A song that asks 'Why am I like this?' while feeling stuck between childhood and adulthood.
A song that asks 'Why am I like this?' while feeling stuck between childhood and adulthood.
Most coming-of-age songs are about looking back or moving forward.
This one is stuck in the messy middle, in the 'eorinde silsu jom hamyeon', the act of just trying to be an adult.
A song that asks 'Why am I like this?' while feeling stuck between childhood and adulthood.
ajik eorinde silsu jom hamyeon eottae
Most coming-of-age songs are about looking back or moving forward. This one is stuck in the messy middle, in the 'eorinde silsu jom hamyeon', the act of just trying to be an adult. The pressure isn't poetic; it's the mundane terror of daily failure.
The repeated plea 'ajik aiyaiya', 'I'm still a child', doesn't sound like nostalgia. It sounds like a fact he's trying to convince himself of, or an excuse he's running out of time to use. When he says 'uri eomma nunen boineun ge da anianiya', 'it's not what my mother sees in her eyes', you hear the gap between how he's perceived and how he feels.
It translates roughly to 'What if I just try to act like an adult?' That 'jom', 'just' or 'a little', carries all the hesitation. It's not about becoming one, but the exhausting performance of it.
The way the 'aiyaiya' hook frays at the edges on the last chorus, less a declaration and more a worn-out sigh.
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ah-ah
na-na-na-na-na-na
yeah, yeah
a nan wae ireolkka? naeireun jalhaja
aesseo mameul dajababwado jakkuman jagajinda
ya sigana jomman cheoncheonhi gara
yojeum bujjeok neol ttaragagiga jogeumssik beokchada, oh no
sigani jinamyeon jinalsurok sesangeun naege, oh
deo manheun geol gangyohae na hanado himdeunde
nabogo eojjeorago
nan ajik aiyaiya
uri eomma nunen
boineun ge da anianiya
ajik eorinde silsu jom hamyeon eottae
nan ajik aiyaiya
mojin sesang soge
budamjuji maiyaiya
nado saraminde eotteohge da jalhae, oh
a tto ireohge nan jejari georeumma (uh-huh, uh-huh)
ttessda saenggakhago dwidolmyeon hansumman nal gidarinda (ah, ah, ah)
ya dongsaenga jomman cheoncheonhi wara (uh-huh, uh-huh)
neol majuchigie ajik nae moseubi chorahada, oh no
sigani jinamyeon jinalsurok sesangeun naege, oh
deo manheun geol gangyohae (hey) na hanado himdeunde (oh)
nabogo eojjeorago
nan ajik aiyaiya
uri eomma nunen
boineun ge da anianiya
ajik eorinde silsu jom hamyeon eottae
nan ajik aiyaiya
mojin sesang soge
budamjuji maiyaiya
nado saraminde eotteohge da jalhae, oh
meokgo sipeo meogeun naiga aninde
ajik naege sureun sseugiman hande
yeorilgobe naega eojecheoreom seonmyeonghande
oh, ooh, ooh, ooh!
nan ajik aiyaiya
uri eomma nunen
boineun ge da anianiya
ajik eorinde silsu jom hamyeon eottae, oh!
nan ajik aiyaiya (wae ilae)
mojin sesang soge (wae ilae, jebal budamjuji ma)
budamjuji maiyaiya
nado saraminde eotteohge da jalhae, oh
A song that asks 'Why am I like this?' while feeling stuck between childhood and adulthood. Most coming-of-age songs are about looking back or moving forward. This one is stuck in the messy middle, in the 'eorinde silsu jom hamyeon', the act of just trying to be an adult.
Kang Seung Yoon performs "IYAH", and this lyric page sits inside the Kang Seung Yoon catalog on LyroVerse.
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