The Dawn Train

Even if a leaf withers in the end, the world would never change.
Even if a flower opens in the beginning, the world would never change.
You'll have to forget him while in love, if he is destined to go.
My impoverished silent love is blown away in the wind.

Run, the Dawn Train! Go penetrating this darkness!
Go casting away my prolonged wondering
In the dawning sky!

Even after many thoughts, love would be nothing but love.
Even if the Sun set in the east, a life would be nothing but a life.
When old stories disappear one by one like stardusts
and the eastern sky gets brighter, I will see a vast plain.

Run, the Dawn Train! Go penetrating this darkness!
Go casting away my prolonged wondering in the dawning sky!

(This is my poor translation of a Korean song I loved when I was in the late teen. I recently happened to find the original words on the Net. It feel it very strange that I can still sing this song almost 20 years after I listened it last time. Even though it is a melancholic song, I love it because I can see some hope in the part "Go penetrating this darkness!" Since I felt some significance in my re-discovery of this song after 20 year, I translated so that I could share with all of you...)

새벽열차

마지막 잎이 진다고 해도 세상은 변하지 않으리
처음 한 꽃이 핀다고 해도 세상은 변하지 않으리
헤어져야할 사람이라면 사랑하면서 잊어야지
가난한 내 침묵의 사랑 바람 속으로 흩어져 가네

달려가자 새벽열차야 이 어둠 속을 빠져나가자
늙어버린 내 방황을 새벽 하늘 속에 버리고 가자

아무리 생각해도 사랑은 사랑일뿐이야
해가 동쪽으로 진다고 해도 인생은 인생일뿐이야
별빛같은 지난 얘기들 하나 둘씩 사라지고
동녁 하늘이 밝아오면 넓은 들판이 나타나겠지

달려가자 새벽열차야 이 어둠 속을 빠져나가자
늙어버린 내 방황을 새벽 하늘 속에 버리고 가자

(한돌 사/곡 / 신형원 노래 VOL2 / 1987)