[Tier 3] ATEEZ - Not Too Late (Lyrics + Weekly Playlist) (Patreon)

This is ATEEZ's Not Too Late - a surprisingly emotional final track that made us talk a LOT more about the lyrics and the meaning than the music itself. We didn't see this coming.

We actually appreciated this shift in tone because it got us to talk about the music in a different way and it forced us to think in a different way too.

We say enough in the video so I'll just use this space to further clarify some Korean talk we had in the video.

엄마 아빠나 잘 살어: the ...나 put on the subject implies that that person should focus on X instead of others / something else. In this sentence, the X would be 잘 살어, meaning live well, or take care of yourselves in life, changing the entire meaning to 'mom, dad. Focus on your own lives instead of mine'. But when the sentence is written as...

엄마 아빠 나 잘 살어: it changes the meaning completely to 'mom, dad. I am doing well' since '나' is no longer attached to the subject and therefore takes on the meaning of 'I'.

We've actually talked about this briefly during one of our SKZ log reactions (I think) with the phrase, 아버지가방에들어가신다 - a classic Korean phrase used to talk about the importance of spacing in Korean.

If you say 아버지가 방에 들어가신다, it means 'Father is entering the room' (아버지 = father, 방 = room, 들어가다 = enter). But if you say 아버지 가방에 들어가신다, it becomes 'Father is entering a bag' (아버지 = father, 가방 = bag, 들어가다 = enter).

Another often-used phrase is 아 기다리고 기다리던, which is an exclamatory phrase that roughly translates to 'ah! The long awaited...'. But you'll see a lot of Koreans intentionally changing the spacing to write 아기다리 고기다리, which mutates the sentence to a nonsensical phrase that means 'baby leg meat leg'.

So yeh, very important in Korean to have the right spacing XD

Anyways, hope you enjoy, and if you have other questions, let us know! :) (and of course, if you have the answers to our questions, that too)

Love <3