#lyrics

                               I am selfish
                                 I am broken
                                    I am cruel
                        I am all the things
                             they might havesaidto you

I listen to other groups besides Stray Kids, I swear

Woojin

“If the world’s gonna end, I wanna be your friend. When the lights go dim I wanna be your man.” (Man)

Chan

“Some dreams never do come true, some love doesn’t hit the target. But my dreams are reality now, and you’re the one I’ve been dreaming about.” (Seeing Stars)

Minho

“Don’t hold my hands accountable, they’re young and they’re dumb.” (The Emotion)

Changbin

“Throwing me that shade like I’m not cool enough.” (Second Night of Summer)

Hyunjin

“Past lives couldn’t ever hold me down, lost love is sweeter when it’s finally found. I’ve got the strangest feeling this isn’t our first time around. Past lives couldn’t ever come between us, some time the dreamers finally wake up. Don’t wake me I’m not dreaming, don’t wake me I’m not dreaming.” (Past Lives)

Jisung

“So call me your Romeo - I’ll show you the way my thunderbird sings. Well you and the suede backseat is all I’ll ever need.” (Faded Heart)

Felix

“And we can run away, swimming in the sunlight everyday. Oh, paradise in your eyes, green like American money.” (American Money)

Seungmin

“And every time I think of you I’m so glad, what we had they’ll never know. And every summer night we stayed up late blowing smoke into figure eights.” (Bye-Bye Darling)

Jeongin

“I hope the cracks in the pavement lead back to you, baby.” (Dug My Heart)

well, this is the end of the stuff I had stocked up, so I hope I finish something soon

I hope you guys either also love these songs or have never heard them before but will love them after listening!

Seungcheol (S.Coups)

“I’ve never been good with words - well, at least not the sweet kind. Somehow when she’s around, it’s like I just lose my mind.” (Junior Doctor, Uh Oh)

Jeonghan

“Just another day of growing up, I get stuck in my romance and I can’t win no matter what I say, but you love me anyway.” (The Mowgli’s, Love Me Anyway)

Joshua

“Cross the ocean, take your chance. Find yourself a man. Someday I’ll understand what we held between our hands, but I remember breathing easy. Do you remember breathing easy?” (YØUTH, Breathing Easy)

Jun

“And I just want to be sum of your broken parts. And I just want to be your creature of the dark.” (The Wombats, Be Your Shadow)

Soonyoung (Hoshi)

“I could dance all night like I’m a soul boy, but I know I’d rather drag myself across the dance floor. I feel like dancing on my own where no one knows me and where I can cause offence just by the way I look.” (Belle and Sebastian, There’s Too Much Love)

Wonwoo

“I’ll be your new favorite tune, I’ll be your black cloud by June, but only when you miss the rain like I miss you.” (Waterparks, Stupid for You)

Jihoon (Woozi)

“I was sitting in a field of pine trees coaxing the words from the earth and the dirt and I sought a muse but the words just wouldn’t come.” (Ezra Vine, Celeste)

Seokmin (DK)

“You know how they say you got the real thing when nothing else matters? I love you like that.” (Dagny, Love You Like That)

Mingyu

“Got a minute, got a moment, got a radio song. Gonna do what we can do before this night is gone. Say you’re with me, say you want it, say you need it bad. Yeah we’re goin’ all in getting what we had.” (Plaid Brixx, The Greener Side)

Minghao (The8)

“I want to believe in time travel, that one day I’ll come back for you, find you in the campus library aisles and I’d say ‘Oh my ancient Mars’.” (The Zolas, Ancient Mars)

Seungkwan

“I close my eyes and dream about a sunny holiday. I wish that I was beachin’ down on Saint Tropez, or sitting in the lobby at the fabulous Pierre with diamonds on my fingers and not a single care.” (Caro Emerald, Stuck)

Vernon

“Baby, I ain’t got no money, all I got is time and I’m gon’ spend that time on you, but when they pay me and I can buy the sunshine take you away, we’ll drink champagne while holed up in a room and I’ll spend my summer on you.” (PRETTYMUCH, Summer on You)

Chan (Dino)

“You never saw me, you never did, though I tried, and tried, and tried to get you to notice. I think I’ll always love you, I just might. Oh, I think I’m gonna love you until the day that I die.” (Jukebox the Ghost, Sound of a Broken Heart)

this was actually really hard to do because I wanted to include so many more songs that I love. it’s okay though, because I’ll probably just do a part two of this, maybe for other groups

@taylorswift just wondering.. In New Years Day why would he be “crawling home” after striking out? When someone strikes out in baseball, they are currently on home plate and not advancing through any more bases lol

Honestly, I’m translating this because I feel like it and because I want to talk about this hauntingly beautiful song and the story behind it.

The story behind what inspired the song:

Alfonsina Storni was an argentine poet who had breast cancer and treated it the first time but was not willing to go through the same process a second time when it came back, so in true Alfonsina Storni form a woman with a strong character that let no one lead her life, she decided to handle it her way, she had already voiced her thoughts about suicide on a poem when her friend (Alleged lover) and poet Horacio Quiroga committed suicide, I find the poem slightly eerie because it kind of foretell her own death

She traveled to Mar del Plata, a city located on the Atlantic coast, she stayed there a few days and wrote her last poem “Me voy a dormir” (I’m going to sleep) and send it to the journal La Nación.

The song pays homage and is slightly inspired by the last poem and the way Alfonsina Storni committed suicide.

There are many versions out there of this tragically beautiful song, my favorites are the original version by Mercedes Sosaand this cover by Amaia (starts at 1:35). Mind you this is not a proper translation because I’m not a professional translator there might be a few mistakes here and there I just wanted to share this song because is so beautiful. You should definitely check some of her work or read about her, she was an impressive person.

Por la blanda arena que lame el mar

By the soft sand that the sea licks

Su pequeña huella no vuelve más

Her small footprint won’t come back

Un sendero solo de pena y silencio llegó

A path only of sorrows and silence arrived

Hasta el agua profunda

Down to the deep water

Un sendero solo de penas mudas llegó

A path only of unspoken sorrows arrived

Hasta la espuma

To the sea foam

Sabe Dios que angustia te acompañó

God only knows what anguish accompanied you

Que dolores viejos calló tu voz

What old pains your voice silenced

Para recostarte arrullada en el canto de las

To lay down lulled to sleep by the singing of the

Caracolas marinas

Seashells

La canción que canta en el fondo oscuro del mar

The song that is sang in the dark depths of the sea by

La caracola

The seashell

Te vas Alfonsina con tu soledad

You leave Alfonsina with your loneliness

¿Qué poemas nuevos fuiste a buscar?

What new poems did you went to find?

Una voz antigua de viento y de sal

An old voice of wind and salt

Te requiebra el alma y la está llevando

Breaks your soul and is taking it

Y te vas hacia allá, como en sueños

And you go over there, like in a dream

Dormida, Alfonsina, vestida de mar

Asleep, Alfonsina, dressed by the sea

Cinco sirenitas te llevarán

Five little mermaids will take you

Por caminos de algas y de coral

Through paths of seaweed and coral

Y fosforescentes caballos marinos harán

And phosphorescent seahorses will make

Una ronda a tu lado

A round by your side

Y los habitantes del agua van a jugar

And the inhabitants of the waters will play

Pronto a tu lado

Soon by your side

Bájame la lámpara un poco más

Lower the lights a little bit more

Déjame que duerma Nodriza en paz

Let me sleep, nursemaid, in peace

Y si llama él no le digas que estoy

And if he calls, don’t tell him I’m here

Dile que Alfonsina no vuelve

Tell him that Alfonsina won’t come back

Y si llama él no le digas nunca que estoy

And if he calls don’t ever tell him I’m here

Di que me he ido

Say that I’ve left

Te vas Alfonsina con tu soledad

You leave, Alfonsina with your loneliness

¿Qué poemas nuevos fuiste a buscar?

What new poems did you went to find?

Una voz antigua de viento y de sal

An old voice of wind and salt

Te requiebra el alma y la está llevando

Breaks your soul and is taking it

Y te vas hacia allá como en sueños

And you go over there, like in a dream

Dormida, Alfonsina, vestida de mar

Asleep, Alfonsina, dressed by the sea

안녕하세요 여러분! Hey everyone! I got yet another request for a breakdown! If you have a song you’d like to see broken down, let me know! I linked my full-length lessons about the featured grammar points throughout as well in case you want to learn more about them!

I translated all these lyrics myself, but I did refer to this lyric videoandNaver Dictionary to help me out :) Let’s start!

나를 스쳐가는 그대 / 내 말을 들어줘 / 걸음을 멈추고 / 내 노랠 들어줘

You brush against me / Listen to what I have to say / Stop in your tracks / And listen to my song

• 나를 = me 
• 나 is the informal way to say “I,” while -를 is an object particle. More about particles here!
• 스쳐가다 = to brush against; to pass by
• 그대 = you -> This is a poetic/romantic way to say “you” and isn’t really used in everyday spoken Korean.
• [verb stem] + 는 allows you to describe nouns with that verb. 나를 스쳐가는 그대 literally means “you who brushes against me.”
  
• 내 = my (informal)
• 말 = words
• 듣다 = to listen; to hear
• 듣다’s stem ends in ㄷ, so it becomes 들어줘 when conjugated.
• [verb stem] + 아/어주다 means that a verb is done forsomebody and can be used when pleading that someone do something for you. In this case, he’s commanding that you listen to him. 
• Literally, this line means “listen to my words.”
• 걸음 = step(s) -> from the verb 걷다, meaning “to walk”
• 멈추다 = to stop
• -고 is a connector that means “and.” This line means “stop in your tracks and…”
• 노래 = song

축 처진 고개들과 / 비틀거리는 그림자 / 그렇게 나는 불청객이 돼 / 아무도 모르는 yeah / 노래를 부르며 yeah

Among the drooping heads / And staggering shadows / I become an uninvited guest / While I sing a song / That nobody knows

• 축 처지다 = droop; hang; sag
• 고개 = head
• Attach -들 to nouns to make them plural
  
• [verb stem] + ㄴ/은 allows you to describe a noun with that verb in the past tense. So 축 처진 고개들 literally means “heads that drooped.”
• 과/와is attached to nouns to mean “and” or “with.” 과 is attached to nouns ending in a consonant, while 와 is attached to those ending in a vowel. 
  
• 비틀거리다 = stagger; stumble; falter; totter
• 그림자 = shadow(s) (it can still be implied that a noun is plural without the -들 depending on the context!
• 그렇게 = like that
• 불챙객 = uninvited guest
• 되다 = to become
• These lines were a little tricky to translate, but I think it essentially means “the drooping heads and staggering shadows, like that, I become an uninvited guest” as if he is an uninvited guest because the drooping heads and staggering shadows make him one. 
  
• 아무도 = nobody
• 모르다 = to not know
• 아무도 모르다 sounds like a double negative – nobody doesn’t know. But in Korean, this is the correct way to say “nobody knows”! When using indefinite pronouns like 아무것도, 아무데도, (nothing, nowhere), etc., you need to use a negative verb like so.
• 부르다 -> when paired with 노래, means “to sing.”
• [verb stem] + (으)며means “while [verb]” and is used when two actions are happening at the same time.

아무도 모르는 / 노래를 부를래 / 지나가는 너의 / 마음을 붙잡을 수 있길 바라며

I’ll sing a song / That nobody knows / Hoping that I can grasp your heart / As it passes

• [verb stem] + ㄹ/을래(요) means “I will [verb]” or “I want to [verb].” It expresses a strong intention to do something.
• 지나가다 = pass; go by
• 너의 = your(informal)
• 너 means “you” (informal), and -의 is a possessive marker.
• 마음 = hear
• 붙잡다 = grasp; grab; hold
• [verb stem] + ㄹ/을 수 있다 = can [verb]
• [verb stem] + 기를 바라다 = to hope that [verb]
• Those last two lines literally mean “while hoping I can grasp your passing heart.”

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