Improvisation No.3

나는 아프지 않아요

from 'blue divers II' LP, 2022
https://bluedivers.bandcamp.com/album/blue-divers-ii

blue divers - black backyard

천국  

유독 하늘이 어두운 밤
가만히 앉아
너의 심장 소리에
귀를 기울이네

삶과 죽음의 무게를
저울에 매달 때
내 셈을 깨뜨리는
작고 여린 그 박동

아아아 ㅡ
용감하고 사랑스러운 아이야
나는 네게로 돌아와
이 세상에 기댈 곳 없을 때
네 안에서 태어나는 세상 속에
몸을 웅크리고 쉬곤 해

고요히 코
고요히 코
고요히 코
고요히 ...

천국 (230301)

Shipwreck

Dear Soul,

I see you, sitting there all alone, wondering if you’ll ever love again. 

Wondering if you’re even loveable at all after everything you’ve been through. Perhaps it would be easier to simply give up before you start. Convince yourself you’re ‘not that bothered’ and tell people ‘I’m actually happier on my own’. 

Then sob in your alone-ness on a Friday night, wishing you had someone to cuddle up with and make weekend plans with. Someone to hold in your arms and be held by, to drift off to sleep with and wake up to with sleepy smiles. (And morning breath).

Be brave dear soul and do something that lets the universe (and random strangers within a geographic zone of your choosing) know that you can love and be loved.

Love, Yourself

Swipe Right

dream

Cityscape Drive

Rock and Roll

Lyrics
바람이 스치울 때
나는 모든 것을 먹었어
수면 위 나뭇잎의 형상과
잠겨있는 아시쿠비 
​
손을 잡아 흘러갈 때
너를 머리 맡에 두었어
먹을 수 없던 성체와
가려버린 아름다움
​
되려 내뱉은 것들은 
탄식의 소리
나오지 않는 울음과 정적의 밤




piano by o.ssang
E.guitar & mastered by suheeson

호수 demo

Here's my cover of one of my favorite songs in the world, "I'll try anything once" by The Strokes.

The Strokes - I'll Try Anything Once (cover by Mathieu Saïkaly)

You almost certainly already know the “Usual Love Story”: Boy meets girl, they fall in love and live happily ever after. The End.

Maybe you know someone who fits this story. 

An older couple perhaps, childhood sweethearts who married and stayed together through thick and thin. Bought a home and raised a family, and are now ending their days surrounded by happy kids with even happier grand kids. Still holding hands as they walk through the local park, looking at each other with a soft and fulfilling love in their eyes, every kiss they share is just like the first.

“Wow” you might say when you tell others about them “so good to see that true love can exist in this day and age. How wonderful!”

And in that celebration, you might feel a slight twinge of sadness for your own love story. Deep inside you may feel you’re somehow ‘not doing it right’ and have in some way failed at this most basic human thing. You might also feel you were ‘never given the manual’ so can never really understand how this love thing works anyway.

It’s tricky enough this simple human desire - to love and be loved - without having a nagging sense that everyone else knows something you don’t and is doing it better. All the while knowing that what makes the ‘usual love story’ so enthralling is it is so rare! 

And that’s the problem with the usual love story… it’s not actually so ‘usual’. 

Most of us are quietly living our own ‘unusual love story’ and feeling that we’re a little unusual (or weird, or too much, or unloveable) because of it.

“Unusual Lovesongs” is one soul’s musical journey of finding love in the modern age after the ‘usual love story’ ended without a happy ever after. From learning to ‘swipe right’ and trying to love without labels it’s a heartfelt and funny tale of getting it all wrong, wronger and wrongest.

Each song comes with a love letter to the soul about the learning along the way. 

Let’s celebrate our unusual love stories with these unusual love songs.

Swipe Right

Unusual Lovesongs

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