I Want to Protect You

Sung by: Kim Jaejoong

Lyrics by: Kim Jaejoong

Even with my eyes open, I cannot look at you.

Your heart, faded with memories fatigued,

I cannot capture it.

Even when cried so much, even when thinking I can do this no more,

When I look at you, I think it will be okay.

I want to protect you.

Even your habits, wrong and bad

Even so they make me smile when tired.

It will be a bit difficult, but

I will even say I love you.

Until the day you first come into my arms.

I cannot smile.

I cannot remember even if I smile.

Today, also, like a dream

You who look as if you will disappear once I open my eyes—I look at you, but

I feel that you are not with me.

I think I am awkward at expressing… because I love you.

I want to protect you.

Even your habits, wrong and bad

Even so they make me smile when tired.

It will be a bit difficult, but

I will even say I love you.

Until the day you first come into my arms.

Will you perhaps seek another warmth,

And leave me, and be happy?

Even so I cannot let you go, baby

It will hurt even more than death.

I love you.

I am in front of you,

And not in front of any other.

I am holding your hand.

I cannot give you to another’s arms.

I am clinging to you with all my might.

I cannot let you go—such a heart, why?

 TRANSLATION

That day when the sun set,

My footsteps took me,

Opening my eyes to a place i thought i had forgotten

Whether I still have some hatred towards you left

I want to be free now

I believed time would solve everything

Was that in itself a foolish belief?

Now, I want to just go with the flow of things

It doesn't matter to you anymore

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From the start a person like you

Never existed to me the way I didn't to you

Remember one day, you'll hurt as much as i did

From someone other than myself

You'll experience the same pain

I'm sorry, this is all I can do

Really, it's the only way I can be

For that day to come,

When i can start over like you

For me, who can't love you

And can't help but hate you

For you it's separation to me it's waiting

Other than the empty spot that is yours, Everything else is in its place

My heart must be broken because it can't comprehend that I've let you go

All my love is now in vain

I'm letting you go like this but to me, this is the beginning of a wait

Don't leave, my love, I won't be able to see you ever again

You are still in my heart

Don't leave, my love, I won't be able to see you ever again

At any place or time, whenever you are tired and worn out, please return to me

You have to be happy, my love, until that day, until we become eternal

If you forget me and erase me without a trace...