Na Yoon Kwon
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If Only

A Korean ballad about a love that might have survived with one different choice.

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A Korean ballad about a love that might have survived with one different choice.

It just circles the same few seconds, testing different outcomes like checking a door you know is locked.

That repetition feels true to how regret actually works, it's stubborn, not poetic.

Editor's note

Na Yoon Kwon's 'If Only' and the moment that got away

A Korean ballad about a love that might have survived with one different choice.

majimak geu Sungane

The lyric doesn't dramatize the loss. It just circles the same few seconds, testing different outcomes like checking a door you know is locked. That repetition feels true to how regret actually works, it's stubborn, not poetic.

The phrase 'majimak geu Sungane', that last moment, holds everything. The singer keeps returning to it, wondering if reading a look in someone's eyes could have changed the entire story. It's less about grand romance and more about the quiet panic of realizing you missed your one chance to say or do the right thing.

Everything hangs on those words. The whole song is built from wondering what could have happened right then, in that final instant before everything changed.

The way the melody lingers on 'dallajyeosseulkka', 'would we have been different?', gives the question its weight.

edit_note Ethan Walker · LyroVerse team · Apr 16
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the pull of "majimak geu Sungane" the pull of "would we have been different?"
Lyrics

If Only

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Gamanhi nae ipsuri geu ireum bureul ttae

Bulleoboda gaseumi deolkeok naeryeo anjeul ttae

Naneun saenggakhaebwayo majimak geu

Sungane geudae nunbit ilgeotdamyeon

Urin heeojiji anhasseulkkayo

Sarangeul mollasseo sarangeul gyeote dugodo

Suminjul arasseo geujeo pyeonhi swil su inneun

Neol anajwotdamyeon geuttae neol honja

Duji anhatdeoramyeon urin dallajyeosseulkka

Yeojeonhi neoneun nae gyeote nohyeoisseulkka

Hamkke deutdeon noraee georeumi meomchul ttae

Nae maeumi masin sure tto momi apeul ttae

Naneun saenggakhaebwayo majimak geudae

Ape nae moseubi dallatdamyeon

Geudaen naui gyeoteseo utgo isseulkka

Ibyeoreul mollasseo ibyeoreul ape dugodo

Kkumin jul arasseo geujeo jamsi dwicheogineun

Neol jabatdeoramyeon geuttae dasi nege

Dallyeogatdeoramyeon urin dallajyeosseulkka

Ibyeoldo uril bikyeogal su isseosseulkka

Nae gyeote saratdeon naldeul

Na ulgo utdeon modeun il

Tto geudaeran han saramui modeun gieogeul

Damgo sal su isseulkkayo

Hansunganirado geudael barabol su itdamyeon

Tto geudaereul ana bol su itdamyeon...

Geujeo dan hansunganirado geudael dasi

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What is "If Only" by Na Yoon Kwon about?

A Korean ballad about a love that might have survived with one different choice. It just circles the same few seconds, testing different outcomes like checking a door you know is locked. That repetition feels true to how regret actually works, it's stubborn, not poetic.

Who performs "If Only"?

Na Yoon Kwon performs "If Only", and this lyric page sits inside the Na Yoon Kwon catalog on LyroVerse.

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