Bigger than Destiny

“In a short moment, the fact that I let you go was so hard that tears fell, because it felt like our love wasn’t meant to be. So my heart hurts even more and this love makes me sick, then you smile in front of me when I feel like dying. This much is how I always longed for only you. Finally, finally, can you recognize how I feel? As much as it can’t be filled with the mere words of love, this love has grown bigger than destiny.” –Baek Ji Young, Love and Love (OST. Arang and the Magistrate) [translated lyrics]

Baek Ji Young, solois wanita yang terkenal sebagai ‘Queen of ballad’, merilis lagu sebagai soundtrack untuk serial drama “Arang and the Magistrate”. Lagu yang berjudul “Love and Love” ini dirilis pada tanggal 5 September 2012 sebagai single “Arang and the Magistrate: Original Sound Track Part 4”. Lagu ini kemudian menjadi bagian dari album “Arang and the Magistrate: Original Sound Track Special Edition” yang dirilis pada tanggal 17 Oktober 2012.

“Love and Love” pictures the feeling of someone who’s longed for their love. In this life, there are some loves that could never be happen somehow. There are some loves that were forbidden by destiny. There are some loves that were meant to fade away. There are some loves that people had to let go. The hardest thing rely on this process of letting go, because it’s not as easy as turning our palm upside down. Beyond of anything that we could control, this love goes deeper and deeper instead of fades away. Though it hurts, though it’s painful, this love has grown bigger even than the destiny itself.

Melalui lagu ini, sekali lagi Baek Ji Young membuktikan kapasitasnya tidak hanya sebagai ratu dari lagu-lagu ballad saja, melainkan juga sebagai ‘Queen of soundtrack’. Lagu yang merupakan hasil karya komposer Yoo Young Suk ini menonjolkan vokal Ji Young yang merdu nan sendu, yang dibalut dengan apik dengan melodi melankolis. Selain itu, sebagai sebuah lagu soundtrack, “Love and Love” melukiskan dengan tepat kisah cinta yang terjadi antara dua tokoh utama dalam serial “Arang and the Magistrate”.

“We live and carry on under the same sky. We cry and laugh with the same heart. My heart is living inside only you. I love and love again. My heart has locked up because it hurt and hurt. This pitiful heart of mine, can you accept it. As much as it can’t be filled with the mere words of love, this love has grown bigger than destiny.” –Baek Ji Young, Love and Love (OST. Arang and the Magistrate) [translated lyrics]

* Ditulis sambil mendengarkan lagu “Love and Love” oleh Baek Ji Young, yang merupakan OST dari serial drama “Arang and the Magistrate”. Lirik lagu berupa romanisasi dari huruf Hangul Korea, beserta dengan translasinya ke dalam Bahasa Inggris.

“Jamsi aju jamsi neol bonaen ge himi deureo nunmuri na

(In a short moment, the fact that I let you go was so hard that tears fell)

Uri sarang heorakdoeji anheul geot gataseo

(Because it felt like our love wasn’t meant to be)

Geuraeseo deo gaseum apa sarangi nal eojireophyeo

(So my heart hurts even more and this love makes me sick)
Jugeul geotman gateun nae apeseo miso jitneun geudae

(Then you smile in front of me when I feel like dying)

Eolmana neomaneul naega geuriwoman haesseonneunji

(This much is how I always longed for only you)
Ijeya ijeya naemam ara bol su inneungeoni

(Finally, finally, can you recognize how I feel?)
Saranghandaneun mallodo chaewojil su eobseul mankeum keojin

(As much as it can’t be filled with the mere words of love)
Unmyeongboda unmyeonggateun sarang

(This love has grown bigger than destiny)

Seoro sarang hago miwohaneun geu heunhan il wae himdeureo

(Loving and hating each other, why are these common things so hard?)
Urisain neul geureoke baraeyaman haneunji

(Does our relationship always have to fade away like this?)

Eolmana neomaneul naega geuriwohaeya haneunji

(This much is how I longed for only you)
Ireohke ireohke naemam ara bol su eomneungeoni

(Like this, like this, can you recognize how I feel?)
Saranghandaneun mallodo chaewojil su eobseul mankeum keojin

(As much as it can’t be filled with the mere words of love)
Unmyeongboda unmyeonggateun sarang

(This love has grown bigger than destiny)

Gateun haneul arae salgo jigo

(We live and carry on under the same sky)
Gateun maeumeuro ulgo utgo

(We cry and laugh with the same heart)
Ireohke naemam ni aneseoman saragago inneunde

(My heart is living inside only you)

Saranga tto nae saranga apeugo apaseo jamgin

(I love and love again, my heart has locked up because it hurt and hurt)
Nae maeumi i motnan maeum badajul sun eomneungeoni

(This pitiful heart of mine, can you accept it?)
Saranghandaneun mallodo chaewojil su eobseul mankeum keojin

(As much as it can’t be filled with the mere words of love)
Unmyeongboda unmyeonggateun sarang

(This love has grown bigger than destiny)”