One Sided Love
Sunday, September 07, 2014
“It’s
hard for me to look at you even if you’re close, I’m hidden behind the wall
called farewell. Inside my resignation during all of these tough times, your
trace is still left behind.” –Kim Gun Mo, One Sided Love [translated
lyrics]
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| 2nd album cover by Kim Gun Mo - source: www.maniadb.com |
Penyanyi
legendaris asal Korea Selatan, Kim Gun Mo, memang lebih terkenal dengan
lagu-lagu hits-nya yang upbeat dan bernada ceria (meskipun
liriknya tak selalu se‘ceria’ melodinya). Namun disamping itu, ia juga memiliki
beberapa lagu hits melankolis. Salah
satunya yang paling terkenal –dan juga paling saya sukai– adalah sebuah lagu
bertajuk “One Sided Love”. Lagu ballad R
n’ B ini dikenal juga dengan judul “I Love You Without You” dan “Love’s
Alone”. Pada program acara musik “Immortal Songs 2: Singing the Legend”, lagu
ini ditampilkan pada episode 42, yang merupakan bagian kedua dari edisi spesial
di mana Kim Gun Mo hadir sebagai legenda. Episode ini ditayangkan pada tanggal
17 Maret 2012 oleh stasiun televisi KBS, serta mengudara di channel KBS World pada tanggal 7 April 2012. Dalam episode tersebut, “One Sided Love” dibawakan oleh Lee Se Jin,
solois wanita yang terkenal dengan nama panggung Lyn.
I fell in love with
this song since the first time I heard it. First, it’s because of its title, “One
Sided Love”. Yes, I’m so in the mood of one-sided love these
days. Second, it’s the melody; the beautiful melody that gives out the deep sad feeling of this song.
Third, it’s when I understand the meaning behind its lyrics. Sad, as
I had predicted, but what surprised
me was how deep and poetic the lyrics were, so much that made me pondered for some times to really understand it
well. After pondering for a while,
I came to a conclusion that “One Sided
Love” is a song about someone who keeps an unrequited love for the one whom
they know will never come to them. Feels
so close yet so far; feels so far yet
so close; it’s the basic of a
one-sided love. That thing is already
hard, but it is even harder because
that person is already left, and
knowing that they can never see us because of that farewell. Even so, even though that person isn’t here anymore, their presence still lingers. “It’s hard for me to look at you even
if you’re close, I’m hidden behind the wall called farewell. Inside my
resignation during all of these tough times, your trace is still left behind.”
Indeed,
having a one-sided love is a tough thing.
As time goes by, it kills all the hopes and expectations, leaving us with nothing but a pitiful feeling. As a new day comes and passes by, it crushes the love, leaving
us with nothing but a hurting heart. “My poor wish of waiting for you comes
down to pieces as time passes by. The love that I’ve prepared for you will only
be erased by today, different from yesterday.” And unknowingly, our tears
are falling, as we wonder where this
one-sided love bring us to; a lesson
of the true meaning of love or just a lesson of an unrequited love. No matter what, it gives us lessons. “It’s the first time I cry for you. Inside
those tears, I wonder if you’re still teaching me the love or just loving you
by myself alone. I wonder if I could forget you in resentment as much as I love
you, because to say farewell to this love, it’s even harder for me.” Because we can’t love farewell, and there’s no love in every goodbye. People don’t say goodbye to the one they
love, neither to the love itself.
But when the hope is gone, there’s no other way out than to send away
the love. In the end, no one and nothing could stop the one-sided
feeling but ourselves alone. “Now I send you away in tears by having to cry
by myself alone.”
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| Lyn ketika membawakan lagu "One Sided Love" pada program "Immortal Songs 2" episode 42 |
Dirilis
pertama kali pada tahun 1993, “One Sided Love” adalah title song dari album kedua Kim Gun Mo, meskipun kemudian lead single “Excuse” lebih terkenal
sebagai lagu hits yang paling
menonjol dari album yang terjual jutaan salinan tersebut. He was judged as having a powerful voice through this song. For her performance in “Immortal Songs 2”,
Lyn picked a song that suited her
personal situation well on those days. And
her choice was absolutely right! If
it wasn’t because of her, maybe I
wouldn’t be in love with this song at that time. Lyn sang it with all her heart, even
her voice shook from the painful memories, and her tears were bursting out near the end of the song. Indeed, “One Sided Love” is a song for everyone who has ever been being left
with the scars of love, and it really
hits me home. No need to say more,
I love this song.
“It’s
the first time I cry for you. Inside those tears, I wonder if you’re still
teaching me the love or just loving you by myself alone. I wonder if I could
forget you in resentment as much as I love you, because to say farewell to this
love, it’s even harder for me.” –Kim Gun Mo, One Sided Love [translated
lyrics]
“Gakkai isseodo neol
bolsuga obseo ibyeolre keun byeoge naega garyeojyeo isseo
(It’s
hard for me to look at you even if you’re close, I’m hidden behind the wall
called farewell)
Himgyopge chamawatdeon
naye chenyomseogen ajikdo neoye heunjogi namgyeojyeo isseo
(Inside
my resignation during all of these tough times, your trace is still left behind)
Gidarigetdadeon ne seotun
baraemdo sigane heureumsogeseo munojyeo naerigo
(My
poor wish of waiting for you comes down to pieces as time passes by)
Neolwihae junbihan naye
sarangeun eojewa dareun oneullo jiwojyeo gagetji
(The
love that I’ve prepared for you will only be erased by today, different from
yesterday)
Choeum nolwihae
heullineun
(It’s
the first time I cry for you)
Naye nunmulsogeseo neon
jigeumdo sarangeul gareuchyeojuna honjamane sarangeul
(Inside
those tears, I wonder if you’re still teaching me the love or just loving you
by myself alone)
Naega saranghetdongeot
mankeum noreul miwohamyeon ijeulkka
(I
wonder if I could forget you in resentment as much as I love you)
Ibyeolkkajido
saranghalsuneun eobsotgie
(Because
to say farewell to this love, it’s even harder for me)
Honjaseo
heullyoyahaneun nunmulsogeseo noreul bonego
(Now
I send you away in tears by having to cry by myself alone)”
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