어땠을까 [What Would Have Been?] [English translation]

My past love, my past person

Sometimes, I ask how you’re doing to myself

Then I smile by myself

I pour out the faded memories of back then in this empty glass

The glass fills and overflows

I drink my memories

Those memories are bitter but delicious

We were stronger than most strong liquors back then

Even after seeing you and seeing you, I missed you

Even after loving you and loving you, we were hungry for each other

I was thirsty

We were so good, there was no reason for us to break up

Why did we do that? We didn’t know love back then

We didn’t know that love was love

I draw you out by myself

If only we didn’t break up

What would it have been like (back then if I)

What would it have been like (I held onto you)

What would it have been like (would we have been happier than right now)

What would it have been like (On the last day)

What would it have been like (If I hugged you)

What would it have been like (Would we have been together till now?)

The morning after we stayed up all night

I jolted awake and closed the window

As if we were the birds out the window, children who don’t want to go to sleep, like elementary students

Even though no one was there, we whispered to each other without anyone knowing, so no one can hear us

Back then, our temperature was hotter than the equator down below

We got angry, we burned up even though it wasn’t a cold

If I place my ears on any part of your body, I heard your pulse

I still hear your sound of that day

Why did we do that? We didn’t know love back then

We didn’t know that love was love

I draw you out by myself

If only we didn’t break up

What would it have been like (back then if I)

What would it have been like (I held onto you)

What would it have been like (would we have been happier than right now)

What would it have been like (On the last day)

What would it have been like (If I hugged you)

What would it have been like (Would we have been together till now?)

You don’t live before my eyes but

You live when I close them

In another person’s arms,

Thinking the same memories

You’re not by my side but

My body remembers you

In another person’s arms,

Thinking the same memories

Why did we do that? We didn’t know love back then

We didn’t know that love was love

I draw you out by myself

If only we didn’t break up

What would it have been like (back then if I)

What would it have been like (I held onto you)

What would it have been like (would we have been happier than right now)

What would it have been like (On the last day)

What would it have been like (If I hugged you)

What would it have been like (Would we have been together till now?)