Losers Recipe – Bilingual Lyrics Korean/English

• By: NELL, TABLO
• Album: X

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the poetic side of the Korean language with 'Losers Recipe.' By listening to this track, you can learn how to express complex emotions of sadness and introspection, while experiencing a unique sonic fusion of Korean rock and hip-hop that defines the artistry of NELL and Tablo.

[English]

Looking around, left and right

Lurking about, looking for

A place to leech off of

Begging here and there

Chattering away excitedly

Empty vessels make the most noise

Greed knows no bounds

But effort is always mediocre

So shallow

So incredibly shallow

That before it even

Reaches me, it vanishes

I can concede a hundred or a thousand times, I can even understand

But if you're asking me to join you, I'll pass

Doing things half-heartedly in your spare time

After you've finished playing around, it just doesn't suit my taste

It's not really my flavor

Your Recipe

A sleeping pill called oblivion

A stimulant called greed

In that hollow head of yours

Delusions start to bloom

You want to hold the knife

But with your empty hands

You just hack everything to pieces

You feel better only when you ruin things

So thin

So incredibly thin

That even playing along

Is no fun at all

Jealousy,

hate, envy,

bad memories...

A spoonful of fantasy mixed into a colorless, odorless life

A Recipe like you, always a cup left half empty

Layers upon layers of shamelessness

The fear hidden deep inside

Blood on the lips that spat out a piercing, discordant melody

A bookmark trying to squeeze into everything

the story's never yours

The enemy in the mirror that's been scratching and tormenting you your whole life

Instead, you'll just smash the screens

With blood-stained fists

The world is submerged in midnight rain, fearing to face it alone

You find it fun to struggle and flail

cause you don't give a

you don't give a

f*ck

Please just disappear

You're wasting the very air

Before you put on that sophisticated act

Please, go wipe your mouth first

Does the grass always look greener on the other side?

Can't you see the effort behind it?

You've been a free rider your whole life

So what could you possibly know?

But every choice comes with a price

So shut your damn mouth

Even if your head is empty

Your tongue flickers like a snake

Before you make those pathetic excuses

Just moisten those lips a bit

You, who live off the hard work of others

How much could you possibly know?

If you're going to try and use a knife

At least clean the cutting board first

You lack even the basics

What's the point of telling you?

It only makes me tired

It's just a waste of my breath

It's just a waste of my time

...

[Korean]

두리번두리번대

어디 붙어먹을 데

없나 서성거리다

여기저기 구걸해

신나게 떠들어대

빈 수레가 요란해

욕심은 끝이 없고

노력은 늘 평범해

가벼워

너무 가벼워서

와닿기도 전에

사라져 버려

백번 천번 양보해 이해까진 하겠는데

동참해달란 말이라면 그건 사양할게

놀 거 다 놀고 난 다음에 좀 남는 시간에

대충 하는 건 전혀 맞질 않아 내 취향엔

입맛에 별로야

너의 Recipe

망각이란 수면제

탐욕이란 흥분제

깡통 같은 머리에

망상을 꽃피우네

칼자루를 쥐고 싶네

쥔 게 없는 두 손에

전부 다 난도질해

망쳐놔야 속이 편해

얄팍해

너무 얄팍해서

놀아주는 것도

재미가 없어

Jealousy,

hate, envy,

bad memories...

무색무취한 삶에 섞은 한 스푼의 Fantasy

너란 Recipe, 언제나 반만 남은 컵

겹겹 쌓인 철면피

그 속에 가린 겁

귀를 찢는 불협 Melody 뱉던 입가엔 Blood

어디든 끼고 싶은 책갈피

the story's never yours

너를 평생 긁고 괴롭히던 거울 속의 적

대신 화면들을 깨겠지

피범벅인 주먹

혼자 맞기 두렵던 새벽 비에 세상이 잠겨

허우적거리는 게 재밌지

cause you don't give a

you don't give a

f*ck

제발 좀 사라져

공기가 아까워

고상한 가식 떨기 전

제발 침이나 좀 닦아

남의 떡이 더 커 보여?

그 뒤에 노력은 안 보여?

평생 무임승차 해온

니가 뭐를 알겠냐마는

선택엔 늘 대가가 따라

그러니 그 아가리 좀 닫아

대가리는 텅 비었어도

뱀처럼 날름대는 혀

궁색한 변명하기 전

그 입술에 침이나 발라

남의 등이나 쳐 먹는 니가

또 뭐를 얼마나 알겠냐만

칼질을 하려거든

도마부터 닦고 좀

기본이 안 되어있어

말해줘 봐야 뭐해

피곤해지기만 해

내 입만 아프지 또

시간만 아깝지 또

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
서성거리다 seoseong-georida Level 4	verb - to pace back and forth
욕심 yoksim Level 2	noun - greed
노력 noryeok Level 2	noun - effort
망각 manggak Level 5	noun - oblivion
탐욕 tamyok Level 5	noun - avarice
망상 mangsang Level 5	noun - delusion
난도질 nandojil Level 6	noun - hacking/slashing
철면피 cheolmyeonpi Level 6	noun - shameless person
불협 bulhyeop Level 5	noun - dissonance
가식 gasik Level 4	noun - affectation
무임승차 muimseungcha Level 5	noun - free-riding
대가 daega Level 3	noun - price/consequence
궁색하다 gungsaekhada Level 5	adjective - poor/awkward (excuse)
변명 byeonmyeong Level 2	noun - excuse
피곤하다 pigonhada Level 1	adjective - tired

Key Grammar Structures

• 어디 붙어먹을 데 없나 서성거리다

  ➔ -나/은/는가 (Interrogative suffix)

  ➔ "없나" implies self-questioning while wandering, searching for a place.

• 와닿기도 전에 사라져 버려

  ➔ -아/어 버리다 (Complete loss/completion)

  ➔ "사라져 버려" indicates the object disappears completely or unfortunately.

• 백번 천번 양보해 이해까진 하겠는데

  ➔ -까진 (까지는) (Up to the point of)

  ➔ "이해까진" implies he can go as far as understanding, but not further.

• 놀 거 다 놀고 난 다음에 좀 남는 시간에

  ➔ -ㄴ 다음에 (After doing)

  ➔ "놀고 난 다음에" sequences the action of playing before doing other tasks.

• 칼자루를 쥐고 싶네

  ➔ -고 싶네 (Desire with soft nuance)

  ➔ "쥐고 싶네" expresses a desire in a reflective, monologue style.

• 망쳐놔야 속이 편해

  ➔ -아/어야 (Condition for result)

  ➔ "망쳐놔야" implies that ruining it is the necessary condition to feel relieved.

• 니가 뭐를 알겠냐마는

  ➔ -냐마는 (While it is the case that...)

  ➔ "알겠냐마는" is a rhetorical way of saying 'you don't really know anything'.

• 말해줘 봐야 뭐해

  ➔ -아/어 봐야 (Even if you try...)

  ➔ "말해줘 봐야" implies that speaking to the person is useless.