Hear MICKLE’s Nungeum and picture the pencil marks on an old doorframe

Where does Nungeum begin?

The opening is a single line: “I’m still just the same.” In the first verse, the speaker follows the pencil marks beside the flowery wallpaper. Under a number the size of a fingernail, nine-year-old me is smiling. The evening of skipping rope hangs over the garden wall, and grown-up hands rest on the old doorframe.

The second verse brings a cassette tape in a drawer and a name written crookedly. There is a stretched-out scrap of song wound back with a pencil tip, and a window sticker still lifting at one corner. When someone asks what color the curtains should be, the speaker chooses yellow. Small objects tell the story of that house for them.

Who is the chorus asking?

The chorus opens with “Call my name just one more time.” It asks to be held in the voice that said everything was okay, like the day of running barefoot. The lyrics never say whose voice that is. It could belong to someone who was nearby long ago, or it could be the grown-up speaker talking to the child.

The pre-chorus says the body has grown far away while the heart stays at the threshold. The chorus adds that the little one stays here and the big one has come too far. After a question about whether closing one’s eyes could reach those arms, the opening line returns.

In the bridge, the request takes a step. The speaker brings the little one left on the doorframe out into today. The final chorus changes to “in that voice that said it missed me” and “I’ll run to you barefoot.” The same chorus first asks to be called, then ends with the speaker running toward the child.

If a height chart is still marked somewhere in your home, you can picture it for a moment while you listen. There is no set way to feel about this song, whatever memory comes up.

Where can you watch the full video?

The full lyric video is public on YouTube. A short clip of the chorus, the official Suno page, and the song’s introduction page are collected below.

• Watch the official Nungeum lyric video on YouTube
• Watch the chorus on YouTube Shorts
• Listen to Nungeum on official Suno
• MICKLE and MUCKLE music page

Made with Suno AI. Lyric video by AI Studio Muckle.

How do the full lyrics unfold?

This is a reading translation of the complete Korean lyrics. It is not a separately recorded English version.

```text I'm still just the same

Beside the flowery wallpaper I trace the pencil marks Under a number the size of a fingernail Nine-year-old me is smiling The evening we skipped rope Hangs over the garden wall With grown-up hands I touch the worn doorframe

My body has grown far away But my heart stays at the threshold

Call my name just one more time In that voice that said it was all okay Like that day I ran barefoot Hold me The little me stays here The big me has come too far If I close my eyes, will I reach your arms? I'm still just the same

A cassette tape in the drawer My name, written crooked A stretched-out scrap of song Wound back with a pencil tip One corner of the window sticker Is still lifting When asked what color the curtains should be I choose yellow

My footsteps fade first I look back at the doorframe Only my voice, smiling and saying it's okay, Grows smaller

Call my name just one more time In that voice that said it was all okay Like that day I ran barefoot Hold me The little me stays here The big me has come too far If I close my eyes, will I reach your arms? I'm still just the same

Close my eyes, past the rubber-band rope Evening light catches at my ankles The little me left on the doorframe Today I'll bring out with me

Call my name just one more time In that voice that said it missed me Close my eyes and go back to that day I'll run to you barefoot The me who couldn't grow even a hand-span The me who became a grown-up Please don't let go of me today I'm still just the same ```