A ballad where the singer can't escape the picture of a painful goodbye.
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A ballad where the singer can't escape the picture of a painful goodbye.
The song frames love as a physical injury that must be worsened to be forgotten.
'Deo apaboaya geu sarang ijna', I must hurt more to forget that love, treats heartbreak like a fever that needs to break.
Editor's note
Yesung's So Much Longing and the ache of memory
A ballad where the singer can't escape the picture of a painful goodbye.
Sum swineun gosmada nal chajaonda
The song frames love as a physical injury that must be worsened to be forgotten. 'Deo apaboaya geu sarang ijna', I must hurt more to forget that love, treats heartbreak like a fever that needs to break.
The phrase 'Sum swineun gosmada nal chajaonda', the breath I hid finds me, does the heavy lifting. It's not just that he remembers; the memory has agency, it hunts him down. The longing is so active it becomes the thing doing the searching.
It turns the act of suppressing grief into a failed hide-and-seek. The pain was never really put away; it was just waiting to come find him.
The repetition of 'Sarangi neomu geuripda', love is so painful, feels less like a chorus and more like a man realizing the same awful truth again.
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the pull of "Deo apaboaya geu sarang ijna"the pull of "Sum swineun gosmada nal chajaonda"the pull of "Sarangi neomu geuripda"
Lyrics
So Much Longing
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Mamsoge apassdeon iyagi
Simjangeul meomchun ibyeorui baljaguk
Tto hangeoreum hangeoreum dagaonda
Himgyeopdeon neowaui ibyeolgwa
Seulpeume uldeon geunareun
Sangcheoe geurimja doeeo
Sum swineun gosmada nal chajaonda
Sarangi neomu geuripda
Seuchyeoganeun niga neomu apeuda
Neoreul mot ijeo sangcheobatneun nan
Deo apaboaya geu sarang ijna
Sarangi neomu geuripda
Seuchyeoganeun niga neomu apeuda
Ajikdo neoui geurimjae
Garin naega deo apeuda
Himgyeopdeon neowaui ibyeolgwa
Seulpeume uldeon geunareun
Sangcheoe geurimja doeeo
Sum swineun gosmada nal chajaonda
Sarangi neomu geuripda
Seuchyeoganeun niga neomu apeuda
Neoreul mot ijeo sangcheobatneun nan
Deo apa boaya geu sarang ijna
Sarangi neomu geuripda
Seuchyeoganeun niga neomu apeuda
Ajikdo neoui geurimjae
Garin naega deo apeuda
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What is "So Much Longing" by Yesung about?
A ballad where the singer can't escape the picture of a painful goodbye. The song frames love as a physical injury that must be worsened to be forgotten. 'Deo apaboaya geu sarang ijna', I must hurt more to forget that love, treats heartbreak like a fever that needs to break.
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