Tick-Tack – Bilingual Lyrics Korean/English

• By: ILLIT
• Album: I'LL LIKE YOU

Lyrics & Translation

Learn modern, conversational Korean with ILLIT’s 'Tick-Tack.' This song is perfect for language learners because it uses trendy, colloquial vocabulary and simple, rhythmic sentence structures that mirror how Gen Z speakers talk about their daily emotions and relationships.

[English]

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I see you in the distance, my heart is in an emergency

So hurry, quickly open the cabinet in my heart

What do I do, tick tack ti-tack, inside the noisy closet

Which version of me will you like?

It’s my fitting room

Changing my attitude

Which version of me will you like?

A colorless look

A book I opened for no reason

Pretending not to see, my heart

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Oh, oh my god

You’re looking at me again

The coolest mode, click! click!

How do I look?

I suit you, don’t I?

Which version of me will you like?

Holding back the childish things

Deep inside the closet

If I stuff them away

Will you like me?

Thinking and worrying, sigh

Tick tack ti-tack, thump

It’s so noisy, my heart

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Umm

The more you get to know me

The more you like me

You’ll meet a new version of me

Oh, you’ll be surprised

Umm

You can look forward to it

This is just the beginning

Please meet the new me

Oh nice to see ya

[Korean]

Tick tack ti-tack tick tack-ta-tick tack

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저 멀리 네가 보여 내 맘은 비상사태

So hurry 얼른 열어 나의 맘속의 cabinet

어떡해 tick tack ti-tack 시끄러운 옷장 속

너는 어떤 날 좋아할까

It’s my fitting room

바꿔 attitude

어떤 version의 날 좋아할까

무채색의 look

괜히 펼친 book

못 본척해 my heart

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Oh, oh my god

또 나를 보고 있잖아

제일 쿨한 mode click! click!

어떤데 나

너랑 어울리잖아

너는 어떤 날 좋아할까

유치한 건 꾹

옷장 속에 푹

구겨 넣으면

날 좋아할까

고민 고민 휴

Tick tack ti-tack 쿵

시끄러워 My heart

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Umm

알아가면 갈수록

좋아하면 할수록

새로운 날 만나서

Oh 놀랄 거야

Umm

기대해도 될 거야

이제 시작일 뿐이야

새로운 날 만나줘

Oh nice to see ya

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
멀리 meolli Level 1	adjective - far, distant
비상사태 bisangsatae Level 4	noun - emergency
열다 yeolda Level 1	verb - to open
시끄럽다 sikkeureopda Level 2	adjective - noisy
옷장 otjang Level 2	noun - wardrobe/closet
좋아하다 joahada Level 1	verb - to like
바꾸다 bakkuda Level 2	verb - to change
무채색 muchaesek Level 4	noun - achromatic color
펼치다 pyeolchida Level 3	verb - to open (a book), to spread
척하다 cheokhada Level 3	verb - to pretend
어울리다 eoullida Level 2	verb - to match, suit
유치하다 yuchihada Level 3	adjective - childish, immature
구기다 gugida Level 3	verb - to crumple
고민 gomin Level 2	noun - worry, concern
놀라다 nollada Level 1	verb - to be surprised
기대하다 gidaehada Level 2	verb - to expect, look forward to
시작 sijak Level 1	noun - beginning, start

Key Grammar Structures

• 저 멀리 네가 보여 내 맘은 비상사태

  ➔ Noun-modifying form (Adnominal)

  ➔ The '네가' (you) acts as a modifier for the implied state or presence, common in Korean structure.

• 너는 어떤 날 좋아할까

  ➔ Interrogative form with -ㄹ까

  ➔ Used to express 'I wonder if...' or to ask about a preference for a certain version of oneself.

• 못 본 척해 my heart

  ➔ -는 척하다 (To pretend to)

  ➔ Combining '못 본' (couldn't see) with '척해' (pretend) creates the meaning of 'pretend not to notice'.

• 알아가면 갈수록

  ➔ -으면 -(을)수록 (The more..., the more...)

  ➔ Indicates that as one action continues, the result increases in intensity.

• 새로운 날 만나서

  ➔ Conjunctive -아서/-어서 (Because/And then)

  ➔ Used here to show a sequence of events: meeting a new version of 'me' and then feeling surprised.

• 기대해도 될 거야

  ➔ -어도 되다 (To be allowed/possible to)

  ➔ Expresses that it is okay or possible to have expectations.

• 이제 시작일 뿐이야

  ➔ -일 뿐이다 (It is only/merely)

  ➔ Limits the situation to 'just the beginning'.

• 새로운 날 만나줘

  ➔ -아/어 주다 (Do something for someone)

  ➔ A polite request for the other person to accept or 'meet' a new version of the speaker.