N.O

English

Nice house (nice house)
Nice car (nice car)
Will things like that bring you happiness? (Will they?)
In Seoul (in Seoul)
To the SKY* (to the SKY)
Will your parents really be happy? (Will they?)

Your dream disappeared, without even any room to breathe
School and home
and maybe the internet cafe, that’s your hamster wheel
Living the same lives
Under pressure to come first
These students are double agents
between dreams and reality

Who is turning us
into studying machines?
“First place or you’ve fallen behind”
The ones who put us in those categories, who trap us in boxes
are the adults, you have to admit it
Even if you think about it simply
Under survival of the fittest,
who do you think is the one that made you
step on even your close friends to rise above, what?

The adults tell me
that things are only hard right now,
Just bear it a little longer, do other things later

Everybody say NO!
‘Later’ doesn’t work anymore
Don’t keep living a life trapped in someone else’s dream
We roll (We roll)
We roll (We roll) We roll

Everybody say NO!
It really has to be right now
You still haven’t tried anything at all, right?
We roll (We roll)
We roll (We roll) We roll
Everybody say NO!

Nice house (nice house)
Nice car (nice car)
Will things like that bring you happiness? (Will they?)
In Seoul (in Seoul)
To the SKY (to the SKY),
Will your parents really be happy? (Will they?)

I want to play and eat 
I want to tear off my school uniform
Make money good money
A perspective that’s already skewed
A bank account that’s barely there
I’ve maxed out my unhappiness 
A factory of sighs that study,
constantly digging a hole to fill another

Adults confess
They say we have it really easy
They say we're happier than we deserve to be
Well then what’s up with me? I’m still unhappy
There are no topics of conversation other than our studies
The world outside is overflowing with kids like me
The exact same lives as puppets
Who exactly is going to take responsibility?

The adults tell me
that things are only hard right now
Just bear it a little longer, do other things later

Everybody say NO!
‘Later’ doesn’t work anymore
Don’t keep living a life trapped in someone else’s dream
We roll (We roll)
We roll (We roll) We roll

Everybody say NO!
It really has to be right now
You still haven’t tried anything at all, right?
We roll (We roll)
We roll (We roll) We roll
Everybody say NO!

Everybody say NO!
Everybody say NO!
Everybody say NO!
Everybody say NO!

Translators’ Notes:

* ‘SKY’ is commonly used as an abbreviation for Seoul University, Korea University, and Yonsei University, which are considered the best colleges in Korea. Students are often under immense pressure to get into these schools.