And the story is told in
Different ways on
Different days
But it always
Ends the same
With one person
Internally bleeding
And the other finally
G e t t i n g  a w a y

Waiting wanting falling fading
Loving living dying hating
Eating leaving starving staying

Backwards on life, twisted in death
Can't even fall for fear of a step
Lost in thoughts I cannot find
Can't realise I'm losing my mind
Spending all time on things too small
Losing my grip on importance of all

Cannot forget

Cannot erase

Chasing regret

I quicken the pace

Living in the past,  I try to wake up.
Reality is just too fast, it's left me in the dust.
Living in a dream between waking and asleep,
But never actually waking up.
Life isn't what it seems
I know that I am wasting time.
That much is clear to me.
But I can't get out of this,
I'm blind and cannot see.
Living in a dream between waking and asleep.
But I'm still not waking up.
Please...
Just let me be.

I don't know what to do?
How can I feel your earth below my feet again,
After a thousand years of being alone?
Without disobeying the wishes of my family?


How can I love you?

How can an old Soul travel to a young Miracle?
How can I touch a re-born Seoul?



My only way to love you.


Is to show the world,


How beautiful you are,


How a Phoenix has risen,
From the ashes of war.


Is love worth taking the chance?
A chance of dying before I can ever return home,
My home of a thousand years, Joseon!

The home that I was cursed to remember forever,
An impossible love that I can never say goodbye to,
A Love that will last for eternity.


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