The Way We Love

“Could you love me even though I’m not enough for you? I have nothing but love to give to you, so would you still love me? Let’s not say those kinds of things from now on. Your heart is enough for me right now, because we have loving hearts, which are bigger than anything in this world.” –Seo In Guk & Jung Eun Ji, Our Love Like This/Just The Way We Love (OST. Reply 1997) [translated lyrics]

Juara pertama program pencarian bakat “Superstar K season 1”, Seo In Guk, berkolaborasi dengan vokalis utama girl group A Pink, Jung Eun Ji, untuk mengisi jajaran soundtrack serial drama yang mereka bintangi, “Reply 1997”. Mereka membawakan sebuah lagu remake berjudul “Our Love Like This”, atau yang juga dikenal dengan judul “Just The Way We Love”. Lagu ini merupakan remake dari lagu soundtrack untuk film “Love Wind, Love Song”, yang dirilis pada tahun 1999. In Guk dan Eun Ji menampilkan lagu ini secara live dalam program acara musik Mnet M! Countdown pada tanggal 6 September 2012.

“Our Love Like This” expresses the feeling of a couple that would like to be forever in love with each other. Even if they had nothing but love, even if they had so many lacks in everything, it’s enough as long as they have each other’s heart and love. Before they’re together, it was dark and lonely, but now as they’re together, they’re not afraid of anything and all that they feel is happiness. They pray and pray, they hope and hope, that even when the time passed by, they would always be together. Even when life got hard somehow, they would lean on each other’s shoulder. Even when they got old and tired, they would have each other to strengthen them on. Even until the last day of their lives and they closed their eyes, they would be on each other’s arms, just like they’re right now. Even until their last breath, they would remember the day when they made this promise to be together forever.

Lagu duet ballad manis ini ditulis lirik dan dikomposisi musiknya oleh Seo Young Bae dan Choi Young Chan. Sementara dalam versi terbaru yang dibawakan oleh In Guk dan Eun Ji, lagu ini diaransemen ulang oleh komposer Baek Chul Ho. “Our Love Like This” dirilis sebagai single “Reply 1997 Love Story Part 2” pada tanggal 4 September 2012. Menyusul kemudian pada tanggal 27 September 2012, lagu ini menjadi bagian dari special album “Reply 1997 Director’s Edition OST”. Lagu ini merajai berbagai tangga lagu real-time semenjak perilisannya. Indeed, In Guk and Eun Ji’s great vocal collaboration successfully brings out the perfect emotion in this song.

“I was always lonely, without you, time was long and dark. Now I feel happiness because I have your scent with me. I feel something as I pass the darkness to meet the sunlight. Now I’m not afraid of anything because I’m in your arms.” –Seo In Guk & Jung Eun Ji, Our Love Like This/Just The Way We Love (OST. Reply 1997) [translated lyrics]

* Ditulis sambil mendengarkan lagu “Our Love Like This”/”Just The Way We Love” oleh Seo In Guk & Jung Eun Ji, yang merupakan OST dari serial drama “Reply 1997”. Lirik lagu berupa romanisasi dari huruf Hangul Korea, beserta dengan translasinya ke dalam Bahasa Inggris.

“Nal saranghal su innayo geudaeege bujokhan nainde

(Could you love me even though I’m not enough for you?)

Naegen sarang bakken deurilge eomneungeollyo ireon nal saranghanayo

(I have nothing but love to give to you, so would you still love me?)

Ijen geureon mal ankiro hae jigeum mamimyeon naneun chungbunhae

(Let’s not say those kinds of things from now on, your heart is enough for me right now)
Urin sesang geu mueotboda deo keodaran saranghaneun mam isseuni

(Because we have loving hearts, which are bigger than anything in this world)

Eonjenga uri meon hutnal neulgeo jichyeogado jichyeodo

(Someday, far ahead, even if we get old and tired)
Jigeumcheoreomman saranghagiro hae nae pume anginchae

(Let’s promise to love just like now, till the day you’re in my arms)
Nuneul gamneun nal geunaldo hamkkehae

(And we close our eyes, even on that day, let’s be together)

Nan oeroum ppunieotjyo geudae eopdeon gin eodumui sigan

(I was always lonely, without you, time was long and dark)
Ije haengbokhameul neukkyeoyo jigeum naegen geudae hyanggiga isseuni

(Now I feel happiness because I have your scent with me)

Nan mueonga neukkyeojyeoyo eodumeul jina mannan taeyangbit

(I feel something as I pass the darkness to meet the sunlight)

Ije geu mueotdo duryeopji anheulgeollyo geudae nae pume isseuni

(Now I’m not afraid of anything because I’m in your arms)

Sigan heulleoga meon hutnal sarmi himgyeoul ttaen

(After time passes, far ahead, and life becomes hard)

Seoro eokkaee gidaegiro haeyo

(Let’s promise to lean on each others shoulders)
Oneureul gieokhae uri hamkkehal nalkkaji

(Remember today until the day we’re together)

Naneun huhoehaji anhayo uri sarang isseuni

(I have no regrets because we have our love)

Meon hutnal sarmi himgyeoul ttae

(Far ahead in the days, when life gets hard)
Seoro eokkaee gidaegiro haeyo nae pume anginchae

(Let’s lean on each others shoulders, till the day you are in my arms)

Nuneul gamneun nal sesang kkeutkkaji hamkkehae

(And we close our eyes, until the end of the world, let’s be together)

Uri idaero jigeum idaero yeongwonhi

(Like we’re now, just like right now, forever)”