A Korean ballad about trying to erase someone who has already left.
The lyric's power comes from its inventory of failure.
It documents the work of forgetting with such precision that it becomes a manual for remembering.
Lyric guide
A Day
A Korean ballad about trying to erase someone who has already left.
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Editor's note
S.M. The Ballad's 'A Day' and the ghost in the room
A Korean ballad about trying to erase someone who has already left.
neomu oraetdongan iksukhan songil
The lyric's power comes from its inventory of failure. It documents the work of forgetting with such precision that it becomes a manual for remembering. The more the singer tries to 'beoseonaryeo', to throw everything away, the more each discarded item sticks.
The phrase 'neomu oraetdongan iksukhan songil', 'the long, suffocating ordinary day', is the quiet center of all this frantic activity. It names the real enemy, which isn't the person who left but the flat, airless stretch of time they left behind. Every other effort in the song is just a reaction to that one unbearable fact.
It's the admission that the problem is time itself, stretched out and empty. All the other chores are just ways to avoid staring at that.
The way the phrase 'I can't believe, yes it's true' breaks the Korean flow, like a sudden, defeated admission in a foreign language.
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the pull of "neomu oraetdongan iksukhan songil"
the pull of "I can't believe, yes it's true"
Lyrics
A Day
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ppalli georeodo joha
nege matchul pillyo eobsi
nal wihan oseul sareo gago
neoui sajin daesine geoul sogui nareul bwa
tto neowa bandaein saram
geuge nae jogeoni doego
nan nega sirheohaetdeon nae seupgwandeureul
tto dasi kkeonaeji nega sirheohadorok
munjen nega tteonagago
geu modeun iyuga neoran geol
I can’t believe, yes it’s true
nega gyeote eobseoseo
modeun ge neoro kkeutnabeoryeo
beoseonaryeo halsurok
neoege jibaedoen haru
chingureul mannado
yeojadeureul mannal ttaedo
iyuneun nae meori sok
neoreul biwonaeryeogo ttan saenggageul hago
geunde munjeneun jakkuman
nega moksoriga deutgo sipeo
I can’t believe, yes it’s true
nega gyeote eobseoseo
modeun ge neoro kkeutnabeoryeo
beoseonaryeo halsurok
neoege jibaedoen haru
neomu oraetdongan iksukhan songil no
nae sonkkeute gipi bein ne hyanggi
soneul ssitgo hyangsureul ppuryeo
beoseonaryeogo momburimchigo
ijen neon dareun neo rago hae
I can’t believe, yes it’s true
nega gyeote eobseoseo
modeun ge neoro kkeutnabeoryeo
beoseonaryeo halsurok
neoege jibaedoen haru
I can’t believe, yes it’s true
nega gyeote eobseoseo
modeun ge neoro kkeutnabeoryeo
beoseonaryeo halsurok
neoege jibaedoen haru
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What is "A Day" by S.M. The Ballad about?
A Korean ballad about trying to erase someone who has already left. The lyric's power comes from its inventory of failure. It documents the work of forgetting with such precision that it becomes a manual for remembering.
Who performs "A Day"?
S.M. The Ballad performs "A Day", and this lyric page sits inside the S.M. The Ballad catalog on LyroVerse.
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