A Korean ballad about the stubborn pull of a past relationship, even after you've decided to leave.
Most breakup songs fixate on the other person or the pain.
'Us' is the ghost he's haunted by, a finished thing he keeps turning over in his hands.
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Us
A Korean ballad about the stubborn pull of a past relationship, even after you've decided to leave.
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Ha Hyun Sang's 'Us' and the memory of us
A Korean ballad about the stubborn pull of a past relationship, even after you've decided to leave.
But can't stop thinking about the time when we were us
Most breakup songs fixate on the other person or the pain. This one fixates on the pronoun. 'Us' is the ghost he's haunted by, a finished thing he keeps turning over in his hands. The insistence makes the refusal to go back feel less like strength and more like a spell he's trying to believe.
The phrase 'the time when we were us' does a lot of heavy lifting. It's not just remembering a person, but a specific state of being, a 'we' that's now gone. The Korean verses detail what was lost or thrown away: a dream, a path, a summer, an autumn. 'Us' becomes this sealed-off season he can't stop revisiting, even though he knows he can't return.
It's that word 'us', past tense, defined, almost a proper noun. It pins the longing not to a person, but to a finished chapter they both inhabited.
The way the English chorus bluntly states the conflict, then the Korean verses unfurl the specific, sensory memories that fuel it.
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the pull of "the time when we were us"
the pull of "But can't stop thinking about the time when we were us"
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Us
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i kkumeul nohabeorin geon
niga anira nayeossdeon geoya
i gireul ilheobeorin geon
jamkkanui ildo anyeossdeon geoya
nal bangyeossdeon geu moseup
nal samkyeossdeon geu il hana
nal anassdeon geu yeoreum
uril beoryeossdeon geu gaeul ape
I will never go back into your arms
But can’t stop thinking about you and me
I will never go back into your arms
But can’t stop thinking about the time when we were us
i kkumeul kkaewobeorin geon
eotteon yonggido eopseossdeon geoya
i huhoe gajyeoganeun geon
uriga anin nappunin geoya
nal bangyeossdeon geu moseup
nal samkyeossdeon geu il hana
nal anassdeon geu yeoreum
uril bangyeossdeon geu gaeul ape
I will never go back into your arms
But can’t stop thinking about you and me
I will never go back into your arms
But can’t stop thinking about the time when we were us
The time when we were us
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What is "Us" by Ha Hyun Sang about?
A Korean ballad about the stubborn pull of a past relationship, even after you've decided to leave. Most breakup songs fixate on the other person or the pain. 'Us' is the ghost he's haunted by, a finished thing he keeps turning over in his hands.
Who performs "Us"?
Ha Hyun Sang performs "Us", and this lyric page sits inside the Ha Hyun Sang catalog on LyroVerse.
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