Separation in the Rain

“Hidden by the raindrops, you probably couldn’t see my tears. So that your memory could only remember my wet and smiling face, I have to keep smiling until you turn your back away from me. I wonder if this pouring rain would wash away the time we’ve shared together.” –Lee Joon Gi, The Rain (Separation, You Win) [translated lyrics]

Lee Joon Gi (also known as Lee Jun Ki), aktor sekaligus penyanyi asal Korea Selatan, merilis sebuah mini album bertajuk “Deucer” pada tanggal 25 April 2012. Album ini merupakan comeback project Joon Gi di belantika musik paska menunaikan tugas wajib militernya pada bulan Februari 2012. Album yang sebelumnya dirilis dalam bentuk limited edition pada tanggal 16 Maret 2012 ini tidak dipromosikan di Korea Selatan, melainkan di Jepang, negara di mana fans Joon Gi banyak terdapat. Dalam album ini terdapat sebuah lagu manis berjudul “The Rain (Separation, You Win)”.

“The Rain”, or also titled as ”Separation, You Win”, is a song as about separation that happened in the rain. That cold separation is remain remains in our mind forever, because that separation has finally won over our loves, our loves that we even keep fighting for until the very last time. Relationship was a battlefield between love and loathe, between stay together and to be separated. On that rainy day, so sad but true, the separation was finally winning. Even in the last time, we put on a faint smile line, so that the thing that they would remember forever was our smiling face, neither our tears nor our crying face. The rain on that day successfully hide our tears, but could it wash away our memories too? Would we forget about those pains when the rain stops too? To say that we love them, to say that we need them, even those words that we couldn’t say until the last time has hidden in the rain on that day. No matter how hard we cry or how loud we scream, those things were hidden by the rain. No matter what we did, it couldn’t bring them back. In the end, we couldn’t keep our promise to be with them forever, because the separation has won. From then until forever, every time it’s raining, we would remember about that sad separation. It would haunt forever in the deepest of our memories.

“The Rain (Separation, You Win)” dirilis dalam dua versi sekaligus, yaitu versi berbahasa Korea dan versi berbahasa Jepang. Meskipun tidak dirilis sebagai promotional single, lagu ini adalah lagu pop ballad R n’ B yang sangat indah. This sad love song has a beautiful melody which combines perfectly with great lyrics and Joon Gi’s sweet vocal. Album “Deucer” sendiri langsung menduduki posisi puncak tangga lagu Oricon dalam minggu pertama perilisannya. Ini merupakan capaian yang luar biasa, mengingat Joon Gi tidak berasal dari Jepang dan baru saja kembali setelah hiatus selama hampir dua tahun untuk wajib militer. Indeed, this album is so soulful, especially “The Rain (Separation, You Win)” track.

“’I love you,’ three words that I can’t say anymore from now on. ‘I need you,’ three words that I need no more, but will haunt in my painful memories. There’s no other in this world who could love you like I did, but my love had grown cold and silent. Separation, you have won over me.” –Lee Joon Gi, The Rain (Separation, You Win) [translated lyrics]

* Ditulis sambil mendengarkan lagu “The Rain (Separation, You Win)” oleh Lee Joon Gi. Lirik lagu berupa romanisasi dari huruf Hangul Korea, beserta dengan translasinya ke dalam Bahasa Inggris.

“Bie garyeoseo niga bol su eobtgetji ssodajineun nae nunmureul

(Hidden by the raindrops, you probably couldn’t see my tears)
Ni gieogi bie jeojeun nae misoman gieok hal su itge

(So that your memory could only remember my wet and smiling face)
Niga nal doraseol ddaeggaji nan useojwoya hae
(I have to keep smiling until you turn your back away from me)
Bireul majeumyeon jiwonael su isseulgga hamgge haetdeon geu siganeul

(I wonder if this pouring rain would wash away the time we’ve shared together)
Neo ddeonagan geu jarie jujeoanja gwireul maga bwado

(I collapse in the place that you left and throw my hands upon my ears)

Nae gwien ni moksoriman deullyeo (in the rain)

(But I won’t be able to hear your voice again (in the rain))

Neoui ireum sorichyeo bulleobwa

(I scream out your name, as loud as I can)

Naega ggeonaeji mothae bissoge sumgin mal, “I love you”
(“I love you”, the words that I can’t bring myself to say, but they’re hidden in the rain)

(Wanna be, wanna be with you)

Neoreul butjapji mothae ipsure gamchun mal, “I need you”

(“I need you,” I can’t make you to stay here, but these words are hidden in my lips)

(Wanna be, wanna be with you)
Neomanui namjaro yeongwonhi ni gyeote isseo jul georadeon

(To stay by your side and be your man, I kept it as long as a man could)
Yaksogeul jikyeonaeji mothaesseo

(But I couldn’t keep that promise)

(No, no)
Ibyeora niga nal igyeosseo

(Separation, you have won over me)

Biga meomchumyeon ni gieokdo meomchulgga nae gaseumdo neol ijeulgga
(When the rain stops, will my memories of you end too? Will my heart forget you too?)

Neol saranghan chueokdeuri biga doeeo naeryeo olddaemada

(The memories of loving you now have become the rain as disguise)

Ddo dasi ulge doelgga duryeowo (in the rain)
(I’m afraid that I would end up crying again (in the rain))

Neoui ireum nunmullo oechyeo bwa

(I cry out your name, as I bend on my knees)

Ije dasineun naega jeonhal su eomneun mal, “I love you”

(“I love you,” three words that I can’t say anymore from now on)

(I love you, I love you)
Ijen yeongwonhi naega apaya haneun mal, “I need you”

(“I need you,” three words that I need no more, but will haunt in my painful memories)
Sesangui nugudo nal daesin mothage neoreul jikyeojundan
(There’s no other in this world who could love you like I did)

Sarangi ggeuti nago marasseo

(But my love had grown cold and silent)
Ibyeora niga nal igyeosseo

(Separation, you have won over me)

The rain, the rain, the rain

I’m standing in the rain”