inst.
I have a feeling that writing this will be very painful.

1.
Maybe that's your rhythm

I've never stopped worrying about clothes.
01.
Without even knowing

I'm too obsessed with my friend
02.
your rhythm

I wanted to sing a song that only appears in words in the book.
03.
ha ha ha

I couldn't lock the door without a key.
04.
duckfoot tree

Hey/uh/ji/ja
05.
Strange thing

Thanks to you guys, I became a musician.
06.
Lucky Apartment

In search of dolphin sounds
07.
Beep beep

Give yourself homework and solve it
08.
Yon Yonson

I can't stop eating at night
09.
I want to eat

Please enjoy it
10.
Graduation Film Festival

I'm writing a pathetic diary.
11.
diary

To my friends back then
12.
prop

Stop it, it's embarrassing
13.
Rokucha Gudasai

2.
Maybe I'm trying to play God through a good story

Always worked hard
01.
God's Play

Coca-Cola Coca, Cola Coca-Cola, La Coca-Cola
02.
In search of family

The history of one living person
03.
Into the story

How to maintain a relationship with a rich friend
04.
I'm sad and angry

I mean, show me how to react to something.
05.
Laugh, for the humor

Now I can speak Japanese
06.
Friends in Tokyo

I want to become a small camera and watch other people's lives.
07.
humdrum

I hate the chorus
08.
Everyone in the world started to hate me

I don't know why
09.
Why do I know

Love and disappear
10.
Good news, bad news

3.
Who else but me can tell this story?

This is what happened
01.
The wolf appeared

Everyone in the world is addicted to stories.
02.
conversation

“We enter society through hospitality and become human.”
03.
I'm listening carefully

I am a person who cannot save anyone.
04.
Generation of Tribulation

This was the only bread I had
05.
I ate bread

It's so dark and I'm crying
06.
I need to sleep consciously

I have no choice but to find love while working.
07.
That no way

I can't make a song for you
08.
Park Kang-areum

I will tell you before I die
09.
Imagine a day in the life of someone with a certain name.

4.
I want to hear and tell meaningful stories again.

We are going through war again today
Imjin River

Our small, noisy room
Our room

Bad Me and Bad Sister
Life, Sleep, My Sister, and Me

My cat, Junichi, who left behind only certain love.
Jaguar Junichi

Love without shame is not love
SHAME

Lee Rang's Song: Crying, Laughing, and Growing / Kim Yoon-ha (pop music critic)
I really want to hug you/Kim Yoon-ah (singer)

“Only I can say this.”
Thirty-seven songs spoken with anger and rage
Traces of life written firmly behind the lyrics

From songs created and recorded with the basic programs installed on the 'Whitey MacBook' to songs that resonate through the streets marching with the world's anger, the musical world of artist Lee Rang has constantly moved, grown, and spread from people's hearts to hearts.
Through the three regular albums released so far, "Yonyonson" (2012), "God's Play" (2016), and "A Wolf Appeared" (2022), he won the Best Folk Song Award at the 14th Korean Popular Music Awards, the Best Folk Album Award at the 19th Korean Popular Music Awards, and the Album of the Year Award, establishing himself as an artist who is called by the times.
Lee Rang's lyric-lyric book, "Playing the Guitar Softly," which contains the lyrics of 37 songs he has released and the stories behind them, has been published by Achimdal, and it shows the musical spectrum that has broadened over the time he has lived, not only in Korea but also in Japan and Taiwan.
This book is a compilation of lyrics from previous releases, as well as statements about life intertwined with each song.


Lee Rang, who has moved away from the commonly used 'lyric-like' narrative and has created his own story based on his experiences and sang with an honest voice, has never stopped 'speaking' about the world.
Using his own diary as the basis, he listens to his own story most closely, yet he also tells stories that seem to speak on behalf of others, and he has been constantly connected to the world.
Listeners and readers have discovered deep inner stories they could not enter on their own through Irang's songs, and that empathy has created a transparent solidarity of hearts, and both the artist and the listeners/readers are passing through a certain time.
Without erasing the feeling of being together.


I started using it in my twenties, and now I have dozens of palm-sized Moleskine notebooks, each filled with countless memories of bumping into and practicing.
From song lyrics to diaries of all sorts of days, names I can't pronounce, notes steeped in life... This book began among a pile of records that have sustained life.
In this book, scribbles and notes taken from actual notebooks were inserted inside the book to add a symbol of the original story of Irang, and the composition follows the order of the album to naturally recreate the transition from 'songs to listen to' to 'songs to read'.

This book is not simply a collection of lyrics and creative notes on lyrics.
It clearly shows how much the songs he sang were connected to life, and how desperate his life was at every moment as he never stopped speaking to the world with his anger.
Also, we focus on the story we have by putting the lyrics of the songs we have sung on paper without any melody.
As the author says, people are addicted to stories, but the world is a good place where people are curious about stories, can tell stories, and can listen to stories, because there are people who have the courage to 'speak'.
This is also a person who holds onto that courage and thinks about how his art can be a way to save the world.

“Can you convey me to you?”
Speaking, Showing Up, Surviving - What Irang's Songs Taught Us

"Playing the Guitar Softly", which includes all the stories and lyrics of the 37 songs he has released so far, contains the long history of artist Lee Rang, who has chosen to "speak" with his own sound, perhaps without tuning or adjusting the instrument he has called "me" since his college days.
As he says, “I participate in the history of Irang, I relive the history of Irang, and I live within the history of Irang,” perhaps we too are in an important position to observe how the history of Irang is being used.
This song has the power to make us think about the other person's position or situation from a different perspective, the power to listen as well as speak, and the power to transform anger into love.

Fellow artist and main vocalist of Jaurim, Kim Yuna, wrote in her recommendation, “I Want to Hug You Tightly,” “As I turned the last page, I felt very sad that the story had ended.
As we all know, there aren't many books like that," he says.
It makes us look again at the 'drama' written by Lee Rang with a loving gaze that "watches the process of pain becoming sentences and music."
Kim Yoon-ha, a popular music critic who has been watching him with affection since his first album, said that, just as Minguinho was to Jeze in “My Lime Orange Tree,” Lee Rang’s songs are “a friend who was not there but felt like he was there.”
He introduces himself as “a friend who expresses his thoughts to the world with the same attitude and posture, anytime, anywhere, and says things that I would never have said.”
The honest story of learning through Irang's songs that one can also share friendship through songs is contained in the recommendation, "Irang's Songs: Making You Cry, Laugh, and Grow."

A person who is hungry, can't sleep, and even feels it's a luxury to hold back on loving, but still has a lot of love left to give to the cat and stories to tell.
Weren't all the knots woven into the song the strings that kept him in the world, the way he 'survived'?
The world of Lee Rang, who does not hold back from speaking and sings the voice that the world desperately needs, cannot be contained in a single book, but the lyrics written here and the stories written on the back of the lyrics will remain as a pleasant fragrance that cannot be missed not only by the artist but also by the listeners/readers.

When we listen to this song, we can understand what kind of world we live in.
If we listen to this song again, we can also understand how we survived.
The joy of knowing that it can be learned from the story pocket called song could also be obtained from Irang's song.
Since then, the friendship built through Irang's songs has given me the courage I need to protect myself and survive in the world.
This book could be a long letter, a diary written by someone… … or several places.
A place where songs rest, a place where songs rise, a place where they distort and unfold together, a place where they hide each other and reveal each other.
A place where anyone can listen and speak.
I hope you open the door to this book and stay with Irang's story.