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Love Game

The Korean girl group's 1999 track finds them caught in a cycle of unanswered calls and mounting frustration.

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The Korean girl group's 1999 track finds them caught in a cycle of unanswered calls and mounting frustration.

What's sharp here is how the game isn't fun.

The lyric frames love as this thing that makes you tired, "jichyoboryosso", and turns everything, even the wind, into a sign you're trying to read.

Editor's note

S.E.S. plays a desperate love game

The Korean girl group's 1999 track finds them caught in a cycle of unanswered calls and mounting frustration.

Achimbutho goul aphe anja jongil ni jonhwaman gidaryoji

What's sharp here is how the game isn't fun. It's exhausting. The lyric frames love as this thing that makes you tired, "jichyoboryosso", and turns everything, even the wind, into a sign you're trying to read.

The phrase "Achimbutho goul aphe anja jongil ni jonhwaman gidaryoji", sitting by the phone all day waiting for your call, isn't just a scene. It's the entire feeling of being stuck, of time passing with nothing happening. The song keeps circling back to that empty waiting, the "myot shiganche", how many hours, piling up with no resolution.

It's the whole song in one line: the physical posture of waiting, the entire day lost to it, the single object of hope. Nothing happens except the not-happening.

The way "Tell me tell tell" stutters out in English against the Korean verses gives the plea a raw, impatient edge.

edit_note Ethan Walker · LyroVerse team · Apr 17
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the pull of "Achimbutho goul aphe anja jongil ni jonhwaman gidaryoji" the pull of "myot shiganche" the pull of "Tell me tell tell"
Lyrics

Love Game

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Tell me tell tell I want to know baby what to do can you hear me

Dodeche no we ironunji sog shiwonhi mal jom hebwa

handubon iron ge anijanha musun yegi jom hebwa

Achimbutho goul aphe anja jongil ni jonhwaman gidaryoji

myot shiganche amu yonragdo obgo jonhwado badjil anha

Ijenun nado jongmal jichyoboryosso ejongi shigungoni animyon mwoni

gu modoen baramirado pinungoni irohge heojigin shirhunde

mannanji olmana dwedago ironi nado isang chamgo shiphji anha namankhum nodo himdulge hejulgoya

You've gotta tell me now I wanna know oh~

you better you better tell me what to do

Suobshi jonhwal gorossul te jami dol ken ni mogsori

gujesoya dallyo omyon mwohe gibuni yong aninde

Mianhadan marun piryo obso noui byonyongdo nan dudgi shirho

egyoro bwajwodo handuboninde bolso non myot boncheni

Ijenun nado jongmal halmari obso ni mami tonangoni animyon mwoni

onuse darun yojaga senggingoni nan jongmal heojigin shirhunde

mannanji olmana dwedago ironi nado isang ihehalsu obso namankhum nodo himdulge hejulgoya

No choumen iroji anhajanha onjena nal chenggyojanha

ottonge jincha noingonji domuji al suga objanha

Ijenun nado jongmal jichyoboryosso ejongi shigungoni animyon mwoni

gu modoen baramirado pinungoni irohge heojigin shirhunde

mannanji olmana dwedago ironi nado isang chamgo shiphji anha namankhum nodo himdulge hejulgoya

Ijenun nado jongmal halmari obso ni mami tonangoni animyon mwoni

onuse darun yojaga senggingoni nan jongmal heojigin shirhunde

mannanji olmana dwedago ironi nado isang ihehalsu obso namankhum nodo himdulge hejulgoya

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What is "Love Game" by S.E.S. about?

The Korean girl group's 1999 track finds them caught in a cycle of unanswered calls and mounting frustration. What's sharp here is how the game isn't fun. The lyric frames love as this thing that makes you tired, "jichyoboryosso", and turns everything, even the wind, into a sign you're trying to read.

Who performs "Love Game"?

S.E.S. performs "Love Game", and this lyric page sits inside the S.E.S. catalog on LyroVerse.

Does LyroVerse have an editor's note for "Love Game"?

Yes. The page carries the LyroVerse editor's note "S.E.S. plays a desperate love game", followed by the full lyric and related songs.

Are there related songs to explore after "Love Game"?

Yes. The related section below points to Happiness and Good-Bye with a short reason for opening each page next.

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