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I first released my Boy Meets Evil cover last year on October 10th, because it was the one year anniversary of when I made the first demo, but it still had a bit of work left to be done, so a few months ago I went back and completely re-mixed and remastered the whole song.
I am not going to repost the long description I initially had, I’m just going to explain in short. The first time I heard the original I instantly fell in love with it and decided on the spot I want to make a cover and a few days later I made the instrumental. It took me a year to actually finish the song because I wanted to do it justice. I wanted to lyrics to be in English but still have some of the original Korean words here and there. I could not rely on online translations and translators, so I actually started learning the language right away and last year in May I finally felt confident enough to try and write lyrics, even though I was a bit scared as I had never done something like that, like.. ever.. Surprisingly enough just after two-three hours I had written the lyrics so I recorded the vocals shortly thereafter. As I said already I released it in October, but it wasn’t great, so for the last few months I worked hard on it to try and make it sound as best as I can..
All in all I can honestly say I have never worked so much on a song, not even on my own. To get into the feel of it all I listened to many of their songs, especially j-hope’s parts, his music and style, although by that time I was already a fan of him and the band, so it wasn’t at all homework.. Also read Demian, the book the Wings album’s connected to, oh and that little thing of learning a whole new language.. Which by the way I loved and I’m still studying it. The whole project is very special to me for many reasons, and it was the first time I’ve done something like this, so it was definitely interesting and fun. Learned and discovered many things, about myself, too.
So, I really hope you like my spin of this awesome song..
You can listen on all streaming platforms, too. 💜🖤🦇
Lyrics:
the darkness is here, overflowing in here
the shadows caress
내 사랑에 잃은 꿈의 길 (the path of my dreams bereft of love)
the bane of my greed, is twisting the strings
and summoned this hell
I know it all too well
the innocent touch on the cheek
turned to the poisonous kiss on the lips
내 야망의 칼이 (the knife of my ambition)
is slowly turning in me
so sinfully sweet is 악마의 손길을 (the devil’s touch)
but it’s too evil
it’s too evil for me
too evil, and yet so sweet
I drank it all in, but now I see
this love that I feel, is the devil in me
I screamed to let go
but forsake 내 양심을 (my conscience)
breathing is fickle
and every night I’m replaying the notes of the sin
rewinding the musical box of tragedy
when I open my eyes I see land mines around me
reminding me
miracles don’t happen here 이 현실에 (in this reality)
the devil’s touch is killing me
but I don’t want to be freed
from his 달콤한 (sweet) grip
but it’s too evil
it’s too bad
but it’s too sweet
it’s too sweet
it’s too evil
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All rights of the original song belong to Big Hit Entertainment.
Cover by Violet Raven Ives