Manège À Trois Lyrics in English Hoshi

Manège À Trois (which literally describes a three-person merry-go-round) throws us straight into a whirl of jealousy and heartbreak. The South Korean artist Hoshi sings from the perspective of someone who feels they are drowning after discovering their partner’s affair. She imagines preparing her own coffin and placing it inside her lover’s heart—the very place she once retreated to after making mistakes. This exaggeration underlines just how completely the betrayal has shattered her sense of self.

The chorus makes the pain crystal-clear: while she is out working, a third person shares her bed, and her partner refuses to admit it. She demands to know what this intruder has that she doesn’t, yet suspects her partner cannot answer. Worst of all, she pictures having to tell their children that “dad left,” reducing a complicated heartbreak to a simple, bitter line. With vivid imagery, sarcasm, and raw emotion, Hoshi turns a familiar story of infidelity into a dramatic, almost theatrical confession that listeners can both feel and visualize.