"My Pace" is a song recorded by South Korean boy group Stray Kids. It is the second and title track from their third extended play I am WHO?. The music video was released on August 6, 2018.

Background

My Pace is a hip-hop genre song that contains the bold message of "I will go my own way". The lyrics emphasize the meaning of "Everyone has their own pace, and it's okay to go at that pace, trust yourself" which comforts the anxiety that comes from comparisons with others. It is characterized by the harmony of two sounds, cool hip-hop and intense rock, to exude powerful energy.

As said by Changbin, the title track sends a message about going towards your dream in your own pace and not comparing yourself to others.

According to Felix, the point choreography of the song is when they open their index and middle fingers and move them around.

Lyrics

 Woojin   Chan   Minho   Changbin   Hyunjin   Jisung   Felix   Seungmin   Jeongin 

Nananananana

์•„ ์ด๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹Œ๋ฐ

Nananananana

๊ทธ๋ž˜ ์ด๊ฑฐ์ง€ letโ€™s go

Nananananana

์Ÿค์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ๋ถ€๋Ÿฌ์›Œ
yes Iโ€™m
๋ถ€๋Ÿฌ์›Œ
yes Iโ€™m
๋ฐ˜์˜๋ฐ˜์ด๋ผ๋„ ๋‹ฎ์•˜์œผ๋ฉด ๋‚œ ์ข‹๊ฒ ์–ด

์šฐ์Šค์›Œ
๋‚ด๊ฐ€
์šฐ์Šค์›Œ
๋‚ด๊ฐ€
๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์™€ ๋‚  ๋น„๊ตํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์šฐ์Šค์›Œ


ํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ

๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋น„๊ต ๋”ฐ์œˆ ์˜๋ฏธ ์—†์ž–์•„

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ์ง€ ๋งˆ stop it now

๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋„Œ ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋„ˆ์˜ ๊ธธ์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฉด ๋ผ


์ธ์ •ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹ซ์ง€๋งŒ

์˜†์„ ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ๋˜์ž–์•„

์•ž์„œ๊ฐ„๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋จผ์ € ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฑด ์•„๋ƒ baby

์ € ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ ๋ณด๊ณ  take your time


์กฐ๊ธ‰ํ•  ํ•„์š” ์—†์–ด my pace

๋น„๊ต ๋”ฐ์œˆ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ

์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค๋„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„

๋‚˜์˜ ๊ธธ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ my lane

๊ธ‰ํ•œ ๋ง˜ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋†”

์•ž๋งŒ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๋‹ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ€

You ready, letโ€™s go


Nananananana

Just stay in my lane

Nananananana

์•„ ๊ทผ๋ฐ


๋˜ ๋‚จ์„ ์ณ๋‹ค๋ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋ด

๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๋ณด๋‹ค ํ•˜๋‚˜์”ฉ์€ ๋” ์ž˜๋‚œ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„

์™œ ์ผ๊นŒ na ์™œ ์ผ๊นŒ uh

์ž๊พธ ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ๋ผ ๋‚˜๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ


๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ณ  ๊ณ ๋ฅด๋Š” ์„ ํƒ์˜ ์—ฐ์† ์ด๊ฑฐ๋ผ๋„ ๋ญ๋ผ๋„

ํ•ด๋ณผ๊นŒ ๋‚˜๋งŒ ๋’ค์ฒ˜์งˆ๊นŒ

๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์ด ๊ณ„์† ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์กฐ๋ฅด๊ฑฐ๋“ 

๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์• ๋“ค ๋ด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์• ๋“ค ๋ด

๋‚œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์• ๋“ค๊ด€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์• ๋“ค๊ด€

๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์€ ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚ด ๋นˆ ์ž”์— ์š•์‹ฌ๋งŒ ๊ฐ€๋“


์ธ์ •ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹ซ์ง€๋งŒ

์˜†์„ ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ๋˜์ž–์•„

์•ž์„œ๊ฐ„๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋จผ์ € ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฑด ์•„๋ƒ baby

์ € ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ ๋ณด๊ณ  take your time


์กฐ๊ธ‰ํ•  ํ•„์š” ์—†์–ด my pace

๋น„๊ต ๋”ฐ์œˆ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ

์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค๋„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„

๋‚˜์˜ ๊ธธ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ my lane

๊ธ‰ํ•œ ๋ง˜ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋†”

์•ž๋งŒ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๋‹ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ€


๋‚œ ์•„์ง ๋‚˜์˜ ๋ชฉ์ ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋””์ธ์ง€๋Š” ๋ชฐ๋ผ

I donโ€™t know

์ €๊ธฐ ๊ฒฐ์Šน์„ ์˜ ๋‚ด ๋ชจ์Šต์ด ์–ด๋–ค ๋ชจ์Šต์ผ์ง€ ๋ชฐ๋ผ

I want to know


ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ผ๋‹จ ๋‚ด ์•ž์— ๊ธธ์„ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค

๊ณ ๋ฏผ์€ ๋‹ค์Œ ๊ฐˆ๋ฆผ๊ธธ์—์„œ

๊ทธ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ์ž๊พธ ๋‚˜์˜ ์˜†์„ ๋Œ์•„๋ณด์ง€ ๋งˆ

์žŠ์ง€๋งˆ my speed, my lane, my pace


์กฐ๊ธ‰ํ•  ํ•„์š” ์—†์–ด
[Woojin/Chan]my pace
[Woojin/Chan]๋น„๊ต ๋”ฐ์œˆ
ํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ

[Woojin/Chan]์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค๋„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„

๋‚˜์˜ ๊ธธ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ my lane

๊ธ‰ํ•œ ๋ง˜ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋†”

์•ž๋งŒ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๋‹ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ€

You ready, letโ€™s go


Nananananana

Just stay in my lane

Nananananana

Nananananana

a ige aninde

Nananananana

geurae igeoji letโ€™s go

Nananananana

jyaecheoreom dwego shipeo bureowo
yes Iโ€™m
bureowo
yes Iโ€™m
banebanirado dalmasseumyeon nan jogesseo

useuwo
naega
useuwo
naega
nugungawa nal bigyohandaneun ge neomu useuwo


haji ma haji ma

geureon bigyo ttawin uimi eopjana

geureoji ma stop it now

geunyang neon jigeum neoye gireul gamyeon dwae


injeonghagi shilchiman

yeopeul boge dwejana

apseogandago meonjeo ganeun geon anya baby

jeo meolli bogo take your time


jogeubhal piryo eopseo my pace

bigyo ttawin haji ma

cheoncheonhi dallyeodo gwaenchana

naye gireul ttara my lane

geubhan mam naeryeonwa

apman bogo dallyeoga

You ready, letโ€™s go


Nananananana

Just stay in my lane

Nananananana

a geunde


tto nameul chyeodabwa geurigo nareul bwa

mwonga naboda hanasshigeun deo jallan geot gata

wae ilkka na wae ilkka uh

jakku boge dwae nado moreuge


moreugo goreuneun seontaege yeonsok igeorado mworado

haebolkka naman dwicheojilkka

burangami gyesok nareul joreugeodeun

dareun aedeul bwa dareun aedeul bwa

nan dareun aedeulgwan dareun aedeulgwan

dareudago mareun hajiman nae bin jane yokshimman gadeuk


injeonghagi shilchiman

yeopeul boge dwejana

apseogandago meonjeo ganeun geon anya baby

jeo meolli bogo take your time


jogeubhal piryo eopseo my pace

bigyo ttawin haji ma

cheoncheonhi dallyeodo gwaenchana

naye gireul ttara my lane

geubhan mam naeryeonwa

apman bogo dallyeoga


nan ajik naye mokjeokjiga eodiinjineun molla

I donโ€™t know

jeogi gyeolseungseone nae moseubi eotteon

I want to know


hajiman ildan nae ape gireul dallyeo

gomineun daeum gallimgireseo

geuttaekkajineun jakku naye yeopeul doraboji ma

itjima my speed, my lane, my pace


jogeubhal piryo eopseo
[Woojin/Chan]my pace
[Woojin/Chan]bigyo ttawin
haji ma

[Woojin/Chan]cheoncheonhi dallyeodo gwaenchana

naye gireul ttara my lane

geubhan mam naeryeonwa

apman bogo dallyeoga

You ready, letโ€™s go


Nananananana

Just stay in my lane

Nananananana

Nananananana

This isnโ€™t right

Nananananana

Yes, this is it, letโ€™s go

Nananananana

I wanna be like him, Iโ€™m jealous
, yes Iโ€™m
jealous
, yes Iโ€™m
I wish I was half of half of him

So funny, so funny

Itโ€™s so funny how I compare myself with others


Stop it, stop it

No use in comparing

Donโ€™t do that, stop it now

Just go on your own way


I donโ€™t wanna admit it

But I keep looking next to me

Just cuz someoneโ€™s ahead doesnโ€™t mean theyโ€™re first, baby

Look at the big picture and take your time


No need to rush, my pace

Donโ€™t compare

Itโ€™s alright to go slowly

Go on your own path, my lane

Put down your impatience

Just keep looking forward

You ready, letโ€™s go


Nananananana

Just stay in my lane

Nananananana

Hey but


I keep looking at others and then I look at myself

Seems like theyโ€™re all better than me

Why? Why?

I keep looking without knowing


A cycle of making decisions without knowing

But I should do something, what if Iโ€™m the only one whoโ€™s behind?

Anxiety keeps begging me

Look at the others, look at the others

I say that Iโ€™m different from them, them

But only greed fills up my empty glass


I donโ€™t wanna admit it

But I keep looking next to me

Just cuz someoneโ€™s ahead doesnโ€™t mean theyโ€™re first, baby

Look at the big picture and take your time


No need to rush, my pace

Donโ€™t compare

Itโ€™s alright to go slowly

Go on your own path, my lane

Put down your impatience

Just keep looking forward


I still donโ€™t know where my destination is

I donโ€™t know

I donโ€™t know how Iโ€™ll be at the finish line

I want to know


But first, let me go on my way

Iโ€™ll deal with the worries at the next crossroads

Until then, stop looking next to you

Donโ€™t forget, my speed, my lane, my pace


No need to rush,
[Woojin/Chan]my pace
[Woojin/Chan]Donโ€™t
compare

[Woojin/Chan]Itโ€™s alright to go slowly

Go on your own path, my lane

Put down your impatience

Just keep looking forward

You ready, letโ€™s go


Nananananana

Just stay in my lane

Nananananana

Trivia

  • A Japanese version of the song was released as part of Stray Kids' Japanese debut best album SKZ2020.

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