It Opens with Baek Yu-kyung's Parents' Dream and Ends with 'Remember Me'
Baek Yu-kyung's full live session is up. Four songs run back to back.
In three lines
- Baek Yu-kyung's full live session is up. Four songs run back to back.
- The order is 'Your Dream', '278', 'An Old Heart' and 'Remember Me'.
- The first song is about the youth of Baek Yu-kyung's parents.
The order of the four
| No. | Song |
|---|---|
| 1 | Your Dream |
| 2 | 278 |
| 3 | An Old Heart |
| 4 | Remember Me |
A song that starts from someone else's dream
The opener, 'Your Dream', is about the singer's parents. Baek Yu-kyung says the song began with a question — if I met my parents at my age, what would I want to tell them?
A mother who sings like the songs on the hand-me-down cassette tapes; a father only now pursuing long-held wishes. Ask and ask, and their youth had dreams too, and the world of that time could not grant them.
The 'you' in 'Your Dream' is Baek Yu-kyung's parents. The session opens not with the singer's own dream but with someone else's — an unfulfilled one at that.
A second song that is only a number
The second title is '278'. Three digits.
A number title hides its meaning. Whether it is a date, a number, a distance — no one outside can tell. A title only those who know will know.
After a first song that says clearly who it is about comes a title that says nothing. Open, then close.
It ends by asking to be remembered
The last song is 'Remember Me'. A request.
If the first song remembers someone else's dream, the last asks to be remembered. The direction reverses — from the one remembering to the one hoping to be remembered.
Baek Yu-kyung wrote that reading the short lyrics over and over feels like voicing every feeling without writing all of it down. Not many people read the whole long story, the singer said, but there were people who listened to the song that held it.
Today, like this
Play the four in order. The movement from someone else's dream to asking to be remembered is the first thing to follow.
Then listen while guessing what '278' is. The lyrics may or may not tell you.
Last, play the first song again. 'Your Dream' will sound different at the end of the session.
A new song has arrived at the playground today.
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