the first verse of giriboy’s 2nd track of his new album graduation makes me really sad.
the song is named “graduation” and it’s about graduating life.
this part of the first verse
we’re all going to die after today. if one of us lives, then that would be sad. we do everything we can do. steal from the convenience store and do all the things that we can’t do in our daily lives
this part really got to me because giriboy always talks about how “bleak” and “desolate” the world is in his songs. and there is always one thing that keeps him going. it’s usually mentioned as “you” and people think it’s a girl, but giriboy did not mention that it was a girl in any interviews or anything. after [adult], I keep thinking that the “you” he talks about in his songs is his past self or something. not another person. and the “thing we can’t do in our daily lives” really made me think about the “bleak and desolate” world he talks about in his songs.
also, he talks about his room a lot. the dirty room that he always has to clean up. and the one that he traps himself in “너무더러운방에가두어” and track 7: hikkikomori also talked about the dirty room as well. i don’t know what this has to do with this but just the image that his music brings
bleak world, thing we are not allowed to do, dirty room we always have to clean, being trapped in the room
this made me really sad. not sad like crying but feeling like being unable to breathe. realizing how sad this world is.
and the first verse continues to
there’s no time to act pretty, put on ugly faces and put those images in your head. record them as beautiful memories and when you’re happy about little things that you did, our last moments are completed.
putting ugly faces but recording them as beautiful memories and being happy about all the little things
this doesn’t make sense but it’s what we all want to do
and at the end the song goes
i wish everything stopped as it is now. i don’t like this desolate city. i don’t like anything but you. so i chose to graduate.
i’m so shocked at these lyrics and i don’t even know what to feel. it’s not a bad thing, but i think i need to stop listening it for a while because it makes me really sad.