Outside the Window
Monday, September 01, 2014
“When
I stand by the window, the image of your pale hands come to me like tears. When
I stand on the street like the wind, tears fall as I turn around and close my
eyes. And there you stay by my side like a street light.” –Cho Yong
Pil, Woman Outside the Window [translated
lyrics]
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| 1st album cover by Cho Yong Pil - source: www.maniadb.com |
Program
acara musik “Immortal Songs 2: Singing the Legend” menampilkan edisi spesial “International Music Festival” pada
episode 151. Episode ini ditayangkan oleh stasiun televisi KBS pada tanggal 7
Juni 2014, serta mengudara pada tanggal 28 Juni 2014 di channel KBS World. Dalam episode tersebut, lagu-lagu yang
ditampilkan merupakan lagu-lagu hits Korea
Selatan yang lahir dan terkenal dari ajang-ajang festival musik internasional
di berbagai negara. Selain itu, seluruh lagu yang ditampilkan adalah lagu yang pernah
menyabet penghargaan dalam festival musik internasional tersebut. Salah satu
lagu yang ditampilkan adalah lagu milik legenda musik Korea Selatan, Cho Yong
Pil, yang bertajuk “Woman Outside the Window”. Lagu ini dibawakan oleh solois
pria, The One, yang pada episode tersebut terpilih sebagai penampil pertama
berdasarkan hasil undian. Mendengarkan lagu ini, saya semakin paham mengapa Cho
begitu sukses hingga menjadi legenda hidup dalam industri musik Korea Selatan.
There’s always
something in Cho Yong Pil’s song-lyrics that could make me ponder for a while
before I could understand the meaning of it. This also happens when I try to figure out
what the lyric of “Woman Outside the Window” is about. The lyric is so poetical, but
I guess the main point is laid on the first bar of the chorus part. “Who
said that love is beautiful?” This one
sentence explains all. This one
question that contains irony; beautiful
yet painful love. And then I realize
that “Woman Outside the Window” is a song about an unrequited love. The phrase ‘outside the window’ is a
metaphor of a love that can’t be reached; an out of reach love. “When I stand by the window, the image of
your pale hands come to me like tears. When I stand on the street like the
wind, tears fall as I turn around and close my eyes. And there you stay by my
side like a street light.” The love is
always there but we can never see it. It
is never there but we always can feel it. This sad situation put us into a devastation and frustration, so that we’d rather sleep and fall into
dream, rather than awake and face the
cruel reality. “Who said that love is beautiful? With your pale hands, I’d
rather you just put me into sleep.”
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| The One ketika membawakan lagu "Woman Outside the Window" pada program "Immortal Songs 2" episode 151 |
Cukup
20 menit saja waktu yang dibutuhkan Cho Yong Pil untuk menulis “Woman Outside
the Window”. Lagu ballad folk-rock
ini dirilis pertama kali pada tahun 1979 sebagai title song dari album perdana Cho. Album ini merupakan album
pertama di Korea Selatan yang laku terjual hingga jutaan salinan. Pada tahun
1980, lagu ini ditampilkan oleh Cho pada ajang Seoul International Music Festival, dan meraih Gold Prize sehingga membawa Cho ke tingkat popularitas yang luar
biasa pada waktu itu. Festival ini, yang dulunya bernama MBC International Music Festival, merupakan ajang festival musik
bergengsi yang sangat populer pada akhir tahun 70-an hingga pertengahan tahun
80-an. The One, penyanyi yang bernama asli Jung Sun Won, membawakan “Woman
Outside the Window” dengan aransemen yang tidak banyak berubah dari versi
aslinya, namun lebih menonjolkan unsur rock
ballad. As a singer with a voice that
appeals to our emotion, The One had
successfully brought “Woman Outside the Window” to the next level.
“Who
said that love is beautiful? Who said that love is beautiful? With your pale
hands, I’d rather you just put me into sleep.” –Cho Yong Pil, Woman Outside the Window [translated lyrics]
“Changgaeseomyeon nunmulcheoreom
tteooreuneun geudaeui huinson
(When
I stand by the window, the image of your pale hands come to me like tears)
Doraseo nun gameumyeon gangmurieora
han julgi baramdoeeo georie seomyeon
(When
I stand on the street like the wind, tears fall as I turn around and close my
eyes)
Geudaeneun
garodeungdoeeo nae gyeote meomune
(And
there you stay by my side like a street light)
Nuga sarangeul areumdabda
haetneunga nuga sarangeul areumdabda haetneunga
(Who
said that love is beautiful? Who said that love is beautiful?)
Charari charari
geudaeui huinsoneuro nareul jamdeulge hara
(With
your pale hands, I’d rather you just put me into sleep)”
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