겁쟁이

The electric guitar arrives first — not gently, but with the full weight of something held back too long. Buzz built their reputation on this kind of tension, the gap between what a person knows and what they can bring themselves to do, and "겁쟁이" lives entirely in that gap. The song moves through a mid-tempo rock architecture that feels simultaneously urgent and paralyzed, the rhythm section laying down a steady pulse while the guitars push and recede like someone pacing a room. Min Kyung-hoon's voice carries the whole thing on its back — a tenor with unusual upper-register power, capable of hitting notes that feel less like singing and more like the sound a person makes when they finally break. The song traces the psychology of romantic self-sabotage: watching love slip away and understanding exactly why you're letting it go, because confronting it would require becoming someone you're not sure you are yet. Culturally, this sits in the early 2000s Korean rock ballad era when bands like Buzz, FT Island, and CNBlue were fusing emotional lyric-writing with genuine rock instrumentation. You reach for this song late at night when you've rehearsed a conversation in your head seventeen times and still haven't made the call — when you need someone to articulate the shame of your own hesitation with more grace than you could manage.