GINKGO GROOVE
As your feet try to follow
The flight of the swallow
You’re searching for songs to be named
Fortune is yours for the taking
It’s been long in the making
Now none of your thoughts can be tamed
When you don’t know how to move
You can lean on the ginkgo groove
From a point of connection
To a line of affection
In a web of peculiar whims
The moment you seize is the sweetest
Thrown in at the deepest
There’s no other way than to swim
If you’ve got nothing to prove
Just get lost in the ginkgo groove
MONSOON MOON, DECEMBER SUN
In the humid, unbearable heat
With air that’s too heavy to breathe
And a heart out of tune
I could do with a monsoon moon
In winter when daylight is bleak
And darkness discourages sleep
With a mind on the run
I could use a December sun
It’s still warm, but it’s lighter
It’s still dark, but it’s brighter
With a monsoon moon
And a December sun
My monsoon moon
My December sun
SEOULIDIFICATION
You’re swimming in a foreign sea
Of concrete, glass, and temporality
To straining eyes this great collage
Offers nothing but a cheap mirage
Everyone goes «빨리빨리» in a hurry
Everything is blurry
And the smog is concealing the sky
But if you close your eyes
You’ll see the city solidify
You’re moving through this atmosphere
Of brittle hope and bittersweet despair
The dewy skin of a billboard face
Has you feeling out of place
Don’t let the neon signs and airbrushed actualities
Disrupt your deeper sense of what is real reality
Once you recover from the shock
You’ll see the mountain’s made of rock
Everyone goes «괜찮아요» with a smile,
Are you in denial?
Could it be that you’re just feeling shy?
But if you walk on by
You’ll see the city solidify
You’ll see the city solidify
You’ll see the city solidify
You’ll see the city solidify
You’ll see the city Seoul
See the city Seoul
See the city
You’ll see the city solidify
Seoulidification
Seoulidification
Seoulidification
Seoulidification
You’ll see the city solidify
The Rose Chafer 