni itsumademo
[All]
Long way people
Long way people
Tada naite naite naite wasureru shika nai
Kiss shita mama...
[Jaejoong]
Sayonara...
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What is "Kiss Shita Mama Sayonara" by TVXQ (Dong Bang Shin Ki) about?
A breakup song where the details stick harder than the goodbye. The plea 'Girl, tell me little lie' does the heavy lifting. It's not asking for a grand deception, just a small, kind untruth to make the leaving bearable for a moment longer.
Who performs "Kiss Shita Mama Sayonara"?
TVXQ (Dong Bang Shin Ki) performs "Kiss Shita Mama Sayonara", and this lyric page sits inside the TVXQ (Dong Bang Shin Ki) catalog on LyroVerse.
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