A Korean ballad about loving someone enough to carry the painful memories they left behind.
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A Korean ballad about loving someone enough to carry the painful memories they left behind.
It's a song about devotion as a form of inventory.
The singer lists what was left, the light, the smile, the memory, and then tallies what he'll give because of it.
Editor's note
Taemin's Because I Love You remembers what hurts
A Korean ballad about loving someone enough to carry the painful memories they left behind.
ojik geudaemaneul saranghagi ttaemune
It's a song about devotion as a form of inventory. The singer lists what was left, the light, the smile, the memory, and then tallies what he'll give because of it. The love isn't redeeming; it's just the accounting method.
The phrase 'ojik geudaemaneul saranghagi ttaemune', 'just because I love you', does the heavy lifting. It's the reason given for everything: for holding on to memories that burn, for offering everything again, for staying broken open. The lyric doesn't justify it; it just states it as the only engine left.
It's the whole song in one line. Not a grand romantic statement, but a plain, exhausted cause. Everything else, the pain, the return, the offering, hangs from this single, simple hook.
The way 'saranghagi', 'loving', gets repeated three times at the end, like someone trying to convince themselves of the weight of the word.
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Because I Love You
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cheoeum neukkin geudae nunbicceun
honjamanui ohaeyeossdeongayo
haemalkeun misoro nareul
baboro mandeureossso
nae gyeoteul tteonagadeon nal
gaseume pumeossdeon bunhongbiccui
sumanheun chueokdeuri
pureuge baraejyeossso
eojeneun tteonan geudaereul
ijji moshaneun naega miwossjyo
hajiman ije kkaedarayo
geudaemanui nayeosseumeul
dasi doraon geudae wihae
nae modeun geot deuril teyo
uri idaero yeongwonhi
heeojiji anheuri
na ojik geudaemaneul
saranghagi ttaemune
eojeneun jinan chueogeul
ijji moshaneun naega miwossjyo
hajiman ije kkaedarayo
geudaemanui nayeosseumeul
dasi doraon geudae wihae
nae modeun geot deuril teyo
uri idaero yeongwonhi
heeojiji anheuri
na ojik geudaemaneul
saranghagi
saranghagi
saranghagi ttaemune
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What is "Because I Love You" by Taemin about?
A Korean ballad about loving someone enough to carry the painful memories they left behind. It's a song about devotion as a form of inventory. The singer lists what was left, the light, the smile, the memory, and then tallies what he'll give because of it.
Who performs "Because I Love You"?
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