내가 저지른 사랑 – Bilingual Lyrics Korean/English

• By: 임창정
• Album: 임창정 정규 13집

Lyrics & Translation

Im Chang-jung's '내가 저지른 사랑' (The Love I Committed) is a powerful and emotional ballad that offers an excellent opportunity to dive into the nuances of Korean ballad lyrics. Its heartfelt expressions of love, regret, and lingering feelings, combined with Lim Chang-jung's distinctive vocal delivery and challenging high notes, make it a memorable and impactful song for language learners to explore authentic Korean emotion and vocabulary.

[English]

If you leave, when you hear news of me

Just say you don't know me anymore

Always in my heart

You who only grew larger

I'm trying to erase you little by little

I wanted to say I love you

But I always just said I'm sorry

Forgetting, being forgotten, erasing

The person I miss from when we first met

Those seasons that won't come again

Your figure that has left

Even if I erase, discard, and empty it

My love has somehow filled up again

...

You said it can't be, that we shouldn't love

But we were together

Always in my heart

The heart that loved

I didn't know it would hurt so much

I want to hold you and say I'm sorry

That figure that has become a dot

Forgetting, being forgotten, erasing

The person I miss from when we first met

Those seasons that won't come again

Your figure that has left

Even if I erase, discard, and empty it

My love has somehow filled up again

어느 새 가득 차버린 내사랑

Everything is because of me

Why are you the one suffering more?

Why do you comfort my heart?

...

Forgetting, being forgotten, erasing

The person I miss from when we first met

Those seasons that won't come again

Your figure that has left

Even if I erase, discard, and empty it

My love has somehow filled up again

...

[Korean]

떠나거든 내 소식이 들려오면

이제는 모른다고 해줘

언제나 내 맘속에서

커져만 갔던 너를

조금씩 나도 지우려 해

사랑해 라고 말하고 싶었지만

늘 미안하다고만 했던 나

잊고 잊혀지고 지우고

처음 만난 그때가 그리워진 사람

다시 못 올 몇 번의 그 계절

떠나버린 너의 모습을

지우고 버리고 비워도

어느 새 가득 차버린 내사랑

안 된다고 사랑하면 안 된다고

하지만 우린 함께했지

언제나 내 마음이라

사랑하던 맘이라

그리 아파할 줄 몰랐어

미안해 라고 안아주고 싶지만

점이 돼버린 그 뒷모습

잊고 잊혀지고 지우고

처음 만난 그때가

그리워진 사람

다시 못 올 몇 번의 그 계절

떠나버린 너의 모습을

지우고 버리고 비워도

어느 새 가득 차버린 내사랑

모든 게 나 때문인데

왜 네가 더 힘들어

네가 왜 내 맘을 위로해

잊고 잊혀지고 지우고

처음 만난 그때가 그리워진 사람

다시 못 올 몇 번의 그 계절

떠나버린 너의 모습을

지우고 버리고 비워도

어느 새 가득 차버린 내사랑

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
사랑 /sa-rang/ A1	noun - love
마음 /ma-eum/ A2	noun - heart, mind
그리워 /geu-ri-wo/ B1	verb - to miss, to long for
지우다 /ji-u-da/ B1	verb - to erase, to delete
떠나다 /tteo-na-da/ B1	verb - to leave, to depart
모습 /mo-seup/ B2	noun - appearance, figure
미안하다 /mi-an-ha-da/ B2	verb - to be sorry, to apologize
계절 /gye-jeol/ B2	noun - season
안다 /an-da/ B2	verb - to hug, to embrace
버리다 /beo-ri-da/ B2	verb - to throw away, to discard
가득 차다 /ga-deuk cha-da/ C1	verb - to be filled, to be full

Key Grammar Structures

• 떠나거든 내 소식이 들려오면

  ➔ When + verb in the future tense (거든), the clause expresses a conditional or hypothetical situation.

  ➔ The suffix *거든* is used to indicate a conditional situation, similar to 'if' or 'when' in English.

• 늘 미안하다고만 했던 나

  ➔ 만들다 + verb in '만' form emphasizes 'only' or 'just' the verb action.

  ➔ *만* is used to emphasize that someone only did that particular verb action, excluding others.

• 처음 만난 그때가 그리워진 사람

  ➔ 만난 + 과거형 verb indicates 'the time when I first met' someone.

  ➔ The verb *만난* is an adjective form meaning 'met', used to specify the time of first meeting.

• 지우고 버리고 비워도

  ➔ V+고 + V+고: connective pattern meaning 'and' or 'then'.

  ➔ *고* connects verbs to show sequence or addition, like 'and' in English.

• 다시 못 올 몇 번의 그 계절

  ➔ 못 + verb indicates inability or impossibility to do something.

  ➔ *못* is used with verbs to express inability or impossibility to do something.

• 그리워진 사람

  ➔ Verb + 진 + used to form adjectives meaning 'become' or 'grown to be'.

  ➔ *진* is a suffix that turns verbs into adjectives meaning 'become' or 'grown to be'.