8: 45 Heaven (Drunken Tiger song Translated)

If many of you do not know, I am a Korean immigrant. I have my love for Korean culture and it's main stream media from TV shows to music. But I always been a Hip Hop head and being Korean and Hip Hop head, you got to love Drunken Tiger. In their album "Sky is the Limit", there is song call "8: 45 Heaven" which the Drunken Tiger (Or Tiger JK/ Drunken Tiger started out with two people but one ended up leaving in 2004) wrote a song about his passed grandmother.

The message I am trying to deliver before I translate the song is that, even though many of us speak different languages in this world, we experience and feel same way about most common life situations. We feel sad when we lose someone, we feel glorious when we are acknowledged for achievement, we feel angry when there is difference between one and other. Well, here you go. If you are reading this, thank you for trying to understand what goes in my head.


8:45 Heaven

(First Verse)
Should've done better when you were around
Should've told you when you were around
It was same as the others days but from the ring of the alarm that woke me up, I felt it.
To rewind the clock, it was to late.
One last cry. Oh, please god try
Please don't let her die on me, I know it's a lie
I told you to wait till I can make you happy
You told me you would wait till I become the top
Please hold on a little bit
Stay in the world for a little bit
Please god act like you didn't see nothing, just this once.
It's probably a mistake, God is not perfect
if he was, why would he try to take the most precious thing from me?

(Chorus)
8:45, on the way to heaven
only good is existed in that peaceful place
8:45, on the way to heaven
if you can hear my voice, know that I love you
8:45, on the way to heaven
only good is existed in that peaceful place
8:45, on the way to heaven
if you can hear my voice, know that I love you

(Second Verse)
Should've done better, when you were around
Should've screamed it out, when you were around
How much I love you
Even though you can not reply, Im holding on to your hands tightly
and hoping you might could hear me if I scream out loud, so I shout.
Please get up, open yours eyes
One last cry, let me say goodbye
Please don't let her die on me, It ain't her time
World could hate me, but to me you are the best
No matter what people say, you never blamed others
No matter what it is, your loving was
almost like a miracle, that created miracles
Second to the god, perfection of beauty
The most beautiful thing in the world
the most precious thing in the world, my love


(Chorus)
8:45, on the way to heaven
only good is existed in that peaceful place
8:45, on the way to heaven
if you can hear my voice, know that I love you
8:45, on the way to heaven
only good is existed in that peaceful place
8:45, on the way to heaven
if you can hear my voice, know that I love you

(Third Verse)
Without the last word, where are you going?
Even when I breathe, My chest is filled with pain
after I exhale, I'm still left with pain in my chest
In this empty world, I can not be seen
but I try to smile,because If I see myself being sad
it might make you sad, also
I promise, I never forget you
I will now let your fighting hands go.

(Chorus)
8:45, on the way to heaven
only good is existed in that peaceful place
8:45, on the way to heaven
if you can hear my voice, know that I love you
8:45, on the way to heaven
only good is existed in that peaceful place
8:45, on the way to heaven
if you can hear my voice, know that I love you


                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEm4ZRUj094






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