A Korean ballad about holding onto the memory of a first love who shaped you.
Most love songs are about wanting someone.
This one is about being haunted by who you were when you loved them.
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Forever You
A Korean ballad about holding onto the memory of a first love who shaped you.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Editor's note
Lee Soo Young's Forever You remembers a girl
A Korean ballad about holding onto the memory of a first love who shaped you.
Jebal gajimarayo
Most love songs are about wanting someone. This one is about being haunted by who you were when you loved them. The lyric treats memory as a physical place you can return to, 'geogie isseoyo', 'it's there', and the singer's 'jageun sarangi', 'small love', is still searching the halls.
The plea 'Jebal gajimarayo', 'Please don't go', gets repeated like a prayer. It's not about stopping someone from leaving physically anymore. It's about begging a memory not to fade, asking the past to stay vivid enough that it still feels real. 'Geunal geumareul motaeseo naman saranghaetjyo', 'Because I couldn't hold that day, I only loved you', sounds like someone realizing their entire capacity for love was set by one childhood afternoon.
It's the simplest, most direct thing you can say. In a song full of complex memories and regrets, that raw 'please don't go' cuts through everything else. It's the child's voice still in there.
The way she delivers 'So stay with my love forever' at the very end, in English, after all that Korean longing. It lands like a quiet command to the ghost.
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What to keep in your ear
the pull of "geogie isseoyo"
how "Jebal gajimarayo" turns into a mantra
the pull of "Geunal geumareul motaeseo naman saranghaetjyo"
Lyrics
Forever You
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Gieogeun nanayo
geurimjareul ttara seoseongideon
han sonyeoreul?
Geudae nunbit hanae nunmulgwa useumeul jitdeon
geureon ail gieogi nanayo
Achimi doemyeon geudaega johahan oseul charyeoipgo
jeil meonjeo naege oneun geudae kkum kkueotjyo
Nareul saranghan maeumi geujeo hanassik byeonhaebeorilttaedo
ibyeoreun anilgeora mideotjyo?
Jebal gajimarayo... geunal geumareul motaeseo
naman saranghaetjyo nal tteonagadeon nal heullyeotdeon nunmuri
nal geureoke mandeureotjyo
Ijeoboryeo myeotbeonui mannami nareul tto jinagatjiman
mianhaeseo, geudael ijeobeoryeo ttodareun nareul
mandeundaneunge apaseo geureom dareunge seulpeoseo
geujeo hanchameul haneul mannatjyo...
Jebal gajimarayo geunal geumareul motaeseo...
naman saranghaetjyo nal tteonagadeon nal heullyeotdeon nunmuri
nal geureoke mandeureotjyo
Hoksi na naegeoneungil ijeobeoryeo eodingae
hemego itdamyeon.. amugeokjeong hajimalgo
geogie isseoyo.. nae jageun sarangi geudael chajeultenikka
geuttaen naega anajulteni
So stay with my love forever
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What is "Forever You" by Lee Soo Young about?
A Korean ballad about holding onto the memory of a first love who shaped you. Most love songs are about wanting someone. This one is about being haunted by who you were when you loved them.
Who performs "Forever You"?
Lee Soo Young performs "Forever You", and this lyric page sits inside the Lee Soo Young catalog on LyroVerse.
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