The Korean girl group's Japanese ballad finds strength in vulnerability and memory.
This isn't a love song about possession or romance.
It's about trying to hold onto feeling itself before it becomes just another memory.
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(愛)という名の誇り (In The Name of Love)
The Korean girl group's Japanese ballad finds strength in vulnerability and memory.
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Editor's note
S.E.S. sings about love as fragile courage
The Korean girl group's Japanese ballad finds strength in vulnerability and memory.
This isn't a love song about possession or romance. It's about trying to hold onto feeling itself before it becomes just another memory. The lyric treats love less as an emotion and more as a fragile act of preservation in a world where everything gets lost.
It feels more like a quiet insistence against all the forgetting and wounding that comes before. The song needs that naming, even if the courage feels thin against the wind and time passing.
That line doesn't celebrate love's power. It calls love a form of courage, which feels more like a choice you make when you know how easily things break.
The way the melody returns to "kotoba ni shite tsutaete", putting everything into words, after admitting some things can't be said.
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(愛)という名の誇り (In The Name of Love)
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kotoba ni shite tsutaete kimi no subete o
mayowanaide kikasete kimi no koe o
hito wa morokute shirazu ni kizutsuite yuku
kake kirenai hodo no itami o daite
mamoru beki mono to wa kitto ai to iu na no yuuki
hito wa kanashii kurai ni subete wasurete yuku ikimono
tanoshisugita hibi sae mou ima wa katachi sae nokosezu ni
nani hitotsu ushinau koto no nai mirai nado doko ni mo nakute
daichi wa hateshinaku tsuzuiteku kedo toki wa muryoku de
kaze to tomo ni sugiyuku toki no naka de
kimi to deai waratte naita hibi o
omoide to shite de wa naku ima no kimochi o
kono mama mune ni kanjita mama ikite itai
mamoru beki mono to wa kitto ai to iu na no hokori
tooku omoi kogarete haru wa chijou e to yatte kuru
dare mo shiranai tsuchi no naka de yume wo dakishimete yatte kuru
mitsuketai umarete kita imi wo sagashitai jibun no basho wo
soshite tsutaenai kimi ga dore dake daiji na hito ka wo
kotoba ni shite tsutaete kimi no subete o
mayowanaide kikasete kimi no koe o
hito wa morokute shirazu ni kizutsuite yuku
kake kirenai hodo no itami o daite
mamoru beki mono to wa kitto ai to iu na no yuuki
kaze to tomo ni sugiyuku toki no naka de
kimi to deai waratte naita hibi o
omoide to shite de wa naku ima no kimochi o
kono mama mune ni kanjita mama ikite itai
mamoru beki mono to wa kitto ai to iu na no hokori
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What is "(愛)という名の誇り (In The Name of Love)" by S.E.S. about?
The Korean girl group's Japanese ballad finds strength in vulnerability and memory. This isn't a love song about possession or romance. It's about trying to hold onto feeling itself before it becomes just another memory.
Who performs "(愛)という名の誇り (In The Name of Love)"?
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Are there related songs to explore after "(愛)という名の誇り (In The Name of Love)"?
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