If we love again – Bilingual Lyrics Korean/English

• By: December
• Album: A Story To The Sky

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the melancholic beauty of 'If We Love Again' to master expressive, emotional Korean vocabulary. This song is perfect for language learners looking to understand the nuanced grammar of regret and hypothetical conditional phrases, all while experiencing the soaring vocal power that defines the Korean ballad genre.

[English]

If we ever love each other again

Let's walk just a little bit apart

Because the love I have for you clings to my heart

It tells me not to walk alone, it tells me to bring you along

If we ever love each other again

Let's not gaze only at each other, mm

The dazzling smiles that used to flow now fall as tears

Even though I can no longer look into your eyes

I never imagined living a single day without you

I should have loved you as if today were the last

Because I didn't know love well, or rather, because I only thought of myself

I guess I'm learning through a breaking heart, after our farewell

If we ever love each other again

Let's promise not to hold back the words "I love you," mm

The words I was too shy to say often linger on my lips

I repeat them to myself, even though you're no longer here

I never imagined living a single day without you

I should have loved you as if today were the last

Because I didn't know love well, or rather, because I only thought of myself

I guess I'm learning through a cold heart, like a fool

Are you there, beyond the horizon?

Does my love make you cry?

Do you occasionally become the wind, brushing my shoulder to comfort me?

When my tears suddenly stop, I'll know you've visited me

If we love each other again, please don't give me too much love

Because I miss the love you left me so much it hurts

If we love, if we ever love each other again

Please don't leave me like this, don't go

I ask the sky to please deliver these words to you

I love you

[Korean]

우리 다시 사랑하게 된다면

그땐 조금만 떨어져 걸어요

그댈 사랑하는 마음이 내 심장 옆에 붙어서

혼자 걷지 말래요, 그댈 데려오래요

우리 다시 사랑하게 된다면

너무 서로만 바라보지는 말아요, 음

눈부셔 흐르던 미소가 눈물이 되어 내려요

다신 그대 두 눈은 마주할 수 없는데

하루도 그대 없이 사는 건 생각해 본 적 없어서

오늘이 마지막인 것처럼 그댈 사랑해야 했어

사랑을 잘 몰라서, 아니, 나밖에 몰라서

아픈 가슴으로 배우나 봐, 이별 뒤에

우리 다시 사랑하게 된다면

사랑한단 말 아끼지 말기로 해요, 음

부끄러워 자주 못 한 말, 입술에 자꾸 맴돌아

혼자 되뇌이네요, 더는 그대 없는데

하루도 그대 없이 사는 건 생각해 본 적 없어서

오늘이 마지막인 것처럼 그댈 사랑해야 했어

사랑을 잘 몰라서, 아니, 나밖에 몰라서

시린 가슴으로 배우나 봐, 바보처럼

저 너머에 그대 있나요?

내 사랑이 그댈 울리나요?

가끔 바람 되어 내 어깨를 스치며 위로 하나요?

문득 눈물 멈추면 그대 다녀간 거겠죠

우리가 다시 사랑한다면 많은 사랑 주진 마요

그대가 주고 간 그 사랑이 죽을 만큼 그리워요

우리 사랑한다면, 다시 사랑하게 되면

그땐 이렇게 떠나지 마요, 가지 마요

저 하늘에 부탁해요, 이 말 전해주길

사랑합니다

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
사랑 sarang Level 1	noun - love
심장 simjang Level 2	noun - heart
눈물 nunmul Level 1	noun - tear
이별 ibyeol Level 3	noun - parting, farewell
아프다 apeuda Level 1	adjective - to be painful
마지막 majimak Level 2	noun - last, end
입술 ipsul Level 2	noun - lip
바람 baram Level 1	noun - wind
그리워하다 geuriwohada Level 3	verb - to miss, long for
시리다 sirida Level 4	adjective - to be cold/chilly (often used metaphorically for pain)
맴돌다 maemdolda Level 4	verb - to circle, to hover, to linger
되뇌다 doenoeda Level 5	verb - to repeat, to iterate
부탁하다 butakhada Level 2	verb - to request, ask
바라보다 baraboda Level 2	verb - to look at, watch
위로 wiro Level 3	noun - comfort, consolation

Key Grammar Structures

• 우리 다시 사랑하게 된다면

  ➔ -게 되다 / -(으)면

  ➔ "-(으)면" expresses a conditional situation, and "-게 되다" indicates a change of state or an outcome.

• 혼자 걷지 말래요

  ➔ -지 말라고 하다 (Quotation)

  ➔ This is an indirect quotation of a command or request. "말래요" is a contracted form of "말라고 해요".

• 오늘이 마지막인 것처럼

  ➔ -인 것처럼

  ➔ Used to express an assumption or a comparison, meaning "as if it were..."

• 사랑을 잘 몰라서

  ➔ -아/어서 (Reason)

  ➔ Indicates the cause or reason for the following situation. It connects the inability to know love to the subsequent pain.

• 아픈 가슴으로 배우나 봐

  ➔ -나 보다

  ➔ Used to express a conjecture or supposition based on observation or feeling.

• 자주 못 한 말

  ➔ Adjective/Verb modification (-은/ㄴ)

  ➔ The ending "-은/ㄴ" is used to turn a verb phrase into a modifier for a noun.

• 가끔 바람 되어

  ➔ -이/가 되다

  ➔ Indicates changing into something else. It implies the lover becomes the wind.

• 그대가 주고 간 그 사랑이

  ➔ -고 가다 (Auxiliary Verb)

  ➔ Indicates that an action (giving love) was completed and the person left.