Roy Kim - Only Then (그때 헤어지면 돼) translated lyrics!

Roy Kim has a new single!!!!

^_____^

I love this song.  I love all of Roy Kim's songs tbh, but it's been a while since we had a new one, and this is just so.... Roy Kim.  It's a lovely, soft, sad-yet-hopeful ballad that just makes my heart go all melty.  *_*

Here's the English translation of the lyrics:

The way to love me is not difficult

Just in the shape I am now, please hold me close

I don’t know how it will become between us

Because it is undecided, I like it

What people say, what importance does it have?

That we’ll die without each other, what are you worrying about

Even if we love together more, it’s ok

If you come to like another person

If I become accustomed to being without you

If that time comes, if it becomes that time

Then if we break up, it’s ok.

The way to love you is also not difficult

If you give a smile one more time, take care just a little more

Our way of loving is not difficult either

If each day, from the first meeting glance

We gaze at each other

What people say, what importance does it have?

That we’ll die without each other, what are you worrying about

Even if we love together more, it’s ok

If you come to like another person

If I become accustomed to being without you

If that time comes, if it becomes that time

That time, that time, that time

When you no longer care if I catch you

And I, all the more exhausted, can no longer walk

If that time comes, if it becomes that time

Then if we break up, it’s ok

Then, if we break up, it’s ok



Translator's Notes:

그때 헤어지면 돼 in the title translates as "Then if we break up, it's ok".

Actually this song was generally straightforward to translate... though the bits with "the way to love you" did not come with pronouns in the following line, so I had to take a stab in the dark whether it was "if I smile" or "if you smile" etc.

There was also one line that just confused me, which I think word-for-word means something like "you desire it or stop (desiring it), the fact that I will catch you".  Sooo I translated it as "When you no longer care if I catch you", probably wrongly lol but it was the only way I could think of to word it so it would fit in with the next lines which I do understand.
I've seen it elsewhere as something like "I'll catch you whether you want it or not" but that didn't seem to fit the pattern (which I take to be mirrored from "If you come to like someone else / If I become accustomed to being without you" - where both lines add up to the break up).  I was trying to find a way it was something spelling the end of the relationship too because in context that seemed to make sense.
Also in the MV it's the bit where Roy is running and he stops exhausted and gives this kind of little "ok, it's over" nod, and that seemed to fit too.

And did I mention that I love Roy Kim?  ^_~

Roy Kim - Only If translated lyrics

Track 5 on Blooming Season EP. 


(FYI The Korean title of this song is "Sangsanghaebwatni" (상상해봤니) which does not mean "Only if" but something like, "Have you tried to imagine?")


This is one of my favourites on the album, it has a classic Roy Kim longing sound to it.  <3




Without thinking, when our two eyes met
Truthfully I was even a little scared
If I meet you
I fear I will not see anything else
If I can’t see you, I’m afraid it will hurt too much
You, so pretty, I cannot leave behind
I cannot just have you meet someone else

Have you tried to imagine it?

If we’d met when we were younger
Without any worries
We used to live following our hearts

Meeting someone

Besides each other’s feelings

There’s such a lot you must think of

The love you plan for and

The freedom I’d planned

They cannot come to flower in the same season

 So if by chance we brush by each other

With that long ago smile I will gaze at you

Have you tried to imagine it?

If we’d met when we were younger
Without any worries
We used to live following our hearts
Have you tried to imagine it? 
At that time
If we’d loved each other
I guess we wouldn’t be hurting like this now

Have you tried to imagine it? (x 6)

Translator's Notes:


It's another one with the confusion of you/me/us, given the context I translated mostly as "we" although it could just refer to him.  Otherwise it was fairly straightforward.  Roy Kim is much easier to translate than some others!!!  ^__^

Roy Kim - Pretty You translated lyrics

Track 2 on Blooming Season EP... I knew this was going to be easy to translate when I was listening to it today.  ^__^ 


Even though I know
I cannot have you
Even though I know
In the end this is all my mistake

Since I cannot now let you go

Since you are pretty
Since you are pretty it is like that
Whoever I meet
They will be compared to you, and
Even the manner of speaking unknowingly resembles you
Even though everything was a dream
I can understand it

 Since you are pretty

Since you are pretty it is that way
Let’s both go far away
To a place where there is no one
Take my hand tightly and let’s go, let’s go
Where we can greatly breathe our love

To that place, to that place, to that place

Even if we are both just seeing each other

Even though my heart cannot keep you imprisoned

Even though time flows and passes, like that it will be ok

 Since you are pretty

Since you are pretty it is that way
Let’s both go far away
To a place where there is no one
Take my hand tightly and let’s go, let’s go
Where we can greatly breathe our love
To that place, to that place, to that place
Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go




Translator's Notes:


1. "Since I cannot let you go" is technically "put you down" like she's a heavy suitcase or something?  I couldn't think of another way to put that in English WITHOUT making her sound like a suitcase?  Idk if the putting-down-a-burden thing was what Roy was going for though, so...  ^_~ 


2.  "Where we can greatly breathe our love" really makes BASICALLY NO SENSE but hey, that's what it says, or "breathe it in/out deeply" or something else which ALSO MAKES NO SENSE but whatevs.


3.  "Even if time flows and passes": the two verbs are actually the same, so it is really "even if time flows and flows".  Time flows A LOT in Korean, not so much in English?  So I went with "flows and passes" - one translated literally, the other for meaning.


4.  A note about 그래:  This and it's ilk are literally THE BANE OF MY LIFE when translating (hmm, ok, maybe there's worse, but it's close) and it's ALL OVER THIS SONG.  T_T  There is NO good English translation really, it and the like of 그렇게 come from 그렇다 and basically mean "it is like that".  So they can be translated as "yes" or "right" or a hundred other things that really have ZERO FUNCTION in an English sentence and just get in the way. 
Roy sings 그래 about a million times in this song, and I have not directly translated it for most of them.

Roy Kim - Suddenly translated lyrics

Track 3 on Blooming Season EP and the main title track.

I think I might say this every time I post a translation, but I LOOOOVE this song.  ( *_*)

It's just.. lovely.  <3  It's so Roy Kim it's PERFECT.

And because sometimes you just have to throw your key in the sea and walk off into the woods with a suitcase in order to move on.

On the days you suddenly float into my mind
Unable to catch hold of anything
Finally, the well-hidden memories of being with you
Alone, secretly, I keep drawing them out

The image of us I pictured

As it is very attractive and beautiful
I'm afraid I won't be able to forget it
Finally, I will have to erase you in them,
But according to my heart I cannot

Whether we'll be able to see each other again

I don't know, but let's all be happy
Even as we think of each other as we go through life
Let's just giggle at it
Thinking we dreamed the best dream and
Let's again tremblingly live
And let's try to think it's ok if we meet again

No, if I try thinking of it again

Even that way going on living without you
Is a difficult thing to bear
Since you are also like this
This time I will try even harder

But I still love you this way

Even though now I can't see you
But I can wait
Why can I not go to you again?
I don't know if I am just afraid

Whether we'll be able to see each other again

I don't know, but let's all be happy
Even as we think of each other as we go through life
Let's just giggle at it
Thinking we dreamed the best dream and
Let's again tremblingly live
And let's try to think it's ok if we meet again


Translator's Notes:

I realised that the official YouTube has subtitles on the MVs so I checked my translation against them when it was done so I feel like it doesn't need much explanation.  The places where it's really different are when I am being more literal (you know me and the exact words :p), that's all.
That's the wonderful (frustrating?) thing about translations, how different they can be while still saying the same thing.  ^__^

Roy Kim - Heaven translated lyrics

Yeah, ok, Heaven is track 6 so no way should I be there yet, but a) I love it <3 and b) I could tell it was going to be sooooooo easy to translate I couldn;t resist.

I'll regret later lol.

 The version on Blooming Season EP is a solo, original version is from the Goblin OST (Part 12), where he sang it with Kim E-Z from Flower Jam Project (or whatever else they translate that as, sorry idk the official English name).

I’m wasting my word
Wasting my time

I take everything and give it to you
And that moment changing everything
I was feeling it

Feeling my heart, to you

Opening up repeatedly

You wake up my heart
And walk to my world

I call you a miracle

In the midst of every breathing thing

I only remember you
While feeling and cherishing you
I want to put you near to my side
She blew me away

Heaven is in your eyes
Heaven is in your sound

To me, the world you see
Is everything
Heaven is in your kiss
Even though tears fall down
You, uniquely beneath heaven
My smile, unique beneath heaven

I'm dreaming all day

I deeply close my eyes
I call your name

The frequently breaking out smile

How is it this way?
Whoever you are, at one time
You imagined this day
You blow up my heart, my heart

Heaven is in your eyes
Heaven is in your sound

To me, the world you see
Is everything
Heaven is in your kiss
Even though tears fall down
You, uniquely beneath heaven
My smile, unique beneath heaven

As if today is the last

I will look at you,
At you, who was so good

Heaven is in your eyes
Heaven is in your sound

To me, the world you see
Is everything
Heaven is in your kiss
Even though tears fall down
You, uniquely beneath heaven
My smile, unique beneath heaven


Translator's Notes:

The "You, uniquely beneath heaven / My smile, unique beneath heaven" bit just seems very awkward in English... I can make it make more sense, but I have to go adding in verbs that aren't there?  Literally that IS what the song lyrics say, nothing else.  I think the meaning would be more clearly rendered as "You are the only one beneath heaven that makes me smile" or similar, but... that's not ACTUALLY what it says, in exact words.  I like exact words lol.

Also, if you really want to know, that smile isn't "breaking out" but more... gushing.  Like idk, a waterfall?  It's a water-shooting-out verb to my brain.  I just decided "breaking out" is more what an English smile would do?

Roy Kim - Egoist translated lyrics!

OMG I am soooooooo happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ^________^

Roy Kim is back with a new album!!!!! 

Mini album, ok, but!  <3

I feel like I have waited FOREVER for this one.  So glad it's finally here!

Sooo in typical Kpop style it comes with Korean (and Hanja) title with a hotly debated translation... iTunes are going with Blossom, everyone else is going with Blooming Season or words to that effect.

I am going with that one, just, you know, because.  ^__^

(Actually it's because Roy Kim's official facebook announced the album title by saying, "Singer-songwriter Roy Kim will be releasing a mini album 개화기(開花期) on the 16th.  "개화기" has the meaning of the period when flowers bloom." (my translation from the Korean announcement)

THEN I looked it up in my Hanja dictionary (yup, I totes have one of those!) and the Hanja mean "opening flower period" so HA iTunes, we're right, you're wrong, there is a "season" in there too.

So~~  Apart from sticking it to iTunes, to me "Blooming Season" really does just make more sense, and although "Flowering Season" might be better English, no one else is using that one.  ^_~ 

Also, in case you wanted to know, 개화기 also has the meaning of "period of enlightenment" in Korean, as in, like the Renaissance or whatever.  Mainly Joseon dynasty turning modern, but yeah.  Maybe Roy had this in mind too?)

 

Anyway.  Got straight down to work, and here are the translated lyrics to the first track off the album.  Although it is the... second title track?  

Confusing muchly, eh.

 

You frequently expect things from me, but don't make a mistake

You're just fooling yourself

You will dream of a forever love but

It just gets hard as time goes by

Don't cross the line, this distance now is good

Don't try asking what this is between us

Just make love, just do love, yeah

Yes, look at me a little

Can you see what I want?

 Too hot, wanting to draw back my hand, that kind of love

I don't want to do it again

Because that little cold, suitably cool, that kind of love

Will be more comfortable to me

Like you are a planet, I am a star, and between us the Milky Way

If there were just that perfect gap

If it's not more, if it's not less, it'll be good

Will you understand me?

Time continually passes by, and

I simply have to go, and

You, while knowing it, why are you like that?

Instead of wanting more, instead of giving overflowingly,

Match with me a little more

 I know the bad things, egoistic is right too

But do you know it hurts me too?

 

Too hot, wanting to draw back my hand, that kind of love

I don't want to do it again

Because that little cold, suitably cool, that kind of love

Will be more comfortable to me

Like you are a planet, I am a star, and between us the Milky Way

If there were just that perfect gap

If it's not more, if it's not less, it'll be good

Will you understand me?

If I'm honest, I'm afraid

Don't hate this me

While it's like this, why do I wish for love again?

Once again, love

Too hot, wanting to draw back my hand, that kind of love

I don't want to do it again

Because that little cold, suitably cool, that kind of love

Will be more comfortable to me

Like you are a planet, I am a star, and between us the Milky Way

If there were just that perfect gap

If it's not more, if it's not less, it'll be good

Will you understand me?

 

(Translator's Notes: 

As with pretty much EVERY KOREAN SONG LYRIC EVER there is great lack of clarity about I/you/we/the old lady from across the street, whatever.  While we can safely rule out the old lady across the street I think, lines like "you will dream of a forever love" could be "we will dream" or even "I will dream".

Also I invented the word "overflowingly" because that's what the lyrics said, and yeah, I could have said "giving too much" which sounds like a thing an English speaker might say about a relationship, but... it's not quite overflowingly is it?  ^_~)

Roy Kim - The Great Dipper (북두칠성) translated lyrics

English lyrics translation for The Great Dipper (북두칠성), title track (and track 2) on Roy Kim's album.

Heart broken with loneliness
I force myself to drag myself out
Sitting at a quiet café
The people going past on the street
As I look at their expressions
Why does it seem only I am like this?
If it becomes more sorrowful
Planted in the area
Those many trees, look at them
Nobody acknowledges them but
They stand tall, don't they?

While imagining me on the way home
Please would you look at the sky?
Since you see the Great Dipper
While the shining stars are little by little held together,
I hope you will wait for me.
Since you see the Great Dipper
Wherever it is you are
I follow you, I promise I will light the way for you.

For the first time in a long while the weather is good,
I take a book and go out
Sitting in the park in front of the house
As I read I watch
The stooped shadows
If today of all days they appear a little smaller
Placed in the area
The lonely lampposts, look at them
Nobody acknowledges them, but
They stand tall, don't they?

While imagining me on the way home
Please would you look at the sky?
Since you see the Great Dipper
While the shining stars are little by little held together,
I hope you will wait for me.
Since you see the Great Dipper
Wherever it is you are
I follow you, I promise I will light the way for you
I promise I will light the way for you.

Translator's Note:  Parts of this sound a little awkward... I could do it more poetically, but I like to try to keep true to the meaning of the line. 

Example: "Planted in the area / those many trees, look at them" would sound much better in English as "Look at the many trees / planted in the area", obviously. 

However, if you were looking at the Korean lyrics wanting to know which bit was about trees (idk, these things are helpful if you are picking up some Korean!  I know I did it a lot in the past lol) then you would end up looking in the wrong place.

Yes, I confess, I am a bit OCD about direct translation.  ^_^;

Roy Kim - Teardrops (눈물 한방울) translated lyrics

More Roy Kim, because I just can't help myself.  ^_~ 


English translation of the lyrics to Teardrops (눈물 한방울), track 7 of The Great Dipper.


Just FYI, the official English title to the song (according to iTunes anyway) is "Teardrops", but the Korean title literally means "tears one drop", so "Teardrop" would be a better translation, imo.  ^_^  Just being pernickety.


Having always been buried inside the memories
I opened that old photo album
The times the two of us spent together
I smile


Oh, since I expect pain finally becomes forgotten and
Oh, destiny will find me again
Why should one teardrop in my eye
Secretly fall to wet my shoulder?


In the time that has passed,
I looked at old messages left behind
Given and received between the two of us
The morning and evening greetings, laughing


Oh, since I expect pain finally becomes forgotten and
Oh, destiny will find me again
Why should one teardrop in my eye
Secretly fall to wet my shoulder?


Oh, since I expect pain finally becomes forgotten and
Oh, destiny will find me again
Why should one teardrop in my eye
Secretly fall to wet my shoulder?


No notes this time!  Just a whole lotta love for Roy Kim.  <3

Roy Kim - Gone with the Wind (바람에 날려본다) translated lyrics

Another song stuck in my head from Roy Kim's album The Great Dipper... just knew this would happen, the Roy Kim addiction is only growing.  ^___^

Track 3, Gone with the Wind (바람에 날려본다).


Like I've never once been injured
They said to me I had to love
Said I had to forget you


Looking at the clear sky
Everything is held within a sigh
I let my worries fly


The days held within this wind
The little wishes being scattered
The painful heart that has to send away
I try again to call it


Through the days we spent together
We live them day by day
This wind
Whisks me further away from you


The journeys we don't want
We simply have to go on them, but
My heart, in its accustomed
Place, is waiting for you


They say it's youth because it hurts, but
Why is there continually only being hurt?
When will youth flow by?


Looking at the setting sun
Everything is held within a sigh
I let my worries fly


Through the days we spent together
We live them day by day
This wind
Whisks me further away from you
The journeys we don't want
We simply have to go on them, but
My heart, in its accustomed
Place, is waiting for you


The journeys we don't want
We simply have to go on them, but
My heart, in its accustomed
Place, is waiting for you


Waiting for you

Roy Kim - What's Left Behind (남기고 떠나죠) Translated Lyrics

English Translation of the lyrics to What's Left Behind (남기고 떠나죠), track 8 from Roy Kim's album The Big Dipper.

I LOVE this song!!!  *_* 

It is quite possible I will end up saying that about ALL the songs on this album, because I think I did with the last two albums, lol. 

Anyway, got it stuck in my head right now, so figured I'd put up a translation.


Without tears
We cannot smile more joyfully than anyone;
Without shade
We cannot avoid the sunlight which shines down;
Without silence
We cannot feel nature reach our ears;
Without darkness
We cannot feel grateful for tomorrow morning.

The days we regretted and
The heart-breakingly sad days
Whether it is love, or happiness,
They left joy behind.

Without pain
We cannot work out which people are true;
Without courage
Every dream must remain as just a dream.

The days we regretted and
The heart-breakingly sad days
Whether it is love, or happiness,
They left joy behind.

After a shower comes a rainbow,
After a rainstorm there is just a clear sky;
If it goes up, it can come down.
It's ok to rest a while then go
It's ok to walk on again, just so.

The days we regretted and
The heart-breakingly sad days
Whether it is love, or happiness,
They left joy behind.
The days we regretted and
The heart-breakingly sad days
Whether it is love, or happiness,
They left joy behind,
They left joy behind.

Translator's Note: I know I always complain about the lack of pronouns in Korean lyrics, but this is another one.  I wasn't bothered by it this time though, this song was super easy to translate, another reason to love it!  ^_^  But just so you are aware, technically speaking there is no "we" in the lyrics for instance, I just chose it as the lyrics were obviously intended as a general message.

And what a great message it is!!!  ♥  Love you, Roy! ♥

Roy Kim - Remember Me Translated Lyrics

Remember Me, track 6 from his third album, The Big Dipper (북두칠성).

I have a whole selection of Roy Kim translations that will be making their way on here a bit at a time... I love Roy Kim!!!  <3


Thinking of being able to meet you
Like a child, my hands are sweaty
I couldn't fall asleep.

In thinking you are mine
As if I have the whole world,
I went about smiling goofily.

You
When you wanted shiny things
I went up to the sky
It is I, who picked the stars and gave them to you.

You
When you said you'd lost sight of the way ahead
I offered you my shoulders
It is I who, like a toy horse, carried you.

Back then
How was I that way?
In the world ahead, I
Go, only getting all the smaller.

Remember me
I hope I'm not the only one
Who dreams about you all the time
Remember me
I surely was in love once
And I hope there is still room for me

When with you
I first met eyes
Simply I believed spring, spring, spring,
Spring had come
I did not know that it would be the last
After a cold winter passed
I believed that spring would come again
In childhood, since we hastened through the seasons
Now I am an adult
I am only yearning for back then.

Remember me
I hope I'm not the only one
Who dreams about you all the time
Remember me
I surely was in love once
And I hope there is still room for me

Remember me
I hope I'm not the only one
Who dreams about you all the time
Remember me
I surely was in love once
And I hope there is still room for me


Is it just me who finds the 봄 봄 봄 봄이 왔다 bit amusing?  Now I have Bom Bom Bom in my head all over again...  ^_~