Epik High - Pieces of You [english subbed]

This song was written by Tablo for his father in 2008. But I feel that almost anyone could relate to it, as it also reminds us of our own parents. Sadly, his father passed away in 2012. --- I HAD to sub this song, because it really speaks to me. Some of the videos on Youtube made the lyrics seem like a romantic love/breakup song, which it isn't. This bothered me, because the lyrics eloquently describe the parent child relationship, and to make it just a love song, well, I felt it really destroyed the original intentions. Below I'll give a rant-analysis of the song, because there's so much I want to say about it. You should TL;DR if you're not interested in stuff like that. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) The song is about the narrator (Tablo(?) perhaps) recalling his childhood and the memories with his father. It also shows a lot of regrets that he had, in committing a lot of sins* (bad deeds, etc.) that wore on his father. As he reached adulthood and beyond, he could see his own father, who was his hero and guardian as a child, slowly growing weaker in comparison to him. The narrator knows that their time is running out together, and wishes that they could go back in time, when they were both youthful and shared many simple memories, such as building a snowman together. *I'll note here that Tablo was a really rebellious child who got into fights and even expelled once. His relationship with his father was also strained when he decided to pursue music, which his father disagreed with, and he tried to run away from home many times. Worse still, the Tajinyo incident where some netizens basically witch hunted Tablo saying his faked his Stanford degree (which was a stupid and false accusation, even disproven by Stanford. It made Epik high go through the darkest stage in their lives) put a huge strain on Tablo's father. He eventually passed away from illness and stress. :/ It's a tragic situation where Tablo's situation really did partly cause what he feared to happen to his father. --- "Your eyes, the first mirror of my life" Refers to looking into your parent's eyes when you are born, the first mirrors that you ever see. The narrator says that he "wants to resemble my pure self reflected in them, again", meaning that he wants to once again have that purity that he did when he was a just child. "The rapids in your river shed even my sorrows for me". Refers to parents suffering in their children's steed, and the narrator "want[ing] to pour the countless tears back into them again". "The lessons you taught me were the feathers on my bony wings." This line is a metaphor for a parent's teachings being like feathers on a baby bird trying to fly. "After receiving endlessly from you, I want to give you something back in return, but is it so hard to accept everything from me, stack them in a pile and just rest?" This line is about how parents tirelessly work for us, and say that they don't need us to "give" them something back, which troubled the narrator who just wanted them to rest. "You know I do, I do love you. Even the sight of you growing tired, Even the sight of you growing smaller from the back." Growing smaller from the back can both mean his father getting weaker and older, as well as getting farther away from him. Translation credit to: http://epikhightrans.tumblr.com/post/... http://yeeun2grace.wordpress.com/2008... Art is mine.