Lim Kim
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Goodbye 20

A Korean pop artist looks back on a decade of love, confusion, and petty days.

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A Korean pop artist looks back on a decade of love, confusion, and petty days.

Instead, it treats the twenties as a series of small, sometimes stupid events, "stupid" is right there in the text, that leave no clear evidence when they're over.

That's a sharper, more honest take than most farewells to youth manage.

Editor's note

Lim Kim says goodbye to her twenties

A Korean pop artist looks back on a decade of love, confusion, and petty days.

just petty days just bubble days goodbye 20

The lyric doesn't romanticize youth. Instead, it treats the twenties as a series of small, sometimes stupid events, "stupid" is right there in the text, that leave no clear evidence when they're over. That's a sharper, more honest take than most farewells to youth manage.

She keeps asking "Naman irae?", is it just me?, and wondering if everyone else is happy or busy while she's stuck. The pressure in that phrase is real: it's the fear that your own confusion is a private failure. When she calls them "just petty days just bubble days," it's not dismissive; it's a quiet admission that so much of what fills your twenties feels weightless in hindsight.

It's the shrug in those words that gets you. She's not calling the decade meaningless, just acknowledging how insubstantial so much of it felt while it was happening.

The way she delivers "how about your 20, girl?" twice, almost like a challenge to herself, sticks with you.

edit_note Ethan Walker · LyroVerse team · Apr 16
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the pull of "Naman irae?" the pull of "just petty days just bubble days," the pull of "how about your 20, girl?"
Lyrics

Goodbye 20

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My 20 dagasseo amugeotdo hangeeobseo

My 20 dagasseo duribeongeorin my 20

Eomman nal nallaricheoreom nae bameul gusokharyeohae

Maeryeogeomneun nerd ureonni hiseuteri naegeman

Yuilhage tonghaneun appan jal bolsuga eobseo

Aesseo gan daehak jatoehagopeun bepeu punyeomman

Naman irae? Dadeul haengbokhaenni how about your 20, girl?

Wae irae? Dadeul jjaritaenni how about your 20,girl?

Summakhineun sarang ol jul arasseo

Machi naege sinsegye yeollil geotcheoreom stupid

Oh, just petty days just bubble days goodbye 20

My 20 dagasseo saranghaesseotdeon neo gasseo

My 20 nollaesseo ibyeorui huyujeung eobseo

Machim ittaeda sipeo myeot nyeoseok kkeoltteokdaeryeohae

Naega wonhan geu saram naegeman sinikeolhae soksanghae

Yuilhage tonghaneun bepeu nyeoseok yeojan sirtane

Sesange jel jaeseopdeon ae yeppeojyeosseo byeonsin

Naman irae? Dadeul haengbokhaenni how about your 20,girl?

Wae irae? Dadeul jjaritaenni how about your 20, girl?

Summakhineun sarang ol jul arasseo

Machi naege sinsegye yeollil geotcheoreom stupid

Oh just petty days just bubble days goodbye 20

Woo oh oh, woo oh oh, oh

Woo oh oh, woo oh oh, oh

Dadeul jjaritae

Woo oh oh, woo oh oh, oh

Woo oh oh, woo oh oh, oh

Seumusal eodilgana mangnae eoreun mangnae eonjekkajina mangnae

Jamjako jideul malman deureumyeon doendae

Seumusal ijen hanjan harae neukkihan mallo

Don’t fucking touch me

Summakhineun sarang ol jul arasseo

Machi naege sinsegye yeollil geotcheoreom stupid

Oh, just petty days just bubble days goodbye 20

Summakhineun sarang ol jul arasseo

Machi naege sinsegye yeollil geot cheoreom stupid

Oh, just petty days just bubble days please 21

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What is "Goodbye 20" by Lim Kim about?

A Korean pop artist looks back on a decade of love, confusion, and petty days. Instead, it treats the twenties as a series of small, sometimes stupid events, "stupid" is right there in the text, that leave no clear evidence when they're over. That's a sharper, more honest take than most farewells to youth manage.

Who performs "Goodbye 20"?

Lim Kim performs "Goodbye 20", and this lyric page sits inside the Lim Kim catalog on LyroVerse.

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Yes. The page carries the LyroVerse editor's note "Lim Kim says goodbye to her twenties", followed by the full lyric and related songs.

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