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Loved

A Korean ballad about a love so deep it becomes a wound that won't close.

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A Korean ballad about a love so deep it becomes a wound that won't close.

What holds the lyric together is its refusal to offer resolution.

The repeated 'saranghaessnabwa', 'I guess I loved you', feels less like a declaration and more like a painful realization dawning too late.

Editor's note

Highlight's Loved and the ache of letting go

A Korean ballad about a love so deep it becomes a wound that won't close.

nega mipgo tto miwo geuripgo geuriwo

What holds the lyric together is its refusal to offer resolution. The repeated 'saranghaessnabwa', 'I guess I loved you', feels less like a declaration and more like a painful realization dawning too late. It's a song built on aftermath, where every memory is a question that has already lost its answer.

The phrase 'jukdorok hagi silheun geol', 'I didn't want to make you need me to death', carries a strange, heavy weight. It's not just about missing someone; it's about the guilt of having loved in a way that felt like a burden, and now being left with the wreckage of that devotion. The singer is stuck in a loop of 'nega mipgo tto miwo geuripgo geuriwo', hating and missing and wanting to forget all at once, which is exactly how a heart breaks when it can't make peace with the end.

Those words stack the contradictions of grief, hatred and longing, repulsion and attraction, into one breath. It's the messy, honest truth of missing someone you're also furious with, said without cleaning it up.

The way the vocal line stretches on 'geuriwo' in the chorus lingers, like the ache itself is being pulled taut.

edit_note Ethan Walker · LyroVerse team · Apr 16
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Lyrics

Loved

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geuriun haneure tteooreun geudaega

mameul deulchwonaego tto nal chupge hae

neoraneun jogage gieogeul majchwodo

majimagen gyeolguk nega piryohae

jukdorok hagi silheun geol

chamgi himdeun geol hage haesseunikka

ttelleya ttel su eopsneun nega

naegeseo tteonagasseunikka

apeun geon geudaega haejwo

seulpeumeul jogeumirado nanwo gajwo

na jigeum hwicheonggeorinikka

neo eopsin an doeneun nanikka

nega mipgo tto miwo geuripgo geuriwo

ijhyeojigin silheo naege dorawa

jinaon nareul geokkuro semyeon

neol bol su isseulkka

cham manhi

saranghaessnabwa

saranghaessnabwa

parahge muldeureo gan sesangi

naege soneul ppeodeo ol ttaemyeon

balgabeosgyeojin deut siryeowa

bureoon geon ama neoilkka

naega bogosipeo wassni

nal pume anajugessji

neorang talmeun barameun

tto nal seuchyeogal ppun

neol deopji anheun bameun gipeun saebyeok

kkeutjarageuro nal deryeogago

himgyeopge tteooreun taeyang arae

deureonan ne hyanggiga areungeoryeo

sumeul chamgo tto nuneul gamgo

kkeuteopsneun banbok da kkeunheonaeryeo

anganhim sseobwado

nan neol chaja hemaeineun geot bakken

nega mipgo tto miwo geuripgo geuriwo

ijhyeojigin silheo naege dorawa

jinaon nareul geokkuro semyeon

neol bol su isseulkka

cham manhi

saranghaessnabwa

saranghaessnabwa

i gidarim kkeute geudae ondamyeon

nae maeum modu moa da deuriltende

sigani geollyeodo yaksokhandamyeon

gyesok i jarie

meomulleo

neol gidarilge

neol gidarilge

i apeummajeodo geudaeramyeon

geugeoskkajido halgeyo

dasineun moshal sarang

geudaeraseo gomawoyo

eonjenga uri majuchyeo

oneureul chueokhal ttaemyeon

maleopsi useumyeo

eokkaereul todagyeo jwoyo

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What is "Loved" by Highlight about?

A Korean ballad about a love so deep it becomes a wound that won't close. What holds the lyric together is its refusal to offer resolution. The repeated 'saranghaessnabwa', 'I guess I loved you', feels less like a declaration and more like a painful realization dawning too late.

Who performs "Loved"?

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Yes. The page carries the LyroVerse editor's note "Highlight's Loved and the ache of letting go", followed by the full lyric and related songs.

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