Lee Young Ji (이영지) – ROBOT (English Translation) Lyrics

⚡ [Intro]
Rockin’, jumpin’.

🤖 [Verse 1: The System Alert]
Just wait—
Wavin’, wavin’, wavin’.
One by one, the sirens on.
Tit-tat, racket.

When all the senses blur,
Body rockin’ crazy.
Let me tell you—
You’re like the final glitch in my system.

💃 [Pre-Chorus: The Silver Numbness]
Jump—I acted like I didn’t see you.
I’m naked, silver, and numb all day-day-day-day.
Doesn’t matter anyway, ’cause you’re like me, but different too.
I can’t hold back—dance (Three, two, one, dance).

🔥 [Chorus: The Breaking Body]
Feel my body rockin’, poppin’, jumpin’ over you—
Make my body move like it’s breaking into two.
Feel my body rockin’, poppin’, jumpin’ over you—
Blue and pink inside the square, and another heart in view.

⚙️ [Post-Chorus: The Creaking Dance]
Ah, I’m a creak-creak robot, creak-creak robot—
Creak-creaking robot dance.
Creak-creak robot, creak-creak robot—
Creak-creaking robot.

🖼️ [Verse 2: The Captured Heart]
I’m ’bout to jump in.
You take my heart, then never stop it.
So I caught you in my frame
So you can’t run away.

“Cognition”—break it.
My legs are shakin’, shakin’, too toxic.
I don’t know—
Don’t wanna wake up from your rainbow error.

💃 [Pre-Chorus]
Jump—I acted like I didn’t see you.
I’m naked, silver, and numb all day-day-day-day.
Doesn’t matter anyway, ’cause you’re like me, but different too.
I can’t hold back—dance (Three, two, one, dance).

🔥 [Chorus]
Feel my body rockin’, poppin’, jumpin’ over you—
Make my body move like it’s breaking into two.
Feel my body rockin’, poppin’, jumpin’ over you—
Blue and pink inside the square, and another heart in view.

⚙️ [Post-Chorus]
Ah, I’m a creak-creak robot, creak-creak robot—
Creak-creaking robot dance.
Creak-creak robot, creak-creak robot—
Creak-creaking robot.

🌃 [Bridge: The Honest Night]
Tonight, I cannot lie.
Take my heart—you make me wanna break and dance and pop, and
That’s why I’ve been so shy.
Rewind it back again—you’re gonna break it, break it, break it.

🔥 [Final Chorus]
Feel my body rockin’, poppin’, jumpin’ over you (Body, yeah)—
Make my body move like it’s breaking into two (Ah).
Feel my body rockin’, poppin’, jumpin’ over you (Body, yeah)—
Blue and pink inside the square, and another heart in view.

⚙️ [Post-Chorus]
Ah, I’m a creak-creak robot, creak-creak robot—
Creak-creaking robot dance.
Creak-creak robot, creak-creak robot—
Creak-creaking robot.

🎶 [Outro]
(You)
(Rockin’, jumpin’)
(You)
(Rockin’, jumpin’)
Body, yeah—
Dance, honey, rockin’, poppin’, yeah.
Body, yeah—
Creak-creaking robot.

🤖 Lyrics Meaning & Emotional Core

“ROBOT” is a brilliant metaphor for the experience of love as something that both mechanizes and humanizes us. The speaker is a robot—stiff, programmed, numb—but the presence of the beloved introduces a “glitch” that makes them feel alive, even as it breaks them.

• Core Theme: The Robot as Metaphor for Emotional Disconnect
  The speaker identifies as a “creak-creak robot,” moving stiffly, mechanically, perhaps programmed to function but not to feel. The “creak” is the sound of unused joints, of a machine that hasn’t been oiled—or of a heart that hasn’t been allowed to beat freely. Yet this robot is also “naked, silver, and numb,” suggesting a vulnerability beneath the metallic exterior.

• The Final Glitch
  The beloved is described as “the final glitch in my system.” A glitch is an error, a malfunction—something that disrupts normal operation. But in this case, the glitch is welcome. It’s the thing that makes the robot feel something, that introduces chaos into the programmed order. The sirens and racket of the opening verse signal that something is wrong—or wonderfully right.

• Breaking Into Two
  The chorus’s image of the body moving “like it’s breaking into two” suggests a splitting, a fragmentation. Love is not a gentle integration but a violent rupture. The robot is coming apart, but in that breaking, there is movement, dance, life.

• Blue and Pink Inside the Square
  The “blue and pink inside the square” could refer to a screen, a pixelated image, or a digital representation of emotion. Blue and pink are often associated with gender, with duality, with the blending of opposites. The “another heart in view” suggests that within this artificial, square-shaped existence, a real heart has appeared—perhaps the beloved’s, perhaps the speaker’s own, awakened.

• The Rainbow Error
  The “rainbow error” is a beautiful paradox. Errors are usually bad, but this one is colorful, beautiful, desirable. The speaker doesn’t want to wake up from it—they want to stay in this glitched state where the world is more vivid, more alive.

• Caught in the Frame
  The second verse introduces a darker note: “I caught you in my frame so you can’t run away.” This suggests a desire to possess, to trap, to control. The robot’s programming includes a capture function, a way of holding onto what it loves. But this is also a recognition that love can become a prison.

• Cognition Break
  “Cognition—break it.” The rational mind, the processing center, is being deliberately disrupted. Thinking is getting in the way of feeling, so the speaker wants to break it, to let the body take over. The shaking legs and toxicity suggest that this is dangerous, but also irresistible.

• The Honest Night
  The bridge is a moment of vulnerability: “Tonight, I cannot lie.” Beneath the robot exterior, there is a shy, honest self that wants to break and dance and pop. The request to “rewind it back again” suggests a desire to return to the moment before the glitch, to experience it again, even knowing it will break them.

• The Creaking Dance
  The repeated “creak-creak robot dance” is both a description and an invitation. The robot’s movements are stiff, awkward, mechanical—but they are still a dance. Imperfect, creaking movement is still movement. And in that movement, there is life.

In essence, “ROBOT” is a celebration of the glitch that makes us feel alive. The speaker is a machine, programmed for numbness, but the beloved introduces an error that sparks color, movement, and heart. The dance is creaky, the body breaks, the cognition shatters—but in that breaking, there is something real. The robot may be stiff, but it is dancing. And that is everything.