happily ever after / lacuna
original title: 오래오래 행복하게 살았답니다 album: cake (2019) lyrics: 장경민
밀린 사랑 표현을 몇 개 주워다가 Picking up a few expressions of love, long overdue, 다음 주에나 건넬 편지를 썼죠 I wrote them into a letter I’ll only send next week 꿈에 나온 그대를 꿀꺽하고 삼켰더니 After swallowing whole the you who appeared in my dream, 책도 한 권 써낼 준비가 됐죠 I found myself ready to write an entire book
화려한 graphic보단 More than flashy graphics, 흑백을 더 좋아하고 I much prefer black and white 사람의 뜨거운 눈물보단 More than people’s searing tears, 미지근한 coffee를 더 좋아하는 I much prefer lukewarm coffee
우리의 오랫동안 And so, for a long time, 행복하게 살았답니다 We lived happily ever after
유난히 뜨겁게 앓던 지난여름을 The unusually hot last summer that I’d suffered through 이야기의 셋째 장 즈음에 썼어요 I wrote it somewhere around the third chapter of the story 나무와 호수 중간쯤에 있는 동물들도 Even the animals wandering between the trees and the lake 사탕으로 속삭여 데려왔구요 Were lured by candied whispers and brought over
해가 뜨면 부서질 말보다 Rather than words that would shatter when the sun rises 침묵을 더 사랑하고 I love the silence much more 구름의 뭉실한 감촉보다 Rather than the soft touch of the clouds 차분한 빗소리를 더 사랑하는 We, who love the gentle sound of rain…
우리는 오랫동안 For a long, long time, 행복하게 살았답니다 Lived happily ever after
우릴 괴롭히던 괴물들은 사라지고 The monsters that had once tormented us have vanished 작은 집과 동물들이 남았어요 And a small house and the animals remained 도시는 여기에서 한참 멀리 있구요 The city is quite far from here, you see 사랑은 그보단 가까이 두었어요 But love, I’ve kept much closer than that
앞으로의 할 일을 하나둘씩 떠올려 I recalled, one by one, the things I have yet to do 단어 하나하나 힘주어 적었어요 I inscribed each word with emphasis 마지막엔 그 누구도 의심할 수 없는 테야 So that, in the end, not even one could doubt 우린 오랫동안 행복하게 살았답니다 That we lived happily ever after, for a long, long time
— translated into english by soulsoundarchive
