Toom Yoo Nai Jai (ทุ้มอยู่ในใจ): meaning and key lines
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What the song is about
ทุ้มอยู่ในใจtúm yùu nai jai, “Toom Yoo Nai Jai (Deep in My Heart)”, is a Thai rock song by Off Big Ass (2011). The rock song of SuckSeed (2011), the comedy about three hopeless school boys who start a band, sung by Off, the guitarist of the rock band Big Ass. A song about a song: an old tune that still sounds deep in your heart years after you parted. Its lines teach whenever, the old days, since, how are you these days?, let time pass for years, at least, and the warm word for being glad at heart.
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Song facts
- Artist
- Off Big Ass (Poonsak Jaturaboon; from the film SuckSeed)
- Released
- 2011
- Style
- Thai rock
- Level
- B1 (intermediate)
- Mood
- nostalgic, warm, upbeat
- Views
- about 56M (Oct 2026)
- Video
- GTHchannel (GTH, the studio that made SuckSeed)
- Lyrics
- Key lines quoted; the full song is in the video
Key lines, explained
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- ได้ยิน dâi-yinเมื่อไร mûea-raiยิ่ง yîngนึกถึง núek tǔengวัน wanเก่า gào
Whenever I hear it, I think of the old days all the more.
The first line calls this song the melody of the past between two people. ได้ยินdâi-yin = to hear. เมื่อไรmûea-rai = when: the dictionary spelling of the word people say and usually write as เมื่อไหร่mûea-rài. After a verb it means whenever: ได้ยินเมื่อไรdâi-yin mûea-rai = whenever I hear it, ว่างเมื่อไหร่ก็มานะwâang mûea-rài gâw maa ná = come whenever you're free. ยิ่งyîng = all the more. นึกถึงnúek tǔeng = to think of, to be reminded of. วันเก่าwan gào = the old days: เก่าgào is old for things and times; old people are แก่gàe. - ตั้งแต่ dtâng-dtàeจากกัน jàak ganวันนี้ wan-níiเธอ toeเป็นไง bpen ngai
Since we parted, how are you these days?
ตั้งแต่dtâng-dtàe = since: ตั้งแต่เมื่อวานdtâng-dtàe mûea-waan = since yesterday. จากกันjàak gan = to part, to leave each other. วันนี้wan-níi = today, and here these days. เป็นไงbpen ngai = how is it?, how are you doing?, the casual form of เป็นอย่างไรbpen yàang-rai: เป็นไงบ้างbpen ngai bâang = how have you been? is just what to ask a friend you haven't seen for a while. - ให้ hâiเวลา wee-laaมัน manหมุน mǔnไป bpaiนาน naanเป็น bpenปี bpii
Let time spin on for years,
From the chorus. ให้hâi at the start = let, even if: ให้เวลามันหมุนไปhâi wee-laa man mǔn bpai = let time keep turning. หมุนmǔn = to turn, to spin, like the hands of a clock, and ไปbpai after a verb = on, away. มันman (it) points back at time. นานเป็นปีnaan bpen bpii = for years, a year or more: เป็นbpen + a length of time says it's that long, and more: รอเป็นชั่วโมงraw bpen chûa-moong = to wait for hours. - แต่ dtàeเพลง pleengนี้ níiยัง yangทุ้ม túmใน naiใจ jai
but this song still sounds deep in my heart.
The end of the chorus, close to the title, ทุ้มอยู่ในใจtúm yùu nai jai. ทุ้มtúm = deep, low, of a sound: เสียงทุ้มsǐang túm = a deep voice, the low notes. A song that is still ทุ้มในใจtúm nai jai keeps sounding deep inside him, and the word suits a film whose hero plays the bass. เพลงนี้pleeng níi = this song: นี้níi goes after the noun. ยังyang = still; Off slips it in at the end of the long note on นี้níi, so it's easy to miss. - เพียงแต่ piang-dtàeอย่างน้อย yàang-náwyฉัน chǎnก็ gâwยัง yangชื่นใจ chûuen-jaiที่ tîiเคย koeiมี miiเธอ toe
But at least I'm still glad that I once had you.
Verse two: the dreams didn't turn out as he hoped. เพียงแต่piang-dtàe = only, but: it softens what comes next. อย่างน้อยyàang-náwy = at least: อย่างน้อยก็ได้ลองyàang-náwy gâw dâi lawng = at least I tried. ชื่นใจchûuen-jai = glad, refreshed at heart, a warm word: a cold drink on a hot day is ชื่นใจchûuen-jai too. ที่tîi = that, because: ชื่นใจที่เคยมีเธอchûuen-jai tîi koei mii toe = glad that I once had you, with เคยkoei + verb = once, used to.
Words you'll learn
- ได้ยิน dâi-yin
to hear
Hearing just happens; listening on purpose is ฟังfang. ได้ยินว่าdâi-yin wâa means 'I heard that…'.
- เก่า gào
old (things); former
- ตั้งแต่ dtâng-dtàe
since; from (a time)
ตั้งแต่dtâng-dtàe + a time or an event: ตั้งแต่เมื่อวานdtâng-dtàe mûea-waan since yesterday. With ถึงtǔeng it's 'from … to': ตั้งแต่เช้าถึงเย็นdtâng-dtàe cháao tǔeng yen from morning to evening.
- จากกัน jàak gan
to part, to split up (from each other)
- หมุน mǔn
to turn, to spin
- ปี bpii
year
Thai calendars count Buddhist years: 2026 is the year 2569.
- เพลง pleeng
song; music
- ทุ้ม túm
deep, low (of a sound or a voice)
เสียงทุ้มsǐang túm = a deep voice.
- อย่างน้อย yàang-náwy
at least
- ชื่นใจ chûuen-jai
glad, refreshed (at heart)
Also what a cold drink does for you on a hot day.
- เมื่อไร mûea-rai
when (written)
The dictionary spelling of เมื่อไหร่mûea-rài, which is how the word is said and usually written.
- ยิ่ง yîng
even more, all the more; the more … (the more …)
- นึกถึง núek tǔeng
to think of, to be reminded of
- เป็นไง bpen ngai
how is it?, how are you doing? (casual)
Short for เป็นอย่างไรbpen yàang-rai. เป็นไงบ้างbpen ngai bâang = how have you been?
- เพียงแต่ piang-dtàe
only, merely, just
Grammar in this song
The more…: ยิ่งyîng. ยิ่งyîng + verb = all the more: ได้ยินเมื่อไรยิ่งนึกถึงdâi-yin mûea-rai yîng núek tǔeng (whenever I hear it, the more I think of it). Used twice, it's the more…, the more…: ยิ่งเร็วยิ่งดีyîng rew yîng dii (the sooner the better).
Question words that mean 'whenever, wherever'. After a verb, เมื่อไหร่mûea-rài (when) can mean whenever, and ไหนnǎi (where) wherever, often with ก็gâw before the next verb: ไปไหนก็ได้bpai nǎi gâw dâi (I'll go anywhere).
Since and at least: ตั้งแต่dtâng-dtàe, อย่างน้อยyàang-náwy. ตั้งแต่จากกันdtâng-dtàe jàak gan (since we parted), ตั้งแต่เด็กdtâng-dtàe dèk (since I was a child); อย่างน้อยสามวันyàang-náwy sǎam wan (at least three days).
The culture behind it
SuckSeed (2011), the first feature by director Chayanop Boonprakob for the studio GTH, follows three high-school boys who start a rock band to impress girls and play terribly; the English title is a pun on success. Ped (Jirayu "Kao" La-ongmanee) only learns music because of Ern (Nattasha Nauljam), the girl he has loved since primary school, who comes back years later as a brilliant guitarist; in the band he plays the bass. Full of Thai rock hits and cameos by real rock stars, it made about 78 million baht in Thai cinemas.
The film's producer, Jira Maligool, chose Off (Poonsak Jaturaboon), the guitarist of the rock band Big Ass, to sing its song. In Big Ass he plays guitar and sings backing vocals, so this was his turn at the front of the stage. The band's longtime drummer, Kob (Kajorndej Promlaksa), wrote the words and Off the music; thirteen years later Kob wrote the words of Billkin's Ever-Forever. In the video (February 2011), directed by Ton Nithiwat Tharathorn, Off plays a mini-concert for a crowd of students, with Kao, Nat and Peach (Pachara Chirathivat) of the film. After the second chorus comes a scene in which the boys talk in กูguu and มึงmueng, the rough 'I' and 'you' of close friends; the song itself is clean.
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