Being Alone

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“I turned around with a silent and calm face, but my empty heart couldn’t be steady as it kept fluttering. There were still so many words that left unsaid, but my painful heart dried up my throat, therefore I couldn’t say anything.” –Byun Jin Sub, Being Alone [translated lyrics]

Salah satu penyanyi legendaris Korea Selatan, Byun Jin Sub, hadir sebagai legenda pada program acara musik “Immortal Songs 2: Singing the Legend” episode 91. Episode ini mengudara pada tanggal 9 Maret 2013 di stasiun televisi KBS, serta ditayangkan oleh channel KBS World pada tanggal 30 Maret 2013. Pada episode tersebut, anggota dari girl group Brown Eyed Girls (terkenal juga dengan nama B.E.G), Narsha, menjadi salah satu penampil. Ia tampil membawakan salah satu lagu hits Byun Jin Sub yang bertajuk “Being Alone”. Lagu yang pertama kali dirilis pada tahun 1988 sebagai title song dari album perdana Byun adalah lagu yang melambungkan namanya. At first, he didn’t like this song because the chorus sounded too mature. But, with a pleasant voice, he became a huge star in just a year after his debut, after winning several awards through this song. And now, he claims that this song is his “life’s song”.
I love how this song got me so since the first time I heart it. The lyrics on chorus part that said, “I’m not afraid of separation, I can hold back my tears, but the truth of being alone makes me sad,” really got me so. That part tells everything about the song. “Being Alone” is a song about the deep sadness of being alone. It’s about someone who recalls about the separation with his beloved one. On that day, he tried so hard to remain calm on the outside, while he was tearing apart in the inside. On that day, he had so many things he wanted to say, but those words were being left unsaid because it was too painful to say anything. “I turned around with a silent and calm face, but my empty heart couldn’t be steady as it kept fluttering. There were still so many words that left unsaid, but my painful heart dried up my throat, therefore I couldn’t say anything.” And now, here he is, being left alone and reminiscing about those past days. Drowning all alone in memories, for him it will be another lonely sleepless night. In the loneliness, he realizes, that indeed, instead of the pain and tears, the thing that hurts more of a separation is being left alone. “As I remember the past days, as I wander through the countless memories, I will spend through the long night staying up, I have to comfort my loneliness. I’m not afraid of separation, I can hold back my tears, but the truth of being alone makes me sad.”
“Being Alone”, atau yang dikenal juga dengan judul “Becoming Alone” dan “Will be Alone”, adalah lagu ballad yang menonjolkan vokal melankolis Byun Jin Sub. Lagu hits ini telah di-remake oleh beberapa penyanyi terkemuka. Sebelum Narsha membawakannya dalam program “Immortal Songs 2”, solois pria Kim Bum Soo membawakan lagu ini untuk program “I’m A Singer” yang ditayangkan oleh stasiun televisi MBC pada tahun 2011. Menariknya, seluruh versi remake yang ada tetap menggunakan aransemen ballad yang tidak jauh berbeda dengan versi aslinya. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa versi original “Being Alone” memang telah mengekspresikan jiwa melankolis dari lagu ini. No need for fancier arrangements, the original was great already, so people tend to stick for it. Indeed, it’s a legendary song from a legendary singer. The sadness of “Being Alone” is everlasting, and so is the song itself.

“As I remember the past days, as I wander through the countless memories, I will spend through the long night staying up, I have to comfort my loneliness, I’m not afraid of separation, I can hold back my tears, but the truth of being alone makes me sad.” –Byun Jin Sub, Being Alone [translated lyrics]



“Aju deomdeomhan eolgullo naneun dwidora seotjiman
(I turned around with a silent and calm face)
Naui heomuhan maeumeun ganul giri eobne
(But my empty heart couldn’t be steady as it kept fluttering)
Ajik motdahan maldeuri naege namgyeojyeo itjiman
(There were still so many words that left unsaid)
Apeun maeume moki meeowa amumal mothaetne
(But my painful heart dried up my throat, therefore I couldn’t say anything)

Jinan naldeureul doesaegimyeo su maneun chueokeul heimyeo
(As I remember the past days, as I wander through the countless memories)
Gilgo gin bameul saewoyaji naui oeroum dallaeyaji
(I will spend through the long night staying up, I have to comfort my loneliness)

Ibyeoreun duryeobji ana nunmureun chameul su itseo
(I’m not afraid of separation, I can hold back my tears)
Hajiman hollo doendaneun geotsi nareul seulpeuge hae
(But the truth of being alone makes me sad)”

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