Rain [English translation]

(The thick color of a rainy day in Seoul)

The racing cars, the squirming umbrellas all over the place

It’s cloudy and the air is clear

(The rain stops and the reflection in the puddle)

With a light gray background, why am I standing here?

I don’t know if I have a lot of thoughts or no thoughts at all

I wake up when it’s just about to get bright outside

I brush back my hair when my exhausted hands

The memopad with the song I couldn’t complete last night

I’ll finish it today as I shut my eyes and let out a sigh

What excuse can I give? I try to make something up

It’s unfinished anyway so I’ll just make anything up

Then I turned my eyes to the window and everything looks gray

Gray city, gray buildings, gray roads, gray rain

Everything in this world is slow

My younger sibling who woke up keeps talking back

I keep opening and closing the innocent refrigerator

With the unknown empty feeling that washes over me

I think that I should just go outside

Without even an umbrella

I can clearly hear the rain hitting the earth

I smile, it’s the best background music

Like a crazy guy, I start to hum

I wonder what time it is

The thick color of a rainy day in Seoul

I still can’t fall asleep as I fade away

The rain stops and the reflection in the puddle

I see myself looking more miserable today

It’s a rainy night, the rain knocks on my window, it hits my heart

With my sore shoulders, I look at my phone and see a text, “How are you these days?”

My friend’s text gets my emotions going

As I inhale the scent of the wet rain, I stretch and go to the bathroom

Then I greet myself, half asleep in the mirror

I have no one to meet but I take a longer shower than usual

Rain is still falling outside the house

I have no where to go but I take my umbrella

And walk outside without a plan

As if the rain wants its existence to be known, my shoes get dirty

Am I someone who engraved my existence to you like the rain?

If not, am I just someone who came and went like a rain shower?

The thick color of a rainy day in Seoul

I still can’t fall asleep as I fade away

The rain stops and the reflection in the puddle

I see myself looking more miserable today

I get up and when I feel sore, I look out the window

As if it knows how my body feels, the rain is falling

As I look at the raindrops welling up in the window, I felt it

The tears that were flowing down my heart

With that strange feeling, I look outside and it looks like my situation

The rain that falls like a melody makes everything seem andante

I get ready and leave, opening the umbrella that was as wrinkled as my face

As I walk, the moment I heard the rain

I wondered who this rain was falling for

A sound that hits against the lonely gray cement

Come slow down

The thick color of a rainy day in Seoul

I still can’t fall asleep as I fade away

The rain stops and the reflection in the puddle

I see myself looking more miserable today

Even when this rain stops, when the clouds go away

I stand here, just the same

Without saying anything, looking at the world

There, a not so beautiful me is looking at myself