"Still checking?" "์•„์ง๋„ ํ™•์ธํ•ด?" Not tonight. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฐค์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์•ผ. Playlist ends, one square stays gray ์žฌ์ƒ ๋ชฉ๋ก์ด ๋๋‚˜๊ณ , ๋„ค๋ชจ ์นธ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ํšŒ์ƒ‰์œผ๋กœ ๋‚จ์•„ Everything else goes on anyway ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฑด ์–ด์จŒ๋“  ๊ณ„์† ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ Fan clicks twice, quarter past five ์„ ํ’๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ ๋”ธ๊น๊ฑฐ๋ ค, ๋‹ค์„ฏ ์‹œ ์‹ญ์˜ค ๋ถ„ Funny how a room can sound alive ๋ฐฉ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์‚ด์•„ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋“ฏ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋‹ค๋‹ˆ ์ด์ƒํ•˜์ง€ Cup on the desk leaves a little ring ์ฑ…์ƒ ์œ„ ์ปต์€ ์ž‘์€ ๋™๊ทธ๋ผ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๊ธฐ๊ณ  The street below keeps dragging its feet ์ฐฝ๋ฐ–์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์šด ๋ฐœ๊ฑธ์Œ์„ ๋Œ๋ฉฐ ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒ„์Šค์—์„œ ์›ƒ๊ธด ๊ฑธ ๋ดค์–ด I saw something funny on the bus My thumb found send, but I let go ์—„์ง€๋Š” ์ „์†ก ๋ฒ„ํŠผ์„ ์ฐพ์•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‚œ ์†์„ ๋—์–ด No big goodbye, no closing scene ๊ฑฐ์ฐฝํ•œ ์ž‘๋ณ„๋„, ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์žฅ๋ฉด๋„ ์—†์–ด Just an unsent joke on a five-inch screen ๊ทธ์ € ์ž‘์€ ํ™”๋ฉด์— ๋‚จ์€ ๋ณด๋‚ด์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ๋†๋‹ด ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋ง๋์„ ์ ‘์–ด, ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ I fold the end of my words like a receipt Leave it folded in the pocket of my coat ์ฝ”ํŠธ ์ฃผ๋จธ๋‹ˆ์— ์ ‘ํžŒ ์ฑ„๋กœ ๋„ฃ์–ด๋‘ฌ A light turns green, I cross the street ์ดˆ๋ก๋ถˆ์ด ์ผœ์ง€๊ณ , ๋‚œ ๊ธธ์„ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ The crosswalk counts it down for me ํšก๋‹จ๋ณด๋„ ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋“ฑ์ด ๋Œ€์‹  ์ดˆ๋ฅผ ์„ธ์–ด์ค˜ Nothing broke, there's no debris ๋ถ€์„œ์ง„ ๊ฑด ์—†์–ด, ํŒŒํŽธ๋„ ์—†์–ด Just four blank beats between the scenes ์žฅ๋ฉด๊ณผ ์žฅ๋ฉด ์‚ฌ์ด์— ๋น„์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋„ค ๋ฐ•์ž๋ฟ Can't patch a pause with pretty lines ์˜ˆ์œ ๋ฌธ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์นจ๋ฌต์„ ๋ฉ”์šธ ์ˆœ ์—†์–ด Can't turn a question into a sign ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ์–ด๋–ค ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ€ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์—†๊ณ  ์„ธ์ƒ์€ ๊ณ„์†, right on time The world keeps moving, right on time One blank measure, still in time ๋น„์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•œ ๋งˆ๋””, ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ๋ฐ•์ž๋Š” ํ๋ฅด๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด Blank bar, blank bar ๋นˆ ๋งˆ๋””, ๋นˆ ๋งˆ๋”” Four counts hanging in the air ํ—ˆ๊ณต์— ๋งค๋‹ฌ๋ฆฐ ๋„ค ๋ฐ•์ž ๋นˆ์นธ ํ•˜๋‚˜, leave it there One empty space, leave it there Don't put another voice in there ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์— ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฑ„์šฐ์ง€ ๋งˆ Blank bar, blank bar ๋นˆ ๋งˆ๋””, ๋นˆ ๋งˆ๋”” Bassline running through the floor ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค ๋ผ์ธ์ด ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ์„ ํƒ€๊ณ  ํ๋ฅด๊ณ  Nothing playing on that track ๊ทธ ํŠธ๋ž™์—์„œ๋Š” ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ์žฌ์ƒ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ Still I know what that space was for ๊ทธ ์ž๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฌ์˜€๋Š”์ง€๋Š” ์•Œ์•„ Dirty headphones in a drawer ์„œ๋ž ์† ๋จผ์ง€ ๋ฌป์€ ์ด์–ดํฐ I untangle them like before ์˜ˆ์ „์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊ผฌ์ธ ์ค„์„ ํ’€์–ด Phone lights up, it's the bank again ํœด๋Œ€์ „ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์ผœ์ ธ, ๋˜ ์€ํ–‰ ์•Œ๋ฆผ์ด์•ผ Rent due Friday, right on ten ์›”์„ธ ๋‚ผ ๋‚ ์€ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ, ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์—ด ์‹œ ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ์ƒˆ ์–˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ผ I just thought of another story I write it down and close the app ์ ์–ด๋‘๊ณ  ์•ฑ์„ ๋‹ซ์•„ Not every thought needs a place to land ๋ชจ๋“  ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๊ผญ ๋‹ฟ์„ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ•„์š”๋กœ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด ์•„๋ƒ Not every word needs another hand ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ง์ด ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์˜ ์†์„ ํ•„์š”๋กœ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ณ  The kettle clicks, the kitchen hums ์ฃผ์ „์ž๊ฐ€ ๋”ธ๊น๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๋ถ€์—Œ์ด ์›…์›…๊ฑฐ๋ ค The beat drops out and then it comes ๋น„ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์กŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋Œ์•„์™€ ์—ฌ๊ธด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์Œ์•…์ด ํ˜๋Ÿฌ Music is still playing here But one small channel stays on mute ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ž‘์€ ์ฑ„๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์Œ์†Œ๊ฑฐ๋œ ์ฑ„์•ผ I used to fill every empty space ์˜ˆ์ „์—๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๋นˆ์นธ์„ ์ฑ„์šฐ๋ ค ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ Now I let the air hold its place ์ด์ œ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ง€ํ‚ค๊ฒŒ ๋‘ฌ No date circled, no promise made ๋™๊ทธ๋ผ๋ฏธ ์นœ ๋‚ ์งœ๋„, ๋‚˜๋ˆˆ ์•ฝ์†๋„ ์—†์–ด Still I know the shape of that blank page ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ๊ทธ ๋นˆ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€์˜ ๋ชจ์–‘์€ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ด Can't patch a pause with pretty lines ์˜ˆ์œ ๋ฌธ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์นจ๋ฌต์„ ๋ฉ”์šธ ์ˆœ ์—†์–ด Can't turn a question into a sign ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ์–ด๋–ค ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ€ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์—†๊ณ  ์„ธ์ƒ์€ ๊ณ„์†, right on time The world keeps moving, right on time One blank measure, still in time ๋น„์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•œ ๋งˆ๋””, ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ๋ฐ•์ž๋Š” ํ๋ฅด๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด Blank bar, blank bar ๋นˆ ๋งˆ๋””, ๋นˆ ๋งˆ๋”” Four counts hanging in the air ํ—ˆ๊ณต์— ๋งค๋‹ฌ๋ฆฐ ๋„ค ๋ฐ•์ž ๋นˆ์นธ ํ•˜๋‚˜, leave it there One empty space, leave it there Don't put another voice in there ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์— ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฑ„์šฐ์ง€ ๋งˆ Blank bar, blank bar ๋นˆ ๋งˆ๋””, ๋นˆ ๋งˆ๋”” Bassline running through the floor ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค ๋ผ์ธ์ด ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ์„ ํƒ€๊ณ  ํ๋ฅด๊ณ  Nothing playing on that track ๊ทธ ํŠธ๋ž™์—์„œ๋Š” ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ์žฌ์ƒ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ Still I know what that space was for ๊ทธ ์ž๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฌ์˜€๋Š”์ง€๋Š” ์•Œ์•„ "Anything new?" "์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฑฐ ์žˆ์–ด?" "Not on that screen." "๊ทธ ํ™”๋ฉด์—๋Š” ์—†์–ด." "Then why keep it?" "๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์™œ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ๋‘ฌ?" "Didn't say I was waiting." "๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฐ๋‹ค๊ณ ๋Š” ์•ˆ ํ–ˆ์–ด." Blank bar, blank bar ๋นˆ ๋งˆ๋””, ๋นˆ ๋งˆ๋”” Four counts hanging in the air ํ—ˆ๊ณต์— ๋งค๋‹ฌ๋ฆฐ ๋„ค ๋ฐ•์ž ๋นˆ์นธ ํ•˜๋‚˜, leave it there One empty space, leave it there Don't put another voice in there ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์— ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฑ„์šฐ์ง€ ๋งˆ Blank bar, blank bar ๋นˆ ๋งˆ๋””, ๋นˆ ๋งˆ๋”” Bassline running through the floor ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค ๋ผ์ธ์ด ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ์„ ํƒ€๊ณ  ํ๋ฅด๊ณ  Nothing playing on that track ๊ทธ ํŠธ๋ž™์—์„œ๋Š” ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ์žฌ์ƒ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ Still I know what that space was for ๊ทธ ์ž๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฌ์˜€๋Š”์ง€๋Š” ์•Œ์•„ Maybe one day, maybe not ์–ธ์  ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋Ÿด์ง€๋„, ์•„๋‹์ง€๋„ ๋ชฐ๋ผ I don't stare at an empty slot ๋‚œ ๋นˆ์ž๋ฆฌ๋งŒ ๊ณ„์† ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์•„ I keep a place without a sign ์•„๋ฌด ์ด๋ฆ„ํ‘œ ์—†์ด ์ž๋ฆฌ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ๋‘๊ณ  Then turn the record to the other side ๋ ˆ์ฝ”๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋’ค์ง‘์–ด ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํŽธ์„ ํ‹€์–ด One blank bar. ๋น„์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•œ ๋งˆ๋””. Still part of the tape. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ํ…Œ์ดํ”„์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€.