A Good Person

“You’re a good person, though I’m endlessly lacking, you’re the person that I love and I’ll protect. I don’t care what people say about you, in my heart, you’re my only love.” –Jo Eun, No One is Better Than You/Good Person (OST. The Innocent Man) [translated lyrics]

Penyanyi solo pria, Jo Eun, menyumbangkan suara emasnya untuk mengisi jajaran soundtrack serial drama Korea Selatan, “The Innocent Man”, atau yang terkenal juga dengan judul “Nice Guy”. Lagu berjudul “No One is Better Than You”, atau yang dikenal juga dengan judul “Good Person”, ini dirilis dalam single “The Innocent Man OST Part 3” pada tanggal 17 Oktober 2012. Menyusul kemudian pada tanggal 24 Oktober 2012, lagu ini dirilis sebagai bagian dari album “The Innocent Man OST”, bersama dengan lagu soundtrack lainnya dari serial ini.

“No One is Better Than You”/”Good Person” portraits a desperate feeling of someone who thinks that they don’t deserve love. Because of their dark past, they feel that they aren’t good enough to be with someone they love. Most of all, the one they love is a good person. Far too good to them. So, they choose to love and protect the one they love from a far. Eventhough people think that that person is a bad person, they don’t care at all. It doesn’t matter what people say about that person, for them, no one is better than that person. Eventhough all the people in the world against that person, they will be the one who always stands behind that person.

Dalam serial “The Innocent Man”, lagu ini menggambarkan perasaan kedua tokoh utamanya, Kang Ma Ru (diperankan oleh Song Joong Ki) dan Seo Eun Gi (diperankan oleh Moon Chae Won), yang saling mencintai, terlepas dari masa lalu dan lingkungan mereka yang menentang. Kesuksesan serial drama ini turut didukung dengan lagu-lagu soundtrack­-nya, begitu pula dengan popularitas serial drama ini yang turut menyokong lagu-lagu soundtrack-nya. Indeed, lagu ballad ini melebur dengan apik dalam serial melodrama sebagai pendongkrak emosi penonton.

“My yearning grows and spreads through my heart. I try to hold it in but the words keep spilling out. These words “I love you” are so hard to hide. Do you still can’t come to me yet?” –Jo Eun, No One is Better Than You/Good Person (OST. The Innocent Man) [translated lyrics]

* Ditulis sambil mendengarkan lagu “No One is Better Than You”/”Good Person” oleh Jo Eun, yang merupakan OST dari serial drama “The Innocent Man”. Lirik lagu berupa romanisasi dari huruf Hangul Korea, beserta dengan translasinya ke dalam Bahasa Inggris.

“Na saraganeun iyueobsi haru haru beotyeonaedeut

(I live each day without a reason to live anymore)
Jugjimothae salgo itjyo jeongmal

(I just live because I can’t die)
Nal dasi salge haejun saram dasi utge haejun saram

(The person who made me live, the one who made me smile)

Ijen nareul ulge hanayo

(Now is making me cry)

Joh eun saram imnida han eobsi mojaran

(You’re a good person, though I’m endlessly lacking)
Naega saranghago tto jikyeojul saram

(You’re the person that I love and I’ll protect)
Eotteon saram irado nuga mworahaedo

(I don’t care what people say about you)
Nae gaseumen geudaen yuirhan sarangijyo

(In my heart, you’re my only love)

Wae amugeotdo moreumyeonseo andoendago marhanayo

(Why do you say no when you don’t know anything?)
Geojinmareun hajimarayo

(Don’t tell me lies)

Yeogi seoinneun nal bwayo

(Look at me standing here)

Deullinayo hanbeon dorabomyeon naega boiltende

(Can you hear me? If you look back once, you could see me)
Geudae deullinayo geudae saranghaeyo

(Can you hear me? I love you)
Hancham jinaseo meollido dorawanneyo

(You come back after going far away for a long time)
Geu saram baro ape inneunde

(Now that person is right in front of me)
Naege sonjithaneunde

(And that person comes to me)

Geuriumi jaraseo gaseume beonjyeowa

(My yearning grows and spreads through my heart)
Cham euryeogohaebwado saeeonaon mal

(I try to hold it in but the words keep spilling out)
Saranghandaneun mari ireohge eoryeowo

(These words “I love you” are so hard to hide)
Geudaen ajig naege ol sun eomnayo naege

(Do you still can’t come to me yet?)

Joh eun saram imnida geudae

(No one is better than you)”