A late-90s K-pop ballad about watching someone you care for become someone else's standard.
What sticks is how the lyric avoids jealousy's usual heat.
The narrator sounds worn down by the comparison, not furious.
Lyric guide
The end of my inferiority complex
A late-90s K-pop ballad about watching someone you care for become someone else's standard.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Editor's note
H.O.T. wrestles with a friend's shadow
A late-90s K-pop ballad about watching someone you care for become someone else's standard.
nal wilohaejun neoui ttaseuhami modu geojiseun anieossneunde
What sticks is how the lyric avoids jealousy's usual heat. The narrator sounds worn down by the comparison, not furious. He's tallying his friend's virtues like a debt he can't repay, and the song lives in that tired arithmetic.
The phrase 'nae yeojachinguege jal saenggigo', thinking well of my girlfriend, carries a quiet ache. He's not just noticing his friend's qualities; he's watching those qualities become the measure for his own relationship. There's a helplessness in how the comparison keeps happening, almost against his will.
Even the warmth you showed me wasn't fake. He's reassuring himself, maybe his friend, that the past was real. It's a small anchor in a song full of slipping ground.
The way the vocal line stretches on 'geu aega cheoeumeulo', that child for the first time, has a resigned weight to it.
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What to keep in your ear
the pull of "nae yeojachinguege jal saenggigo"
the pull of "geu aega cheoeumeulo"
the pull of "nal wilohaejun neoui ttaseuhami modu geojiseun anieossneunde"
Lyrics
The end of my inferiority complex
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neoneun jeongmal nabodado jalnan geosdo manha
geuleonde wae hapil nae yeojachinguege
jal saenggigo dondo manheun neoleul
nawa bigyohage mandeuneungeoya
jebal nae gyeoteseo tteonajugil balae
deo isangeun ije gyeondil suga eobseo
gogeubchado eobsgo geujeo geuleon naega
neo ttaemune deo bulssanghaejyeo
geu aega cheoeumeulo naege dagawasseul geuttaejjeum
han ilnyeoneul geojeoldanghaess-eul ttaeyeoss-eo
himdeul-eohaessdeon naleul wilohamyeo
dallaejudeon geuleon neoege
jinsilhan chingu isangui gamjeongdo saeng-gyeossji
nan da malhaesseo geudongan geunyeoleul
naega jjoch-adanin modeun sigandeule daehaeseo
nan neukkyeossji geu nugudo neomankeum alajul sun eobsdaneun geol
nan midgess-eo naleul aneun chinguigie
geunde ileon nalbyeolagi chingeoya
geunyeowaui cheoeum deiteue
amuleon saenggag eobsi naneun geuael deligo naga
sogaesikyeojwossgo modeunge jaldoengeon
i chingu deogi keudago ibsuli maleudolog
naneun chingchan-eul neul-eonwasseo
geunde isanghae geu aeleul balaboneun
geunyeoui nunbichdeul-eun imi tteolligo isseoseo
naleul geu aewa bigyohaneun maltudo neukkyeosseo naege ujjae ileon-ili
eotteohge naege ileon usgin ili saenggyeo
jeongmal baboga doengeos gat-a
neoneun jeongmal nabodado gajingeosdo manha
ne juwieneun ontong gwaenchanheun yeojadeuli
kkochdo jugo chokollisdo jugo
hwansimeul salyeo hagoissneunde
hapil naege waseo nae yeojachingukkaji
jalnan neoleul johahage mandeuneungeoya
jeongmal silheo ijen nega silheo
nal tteonajwo nae gyeote anboige
hajiman nan maeumeul yeoleodugo
neoui ujeongeul saenggaghae
nal wilohaejun neoui ttaseuhami
modu geojiseun anieossneunde
modeungeos-eul pogihago dol-aseodeon naege
hwangdanghan pyojeongui geunyeoneun ileon maleul haesseo
geuge anya mwonga jalmosdwaess-eo
nae pyohyeoni neomu jinachingeoya
jasingami eobsneun neoui moseub bol ttae mada
geu dongan nado moleuge dabdabhaessdeongeoya
babocheoleom gidaliji mala
nal jabajwo nan neol salanghanikka
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A late-90s K-pop ballad about watching someone you care for become someone else's standard. What sticks is how the lyric avoids jealousy's usual heat. The narrator sounds worn down by the comparison, not furious.
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