처음엔 사랑이라 생각했어

This is the more melancholic side of Busker Busker — the strummed guitars are still present, still acoustic and warm in texture, but the tempo slows and the mood darkens into something like regret filtered through acceptance. The arrangement stays sparse, letting the guitar and voice carry most of the emotional weight with only gentle percussion filling the space beneath. The song's emotional landscape is retrospective: looking back at a relationship and realizing that what felt like love in the moment might have been something less defined — infatuation, need, loneliness calling itself connection. It's not an angry song, not even particularly sad in a dramatic sense, more like a quiet reckoning. The vocals have the same rough sincerity that defines Busker Busker's work, but here they carry something heavier, a slight roughness in the upper register that sounds like restraint. This song sits at the edge of their more celebrated feel-good catalog as a reminder that the same band that wrote spring anthems also understood autumn moods. Listen when seasons are changing, when you're in that particular headspace of sorting through old feelings without judgment, trying to name what something actually was.