오래된 노래 [Old Song] [English translation]

By chance I came across an

old fashioned tape,

I listened to the song inside;

At the awkward piano

And the fresh, unexperienced voice

the many memories made

me crack a smile

It was a song that I made sometime before

and gave to you as a birthday gift;

It’s accompaniment was rustic

And it didn’t even have lyrics,

Yet you were happy

like a child;

[You said] Because there was sincerity in it

All of my feelings

were translated to you,

And sometimes while humming to it,

You even cried

In the tape from a long time ago

The “me” of then,

because I feel quite jealous [of it] and I miss it,

I sometimes cry and laugh

absentmindedly;

But as long as I can

hear this song, it’s fine;

Like a fool

After I sent you away

Like a lie,

time passed

To you, it became that

in front of people,

you would be able to

tell that it was my song;

I loved you quite a bit

And I hurt and I missed you;

Our memories that have passed,

I rely on when singing [these] songs

How might your heart be

On the radio, on the street

when you [might] hear me?

The feelings I exaggerated and

the words I decorated,

possibly it might have

Made you cry a second time?

I’m sorry

Like this, might I

reach you again?

My lacking heart

Those words that

I ruthlessly spewed out,

How hard and hurtful

it must’ve been

In the tape from a long time ago

The “me” of then,

because I feel quite jealous [of it] and I miss it,

I sometimes cry and laugh

absentmindedly;

But as long as I can

hear this song, it’s fine;

Like a fool

• Artist:Kim Dong Ryul
• Album:Volume 5 - Monologue