[K-pop] “Early Morning Train” / Five Fingers

Korean Lyrics & English Translation

• 해지고 어둔 거리를 나홀로 걸어가며는
  [hae·ji·go / eo·dun / geo·li·leul / na·hol·lo / geol·eo·ga·myeo·neun]
  As I walk alone through the darkened streets at sunset
• 눈물처럼 젖어드는 슬픈 이별이
  [nun·mul·cheo·leom / jeoj·eo·deu·neun / seul·peun / i·byeol·i]
  A sad farewell wet like tears
• 떠나간 그대 모습은 빛바랜 사진 속에서
  [tteo·na·gan / geu·dae / mo·seub·eun / bich·ba·laen / sa·jin / sog·e·seo]
  Your look that left, in a faded picture
• 애처롭게 웃음짓는데
  [ae·cheo·lob·ge / us·eum·jis·neun·de]
  Sadly laughing

• 그 지나치는 시간 속에 우연히
  [geu / ji·na·chi·neun / si·gan / sog·e / u·yeon·hi]
  by chance in the passing time
• 스쳐가듯 만났던 그댄
  [seu·chyeo·ga·deus / man·nass·deon / geu·daen]
  You who I met as if passing by
• 이젠 돌아올 수 없는 길을 떠났네
  [i·jen / dol·a·ol su / eobs·neun / gil·eul / tteo·ass·ne]
  Now you have left the road of no return
• 허전함에 무너진 가슴
  [heo·jeon·ham·e / mu·neo·jin / ga·seum]
  Broken heart in emptiness

• 희미한 어둠을 뚫고 떠나는 새벽기차는
  [hui·mi·han / eo·dum·eul / ttulh·go / tteo·na·neun / sae·byeog·gi·cha·neun]
  The early morning train leaving through the faint darkness
• 허물어진 내 마음을 함께 실었네
  [heo·mul·eo·jin / nae / ma·eum·eul / ham·kke / sil·eoss·ne]
  It puts my broken heart together

• 낯설은 거리에 내려 또다시 외로워지는
  [nach·seol·un / geo·li·e / nae·lyeo / tto·da·si / oe·lo·wo·ji·neun]
  I get off on an unfamiliar street and feel lonely again
• 알 수 없는 내 마음이여
  [al / su / eobs·neun / nae / ma·eum·i·yeo]
  My unknown heart

• 그 지나치는 시간 속에 우연히
  [geu / ji·na·chi·neun / si·gan / sog·e / u·yeon·hi]
  by chance in the passing time
• 스쳐가듯 만났던 그댄
  [seu·chyeo·ga·deus / man·nass·deon / geu·daen]
  You who I met as if passing by
• 이젠 돌아올 수 없는 길을 떠났네
  [i·jen / dol·a·ol / su / eobs·neun / gil·eul / tteo·nass·ne]
  Now you have left the road of no return
• 허전함에 무너진 가슴
  [heo·jeon·ham·e / mu·neo·jin / ga·seum]
  Broken heart in emptiness

• 희미한 어둠을 뚫고 떠나는 새벽기차는
  [hui·mi·han / eo·dum·eul / ttulh·go / tteo·na·neun / sae·byeog·gi·cha·neun]
  The early morning train leaving through the faint darkness
• 허물어진 내 마음을 함께 실었네
  [heo·mul·eo·jin / nae ma·eum·eul / ham·kke / sil·eoss·ne]
  It puts my broken heart together

• 낯설은 거리에 내려 또다시 외로워지는
  [nach·seol·eun / geo·li·e nae·lyeo / tto·da·si / oe·lo·wo·ji·neun]
  I get off on an unfamiliar street and feel lonely again
• 알 수 없는 내 마음이여
  [al / su / eobs·neun / nae ma·eum·i·yeo]
  My unknown heart

Story of K-pop

How did the Five Fingers ‘Early Morning Train’ start?

The 1980s in Korea was an era of resistance and romance. For students in their teens and 20s who resisted the Chun Doo-hwan dictatorship with their whole body, music was the force that kept them alive. Before the 80’s, friends who were doing some music in high school got together and formed a group sound. As this generation enter college, the heyday of romance and resistance in the 1980s begins.

The group sound ‘Five Fingers’ was also an artist who moistened the hearts of youth in the midst of the romantic era of the 80s. Five Fingers was a rock ballad with warmth and loneliness at the same time and remained in the memory of many fans.

Five Fingers members Lee Doo-heon, Lim Hyeong-soon, Park Kang-young, and Choi Tae-wan were all of the same age in 1964. In 1984, Five Fingers left the album ‘The Sound of the Campus (1984)’ by pure amateur college students. The song ‘Disappeared Autumn’ on this album was popular in college towns, and a year later, they finally released their debut LP.

‘Early Morning Train’ was recorded in March 1985 in the debut work from which you can feel the youth of a fresh college student. Lim Hyeong-soon’s straight vocals, emotional melody, and delicate lyrics stand out.

Let’s listen to the romance of ‘Five Fingers’, which was the spearhead of the second-generation group sound in the mid-80s in Korea’s turbulent era!