This should come as no surprise after I posted about my love for the AlShin couple from Season 1 of We Got Married. Having listened to the song so many times while watching them on We Got Married and for the next couple of weeks following that, I’m starting to listen more to the lyrics of Flowerpot that I used to look up so often and think of them more out of the context of We Got Married. It’s been nearly three years since I watched We Got Married (already four since season one started!), and it seems my Korean has improved so much that I can translate the whole song (with the help of a dictionary; I can translate most of it without one).

Korean:

멀리서 멀리서 멀리서 그대가 오네요
이 떨리는 마음을 어떻게 말해야 하나요
그댄 처음부터 나의 마음을 빼앗고
나을수 없는 병을 내게 주었죠
화분이 될래요 나는 늘 기도하죠

난 그대 작은 창가에 화분이 될게요
아무 말 못해도 바랄수 없어도
가끔 그대의 미소와 손길을 받으며
잠든 그대 얼굴 한없이 볼 수 있겠죠

멀리도 멀리도 멀리도 그대가 가네요
떨어지는 눈물을 어떻게 달래야 하나요
그댄 처음부터 나의 마음을 가졌고
나을수 없는 병을 앓게 한거죠
화분이 되고픈 나는 늘 기도하죠

난 그대 작은 창가에 화분이 될게요
아무 말 못해도 바랄수 없어도
가끔 그대의 미소와 손길을 받으며
잠든 그대 얼굴 한없이 볼 수 있겠죠

난 그대 작은 창가에 화분이 될게요
아무 말 못해도 바랄수 없어도
가끔 그대의 미소와 손길을 받으며
잠든 그대 얼굴 한없이 볼 수 있겠죠

난 그대 작은 창가에 화분이 될게요
아무 말 못해도 바랄수 없어도
가끔 그대의 미소와 손길을 받으며
잠든 그대 얼굴 한없이 볼 수 있겠죠

English Translation:

From far away, from far away, from far away, you are coming
How can I describe in words, this trembling heart
You, stole my heart from the beginning
And gave me an incurable sickness
I want to become a flowerpot, I always pray

I’ll become a flowerpot on your small windowsill
Even if I can’t talk or wish for anything
I could receive your smile and touch every now and then
And see your fast asleep face

To far away, to far away, to far away, you are going
How can I stop these trembling tears
You, took my heart from the beginning
And made me fall ill with an incurable sickness
I want to become a flowerpot, I always pray

I’ll become a flowerpot on your small windowsill
Even if I can’t talk or wish for anything
I could receive your smile and touch every now and then
And see your fast asleep face

I’ll become a flowerpot on your small windowsill
Even if I can’t talk or wish for anything
I could receive your smile and touch every now and then
And see your fast asleep face

I’ll become a flowerpot on your small windowsill
Even if I can’t talk or wish for anything
I could receive your smile and touch every now and then
And see your fast asleep face