Lim Jung Eun – Look Through The Sky Lyrics With ( English Translation )
🌆 [Verse 1: The Dance of Deceit]
In the twilight of deceit,
With a broken heart,
She dances with the fire
To rise from the ashes.
With every step, a memory departs.
I’ve got to stop this sympathy of revenge.
I can’t move with my wounded heart
In the echoes of silence.
🌪️ [Pre-Chorus: The Fury]
And a tempest of fury—
Don’t you remember
The silence of secrets,
Even when the light is nowhere to be found?
🌊 [Chorus: The Endurance]
거짓의 파도 속에서도 난 버텨내
(I endure through these waves of deception),
무너진 자리에서 다시 시작해
(Starting over from the rubble of my past).
도망친 진실을 끝까지 찾아
(Chasing the fleeing truth until the very end)—
Look through the sky.
🗡️ [Verse 2: The Scars]
In the rhythm of revenge, I confide,
Like the ones lost in my dream.
The scars covering me prove I’ve survived this far—
As wounds unhealed become weapons revealed.
🌪️ [Pre-Chorus]
In the echoes of silence
And a tempest of fury,
Don’t you remember
The silence of secrets?
🌊 [Final Chorus]
Even when the light is
Nowhere to be found,
거짓의 파도 속에서도 난 버텨내
(I endure through these waves of deception),
무너진 자리에서 다시 시작해
(Starting over from the rubble of my past).
도망친 진실을 끝까지 찾아
(Chasing the fleeing truth until the very end)—
Look through the sky.
🔥 Lyrics Meaning & Emotional Core
This song is a mythic tale of betrayal and rebirth. It uses elemental imagery—fire, ashes, waves, silence—to depict a journey from victimhood to power, from being broken to becoming unbreakable.
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Core Theme: The Phoenix’s Rise
The opening image of dancing with fire to rise from ashes is unmistakably phoenix-like. The speaker has been consumed—by deceit, by heartbreak, by the flames of betrayal—but the fire is not an end; it’s a transformation. The dance is not destruction but alchemy, turning pain into power. -
Twilight as a Liminal Space
“In the twilight of deceit” places the action in a liminal time—between day and night, between truth and lie, between what was and what will be. This is the space of uncertainty, where the old self is dying and the new self is not yet born. It’s a dangerous but necessary place. -
Sympathy for Revenge
The line “I’ve got to stop this sympathy of revenge” is psychologically complex. The speaker feels a pull toward revenge—a desire to retaliate, to make the betrayer suffer. But they recognize this as a kind of sympathy, a connection that still binds them to the one who hurt them. To truly be free, they must sever even this negative attachment. -
Wounds as Weapons
“As wounds unhealed become weapons revealed” is the song’s most powerful transformation. The injuries that never healed, the pain that was never processed—these become tools of survival, instruments of power. The speaker is not fighting despite their scars; they are fighting with them. -
The Waves of Deception
The Korean chorus introduces the image of “waves of deception” (거짓의 파도). Lies are not static; they come in waves, relentless and overwhelming. Yet the speaker endures (버텨내). They are not swept away; they stand firm, battered but unbroken. -
Starting Over from Rubble
“Starting over from the rubble of my past” (무너진 자리에서 다시 시작해) captures the post-destruction moment. Everything has collapsed. But rubble is not nothing—it’s the raw material for rebuilding. The speaker doesn’t wait for a clean slate; they begin again in the ruins. -
Chasing Fleeing Truth
“Chasing the fleeing truth until the very end” (도망친 진실을 끝까지 찾아) suggests that the betrayal involved hidden truths, secrets that ran away. The speaker is determined to hunt them down, to uncover what was hidden, to know fully what was done to them. -
Looking Through the Sky
The repeated instruction to “look through the sky” is mysterious and beautiful. Perhaps it means to see beyond the visible, to find perspective, to connect with something larger than the immediate pain. The sky is vast, endless, indifferent—and perhaps, in that indifference, there is freedom. -
The Silence of Secrets
The pre-chorus returns again and again to “the silence of secrets.” This silence is not empty; it’s filled with unspoken truths, with things left unsaid. It’s the silence that precedes the tempest, the quiet before destruction. And it asks: “Don’t you remember?”—a challenge to the betrayer, and perhaps to the self, to acknowledge what was done.
In essence, this song is an anthem of survival against betrayal. It refuses the easy path of victimhood or simple revenge, instead choosing a harder, more transformative journey: enduring the waves, rising from the rubble, chasing the truth, and turning unhealed wounds into weapons. The speaker dances not despite the fire, but with it—because they know that only by passing through the flames can they truly rise from the ashes.
