사랑은왜어려운걸까 – Bilingual Lyrics Korean/English

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Lyrics & Translation

Explore the nuances of emotional expression in Korean through this song. '사랑은왜어려운걸까' is perfect for learners wanting to understand how to describe longing, confusion, and the hardships of relationships in a natural, conversational style.

[English]

They say love comes back around again

But for me, anymore

I’ve had too many connections I didn’t

Want to let go of

They say love comes back around again, but I

[음악]

I didn’t want to let go of the connections

I had so many of

The tower I had stacked up

One by one

Crumbles down again

It’s worse than just staying still; that emptiness

[음악][노래]

I can’t put into words

Inside my heart, the gears

Must fit together

Just perfectly

For it to work—that old fairy tale-like

Talk really doesn't appeal to me

They say it comes back, but for me, anymore

I didn’t want to

Let go of the connections I had

I met so many, they say love

Comes back again, but I

[음악]

Didn’t want to let go of the connections

I had so many of; sometimes I think

If love were math, if there were one single answer

Without other solutions

What would it have been like? In the past

xx [음악][노래]

Multiplication

Even to me, never, the words that drive a wedge

Into the relationships that were like this now

Doesn’t it make your heart flutter? Don't you see me as a man?

It feels like it’s not the time for dating

Does that even make sense?

They say love comes back again, but

I

Didn’t want to let go of the connections

I had so many of, love

[노래]

They say it comes back again, but I

Didn’t have any connections I didn’t want to let go of

없는걸 [음악]

Ah, it’s difficult. Ah. [Sigh]

[Korean]

사랑은 또 [음악] 다시 온다고

하지만 나는 더

이상은 떠 [음악][노래] 나 보내고

싶지 않은 인연이 많았는 거 [노래]

사랑은 또 다시 온다고 하지만 나는

[음악]

이상은 은 떠나 보내고 싶지 않은

인연이 [음악][노래] 많았는 걸

하나하나 사아뒀던

탑은 또다시 [음악][노래]

무너져

가만히 있던 것만도 못해 그 허무함도

[음악][노래]

말로 못해

마음속에 존니바퀴가

아름답게만

물려야지만

이루어진다는 그 저동와 [음악] 같은

얘긴 참별로지

같이 온다고 [노래] 하지만 나는 더

이상은 떠 [노래]

보내고 싶지 [음악] 않은 인연이

만났는 거 사랑은 또 [노래]

다시 온다고 하지 못나는

[음악]

이상은 떠다 보내고 싶지 [노래]

않은 인연이 많았는 걸 나는 가끔

[음악] 사랑이 수학이었다면 다른

정답 [노래] 없는 하나의 답이

있었다면 어땠을까 해? 예전에

xx [음악][노래]

곱하기

팬도 내게 절대 [음악] 못하게 지금

같던 관계사일 더벌리는 그 말들

[노래] 설레지 않나 남자로 보이지

않나 연내 할 때가 아닌 것 같아

그게 말이냐

>> 사랑은 또 다시 온다고 하지만

[음악][노래] 나는 더

이상은 또 다 보내고 싶지 않은

인연이 많았는 [음악] 걸 사랑은

[노래]

다시 온다고 하지 [음악] 나는

이상은 떠나 보내고 싶지 않은 인연이

없는걸 [음악]

아 어렵다. Ah. [한숨]

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
사랑 sarang Level 1	noun - love
인연 in-yeon Level 4	noun - fate, connection, destiny
떠나보내다 tteona-bonaeda Level 3	verb - to let go, to send away
무너지다 muneojida Level 4	verb - to collapse, to crumble
허무함 heomuham Level 5	noun - emptiness, futility
아름답다 areumdapda Level 2	adjective - beautiful
이루어지다 irueojida Level 3	verb - to be fulfilled, to be achieved
수학 suhak Level 3	noun - mathematics
정답 jeongdap Level 3	noun - correct answer
관계 gwan-gye Level 3	noun - relationship, relation
설레다 seolleda Level 4	verb - to be fluttery, to be excited/nervous
곱하기 gop-hagi Level 4	noun - multiplication
절대 jeoldae Level 3	adverb - never, absolutely

Key Grammar Structures

• 떠나 보내고 싶지 않은 인연이 많았는걸

  ➔ -고 싶다 / -는걸

  ➔ "고 싶다" expresses desire; "-는걸" is a sentence-ending form used to express exclamation or retrospective realization.

• 가만히 있던 것만도 못해

  ➔ -는 것만도 못하다

  ➔ Used to mean that the current situation is worse than just doing nothing (staying still).

• 물려야지만 이루어진다는

  ➔ -어야지만

  ➔ An emphatic form of "-어야 하다", meaning "only if X, can Y happen".

• 사랑이 수학이었다면

  ➔ -았/었다면

  ➔ A conditional structure used to imagine a hypothetical situation in the past.

• 정답 없는 하나의 답이 있었다면

  ➔ -는/은

  ➔ Topic marker; distinguishes the subject/theme from others in the context.

• 어땠을까 해?

  ➔ -을까 하다

  ➔ Expresses the speaker's thoughts, considerations, or wonderings about a certain situation.

• 연애할 때가 아닌 것 같아

  ➔ -ㄹ 때가 아니다

  ➔ Indicates that the current timing is inappropriate for a certain action.

• 사랑은 왜 어려운 걸까

  ➔ -ㄴ/는 걸까

  ➔ A reflective question form used to ponder or wonder about the nature of something.