LeeSsang ft Ali - Ballerino

Love always ends with tears
but lingers in your heart
It blocks your path
so you can never run away
Don’t forget the memories of our love
I’ll only be happy if you
keep it in your heart forever

Sing a song for me
So I can send it to her
Love (yeah) Affection (yeah)
I want her to take it away
Yell loudly for me
And send it to her
Today (yeah) tomorrow (yeah)
Tell her not to look for me

Everything was awkward
During our first meal
I was worried I’d get rice on my lips
Every time I took a spoonful.
When walking together, so many questions
Should I match your stride?
Should I put my arms ’round your shoulders?
Where should we go?
I’ve known women but I never knew love.
You followed me saying that you liked me
So I walked a little slower for you,
And this is how love began.
We had no romance, but like a sock with a hole
We worked it out, and so we lived.
In the vast ocean that was my life,
It was like seeing an island.
I was so happy I spent the day smiling

Love always ends with tears
but lingers in your heart
It blocks your path
so you can never run away
Let’s live together in the
beautiful memories of our love
I’ll dance with you in our memories

Em em em em em
Is my life without you a dream or not a dream?
Em em em em em
Where am I headed?
Em em em em em
Is this somewhere close to you or far away?
Em em em em em
Why does my heart hurt so much?

Sing a song for me
So I can send it to her
Love (yeah) Affection (yeah)
I want her to take it away
Yell loudly for me
And send it to her
Today (yeah) tomorrow (yeah)
Tell her not to look for me

The idea of having to protect something
Even though it wears you out,
even though you go crazy,
Doing that for you, I went crazy.
I was a ballerino that danced for you
at your beck and call.
Your face turned red as you laughed at me,
All darkness turned to light.
Even though the world turns
we said that we wouldn’t,
That we would always stay together.
We promised we would follow
one path together
But I’m alone
Still I reluctantly dance to the lingering music
Like a carousel in a darkened carnival
I’ll keep on smiling till death
Believing you will come back

Sing a song for me
So I can send it to her
Love (yeah) Affection (yeah)
I want her to take it away
Yell loudly for me
And send it to her
Today (yeah) tomorrow (yeah)
Tell her not to look for me

LeeSsang (Feat. ALi) – I’m Not Really Laughing (내가 웃는게 아니야)

Over a thousand times you wrote the words “I love you”
In every corner of my heart and now you come and
You leave me like the wife of Mangbusuk^ and like dust in a corner of a room,
You push me aside and you say, let’s break up
And without even knowing, I slap you across the cheek and
I shook off the ground that held on to my feet and walked for a long time and promised to myself
I will never put you by my side ever again
All the efforts I did to protect you till now
I cut them all up and throw them into the racing cars
With laughter mixed with tears, I come up with this faith that I will be better off than you, into that deep darkness
* I’m not really laughing
I’m not really walking
In your memories I shed tears and wait for you
I’m not really laughing
I’m not really walking
In your memories I shed tears and wait for you
A couple of days pass and like a lonely street in late autumn,
Like a fisherman who sits alone by the water, I’m exhausted by lonliness and waiting
I chain smoke and cough endlessly and I crazily go into the memories
With your cute voice, I crumbled like a bent tree branch
I was embraced in her arms and expanded in a sweet dream
You joked that you will forever cling onto me
Wherever we went, whoever we met, it was always us two
So it was always joyful and we were always happy
It was like that but now, she’s not by my side
I walk this night street with lonliness once again
In my heart that let you go
Tears come up and shake me and hurt me
In my two eyes that let you go
Darkness comes to me again
I want to forget you, I want to forget you
No matter how much I shout out, it doesn’t work
I regret because I couldn’t take care of you
I want to forget you, I want to forget you
No matter how much I shout out, it doesn’t work
I go crazy with the memory of you laughing
* repeat
With the pain of not having you, I shed tears and blow my nose
I want to be a man and just laugh but
I can’t fix the habit of becoming blank every moment
I want to be a man and just laugh but
I want to be a man and just laugh but it’s so hard to take a spoonful of food and put it in my mouth
Even the laughter of my friends who try to comfort me,
Turn into marbles of sadness in my eyes
I try to laugh but I can’t and I go some place far away
* repeat

Baek Ji Young (Feat. Gary of LeeSsang) – Voice (목소리)

The sound of the waves in my ears
It feels like no one is here
I’m painfully standing here alone
(Cuz I’m so lonely)
“We said that we wouldn’t cry”
“I thought you only came to look at the ocean”
Now stop (now stop) Now stop (now stop)
His voice won’t leave my ears
* I let you go but I keep hearing your voice
I close my eyes, I hold my breath but
I hear it, his voice
His voice that hurts me, that makes me bad
You, who I can’t see, who I can’t touch
I send you off inside those waves
Like the crashing waves, my heart hurts as well
Sadly, this guy called Time flows by so fast
No matter how much I try to hold on
Like a wave, you came and left
Even if 100 people who are better than you come
I don’t want to be in love with anyone but you
I even hold on to this heartaching separation
And I don’t want to let go of it
I don’t want to give you any scars
Why me? I can’t ever have you
Is it all? Was this what our love was?
I would rather have you treating me bad, you bad person
I can’t even live through a single day properly, what is this?
I hold it in and hold it in, I throw it out and throw it out
But the thing that keeps returning to my heart is you
I drink, I walk the streets, I leave alone
But like a wave, the thing that covers me again is you
* Repeat
Like a wave, you come and go again
And I live in longing day by day
I hold it in and hold it in, I throw it out and throw it out
I embrace you, who keeps returning to my heart
And I live
Every single day, at your voice
(I hear your voice every single day)
I feel like I am dying
I cover my heart and heartachingly
Cry all my tears that I could in an eternity
Now I finally know that I have a lot of tears
I am a woman after all
His voice that hurts me, that makes me bad
You, who I can’t see, who I can’t touch
I send you off inside those waves

It is Time | Letter of an Abused Child

I was in my purest and I was at my best when you had me. I had nothing but pure love for you. You were my joy and my peace. You were my sanctuary.
You were all I had.
Then you destroyed me. You broke me into pieces. You hit me with the ferocity you wouldn't even dare use on a dog. You raped me repeatedly and you didn't even care that I was your own flesh and blood.
You made me believe that evil was good and you made me love it. You made me want you inside me of me.
Then you thrashe me when you were done with me. You pushed me away and made me feel too dirty to be with anyone else and to do anything else.
I was a garbage walking around. I was too deep in the hole you dug for me that the only way I could avoid being lonely is to pull other people down with me.
And so here I am. A complete waste of space in this world. Worthless. Useless.
But I don't blame you... not anymore.
You are a bastard. You are worse than evil.
Yet, I let you run my life. I let you ruin my life.
I became exactly the kind of person you wante me to be.
That part was me.
It's been far too long. I've been in this hole far too long. I've destroyed too many people's lives and I've been destroyed far too long.
I won't let you do this anymore. It ends here.
I forgive you.

Painful Break-Up Letter of a Guy to a Girl

I honestly thought that you were the woman I was going to marry. I literally couldn’t picture anyone being the mother of my children but you. I couldn’t imagine spending the rest of my life with you.
I still can’t… but I have to.
I never understood why people have affairs. I told you that before and I remember you laughing at me. I remember you saying that I should never make statements like that because I just might do it. I promised you then I never would.
I kept my promise. You didn’t… make a promise.
The funny thing is that I have always believed in our future together. I have always been confident of your love for me. I always knew, with so much certainty, that you will never leave me, that no matter what, there will always be us.
I knew the path we were threading was not easy. The world we are in is so complicated but I wasn’t the least bit worried. In fact, I was excited. I was excited about the challenges, the problems, the trials… because I knew we will get through it. We will both prove to everyone that it is possible to have this much love, trust, and respect.
I knew there were so many people betting against us and I laughed at them. I laughed at how pathetic it was for people to shun things they can’t have. I laughed at how sad it is not to experience what we had.
I didn’t know the joke was on me.
It was me who was a fool to believe we had something so great and so strong to defy everything. For a 30-year-old guy, I was pretty naïve… pretty stupid. I looked at the world through a rose-colored window. Everything is happy and ideal for me until I saw you with someone else.
Right at the moment, everything stopped. I stopped living. I breathe in and out merely to survive. I stopped believing in everything that’s good. I stopped trusting everyone that has ever been good to me. All because I felt that if someone like you could hurt me, what else could I expect from anyone.
I hated you for so long. I hated everyone and everything for so long. That’s why I never spoke with you. I was too angry at you for betraying me.
Then I started becoming angry at me… for believing in you.
Then I started becoming angry at everyone else… for tearing us apart.
But I’m exhausted. It’s been too painful for too long and no one else is suffering but me. So… I’ll do this. I’ll forgive you.
I forgive you for what you have done because you don’t deserve a space in my heart, in my mind, and in my life.
I’m not going to lose me just because of you. You are not worth a single moment more. You are not worth a second of my thoughts. I was never perfect but I didn’t do anything that would nearly justify the way you lied to me.
No, I don’t hate you. Not anymore. I used to but now, I just don’t care about you. I have forgiven you but I also don’t care about you.
And someone I don’t care about won’t be the reason I change the way I look at love and life. I still belive in love, I still believe that there is someone out there that will give me the same kind of love I am willing to give.
Not everyone is a liar… just you.  

LEESSANG BLUES

My life was always rough with love
Like a thrown away umbrella, I was always in cold, loneliness and serious insult
I tolerated all of these and got dumped several times
I was a wanderer looking for true love
But this one beautiful girl made my steps stop
My life has been an endless runway since I've engraved you in my heart
I've been reborn, into a red flower
*Loving you, the shy smile
Loving you, the two soft hands
Your eyes seduce me, make my heart cry, how.. how..
Loving you, always never change loving you, because you embrace me
The flowers on the meadow and the moon in the dark are jealous of me
My life was a thornbush before I met you
But now it's a rigid building
I'm like the fool Ondal who can only smile at this big love
My life is brighter than that full moon
(You are like) A window with sunshine
(Your whisper is like) A grandma's lullaby
When I think of it, everything is just peaceful
The most beautiful harmony in the world is you and I
I'm this happy because of you
Compared to that what I can do for you is to let my arm be your pillow
Or to hug you tight as if your bones will break
I'm sorry, to you who have made a place for me in your heart
I will be your shoes, put me on and go wherever you want
Don't worry about stepping on dirty things
I will embrace it without anyone noticing
But promise me that you'll be next to me until death
*Repeat

Smart Idioms

A hot potato

Speak of an issue (mostly current) which many people are talking about and which is usually disputed

A penny for your thoughts

A way of asking what someone is thinking

Actions speak louder than words

People's intentions can be judged better by what they do than what they say.

Add insult to injury

To further a loss with mockery or indignity; to worsen an unfavorable situation.

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Meaning: without any hesitation; instantly.

Back to the drawing board

When an attempt fails and it's time to start all over.

Ball is in your court

It is up to you to make the next decision or step

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Looking in the wrong place. Accusing the wrong person

Be glad to see the back of

Be happy when a person leaves.

Beat around the bush

Avoiding the main topic. Not speaking directly about the issue.

Best of both worlds

Meaning: All the advantages.

Best thing since sliced bread

A good invention or innovation. A good idea or plan.

Bite off more than you can chew

To take on a task that is way to big.

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Something good that isn't recognized at first.

Burn the midnight oil

To work late into the night, alluding to the time before electric lighting.

Can't judge a book by its cover

Cannot judge something primarily on appearance.

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To present a counter argument

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Elvis has left the building

The show has come to an end. It's all over.

Every cloud has a silver lining

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Far cry from

Very different from.

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Meaning: Feeling slightly ill.

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Believe someone's statement, without proof.

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Keep something away.

Kill two birds with one stone

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Let sleeping dogs lie

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Miss the boat

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Speak of the devil!

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Whole nine yards

Everything. All of it.

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Would never like to do something

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