I Could Love You Again

“I can feel your warm breathe near me, and it makes me missing you. In the darkness, you must be lost in those sad memories. Nobody seems to know that our love is unforgettable. You fill my empty lonely heart with love, and now I’m missing you.” –Yim Jae Bum, I Could Love You Again [translated lyrics]

Legendaris rocker Korea Selatan, Yim Jae Bum, menjadi artis pertama yang didatangkan dua kali dalam rentang waktu kurang dari satu tahun sebagai legenda dalam program acara musik “Immortal Songs 2: Singing the Legend”. Ia pertama kali tampil pada episode 89. Kemudian dalam episode 124, ia ditampilkan kembali dalam rangka lanjutan edisi spesialnya. Episode tersebut mengudara pada tanggal 26 Oktober 2013 di stasiun televisi KBS, serta pada tanggal 16 November 2013 di channel KBS World. Beberapa lagu yang tidak dibawakan dalam episode 89 kini dihadirkan dalam episode 124. Selain itu, seluruh jajaran penampil juga berbeda dari episode sebelumnya. Solois wanita, Ali, menjadi salah satu penampil dalam episode tersebut, menandai kembalinya ia tampil dalam program “Immortal Songs 2” setelah enam bulan hiatus dari program tersebut. Dalam episode 124 itu, Ali membawakan salah satu lagu hits Yim Jae Bum yang bertajuk “I Could Love You Again”.

“I Could Love You Again” is a song about a guy who promises to love the girl forever even though she passed away. Besides, this song could also being interpreted in a different way. “I Could Love You Again” is about a man and woman who couldn’t be together although they love each other. But when the time is right, their unforgettable love could bring them up together again. And so, their unfinished story could start all over again. Don’t be sad, love, because it hurts my heart too to see you’re sad. Don’t be sad, love, because we could love each other again from now on. “Although this endless waiting is sorrowful, I love you from then and now until forever.”

Ali ketika membawakan lagu "I Could Love You Again" pada program "Immortal Songs 2" Episode 124

Well, there will always someone that we cherish so much in the deep of our heart, no matter whether we could end up together with that person or not. A person who could make us falling in love with them all over and over again. Berapa jauh pun jarak yang telah ditempuh, berapa lama pun waktu yang telah dilewati, cinta itu tidak akan hilang. Karena sesungguhnya, cinta yang mengisi ketika hati tengah kosong adalah yang paling berarti, cinta yang memberi ketenangan, cinta yang mengajarkan dan memberi arti, cinta yang menerangi jalan kita. Meskipun orang itu kini berada jauh dari kita, di tempat yang tak dapat kita raih, kita berharap ia bahagia dan tenang di sana. Karena apabila ia sedih, kita dapat merasakan kesakitan itu pula, seiring dalamnya cinta kita, seiring besarnya rindu kita kepadanya.

Dirilis pertama kali pada tanggal 10 Oktober 1991, “I Could Love You Again” menjadi bagian dari album solo perdana Yim Jae Bum, “On the Turning Away”, setelah ia hengkang dari grup band rock yang membesarkan namanya, Sinawe. This song emphasizes Yim Jae Bum’s unique voice that alternate between rock and ballad music. “I Could Love You Again” is personally Yim Jae Bum’s favorite song. Dalam episode 124 program “Immortal Songs 2”, Ali membawakan lagu ini dengan sempurna meskipun ia tidak memenangkan satu round pun pada waktu itu. When Ali sang this song, she’s just amazing. Her performance left a very deep impression in me. Her unique voice feels like the woman version of Yim Jae Bum. I love both of the versions very much, but mostly I love the original one so much. If I only had one word to express the way Yim Jae Bum sings this song, then that one word would be ‘pure’. Yes, I couldn’t help but feel his sincerity through this song. Because of “I Could Love You Again”, I fall in love with Yim Jae Bum’s voice once more.

“In the silence, I hear your lonely voice, and it touches right through my heart. Even as I love you, I feel sad as if you were far away. Years have passed but my love for you haven’t changed. When I miss you, everything I look at seems to be filled with your sadness.” –Yim Jae Bum, I Could Love You Again [translated lyrics]

“Gakkai neukkyeojineun geudae ttaseuhan sumgyeole geuriumman milline

(I can feel your warm breathe near me, and it makes me missing you)

Jiteun eodum ango apeun gieoksokeul hemaeil geudae moseub

(In the darkness, you must be lost in those sad memories)

Amudo moreuneungabwa urideurui sarangeul ideulsu eobdaneun geol

(Nobody seems to know that our love is unforgettable)
Oeroun nae bingaseume jakeun sarangeul juneun geudae moseub geuriwo
(You fill my empty lonely heart with love, and now I’m missing you)

Seulpeomarayo geudae naegaseumi apeujana ijen dasi saranghalsu itneunde

(Don’t be sad, my love, it makes my heart ache, I could love you again now)

Kkeutji eobneun gidareumeun seulpeummaneul namgijiman yeongwontorok geudaemaneul saranghae

(Although this endless waiting is sorrowful, I love you from then and now until forever)

Joyonghi deullyeooneun geudae sseulsseulhan moksori nae gaseume jeodeodeune

(In the silence, I hear your lonely voice, and it touches right through my heart)

Saranghamyeonseodo aju meongeotcheoreom neukkimyeo seulpeohaetji

(Even as I love you, I feel sad as if you were far away)

Seworeun heulleogajiman geudael saranghaneun mam byeonhaji anatneunde

(Years have passed but my love for you haven’t changed)

Geudaega geuriwojimyeon baraboneun geotmada geudae seulpeum neukkine

(When I miss you, everything I look at seems to be filled with your sadness)”