Genius English Translations
Cosmic Boy - About Time (Korean-English interpretation)
우연히 이어폰을 꼽고 산책하는 중에
(Coincidentally, as I’m taking a walk with my earphones in,)
생각지도 못한 너와 마주친 순간
(I unexpectedly run into you and at that moment...)
옛 기억이 oh 요즘 시간처럼 지나가
(thoughts of the past pass my mind like the way time passes these days.)
궁금했었단 말이야
(You know I really wanted to know...)
I never had a chance to call you sometimes
거기 그대로 사니
(if you still live “there”- at the same place)
지하철보다 버스를 아직도 고집하니
(if you still insist on taking the bus over the subway.)
어딘지 기억은 잘 안 나지만
(I can’t quite remember where it was exactly)
가끔은 생각나 자주 간 식당
(but from time to time, I think of that restaurant we used to frequent.)
잘 지내는 것 같아
(You look like you are doing well...)
마치 날씨가 말해주듯 yeah
(as if this weather is also trying to tell me that too...yeah)
시간이 참 빨리 가
(Time really flies.)
우린 어느새 또 하늘아래서
(Somehow we are under the same sky again.)
모두 다 번져가 그렇게 번져가
(It is all taking over… just like that...it’s taking over)
약속 땜에 먼저 가 먼저 가
(I got plans. That's why I gotta go now. I gotta go now.)
번져가 그렇게 번져가
(it’s taking over..just like that...it’s taking over)
약속 땜에 먼저 가 먼저 가
(I got plans. That's why I gotta go now. I gotta go now.)
시간의 개념이 없어진 지가 오래야
(it’s been really long since I lost the concept of time)
작년은 금세 지나가고 벌써 올해야
(last year flew by and it’s already a new year)
가사들을 읊고 있어 여기는 노래방
(I’m reciting the lyrics...at a Karaoke)
나 혼자 오해 마
(all alone but don’t get me wrong)
약속 땜에 먼저가
(I got plans. That's why I gotta go now. I gotta go now.)
약속 땜에 혼자야
(I got plans. That’s why I’m alone)
약속 땜에 혼저옵세
(I got plans. That’s why “I came alone”-in Jeju dialect)
예 what 예 what 예
(yeah what..yeah what..yeah what)
제주도에 와서 먹어 fresh한걸로
(eat at Jeju, a fresh one)
이슬 처음처럼 섞어
(mix “Eesul”=Chameesul-a brand of soju and “ChoumChorum”-another brand of soju)
우리 옛날 몸처럼
(just like our bodies back then)
난 지금 살이 조금 쪘고
(currently, I put on some weight)
그것 때문에 얼굴이 좀 부었어
(because of that my face is a bit puffy)
살이 쪄서 먼저 가
(I put on weight. That’s why I gotta go now.)
얼굴 부어서 먼저 가
(My face is puffy. That’s why I gotta go now.)
숙취 땜에 먼저 가
(I’m hungover. That’s why I gotta go now.)
죽기 전에 먼저 가
(I gotta go now before my death)
아니 약속 땜에 먼저 가
(No no...I got plans. That’s why I gotta go now.)
약속 땜에 먼저 가
(I got plans. That’s why I gotta go now.)
눈물이 더 번져가
(Tears take over)
추억들이 번지기 전에
(before memory takes over)
번져가 그렇게 번져가
약속 땜에 먼저 가 먼저 가
(I got plans. That's why I gotta go. I gotta go.) x3