A K-pop track about watching a relationship unravel exactly as you feared it would.
The lyric treats foresight as its own particular wound.
Knowing the ending doesn't spare you the middle; it just makes you watch yourself walk into it.
Lyric guide
I (Knew It)
A K-pop track about watching a relationship unravel exactly as you feared it would.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Editor's note
SONAMOO's I (Knew It) and the pain you saw coming
A K-pop track about watching a relationship unravel exactly as you feared it would.
Neomu gidaehage haessdae
The lyric treats foresight as its own particular wound. Knowing the ending doesn't spare you the middle; it just makes you watch yourself walk into it. The 'yeonghwa gateun geon eopsjanha' line, 'it's not like a movie', feels less like a complaint and more like a tired correction of the record.
The phrase 'Neomu gidaehage haessdae', 'I made you too much of a hope.' It's not just disappointment; it's the specific ache of having built someone up in your head, knowing you were setting yourself up, and doing it anyway. That admission turns the whole 'I knew it' from hindsight into a kind of quiet self-reproach.
It pins the blame on the speaker's own excessive hope, not the other person's failure. That shift makes the heartache feel familiar and self-inflicted.
The way 'I knew it' lands after each verse, less a triumphant reveal and more a flat, exhausted confirmation.
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the pull of "yeonghwa gateun geon eopsjanha"
the pull of "Neomu gidaehage haessdae"
the pull of "I knew it"
Lyrics
I (Knew It)
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Sumgyeojwo amudo moreuge syureureu
Anajwo idaero nune ttuiji anhge
Jalmosdo eopseo gidarimyeo
Ulmyeo jichyeoganeun geu ai
Maeil apahaessdeon ai
Neomu gidaehage haessdae
Aetage mandeulgo
Jakku hesgallige haessdae
Michige mandeulgo
Geujeo babocheoreom neomu sunjinhaessdeon
Eorinaicheoreom sunsuhaessdeon ai
Nega ullyeossdeon najanha
I can’t see I confused
Get me out of here
Da jinagan yaegi
I knew it
Yeonghwa gateun geon eopsjanha
Da ppeonhan yaegijanha
I don’t want love baby
No pain no love
Mwoga geurigeuri ppeonppeonhae
Naega geurigeuri manmanhae
Neomunado jal aljanha
Da kkeutnan yaegijanha
I don’t want love baby
No pain no love oh
Please look at my eye
Keojyeo beorin hanaui ice
Eollyeojyeo chagawojin neowa nae sai
Neoro inhae dwibakkwin na
Akkindaneun mal dasin hajima
Ilgi sok jjijgin peiji
Beonjin geulssin neoro saegyeojin
Kkaejin jomyeong
Eodum sok endingeun no one
Michyeoga honja nameun aineun
Hoksina haneun geu mame
Neol gidaehaebwado
Chagaun hanmadi mare
Muneojyeo beorigo
Gyeolguk ontong neoro muldeulge haenohgo
Hayan meonjicheoreom sarajyeossdeon ai
Nareul hollyeossdeon neojanha
I can’t see I confused
Get me out of here
Da sarajin yaegi
I knew it
Yeonghwa gateun geon eopsjanha
Da ppeonhan yaegijanha
I don’t want love baby
No pain no love
Janinhaessdeon neoui majimak hanmadi
Gyeolguk muneojyeo beorin
Kkeuti nabeorin seutori
Nega jeonbuyeossdeon naege
Eotteohge ireol su issni
Doedolligo sipeo
I knew it
Yeonghwa gateun geon eopsjanha
Da ppeonhan yaegijanha
I don’t want love baby
No pain no love
Mwoga geurigeuri ppeonppeonhae
Naega geurigeuri manmanhae
Neomunado jal aljanha
Da kkeutnan yaegijanha
I don’t want love baby
No pain no love oh
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What is "I (Knew It)" by SONAMOO about?
A K-pop track about watching a relationship unravel exactly as you feared it would. The lyric treats foresight as its own particular wound. Knowing the ending doesn't spare you the middle; it just makes you watch yourself walk into it.
Who performs "I (Knew It)"?
SONAMOO performs "I (Knew It)", and this lyric page sits inside the SONAMOO catalog on LyroVerse.
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