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Around

A Korean lyric about waiting for a dawn that never quite arrives, from the band's 2022 album 'Nirvāna'.

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A Korean lyric about waiting for a dawn that never quite arrives, from the band's 2022 album 'Nirvāna'.

It's a song about waiting for a morning that's already happened in memory.

The editorial weight is in how it refuses to move on, circling the same images, the drawings, the extinguished lights, until they feel more real than the present.

Editor's note

SURL's 'Around' circles a quiet morning memory

A Korean lyric about waiting for a dawn that never quite arrives, from the band's 2022 album 'Nirvāna'.

han bakwireul doragaja dal wie baljagugeul namgija

It's a song about waiting for a morning that's already happened in memory. The editorial weight is in how it refuses to move on, circling the same images, the drawings, the extinguished lights, until they feel more real than the present.

The phrase 'han bakwireul doragaja', let's go back one more time, keeps returning. It's less about a physical return and more the pressure of a mind stuck on a loop, trying to re-enter a moment that's already gone. The lyric holds onto that 'baljagugeul', the footprint, left on the moon, a faint mark you can't really revisit but keep tracing anyway.

Let's go back one more time, leave a footprint on the moon. It's a plain, impossible wish that holds the whole song's ache, wanting to mark a place you can't actually reach.

The way 'han bakwireul doragaja' repeats, softening each time, like someone trying to convince themselves.

edit_note Ethan Walker · LyroVerse team · Apr 17
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Around

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hayan jongi han jang

chaeksange ollyeoda noko

hancham gominhada

keodaran dal geuryeonneunde

gwaenhi sseulsseulhaejyeo

jakge geuryeobon jeongureul

kigoseo gamanhi anja

achimeul gidarine

ajik dareun balga

bul kkeojin bangeul bichugo

mot bodeon saie

neureonan geurimdeul sogen

dadeul dulleoanja

igoseul barabogoseo

sonjiseul hagie

ttara deureoganne

han bakwireul doragaja

dal wie baljagugeul namgija

hanassik tteoreojyeo meoreojindaedo

namgyeojin baljagugeul ttaragaseo

dasi mannaja geugoseseo

gidarideon achimieotjiman

idaeroneun aswiul geot gata

jeonguga da kkeojyeogago isseul ttae

mangseorida dwijibeun geurim bomyeon

dadeul dulleoanja

modu hangoseul bogoseo

dal wireul doraganeunde

han bakwireul doragaja

dal wie baljagugeul namgija

hanassik tteoreojyeo meoreojindaedo

namgyeojin baljagugeul ttaragamyeon

mannal su isseul geoya

ije da gachi mom tteo oreune

han bakwireul doragaja

dal wie bari daeul su eopdamyeon

tteooreuneun seororeul butjapgoseo

han bakwireul deo dolja

han bakwireul deo dolja

han bakwireul doragaja

dal wie bari daeul su eopdamyeon

tteooreuneun seororeul butjapgoseo

han bakwireul doragaja

dal wie bari daeul su eopdamyeon

tteooreuneun seororeul butjapgoseo

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What is "Around" by SURL about?

A Korean lyric about waiting for a dawn that never quite arrives, from the band's 2022 album 'Nirvāna'. It's a song about waiting for a morning that's already happened in memory. The editorial weight is in how it refuses to move on, circling the same images, the drawings, the extinguished lights, until they feel more real than the present.

Who performs "Around"?

SURL performs "Around", and this lyric page sits inside the SURL catalog on LyroVerse.

Does LyroVerse have an editor's note for "Around"?

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