A Korean indie-folk ballad that unpacks the weight of a casual farewell.
A Korean indie-folk ballad that unpacks the weight of a casual farewell.
The lyric circles the same few images, the letter, the tears on the word 'goodbye', the darkened face, as if memory is stuck.
The insistence that 'annyeongeun geuri swiun ge anya' ('goodbye isn't that easy') becomes the only solid ground in a room where everything else has gone soft and wrong.
A Korean indie-folk ballad that unpacks the weight of a casual farewell.
annyeongeun geuri swiun ge anya uriga cheo-eum mannal ttaecheoreom
The lyric circles the same few images, the letter, the tears on the word 'goodbye', the darkened face, as if memory is stuck. The insistence that 'annyeongeun geuri swiun ge anya' ('goodbye isn't that easy') becomes the only solid ground in a room where everything else has gone soft and wrong.
The repeated plea 'jebal kkumieosseumyeon geunyang neoui jangnanieosseumyeon joa', 'if it's a dream, please just let it be your prank', doesn't ask for the past back. It asks for the goodbye itself to be undone, for the exit to be rewritten as a joke instead of a fact. That's the specific ache: not the loss, but the insult of how light the leaving felt.
It states the problem plainly: a goodbye shouldn't feel this simple if what came before it mattered. The comparison to the first meeting isn't romantic nostalgia; it's a measure of how far the feeling has fallen.
The way the phrase 'uriga cheo-eum mannal ttaecheoreom', 'like when we first met', hangs at the end of each cycle, less a hope than a quiet correction to the present.
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jollin nuneul bibimyeo
kkogithaejin neoui pyeonjireul ilgeosseo
manyang jeulgeowotdeon nae mameun
han sungan mugeowojyeosseo
annyeongiran geulja wie
tteoreojin nunmul jaguk boasseo
manyang useum jitdeon nae eolgureun
han sungan eoduwojyeosseo
wae geuri gapjagi tteonanda haesseo
wae geuri swipge annyeongira haesseo
jebal kkumieosseumyeon
geunyang neoui jangnanieosseumyeon joa
ijekkaji mannamdo neomuna aswiwo
annyeongeun geuri swiun ge anya
uriga cheo-eum mannal ttaecheoreom marya
wae geuri gapjagi tteonanda haesseo
wae geuri swipge annyeongira haesseo
jebal kkumieosseumyeon
geunyang neoui jangnanieosseumyeon joa
ijekkaji mannamdo neomuna aswiwo
annyeongeun geuri swiun ge anya
uriga cheo-eum mannal ttaecheoreom marya
annyeongeun geuri swiun ge anya
uriga cheo-eum mannal ttaecheoreom marya
A Korean indie-folk ballad that unpacks the weight of a casual farewell. The lyric circles the same few images, the letter, the tears on the word 'goodbye', the darkened face, as if memory is stuck. The insistence that 'annyeongeun geuri swiun ge anya' ('goodbye isn't that easy') becomes the only solid ground in a room where everything else has gone soft and wrong.
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