Shownu solo – Around & Go (English translation)

[Verse 1]
Frustrated you’ve got me frustrated.
Trust has faded.
You’re driving me crazy.

I didn’t want us to say goodbye,
but nothing could ever change my mind.

[Pre-Chorus]
And baby, there’s no escaping from this.
It’s such a panic
I think you’ve played enough.

With you, I’m hypnotized, saying
“I do, do” willingly choosing pain again.
Ooh, ooh what do you have to say?
Your cruel trap keeps hurting me.

[Chorus]
Baby, I can’t get over this love.
With time, you’re killing me now.
Oh, I just get around and go.
Get around and go.

Beg, beg one word from you, so blind.
Broken in front of you, falling down twice.
Oh, I just get around and go.
Get around and go.

[Verse 2]
I know it’s nothing new.
Like, what what am I supposed to do?
You keep catching up, catching up.
Time to switch it up, switch it up, switch it up now.

And I didn’t want us to say goodbye,
but nothing could ever change my mind.

[Pre-Chorus]
And baby, I can’t stop this.
It’s such a panic
I think you’ve played enough.

[Chorus]
Baby, I can’t get over this love.
With time, you’re killing me now.
Oh, I just get around and go.
Get around and go.

Beg, beg one word from you, so blind.
Broken in front of you, falling down twice.
Oh, I just get around and go.
Get around and go.

[Bridge]
Get around and go again for me
this desire keeps growing stronger.
Oh, I can’t stop denying,
’cause you’re the one for me.
It feels like this will never end.
Oh, I I want even this moment more than now.

[Final Chorus]
Baby, I can’t get over this love.
I’m back at the same place again.
Oh, I just get around and go.
Get around and go.

This time, your love feels like a bad game.
Broken before you, falling down twice.
Oh, I just get around and go.
Get around and go.

📖 Lyrics Meaning

This song captures the painful cycle of a toxic, addictive love  where the speaker knows they should leave but keeps returning, trapped by hypnotic attachment and frustration.

Key themes:

1. Frustration and faded trust – The opening lines set the tone: the relationship is no longer healthy. Trust is gone, yet the speaker is still emotionally entangled.

2. Willingly choosing pain – “Hypnotized, saying ‘I do do’ willingly choosing pain again” suggests a self‑aware yet powerless repetition. The speaker knows the love hurts, but still says “yes” to it.

3. Cruel trap – The beloved’s actions are described as a trap that keeps hurting. There is blame, but also a sense of being unable to escape.

4. Killing with time – “With time, you’re killing me now” means the prolonged suffering is slowly destroying the speaker. It’s not a quick heartbreak it’s a slow erosion.

5. Get around and go – This phrase is ambiguous. It could mean “move on” (get going) or “go in circles” (get around the same block). The repetition suggests the speaker is stuck in a loop leaving and returning.

6. Begging and blindness – “Beg, beg one word from you, so blind” shows desperation. One word from the beloved can make the speaker ignore all reason and fall again.

7. Switching it up – The second verse acknowledges the need to change: “Time to switch it up.” But the chorus immediately repeats the same pattern, showing the difficulty of actual change.

8. Desire that won’t end – The bridge admits: “this desire keeps growing stronger… it feels like this will never end.” The speaker wants even more of the painful moment a masochistic longing.

9. Love as a bad game – The final chorus calls love a “bad game.” Yet the speaker still plays, still falls, still says “get around and go” trapped in the loop.