PIL SUNG
Undying Spirit, Courtesy
Honor & Integrity
Perseverance, Self Control
Body, Mind, & Your Soul
The Bell Rung - Pil Sung
Obedience and Loyalty
Trustworthy Dignity
Never Unjust Kill
But Never Retreat - Trust Your Skill
The Bell Rung - Pil Sung
Inside of me - a certain victory
Face the Foe - Toe to Toe - Blow to Blow
Take Control - Feel the Flow - Komahn Barro
Take it or Leave it / But who's to know
Take it or Leave it / When you face the foe
Foe-No, Mind-Soul
Foe-No, Mind-Soul
Face the Foe - Toe to Toe - Blow to Blow
Take Control - Feel the Flow - Komahn Barro
Take it or Leave it / But who's to know
Take it or Leave it / When you face the foe
Pil Sung - Pil Sung - Pil Sung
Hana
Dul
Set
Net
Dasot
Yasot
Il-Gohp
Yoh-Deol
The Bell Rung - Pil Sung
When it's all Done - Pil Sung
Inside of me - a certain victory
SIKKER SEIER
NOTES
Pil Sung is about the true spirit of the martial arts
It means "Certain Victory" in Korean
The 1st verse is the "Tenets of Taekwondo"
Students of Taekwondo learn them as the "5 TENETS"
They are:
Courtesy
Integrity
Perseverance
Self Control
and Indomintable Spirit
The 2nd verse is the "5 Codes of Human Conduct," which were the guiding principals for the very first Taekwondo practioners
(over 2000 yrs ago). The art was then known as "Taek Kyon."
These 5 axioms are:
1) Be loyal to your country
2) Be obedient to your parents
3) Be trustworthy to your friends
4) Never retreat in battle
5) and Never make an unjust kill
- I obviously shortened them so they would fit within the 8 measures of the verse
The rest of the song uses a fight in a ring as a metaphor for life.
"Komahn Barro" means "Stop / Finish" in Korean.
The "Hana, dul..." bridge is ONE through EIGHT in Korean.
"Sikker Seier" (pronounced "Seekadah Sai-air"- with rolling Rs) is Pil Sung in Norwegian.
Recording Notes
The "Sikker Seier" at the end (in multiple echo) was originally a mistake, but we decided to just go with it.
When it came time to record the vocals, Bomba (our producer) had me scream it 5 different times (on 5 different tracks),
and then we planned on listening to them one at a time and deciding which one was best. When I went back in the control room for playback,
Bomba accidentally had the levels up on ALL the tracks so we heard them all at once.
We thought it sounded pretty cool, so we decided to just leave it. We liked it so much that we put it at the beginning
of "Expiration Date," so the CD would start and the same way.