Epik High- Paranoia *English Subs* Disturbing 피해망상 pt.1

*Explanatory notes below* From Epik High's 4th album "Remapping the Human Soul". This is part 1, part 3 is on their second album (you can search 피해망상 on www.naver.com to listen to it) There's no part 2

Translation and Subs- TheAsianMission

Interpretation:
I think the overall message is about how strange feelings such as paranoia can spread from one person to another (from girl 1, then as a result of what happened, to man 1 (fleeing in the shock of accidentally killing someone), and to woman 2 and man 2 (seeing the dead woman staring at them, perhaps with the same expression as she stared at man 1 with, in the moment before she died)

I read a Korean's interpretation of this before I translated it (wish I could do that every time).. There are 4main characters:
1. The first man (The "I" in Mithra's part)
2. The first woman that the man meets (named girl in the subs to help sort things out)
3. The second woman that hurries and gets on the train (The "she" in Tablo's part)
4. The second man, who gets on the subway, starts to feel suspicious and tells the woman to get off.

In the first verse, Man 1, drunk is on his way home and sees the strange Girl 1 at the subway station.. He tries to talk to her but she gets scared and slips off the subway platform (dying?).

(Afterwards man 1 takes girl 1 (dead now?) onto the subway train with him acting like a couple to try and hide the fact that he accidentally killed her.

In the second verse, woman 2 hurries onto the same subway train (at a different station), and gets an eerie feeling as she rides alone with a man and woman (couple) sitting in the corner.. The couple are probably man 1 and girl 1 from verse 1. Girl 1(?) has a strange lack of expression and is staring at woman 2 (because girl 1 is dead with her head resting on Man 1's shoulder?).. Man 2 gets on the subway at one of the next stops sitting on the same side as woman 2.. He starts to feel suspicious of the man and woman in the corner. He whispers to woman 2 to hurry and get off the train.. "That girl.. (is dead?)" he doesn't finish the sentence

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[Sanikirang]

@ProductofChina The song WOULD suck your dick, but it doesn't like tic-tacs.

[rainyseas0n]

nono. paranoia is the main plot of the song, and it is an almost plague-like thing that spreads through everyone in the song.

1. the girl is paranoid that the guy will rape/attack her, and fell to her death on accident

2. the guy is paranoid of someone finding out that he accidentally killed the girl, so he tries to hide her

3. the lady is paranoid of the girl's expressionless stares

4. the man is also, and tells the lady, thus confirming her paranoia

[liebetrance]

I love Epik High. 

[DernhelmEJ]

(Verse 3 by Narrator)

Guy B is on the subway now. He notices that something is def wrong with "the couple". He keeps cool and quietly tells Girl B to get off at the next stop b/c there's a murderer with a girl's dead body.

[DernhelmEJ]

Guys the story is simple. No need to overthink it.

(Verse 1 by Guy A)

Guy A kills Girl A by accident.

Well he can't just leave the body there, right?

So he takes her dead body and takes the subway.

(Verse 2 by Girl B)

Girl B on the same subway. She's on edge b/c too late and there's noone on the subway-except for an odd couple sitting nearby. And the girl keeps staring at her with blank face. This freaks her out.

(Verse 3 by Narrator)

Guy B on the subway. He notices something weird with the "co

[CaptainAyu]

@AllstarHunE Actually it's just short stories about paranoia. Part 3 and Part 2 (Not sure but it's most likely true.) are just completely different stories dealing paranoia.

[SuperiorBish]

This is like that urban (horror) legends ohh I like this a lot

[xxCostumexx]

They don't mean literally "OMG THAT GIRL WAS FLYING."

They mean she fell and was in the air as she fell.

[hyukki]

Beautiful lyrics!

[KamuiJJang]

Fuck. I just realize that Tablo isn't the man on the train telling the girl to get off. :| this shit is scary. Then he's just a narrator or actually he plays some role in the story, anybody tell me?

[KamuiJJang]

oh wait. I think the girl in verse 1 is not real. She's the paranoia, the 1st guy imagined her, because he was too drunk. (it said her body is suspended in the air..) Then he imagined that he approached and accidentally killed the girl, then the rest is like everybody said, he brought that imaginary girl into the train with him, act like a couple. The girl and the man in the 2nd verse are also paranoid, since they also saw the dead girl (who is merely the 1st guy's imagination) too.