How Could Lyrics – English Translation (BoA)

[Verse 1]

You say you’re sorry — but you don’t mean it.
The end came early — too soon to believe it.
No fairytale, no sweet goodbye,
Just a fading love beneath the sky.

How did we make it here at all?
How did we rise — just to fall?
A tragic tale we never planned,
Slipping right through our open hands.

[Pre-Chorus]

Everything I gave —
Was always meant for you.
Even the taste you craved,
Lingers deep like a tattoo.

I couldn’t hold you, not when you’d already gone.
How could I fight — when your heart had moved on?

[Verse 2]

I feel it now — the time has come.
This room grows cold, my body numb.
How did we come so far, so blind?
I wish I could erase you from my mind.

Every memory — every trace,
I’d trade it all to leave no space.

[Bridge]

Maybe, just maybe — there was still a chance,
But your smile cast me in a trance.
I lost my mind in loving you,
Tired of being broken, through and through.

Isn’t that what love becomes?
A war we fight, till silence comes?

[Chorus]

Everything I gave —
Was always meant for you.
Even the taste you loved
Still lives in what I do.

I couldn’t stop you when you chose to leave,
Once your mind was set — what could I achieve?

How could I win…
Against your will?