A lyric about staying put in a place where seasons change but nothing else does.
There's a quiet vanity in insisting you won't change, even as you swear you'll let the other person go.
The lyric holds both ideas without smoothing them over.
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Road To The Sun
A lyric about staying put in a place where seasons change but nothing else does.
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Editor's note
IZ's Road To The Sun and the weight of memory
A lyric about staying put in a place where seasons change but nothing else does.
gyejeol jinamyeon eotteolkka haedo byeonhange eopseo nan yeogi meomchwo isseo
There's a quiet vanity in insisting you won't change, even as you swear you'll let the other person go. The lyric holds both ideas without smoothing them over. It's not about growth; it's about marking a place on the map and refusing to leave, even for your own good.
The phrase 'nan yeogi meomchwo isseo', I'm still standing here, doesn't sound defiant. It's just a fact. The person singing isn't moving on, isn't healing, isn't even trying to pretend. They're reporting from a spot where time has stopped, and the only action left is to promise not to hold the other person back. It answers a specific kind of exhaustion, the kind where you run out of ways to be sad about the same thing.
Seasons are supposed to mean progress, but here they're just empty cycles. Stating you're unchanged isn't pride; it's admitting you're stuck, and maybe you've decided to own that.
The way 'jogeumman deo jogeumman deo', little by little, little by little, repeats, like someone counting steps they can't quite take.
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What to keep in your ear
the pull of "nan yeogi meomchwo isseo"
how "jogeumman deo jogeumman deo" turns into a mantra
the pull of "gyejeol jinamyeon eotteolkka haedo byeonhange eopseo nan yeogi meomchwo isseo"
Lyrics
Road To The Sun
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dolgo dora dasi tto hanbeon jejari
seotuldeon mannam jjalbatdeon ibyeol dwiro
gyejeol jinamyeon eotteolkka haedo
byeonhange eopseo nan yeogi meomchwo isseo
nunbusin geu haetsareul gariji aneul georieseo
eonjedeun naneun yeogi itdago malhaejul su inneun
eodingaeseo
neomu neutji anke halge
joyonghi bupun mameul sireun chaero
neodo yeoksi sarangil ttae
geujeya galge ttak matchwo galge
jogeumman deo jogeumman deo
nae mam soge meomulda gajwo budi
dorikyeobomyeon nappeungeon nayeotgetji
nan eoryeosseotgo da eoseolpeosseo geuttaen
gyejeol jinamyeon eotteolkka haedo
byeonhange eopseo geuge nayeosseo geuttaen
gwaenhi mianhadaneun mallo neol butjapjin aneulge
geuraedo nae jeonbureul jwotdago
geu hananeun mideojugireul barae
neomu neutji anke halge
joyonghi bupun mameul sireun chaero
neodo yeoksi sarangil ttae
geujeya galge ttak matchwo galge
jogeumman deo jogeumman deo
nae mam soge meomulda gajwo budi
jogeumman deo jogeumman deo
nae mam soge meomulda gajwo budi
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What is "Road To The Sun" by IZ about?
A lyric about staying put in a place where seasons change but nothing else does. There's a quiet vanity in insisting you won't change, even as you swear you'll let the other person go. The lyric holds both ideas without smoothing them over.
Who performs "Road To The Sun"?
IZ performs "Road To The Sun", and this lyric page sits inside the IZ catalog on LyroVerse.
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