시간이 들겠지

"시간이 들겠지" works from a simple and devastating premise: healing is not instantaneous, and knowing that doesn't make the waiting easier. The arrangement is warmer than Nell's more atmospheric work, with acoustic guitar lending a gentle, almost folk-like quality to the opening passages before the electric layers settle in underneath. The song moves at a tempo that feels paced to human breath — unhurried, patient, as if modeling the very quality it sings about. Kim Jong-wan's voice carries something different here than in the band's more desolate material: there is tenderness alongside the sorrow, an acknowledgment that pain is temporary even when it feels permanent. The melody rises in a way that doesn't feel like triumph so much as quiet resolve. This is a song about the long middle part of grief — past the acute stage, not yet at peace, just enduring. The lyrical sensibility here connects to a broader Korean popular music tradition of songs about processing loss with dignity rather than drama. It is the kind of song that a friend sends you rather than says out loud, because it articulates something that resists direct expression. Best encountered during recovery — a weeks-after breakup, a slow recuperation from something difficult — when the worst is over but the distance back to yourself still feels vast.