Perfume ooh ooh yeah

ay 너의 하룰
향기롭게 꾸며 줄게
걸음 끝에
내 이름이 떠오르게

I'll adorn your day
with sweet scents
With each step you take
You'll recall my name

讓我以香氣
妝點你的一天
讓你每走一步
就想起我一回

네 숨결에 스미고
코 끝에서 맴돌게 해
네 맘에 각인되게
잔향까지 오래

Seeping in your breath
Hovering at the tip of your nose
Imprinted in your heart
As the sillage lingers on

滲入你的氣息
盤旋在你的鼻尖
刻印在你心中
長存不散的餘香

달아 널 생각하는 나의 향은
담아 선명한 내 흔적들을

So sweet, the scent of my longing for you
Holding all my vivid traces

惦念著你，香氣格外甜美
飽含著我鮮明的行跡

손목 위에 난
옷깃 위에 난
남겨두려 해
나를 잊을 수 없게
작은 숨결까지
파고들어 난

On your wrist, I'm
On your collar, I'm
Leaving my trails
So you won't ever forget
Delving into
the slightest sigh

手腕上的我
領口上的我
留下我的印記
讓你念念不忘
滲入你的氣息
一絲都不放過

ay 방안에 공기에도
널 위한 내 맘을 풍겨
네 온긴 내 것이 돼
Every time is paradise yeah

Even the air in your room
My feelings for you permeate
Your warmth becomes mine
Every time is paradise

就連房裡的空氣
都充盈著我對你的心意
佔據你的溫度
時刻都身處天堂

긴 시간이 흘러도
질릴 수가 없으니까
처음 느낀 경험일 걸
솔직해져 baby

Even after a long while
There's no way you'll get bored
It should be your first time
Just be honest baby

就算時間流逝
依舊興致盎然
這應是你初嚐的滋味
坦然以對吧 baby

좋아 내 순간들에 있는 네가
Tonight 빈틈 없이 빠져들어

I love you being in all my moments
Tonight, drawn in with no way out

真好，你存在我的每時每刻
今夜，無法自拔地深陷其中

손목 위에 난
옷깃 위에 난
남겨두려 해
나를 잊을 수 없게
작은 숨결까지
파고들어 난

On your wrist, I'm
On your collar, I'm
Leaving my trails
So you won't ever forget
Delving into
the slightest sigh

手腕上的我
領口上的我
留下我的印記
讓你念念不忘
滲入你的氣息
一絲都不放過

(baby I'm baby I'm)
baby I'm comfortable with you
(You know that I'm)
and you're comfortable with me
(I know that you are)
두 눈을 맞추면 (맞추면)
더 선명해질 테니

(baby I'm baby I'm)
baby I'm comfortable with you
(You know that I'm)
and you're comfortable with me
(I know that you are)
When our eyes meet
It will all be clear

(寶貝我)
寶貝，和你在一起很自在
（你知道的）
而你也同樣自在
（我知道你也是）
當我們四目相接
一切便清晰可見

yeah yeah that's me
짙은 농도에 (oh yeah)
정신이 혼미해 (Love yeah)
uh 호흡마저 향기로워
너를 보면 모두가 다
나를 떠올려

yeah yeah that's me
The intense notes
Got 'em light-headed
Even your breath is scented
When they see you
They all can tell

沒錯，那正是我
濃郁的香氣
令人頭暈目眩
連氣息也如此芬芳
所有見到你的人
都會想起我

yeah 한 방울
Drip Drop (Drip Drop)
너의 기억 속에
흔적을 남겨 (남겨)

yeah one drop
Drip Drop (Drip Drop)
Leave my mark
In your memory (Leave it)

一滴
滴落（滴落）
在你的記憶中
留下我的印記（留下）

시간 지날수록
더 뚜렷해져
네 주위를 맴돌아
24 hour whoa whoa!

As time goes by
It grows more distinct
Lingering around you
24 hour whoa

隨著時間流逝
變得愈加鮮明
在你身邊徘徊不去
24 小時 whoa

Hold tight
서로의 맘을 확인한 밤
oh 난 이미 스며든 것 같아

Hold tight
The night we bare our hearts
oh Feels like I'm well immersed

緊握著
確認彼此心意的夜晚
哦，看來我已沉陷其中

이젠 확실히 알아
난 감각이 깨어나
다시 한번 깊이 새겨

I know for certain
My senses are awakened
Once again deeply imprinted

此刻的我得以確信
感官已然甦醒
再一次深深刻印

손목 위에 난
옷깃 위에 난
남겨두려 해
나를 잊을 수 없게
모든 순간 속에
파고들어 난

On your wrist, I'm
On your collar, I'm
Leaving my trails
So you won't ever forget
Delving into
every moment

手腕上的我
領口上的我
留下我的蹤跡
讓你念念不忘
潛入所有瞬間
一刻都不放過

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Postscript

For the longest time I'd toyed with the idea of translating Korean lyrics into both Mandarin and English, but I never really had the motivation to follow through. This week's tutoring session finally gave me the push.

I was preparing for R's poetry lesson, and while the usual straight-to-the-point analysis works fine, it felt a little dry to me. I wanted something to liven things up. That day, we were doing Carol Ann Duffy's "Valentine", a poem full of imagery and metaphor, and I thought it might be fun to pair it with a pop song. I scrolled through playlists and compilations with no luck, until I spotted the second song on my pinned list: "Perfume", the NCT track that first dragged me into the fandom. I've listened to it so many times I could practically reenact the MV. Like Duffy's poem, it's written in the first person to a lover, full of sensory language. Perfect match.

Since R can read Korean and listens to plenty of K-pop herself (she actually knew NCT way before I did), I briefly considered using the Korean lyrics directly. But because our class is conducted in English, I knew we couldn't really spend that much time unpacking them. My next idea was to just grab the Genius English translation to save time. After rereading it, though, I found the language too choppy and soulless for a lit class. So… yeah, I ended up doing my own translation.

After finishing the work, I remembered that I had just watched a video on paratexts—about how titles, intros, and framing shape our understanding—so I decided to have a little fun with it. I pasted my translation into the handout, and removed both the poem's and the song's titles, which don't appear in the text itself. R would read both works "blind," take guesses at the titles, and then we'd talk about how much missing context changes interpretation.

In class, R immediately recognized that the second text had to be song lyrics based on the rhyme, rhythm, and stanza breaks. But her guesses on the song itself were hilarious: she kept insisting it was originally Mandarin, either by Hebe Tien, Mayday, or The Chairman. At one point she even swore the lyrics must be about BL. I just smirked and said, "Sure, why not?" while secretly staging a whole imaginary DJJ skit in my head.

Even when we hit the line "baby I'm comfortable with you", she said it sounded ridiculously familiar but still couldn't place it. It wasn't until five minutes before the end of class (after we'd finished the poem too) that I finally revealed the answer, and it seemed unbelievable to her that it's such a well written song.

She was half right about the titles tho, guessing the song as "Perfume" but thinking the poem was called "Lethal Lover". Honestly, not too far off, since the word "lethal" does appear in the last stanza; on top of that, she explained that The Chairman has a track with that title. (The Chairman had been there for the whole session…)

That 90-minute class turned out to be one of my favorite teaching experiences. The pairing of texts, and the odd little synchronicities between me and R, felt like pure serendipity.

Though not planned, while editing the lyrics afterward, I let a bit of ambition creep in. I added a Mandarin version, which turned it into my first-ever trilingual lyrics post. I'm not trying to reinvent myself as a color-coded lyrics blogger (though yes, the colors I used match the DJJ album's Box Ver. design). I just wanted to document what a delightfully strange lesson it was.

Hope you find it fun or useful, and of course, I have to close with a shoutout: may DOJAEJUNG comeback soon. 🩸🫗

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中文版後記

打從很久以前，我就隱約有想把歌詞翻成中英雙語的野心，卻始終沒有實踐的動力，而且其實也沒有這種需求吧⋯⋯之所以會突然冒出這篇完全是因為前幾天的家教課。

在準備 R 的詩選課的時候，總覺得一如既往地單刀直入分析沒有不好，就是有點無聊，於是開始想空想縫（siūnn-khang-siūnn-phāng），最後決定搭配一首流行歌的歌詞來做對照。那天排定要講的是 Carol Ann Duffy 的 "Valentine"，探討詩中的意象和比喻等修辭，而我在播放清單和年份裡來回穿梭，卻始終找不到一首適合拿來相輔相成的。為此，我甚至還打算換一首詩講，直到看見我釘選清單裡的第二首歌——Perfume，我的 NCT 入坑曲，唱到連 MV 都會背了（？）。同樣是以第一人稱寫給愛人的歌詞，同樣充滿感官的摹寫，至此再也沒有往下找的理由。

R 會讀韓文也飽聽韓文歌，甚至比我早認識且喜歡 NCT，但考量到用英文上的課總不能花大把時間講韓文，所以我一開始打算便宜行事，借用既存的 Genius 英文歌詞。只是在仔細讀過之後，又覺得要拿來上文學課的教材不能用那麼賽博格的東西，於是我就，對，開始自己翻了。

題外話，把翻好的英文歌詞貼到講義裡存檔後，我又突發奇想，將歌名、歌手和詩的標題都刪掉留空。這一詩一歌的標題都沒有被直接用在歌詞當中，原文裡也沒有，正好前幾天看了一部關於 paratext 的影片，我想，不如藉著先讀完內容再來推測標題的任務，和 R 一起討論標題、簡介和背景說明對於作品理解的影響。

開始上課後 R 就從 "Perfume" 的韻律、韻腳和段落結構認出這首鐵定是歌詞，只是從頭到尾猜的都是中文歌，諸如田馥甄、五月天、董事長樂團等，一下說「這種」寫法不可能是韓文歌，一下又說內容描寫的絕對是 BL，老師本人只是吃吃笑著對她說 yeah sure why not，同時在心裡上演一堆道在廷怪怪戲碼。儘管在 "baby I'm comfortable with you" 的段落 R 一邊想破頭一邊說這段實在太耳熟，最終還是等到我們把詩也講完的下課前五分鐘，才一起揭曉了答案。

對了，過程中她有推斷出 1.5 個標題，香水猜對了，詩的標題她猜是 "Lethal Lover"，致命愛人，意思算是很接近（？），但原因是原文的最後一段用到了這個字，並且董事長有一首歌就叫 Lethal Lover，〈愛我你會死〉，哈哈哈哈哈哈。

總之，這 90 分鐘成了我教學人生中最滿意的一堂課，這樣的文本選擇、我與 R 的緣分和共鳴，也算是千載難逢。

儘管課後編輯歌詞的過程中還是不小心產生了一些野心，莫名其妙地決定加上中文翻譯，也因此無心插柳地成了這裡第一篇中英韓三語歌詞，但我真的沒有要轉型為 color coded lyrics（這篇的歌詞顏色是道在廷專輯 Box Ver. 的配色！），而只是想藉此記下這奇妙的一堂課。既然歌詞翻了都翻了，就發出來跟大家分享啦。

最後還是要不免俗地說一句：望道在廷早歸 🩸🫗

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（真正的結語是，打了兩個語言的後記我要累死了⋯⋯）