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...  ^_~