NMIXX - Blue Valentine Lyrics (Hangul / Romanized / English Translation) & Vocabulary Notes
NMIXX - Blue Valentine
π΅ Album: Blue Valentine | π Release: 2025-10-13
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π¬ English Translation
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Official Release
Artist: NMIXX | Album: Blue Valentine
About the Song
"Blue Valentine" presents a striking contrast between freezing chill and burning passion. NMIXX explores the bitter duality of heartbreak—the cold emotional distance paired with an unextinguished devotion that draws lovers back together despite the wounds.
[Intro]
You’ll always be my blue valentine
You’ll always be my blue valentine
[Verse 1]
μμ΄λ²λ¦° λμ μμ blue
Sigeobeorin neoui saegeun blue
Your color that has turned completely cold is blue
νλκ² λ©μ΄ λ my heart
Parake meongi deun my heart
My heart is bruised deep blue
λͺ λ²μ΄κ³ λ§μ΄ λ
Myeot beonigo deosi na
Time and again, the wound festers and reopens
μ΄μ΄ λ lovesick
Yeori na lovesick
Running a fever, lovesick
μ΄κ±΄ such a bad love
Igeon such a bad love
This is such a bad love
π Section Vocabulary & Notes:
- μμ΄λ²λ¦° (Sigeobeorin): Cooled down / grown cold — Derived from μλ€ (to cool down) with -μ΄ λ²λ¦¬λ€ expressing an irreversible, regretful completion.
- λ©μ΄ λ€λ€ (Meongi deulda): To get bruised — Used metaphorically for emotional scarring and heartache.
- λ§λλ€ (Deonnada / λ§μ΄ λ): For a wound or illness to worsen / fester again before fully healing.
[Pre-Chorus]
We fight, we sigh, and stop
λΆκ² νμ€λ₯΄λ€ νμκ°μ μμ΄κ°
Bukge taoreuda hansungane sigeoga
Flaring up in crimson, only to cool off in a single instant
Rewind, rewind, rewind
μΈμ κ·Έλ¬λλ λ―μ΄ λ μλ‘€ μ°Ύμ
Eonje geuraennyaneun deusi tto seorol chaja
As if nothing ever happened, we seek each other out again
κΉκ² μκΈ΄ μμ²
Gipge saegin sangcheo
Scars deeply engraved
λΉμΉ red blood
Bichin red blood
Gleaming red blood
λΆμμ§ forever
Buseojin forever
A shattered forever
I can see it now
Can you see it now?
μ°λ¦° λ§μΉ broken glass on the ground
Urin machi broken glass on the ground
We are just like broken glass on the ground
λμ΄ν¬ μ μλ€ ν΄λ
Dorikil su eopda haedo
Even if it's too late to turn back
We can figure it out
π Section Vocabulary & Notes:
- νμκ°μ (Hansungane): In a single instant / in the blink of an eye (ν = one, μκ° = moment).
- μΈμ κ·Έλ¬λλ λ―μ΄ (Eonje geuraennyaneun deusi): An idiomatic expression meaning "as if nothing ever happened" or "pretending nothing took place."
- λμ΄ν€λ€ (Dorikida): To reverse / undo / turn back (e.g., λμ΄ν¬ μ μλ€ = cannot be reversed).
[Chorus]
If this love is over
λ€μ λ°μ΄λ€μ΄ λ
Dasi ttwieodeureo nan
I dive right back in
μ΄ μ¬λμ colder
I sarangeun colder
This love is colder
I’ll keep the fire lit in mine
You’ll always be my blue valentine
You’ll always be my blue valentine
π Section Vocabulary & Notes:
- λ°μ΄λ€λ€ (Ttwieodeulda): To plunge into / dive straight in — Portrays fearless recklessness despite knowing the pain ahead.
- λ (Nan): Contraction of λλ (na-neun), meaning "I / as for me".
[Verse 2]
μμ΄λ νμ€λ₯΄λ μΌμ μ λΆκ½
Sigeodo taoreuneun eoreum sok bulkot
A flame inside ice that blazes even as it cools
μ무 κ²λ μμ΄ λ»μ΄λ²λ¦° μ
Amu geopdo eopsi ppeodeobeorin son
My hand reached out without a trace of fear
Hot and icy
But I like it
It’s so you
π Section Vocabulary & Notes:
- λΆκ½ (Bulkkot): Flame / spark — Used here with μΌμ (ice) to build an oxymoron capturing conflicting emotions.
- κ²λ μμ΄ (Geopdo eopsi): Fearlessly / without hesitation (κ² = fear, μμ΄ = without).
- λ»λ€ (Ppeodda): To stretch out / extend (a hand or limb).
[Pre-Chorus]
λ°λμ΄ λ§μ weather
Bakkwieo mamui weather
The weather of my heart shifts
λͺ°λ €μ¨ cloud
Mollyeoon cloud
Clouds come rolling in
μΈλ‘μ΄ together
Oeroun together
Lonely even when together
I can feel it now
Can you feel it now?
Rollercoasterμ²λΌ
Rollercoaster-cheoreom
Just like a roller coaster
μ°λ¦° μ μ μμ΄
Urin jeongsineopsi
Dizzily, frantically
νλ€λ €λ
Heundeullyeodo
Even when we shake and sway
λμκ° κ±Έ μμ
Doragal geol ara
I know we will return to each other
So it doesn’t matter
You might be my end game
λκ°λ‘ μ»μ worst pain
Daegaro eodeun worst pain
The worst pain earned as the price
(You might be)
π Section Vocabulary & Notes:
- μ μ μμ΄ (Jeongsineopsi): Frantically / hectically / losing one's senses.
- νλ€λ¦¬λ€ (Heundeullida): To be shaken / to sway unsteadily.
- λκ° (Daega): Cost / price / compensation paid for something.
[Chorus]
If this love is over
λ€μ λ°μ΄λ€μ΄ λ
Dasi ttwieodeureo nan
I dive right back in
μ΄ μ¬λμ colder
I sarangeun colder
This love is colder
I’ll keep the fire lit in mine
You’ll always be my blue valentine
You’ll always be my blue valentine
π Section Vocabulary & Notes:
- λ€μ (Dasi): Again / once more.
- μ¬λ (Sarang): Love.
[Bridge]
λΆκ³ νΈλ₯Έ
Bukgo pureun
Red and blue
μ¬λμ΄λ bruise
Sarang-iran bruise
The bruise that they call love
λ«μ§λ μκΈΈ
Natjineun ankgil
I hope it never heals
Cause it’s you (yeah)
π Section Vocabulary & Notes:
- λΆκ³ νΈλ₯Έ (Bukgo pureun): Red and blue — Depicts the evolving hues of a physical and emotional bruise.
- -(μ΄)λ (-(i)ran): Contraction of -(μ΄)λΌκ³ νλ, meaning "the thing called..." or "what is known as...".
- λ«λ€ (Natda): To recover / heal from an illness or wound (λ«μ§λ μκΈΈ = wishing for it not to heal).
[Chorus]
If this love is over
λ€μ λ°μ΄λ€μ΄ λ (λ°μ΄λ€μ΄ λ)
Dasi ttwieodeureo nan (ttwieodeureo nan)
I dive right back in (dive right back in)
μ΄ μ¬λμ colder (colder, yeah)
I sarangeun colder (colder, yeah)
This love is colder (colder, yeah)
I’ll keep the fire lit in mine
You’ll always be my blue valentine
(Always be, my blue valentine)
You’ll always be my blue valentine
π Section Vocabulary & Notes:
- μ΄ (I): This (determiner).
- λ (Nan): I / me (informal subject).
[Outro]
I’m falling over and over and over, ah
You’re getting colder and colder and colder
Blue valentine
