A K-pop quartet's raw ballad about loving someone you can't have, sung in Korean with a weary, honest weight.
Most love songs fight for something or mourn what's lost.
This one just sits with the daily reality of a one-sided attachment.
Lyric guide
Hopeless Love
A K-pop quartet's raw ballad about loving someone you can't have, sung in Korean with a weary, honest weight.
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Editor's note
JAMIE's Hopeless Love and the ache of knowing
A K-pop quartet's raw ballad about loving someone you can't have, sung in Korean with a weary, honest weight.
"Huimangi eobneun geol ara geuraeseo neol bol ttaemada nan"
Most love songs fight for something or mourn what's lost. This one just sits with the daily reality of a one-sided attachment. The weariness in the repetition, "neomu himdeureo neomu saranghaeseo" (it's so hard because I love you so much), isn't dramatic. It's the sound of exhaustion becoming familiar.
The phrase "Huimangi eobneun geol ara", "I know there's no hope", isn't just a statement. It's the whole engine of the song. The singer isn't discovering this truth; they're living inside it, watching themselves return to a person who makes them lonely. Every line after that feels like someone tracing the same worn path in their own mind, knowing exactly where it leads.
Knowing there's no hope, yet still looking every time. That's the entire conflict, stated plainly. It's not a question; it's just how things are.
The way the phrase "I hopeless love" lands in English, blunt and broken, after all that Korean flow. It doesn't try to sound poetic.
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What to keep in your ear
the pull of "neomu himdeureo neomu saranghaeseo"
the pull of "Huimangi eobneun geol ara"
the pull of "I hopeless love"
Lyrics
Hopeless Love
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Eojjeomyeon geureohge areumdabge utneunji
Neoreul bogo isseumyeon nae sigani meomchwoseo
Eojjaeseo ireon sarangeul haneunji
Nega haneun mari, malhal ttae momjitdeuri
Nae gaseumeul kkeuteobsi dudeulgigo dudeulgyeo
Hajiman naneun muneul gudge dada
O nal boneun ne nunbich sogen nae mamgwa gateun mami eobseo
Seulpeugo seulpeun iriji ne mameul andaneun ge
Huimangi eobneun geol ara geulaeseo neol bol ttaemada nan
Neomu himdeureo neomu saranghaeseo
Chinguraneun mari apa neomji mothal seon bakke seon na
Apeundedo wae nan gyesog doraseojil mothaji
I hopeless love
Jogeumman deo itda, jogeumman deo baraboda
Maeumeul jeongrihal su isseul georago mideo ireogo isseo
Hajiman jeomjeom deo keojyeoman gago
Jeomjeom deo gipeojineun nae mami
Mareul deudji anha naajiji anha
Nal boneun ne nunbich sogen nae mamgwa gateun mami eobseo
Seulpeugo seulpeun iriji ne mameul andaneun ge
Huimangi eobneun geol ara geuraeseo neol bol ttaemada nan
Neomu himdeureo neomu saranghaeseo
Chinguraneun mari apa neomji mothal seon bakke seon na
Apeundedo wae nan gyesog doraseojil mothaji
I hopeless love
Lonely, neol boneun nae maeumi
Huimang eobneun I sarangi
Cham apeugiman haji
Lonely, neol boneun nae maeumi
Huimang eobneun I sarangi
Cham apeugiman haji
Huimangi eobneun geol ara geuraeseo neol bol ttaemada nan
Neomu himdeureo neomu saranghaeseo
Chingulaneun mari apa neomji mothal seon bakke seon na
Apeundedo wae nan gyesog doraseojil mothaji
I hopeless love
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What is "Hopeless Love" by JAMIE about?
A K-pop quartet's raw ballad about loving someone you can't have, sung in Korean with a weary, honest weight. Most love songs fight for something or mourn what's lost. This one just sits with the daily reality of a one-sided attachment.
Who performs "Hopeless Love"?
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