(This song can be played on SEAsite under “Pop Music”)

Note:  A “layman’s transliteration is used here with the 5 tones of Bangkok speech indicated in parentheses:  H High; M Mid; L Low; F falling; R rising. 

สบาย = sabaay (M-M) = well; healthy; comfortable; okay; to be at ease.

[“Sasbaay Sabaay” N.B. reduplication intensifies the meaning = “Very comfortable”]

เรา = rao (M) = We, us, our(s)

นั้น = nan (H) = That + Noun/Clf; Topic/Focus marker used to emphasize or draw attention to the topic, i.e. “WE”

จะ = ja? (L) = will + verb (future marker)

อยู่ = yuu (L) = to be located; to be in a place; alive; post+verb: to be in a state or condition of doing smthg.

เรียน (riian) รู้ (ru) กัน (kan) ไป (pai) = learn/know together/at the same time

[เรียนรู้ semantic doublet: two words with similar meaning juxtaposed]

เรียน= rian (M) = to learn

 รู้ = ruu (H) = to know something (information)

[N.B. เรียนรู้: semantic doublet: two words with similar meaning juxtaposed to intensify or elaborate the meaning, making it more elegant or poetic.]

กัน = kan (M) = together; mutual activity, comparison

ไป = pai (M) = go; away from; (directional) à over there

ทุกข์ = thuk (H) = suffering (ข์ – “karan” symbol on top means don’t pronounce the letter underneath;  marks end of word; borrowed from Pali (language of Buddhism) “dukka”)

สุข = suk (L) = pleasure, happiness

เพียง ไหน = phiang (M) nai (R) = however much

เพียง = (M) just only

แม้ = mae (H) = even though 

วันใด = wan (M) dai (M) =  whatever day; whenever

ที่ = thii (F) that; place; at/in

ใจ jai (M) =  heart

เธอ = theu/ther  (M) = intimate “you” used esp. in love songs

เปลี่ยน = plian (M) =  to change something

ไม่ = mai (F) = not + verb 

เห็น = hen (R) = to see

แปลก = plaek (L) = strange; unusual

เมื่อ =  when (F) (adverbial; N.B. not interrogative เมื่อไร “when?”)  

จาก = jaak (L) =  from; to leave

ปาก = baak = mouth (here translated as “lips”)

ว่า = waa (F) = …that; if; to say, opine; quote follows….

คิด = khit (H) = think or plan to do something, e.g. to leave, break up

ไป = pai (M) = go; move away from one place to another

ก็ = kor (F) = then;  too, also; separates Subj. & Predicate

คง = kong (M)= most likely

เข้า = khao (F) = to enter

เข้า ใจ = khaocay (khao [F] jai [M]) = to understand

ต้อง = tawng (F) = must + verb   (ต้องไป = must go)

เสียใจ  = sia (R) jai (M) = sorry; เสีย = broken, out of order; rotten;  spoiled; dead; post-verb = completely

และ = lae? (H, glottalized restriction)  = and

เสียดาย = sia (R) daay (M)  = sorry; regret

แต่ = tae (L) = but

ยัง  = yang (M) = still, yet

สบาย = sabaay (M-M) = well; ok; healthy; comfortable

หาก = haak (L) = if

แล้ว =laew (H) = and then; post-verb: marks completion

ทิ้ง = thing (H) = to throw; toss

ทิ้งกันไป  = throw [together] [go/dir.] away

เพราะ = phrou? (H) = because

เป็น = (pen) = to be someone, something

คน = khon (M) = person; CLF for counting people

ฝืนใจ = feun(M) jai (M) = to force someone’s feelings

ใคร = khrai (M) = someone; nobody (with neg.); who/whose

เลิกรา  = lerk (F) raa (M) = break up; end something [semantic doublet]

แบบ =  baep (L) = fashion; way;

manner; method;  like…this/that way