The Falling Tears

“Tears are falling, drip drip drip. My smile is disappearing, more and more and more. Because you’re the one who lived in my heart that I called love, and you’ve left me. Rain is falling, drip drip drip. I wonder if the sky knows how I feel. I cover my eyes so I won’t see you anymore, so that I wouldn’t be hurt more.” –Wax, Tears Are Falling (OST. Missing You) [translated lyrics]

Cho Hye Ri, solois wanita asal Korea Selatan yang terkenal dengan nama panggung Wax, turut berpartisipasi dalam mengisi jajaran soundtrack untuk serial drama “Missing You”. Ia membawakan sebuah lagu yang berjudul “Tears Are Falling”. Lagu yang juga terkenal dengan judul “Tears Fall” atau “The Teardrops Are Falling” ini dirilis pada tanggal 30 Oktober 2012 sebagai single “Missing You OST Part 1”.

“Tears Are Falling” portraits the sad feeling of separation. When we separate with our beloved ones, they always say “be well”, “be happy”, or “this is for your own good”, but the thing is, how could we be happy after that separation when the only reason for our happiness is being together with them? Those words then become the saddest words ever. Even after that separation, we still couldn’t believe that that already happened. We stand still in the same old place, wishing and hoping that they would come back to find us again, to take those harmful words away, to tell us that they were lying before, to start all over again. But those things don’t happen and we just can count on our memories that won’t fade away, all by ourselves. All that left are the falling tears, the fading smile, and the falling rain, as the only love that we know and live in our heart is gone, leaving us all alone. As much as we try to hold on, we keep questioning what love is, what separation is, and why it hurts so much. As hard as we try to stand up, we keep losing faith that we’re able to love again.

Lagu ballad ini menjadi bagian dari album “Missing You: Original Sound Track” yang dirilis pada tanggal 16 Januari 2013. “Tears Are Falling” merupakan hasil karya dari songwriter dan composer PJ dan Kim Ji Hoon. Vokal Wax yang mendayu-dayu berpadu sempurna dengan melodi lembut lagu sedih ini. Serve as the main title track of the melodrama, this song successfully brings out the perfect sad feeling.

“I’m still in the same spot, because you might turn around and come back. I count the memories one, two, three, as I stand in this place alone.” –Wax, Tears Are Falling (OST. Missing You) [translated lyrics]

* Ditulis sambil mendengarkan lagu “Tears Are Falling” oleh Wax, yang merupakan OST dari serial drama “Missing You”. Lirik lagu berupa romanisasi dari huruf Hangul Korea, beserta dengan translasinya ke dalam Bahasa Inggris.

“Jaljinaeran mari seulpeoseo beolsseo nunmuri geureong goinda

(The words “be well” seemed so sad, so tears were already welling up)

Nun teum saero gadeuk cha olla soneuro garyeobonda

(They filled up in between my eyes, so I tried to hide it with my hand)

Haengbokharan mari deullyeoseo niga eobseumyeon an doel georago haedo
(I heard you tell me to be happy, but when I said I couldn’t go on without you)

Nareul wihae seorago haneun neo jeongmal miwo boinda

(You said that this is all for me, and I really hated you)

Tteoreojinda nunmuri ttuk ttuk ttuk sarajinda useumi jeom jeom jeom
(Tears are falling, drip drip drip, my smile is disappearing, more and more and more)

Sarangira bureudeon gaseumeda pumeotdeon niga nareul tteonaseo

(Because you’re the one who lived in my heart that I called love, and you’ve left me)

Naeryeoonda bitmuri ttuk ttuk ttuk haneuri nae mameul aneunji

(Rain is falling, drip drip drip, I wonder if the sky knows how I feel)

Deo apeuji mallago neoreul geuman borago nuneul garyeo

(I cover my eyes so I won’t see you anymore, so that I wouldn’t be hurt more)

Ajik kkaji naneun je jari hoksi dwidora dora ol geot gataseo

(I’m still in the same spot, because you might turn around and come back)
Hana dul set chueogeul semyeo i gose hollo seo itda

(I count the memories one, two, three, as I stand in this place alone)

Sarangi mwo gillae ibyeori mwo gillae wae nareul apeugeman hae

(What is love? What is separation? Why is it only hurting me?)

Ije du beon dasineun sarangdo mot hage

(It makes me never be able to love again)”