Badayohaeng (Ocean Travel/A Voyage to the Sea) – Tearliner

August 19, 2008
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Sometimes, a song can move you with its melody, regardless of your knowledge of its language. Sometimes, a song can touch your soul, when you discover the meaning of its words. Sometimes, a song is more than just a song.

Sensitively melodious and poetically fraught with emotion, Ocean Travel/A Voyage to the Sea is one of these rare songs. A key piece of the Korean drama hit, Coffee Prince, this hauntingly beautiful melody stands out from the original soundtrack.

Even the name of its creator โ€“ a Korean indie band โ€“ is poetic in the questions it throws up and the images it connotes: A ship of tears? A ship sailing on a sea of tears? Why tear lined? What do you line tears with? What do tears line?

Of the lyrics, I am especially taken with the phrase โ€˜a blinding vision of azure’ as it seems to allude to a clarity of thought, as well as an obscurity.

Sometimes I wonder: The translation is beautiful enough; how much more meaningful would it be in its true language?



๋ฐ”๋‹ค์—ฌํ–‰ – Tearliner

์•„์ฃผ๋จผ ์–ด๋А๋‚ 
์ดํ–‡์‚ด์€ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด
๋„ˆ์—๊ฒŒ๋กœ ๋– ๋‚ฌ๋˜
๋‚ด ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ด์ค˜

์•„์ฃผ๋จผ ๋ฐ”๋‹ท๊ฐ€
์ € ํ•˜๋Š˜๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋”˜๊ฐ€์—
๋„ˆ์™€๋‚˜์˜ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ
์ถ”์–ต๋“ค์„ ๊ฐ„์งํ•ด์ค˜

๋ˆˆ๋ถ€์‹œ๊ฒŒ ํ‘ธ๋ฅด๋ฅธ
๋„ˆ๋Š”๋‚ด๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค์ธ๊ฑธ
์†๋‚ด๋ฐ€๋ฉด ํ•˜์–—๊ฒŒ
๋ถ€์„œ์ง€๋˜ ๋„ˆ์˜๊ฟˆ๋“ค

๊ธด์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๋– ๋‚˜๋ คํ•ด
์•„์ฃผ๊นŠ์€ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค์—ฌํ–‰
๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฐ ์€๋น›๋ฌผ๊ฒฐ
๋ชธ์„์‹ฃ๊ณ  ๋„ˆ์—๊ฒŒ๋กœ

๋ˆˆ๋ถ€์‹œ๊ฒŒ ํ‘ธ๋ฅด๋ฅธ
๋„ˆ๋Š”๋‚ด๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค์ธ๊ฑธ
์†๋‚ด๋ฐ€๋ฉด ํ•˜์–—๊ฒŒ
๋ถ€์„œ์ง€๋˜ ๋„ˆ์˜๋ฏธ์†Œ

๋„ˆ๋„์•Œ์•„ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€๋„
์•„์ฃผ๋งŽ์ด ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š”
ํฌ๊ทผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์‹ธ์ค˜ ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ

์•„์•„์•„์•„์•„์•„์•„์•„์•„
์•„์•„์•„์•„ ์•„์•„์•„์•„์•„
์•„์•„์•„์•„ ์•„์•„์•„์•„

A Trip to the Sea – Tearliner
(featuring Hee Jung Han)
Lyrics translation by Sang/ kreah-craze.com

Some day, a long time from now
These rays of light
Remember the trip
I took to be next to you

At a seashore far away
At the end of the sky somewhere
Keep the precious memories
Of you and me

A blinding vision of azure
Youโ€™re my sea
When I gave you my hand
Your dreams broke into white pieces

Iโ€™m planning on taking a long trip
A voyage deep into the sea
The smooth, silvery ripples
Take my body to you

A blinding vision of azure
Youโ€™re my sea
When I gave you my hand a white
Burst of your smile

You know, too, that I
Love you very much
Wrap me in your softness


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2 Responses to Badayohaeng (Ocean Travel/A Voyage to the Sea) – Tearliner

  1. eunni29
    August 6, 2010 at 10:10 pm

    I love this song the most!! Thanks… xDDD

    • makeupmag
      August 11, 2010 at 2:06 am

      Hi Eunni29,

      I love it still. It’s so evocative and I love Lee Seon Kyun’s voice!

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