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Early Korean Lyrics (2020–2021)
Korean vocabulary drawn from wave to earth's two earliest Korean-language songs: "ride" from the 2020 EP summer flows 0.02, and the 2021 single "nouvelle vague". "ride" is loose and conversational — sunlight in a room, someone's scent, a heart swelling until it bursts — while "nouvelle vague" turns colder and more abstract, walking a knife-edged road that wears away underfoot. Both songs switch between Korean and English, so every item here comes from the Korean lines only.
Vocabulary
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 바닥 | floor | 바닥에 눌러붙어 하루 종일Stuck to the floor all day long |
| 눌러붙다 | to stick fast to something, to be glued in place | 바닥에 눌러붙어 하루 종일Stuck to the floor all day long |
| 하루 종일 | all day long | 하루 종일 창밖만All day long, nothing but the view outside the window |
| 창밖 | outside the window | 창밖만 보자Let's just look out the window |
| 햇살 | sunlight, sunbeams | 햇살 가득한 방안에In a room full of sunlight |
| 가끔 | sometimes, once in a while | 가끔은 바쁜 하루에Sometimes, in the middle of a busy day |
| 힘겹다 | to be hard to bear, to be a struggle | 하루에 힘겨워질 때When the day gets hard to bear |
| 커다랗다 | to be huge, to be enormous | 가장 커다란 의미를The biggest meaning of all |
| 바라보다 | to look at, to gaze at | 그저 바라만 봐도Even just looking at you |
| 가렵다 | to be itchy | 가려운 마음은 언제나This itching heart of mine is always |
| 부풀어 오르다 | to swell up, to puff up | 마음은 언제나 부풀어 올라My heart is always swelling up |
| 터지다 | to burst | 터질듯한 모습이야It looks like it's about to burst |
| 채우다 | to fill something up | 마음들을 가득 채워Filling those feelings up to the brim |
| 날 서다 | to be sharp-edged, to be on edge | 날 선 길을A knife-edged road |
| 걷다 | to walk | 길을 우리 걸어 온The road we've walked down |
| 언저리 | the edge, the area around something | 발 밑 언저리가The ground right around my feet |
| 닳다 | to wear away, to wear down | 언저리가 닳아 없어지면If the edges wear away and disappear |
| 자라나다 | to grow, to grow up | 자라나기를 반복 하는게Growing over and over again |
| 숨이 멎다 | for one's breath to stop | 숨이 멎을 때 쯤엔By the time my breath stops |
| 멈추다 | to stop, to come to a halt | 걸음을 멈출까Should I stop walking? |
| 되돌아가다 | to go back, to return | 되돌아갈 곳도 이젠Even the place to go back to, by now |
| 흐려지다 | to blur, to grow hazy | 곳도 이젠 흐려져That place has gone hazy now too |
| 앞으로 | forward, onward | 앞으로 가다보면If we keep going forward |
| 망가지다 | to break, to fall apart | 우린 망가진거야We're broken |
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