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LUNA/SEOUL

AFTER THE LIGHTS

Five members announcing a hiatus that everyone including them knows is an ending

style

  • k-pop ballad
  • girl group harmonies
  • piano and strings
  • restrained verses into soaring final chorus
  • emotional build
  • korean accent
  • bittersweet and cinematic
  • korean accent
  • bittersweet
  • cinematic

the numbers

bpm
136
key
A# major
energy
0.64
dance
0.93
valence
0.58
vocal at
6.3s
length
3:28
language
Ko

lyrics

(after the lights)

Uri-neun geugeol hyusik-irago bulleotda
We called it a pause because the word rest is easier to hold
Modu-ga aneun geojinmal-eun chinjeolhan geojinmal-ida
A lie everybody agrees on is a kind of politeness

Five girls in a corridor learning a new grammar
Where we used to say next year and now we say someday
And someday is a room with the lights left on and nobody in it

After the lights, the lights, after the lights, the lights
The stage stays warm for about an hour and then it is furniture
After the lights, the lights, after the lights, the lights
And we were only ever borrowing the shape of a group

Nuga meonjeo ul-eul-ji uri-neun daseot myeong-i da anda
All five of us know exactly who will cry first and it is not who you think
Geurigo geu-ge uriga seoro-reul aneun bangbeob-ida
And that is what knowing each other turned out to mean

Yeon-seupsil-eul jinaganda. Bul-i kyeojyeo issda.
The practice room light is on. Somebody else is in there now.
Uri-do geuraetda. Nuga tteonan bang-ieotda, geugeon.
We were once the somebody else in a room that had just emptied.

After the lights, the lights, after the lights, the lights
The stage stays warm for about an hour and then it is furniture
After the lights, the lights, after the lights, the lights
And we were only ever borrowing the shape of a group

(after the lights...)