HANRORO - I Will Love You Lyrics (Hangul / Romanized / English Translation) & Vocabulary Notes

HANRORO - I Will Love You

🎵 Album: Take-off - EP | 📅 Release: 2023-08-29

🇰🇷 Hangul 🗣️ Romanization 💬 English Translation 📚 Vocab Notes

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About the Song

사랑하게 될 거야 (I Will Love You) is a standout track from indie powerhouse HANRORO (한로로)'s 2023 EP Take-off. With poetic lyricism reflecting on the scars left behind after intense grief, HANRORO illustrates the painful process of shedding sorrow to reach a place where one can finally forgive both another and oneself, arriving at pure, enduring love.

[Verse 1]

영원을 꿈꾸던 널 떠나보내고

Yeong-wo-neul kkum-kku-deon neol tteo-na-bo-nae-go

Having let go of you, who once dreamed of forever

슬퍼하던 날까지도 떠나보냈네

Seul-peo-ha-deon nal-kka-ji-do tteo-na-bo-naen-ne

I have even let go of the past self who used to mourn

오늘의 나에게 남아있는 건

O-neu-re na-e-ge na-ma-in-neun geon

All that remains for me today

피하지 못해 자라난 무던함뿐야

Pi-ha-ji mot-hae ja-ra-nan mu-deon-ham-ppun-ya

Is only an indifference grown because I could not avoid it

그곳의 나는 얼마만큼 울었는지

Geu-go-se na-neun eol-ma-man-keum u-reon-neun-ji

How much the past me in that place wept

이곳의 나는 누구보다 잘 알기에

I-go-se na-neun nu-gu-bo-da jal al-gi-e

Because the me standing here knows it better than anyone

후회로 가득 채운 유리잔만

Hu-hoe-ro ga-deuk chae-un yu-ri-jan-man

Only a glass cup brimming with regret

내려다보네

Nae-ryeo-da-bo-ne

Do I gaze down upon

📚 Section Vocabulary & Notes:

• * 영원 (Yeong-won): Eternity / forever — Conveys the absolute, unwavering promise that the speaker once held onto.
• * 떠나보내다 (Tteo-na-bo-nae-da): To let go / to send away — In Korean, it implies an active, sorrowful surrender rather than a simple farewell.
• * 무던함 (Mu-deon-ham): Calm indifference / blunt endurance / stoicism — Describes emotional numbness that develops as a defense mechanism against prolonged pain.
• * 후회 (Hu-hoe): Regret / remorse — Metaphorically envisioned as filling up a glass to the brim.

[Chorus]

아 뭐가 그리 샘이 났길래

A mwo-ga geu-ri sae-mi nat-gil-lae

Ah, what was so envious

그토록 휘몰아쳤던가

Geu-to-rok hwi-mo-ra-chyeot-deon-ga

That it raged around us so fiercely?

그럼에도 불구하고

Geu-reom-e-do bul-gu-ha-go

Even so, despite it all

나는 너를 용서하고

Na-neun neo-reul yong-seo-ha-go

I will forgive you and

사랑하게 될 거야

Sa-rang-ha-ge doel geo-ya

I will come to love you

📚 Section Vocabulary & Notes:

• * 샘이 나다 (Saem-i na-da): To feel jealous / envious — Here personifying fate or the world as jealous of the happiness the lovers once shared.
• * 휘몰아치다 (Hwi-mo-ra-chi-da): To rage / storm / swirl violently — Portrays turbulent emotional storms or agonizing hardships.
• * 그럼에도 불구하고 (Geu-reom-e-do bul-gu-ha-go): Nevertheless / nonetheless / despite that — A powerful literary phrase indicating resolute will against overwhelming odds.
• * 용서하다 (Yong-seo-ha-da): To forgive — Releasing bitterness to make room for love and personal peace.

[Verse 2]

아파했지만 또 아파도 되는 기억

A-pa-haet-ji-man tto a-pa-do doe-neun gi-eok

A memory that hurt, yet one it is alright to hurt over again

불안한 내게 모난 돌을 쥐여주던

Bul-an-han nae-ge mo-nan do-reul jwi-yeo-ju-deon

The one who placed a jagged stone into my anxious hands

깨진 조각 틈 새어 나온 눈물

Kkae-jin jo-gak teum sae-eo na-on nun-mul

Tears leaking through the cracks of shattered fragments

터뜨려 보네

Teo-tteu-ryeo bo-ne

I finally burst them out

📚 Section Vocabulary & Notes:

• * 모난 돌 (Mo-nan dol): A jagged / sharp-edged stone — Metaphor for words or actions that injure when held tightly.
• * 쥐여주다 (Jwi-yeo-ju-da): To hand over / place firmly into someone's grip.
• * 깨진 조각 (Kkae-jin jo-gak): Broken pieces / shattered shards — Symbolizes broken dreams or a fractured heart.
• * 터뜨리다 (Teo-tteu-ri-da): To burst / let loose — Evokes the unsuppressed release of pent-up sorrow and tears.

[Chorus]

아 뭐가 그리 샘이 났길래

A mwo-ga geu-ri sae-mi nat-gil-lae

Ah, what was so envious

그토록 휘몰아쳤던가

Geu-to-rok hwi-mo-ra-chyeot-deon-ga

That it raged around us so fiercely?

그럼에도 불구하고

Geu-reom-e-do bul-gu-ha-go

Even so, despite it all

나는 너를 용서하고

Na-neun neo-reul yong-seo-ha-go

I will forgive you and

사랑하게 될 거야

Sa-rang-ha-ge doel geo-ya

I will come to love you

📚 Section Vocabulary & Notes:

• * 너를 (Neo-reul): You (object marker) — The direct object receiving the speaker's deliberate gift of forgiveness and renewed affection.
• * ~게 될 거야 (~-ge doel geo-ya): Will end up (doing/becoming) / will come to — Expresses a resolute, inevitable trajectory toward love.

[Outro]

아 뭐가 그리 샘이 났길래

A mwo-ga geu-ri sae-mi nat-gil-lae

Ah, what was so envious

그토록 휘몰아쳤던가

Geu-to-rok hwi-mo-ra-chyeot-deon-ga

That it raged around us so fiercely?

그럼에도 불구하고

Geu-reom-e-do bul-gu-ha-go

Even so, despite it all

나는 너를 용서하고

Na-neun neo-reul yong-seo-ha-go

I will forgive you and

사랑하게 될 거야

Sa-rang-ha-ge doel geo-ya

I will come to love you

사랑하게 될 거야

Sa-rang-ha-ge doel geo-ya

I will surely love you

📚 Section Vocabulary & Notes:

• * 사랑하게 될 거야 (Sa-rang-ha-ge doel geo-ya): The culminating affirmation of the song, repeated to seal a vow of enduring emotional triumph over adversity.

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