Hangul title:
그냥 사랑하는 사이
Sounded out roughly, that’s
Geunyang Saranghaneun Sai
Other English titles:
Rain or Shine, Just in Love
I mentioned in the middle of watching it. I just finished it and I’ve cried to the point of dehydration. I love this one, but it’s a unique place in my heart, and I’m not sure how much is the drama and how much is timing and the way the tune to this OST just resonates with the chords of my heart:
With lyrics attached:
With Junho and Won Jin Ah footage:
When we?
Where we?
Why we?
On some day.
It’s so gray.
When to?
Where to?
Why to?
It’s been gone.
It’s somewhere.
Every time when I see
It’s so gray
It’s okay
Feels like you’re the one I know
It’s been gone
It’s somewhere
Tell me where I’m falling back to
It’s so gray
It’s been gone
Tell me why I’m longing to see
It’s okay
It’s somewhere
I sing your song.
You sing along.
For once,
You sing my song.
We sing along
As once we did.
When we?
Where we?
Why we?
On some day,
It’s so gray.
When to?
Where to?
Why to?
It’s been gone.
It’s somewhere.
I don’t know how I feel…
(Wish I could tell you why)
Maybe we’ll be on our way
on some day
It’s so gray.
I sing your song;
You sing along,
For once.
You sing my song;
We sing along,
As once we did.
(by Kim Kyung Hee and Ryu Ji Hyun)
Oh, my heart. Some songs just do this for me, it has nothing to do with lyrics or anything but the sound. That tune calls, tugs, and pulls at me, and my heart answers.
Resonation:
“a harmonic phenomenon wherein a formerly passive string or vibratory body responds to external vibrations to which it has a harmonic likeness. The classic example is demonstrated with two similar tuning-forks of which one is mounted on a wooden box. If the other one is struck and then placed on the box, then muted, the un-struck mounted fork will be heard. In similar fashion, strings will respond to the external vibrations of a tuning-fork when sufficient harmonic relations exist between the respective vibratory modes.”
I could listen to this song a hundred times, and in fact, I think I did that this morning while waiting for the last episode of this drama to finish loading subs. It sounds similar to Mad World, which I felt the same way about when I first heard it.
The whole drama is too fresh and too much for me to explain it. Throughout much of the drama I felt like the writer and director, maybe the whole team, were punching me in the gut and then giving me medicine for it and rubbing my back and saying soothingly, “There, there, it’s okay,” only to give me a shove and a slap and start the abuse cycle all over again. I won’t tell you how much I cried. Oh, I guess I did that already. I’m blogging about it and recommending it, though, so you know that the show and I had couples counseling and are in recovery.
Junho and Won Jin Ah are just fabulous. I will look for each of them or both of them again. Okay, Won Jin Ah could work on her kiss scenes a bit- and I won’t usually comment on that mainly because I don’t care beyond thinking the frequent awkwardness of kissing in a K-drama is cute and restrained and preferable to the passionately public face sucking of American teleivion. But this seemed particularly stand-out awkward. Or maybe I was jud st too emotionally invested in this relationship because Junho and Won Jin Ah are such incredibly talented actors. They really sold it. It was particularly impressive since it’s Junho’s first lead role, and Jinah’s first time in a drama at all.
Kudos to the writer, who has done his or her research. It’s a drama, so some things are a bit glossed over, but really, so much of the traumatic reactions and symptoms were so real, so true.