Gospel Lyrics English Translation by CHANGMO
I really want you back here
I’ve been thinking about you all the time
I really want you back here
I’ve been thinking about you all the time
I saw it on YouTube, of course my dad’s there
And next to the piano, there’s a guy who was like a dad too
That man had a different kind of career since his college days
He played the bass in songs every college kid has sung
The bass player of a group that ruled that era
Then he went to the States and came back, and our connection kept going
When I realized at sixteen that dreams are just dreams
I started learning improvisation from him
Once a week, one hour
Riding the red bus for three years, felt like a blink
Already forgot Bach, now I can play bebop
I always ask him how it is in America
Way out east to Boston, from Deokso to Boston?
You can go during break, hip-hop concerts
You know the rest, a long-ass high school dropout from Deokso
He said, first real fan, it’s okay son, one more time
I really want you back here
I’ve been thinking about you all the time
I really want you back here
I’ve been thinking about you all the time
Twenty years old, failed my second try
Too much anger overflowing
I dropped a mixtape full of fuck-the-world
I hate my teacher too, I couldn’t keep our promise
I started looking for someone to blame, I deleted his number
Went straight to Seoul and poured my boiling breath into music
My flow is 1llionaire but he’s mixed into my harmonies
Thoughts that it’s my fault come every night, no, suddenly, but I push them down
To him I was probably nobody anyway
Erase it all and shout out won and penny
Three years felt like a lifetime till 24, I finally made it
Everyone who left a missed call, they must want something
Yeah, all of them, I doubt everyone as this life goes on
Sometimes I hear it, that he wanted to see me
“Yeah I’m a rapstar, I never had a teacher”
2019, Yuseong drops, the whole peninsula goes crazy
But then some virus locked everyone up the very next year
Adrift, I got drunk on this planet, turned on the web
The face I turned away from, but why put a ㅅ on top?
Left a world of only 0s and 1s, he hopped on God’s infinite orbit
Rain falls into the bottle he’s holding, hard
I really want you back here
I’ve been thinking about you all the time
Early this year, when I went to Vienna for the first time
Childhood excitements come flooding back, digging up my traces
October 2009, the email that man sent me
‘You who dream of being a true artist, work hard’
That dream, that artist, what even was it?
Memories come like fragments, it was so simple
No anger or malice, writing lyrics like a diary
Drawing piano on top of the diary, just wanting to share
When I’m going crazy and can only breathe if I leave this place
My eyes suddenly go to LPs I never cared about
I came back and started collecting his ’93 records
Listening closely to the chords of a youth much younger than me
Feels like I’ve been buying the front cover of LPs for 10 years
Time to flip it over, I wanna put myself on the B-side
What only he saw, what I’ve been hiding too, my childhood self
I wanna bring it out, I’ll just stand on stage as myself
My teacher said he made gospel
I went to a mission school so I know that genre
He said my talent for that was given by God
Today I tried using it for the Christ who holds him
I really want you back here
I’ve been thinking about you all the time