Let Him Love You for Me (ฝากให้เขารัก): meaning and key lines
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What the song is about
ฝากให้เขารักfàak hâi kǎo rák, “Let Him Love You for Me (Fak Hai Khao Rak)”, is a Thai rock song by Yes'sir Days (2025). A breakup ballad from the band GMM Grammy calls the godfathers of heartbreak songs: a man admits he never loved her well enough, lets her go to someone better and asks him to love her more than he did. Its lines teach the Thai of goodbyes: to pretend, nothing but, it's my fault that, to make excuses, to entrust and the everyday word for worth it, and its culture note explains karma.
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Song facts
- Artist
- Yes'sir Days
- Released
- 2025
- Style
- Thai rock
- Level
- B1 (intermediate)
- Mood
- heartbroken, selfless, resigned
- Views
- about 145M (Oct 2026)
- Video
- Genierock (Genie Records, the band's label)
- Lyrics
- Key lines quoted; the full song is in the video
Key lines, explained
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- ต้อง dtâwngแกล้ง glâengยิ้ม yímเมื่อ mûeaเธอ toeจากไป jàak bpai
I have to fake a smile when you leave.
แกล้งglâeng + verb = to pretend to: แกล้งหลับglâeng làp = to pretend to be asleep. On its own, แกล้งglâeng is to tease, to play a trick on someone: อย่าแกล้งyàa glâeng = stop teasing. ยิ้มyím = to smile. เมื่อmûea = when. จากไปjàak bpai = to go away, to leave for good. - อยู่ yùuกับ gàpฉัน chǎnมัน manมีแต่ mii dtàeเศร้า sâo
With me, there's nothing but sadness.
อยู่กับyùu gàp = to be with, to live with: อยู่กับใครyùu gàp krai = who do you live with? มีแต่mii dtàe = there's nothing but, only: ตู้เย็นมีแต่น้ำdtûu-yen mii dtàe náam = there's nothing in the fridge but water. เศร้าsâo = sad, gloomy. มันman (it) is the situation, like English 'it's all…'. The next line says that with him, the new man, you'll surely be happy. - ผิด pìtที่ tîiฉัน chǎnรัก rákเธอ toeไม่ mâiพอ pawไม่ mâiขอ kǎwแก้ตัว gâe-dtuaสักคำ sàk kam
It's my fault I didn't love you enough. I won't make a single excuse.
ผิดที่pìt tîi… = it's (my) fault that…: ผิดpìt = wrong. ไม่พอmâi paw = not enough: เงินไม่พอngoen mâi paw = there isn't enough money. ขอkǎw + verb asks to do something, so ไม่ขอmâi kǎw + verb firmly declines: I won't. แก้ตัวgâe-dtua = to make excuses; it also means to redeem yourself, to make up for a mistake: ขอแก้ตัวkǎw gâe-dtua = give me another chance. สักคำsàk kam = a single word. - ฝาก fàakให้ hâiเขา kǎoรัก rákเธอ toeมาก mâakกว่า gwàaฉัน chǎn
I'm trusting him to love you more than I did.
The title. ฝากfàak = to leave something in someone's care: ฝากกระเป๋าfàak grà-bpǎo = to leave your bag with someone, ฝากเงินfàak ngoen = to put money in the bank. ฝากให้fàak hâi + person + verb = to trust someone to do it for you: ฝากให้เขารักfàak hâi kǎo rák = I'm leaving it to him to love (you). มากกว่าฉันmâak gwàa chǎn = more than me. - เจ็บ jèpแต่ dtàeคุ้ม kúmที่ tîiเธอ toeสุขใจ sùk-jai
It hurts, but it's worth it, because you're happy.
เจ็บjèp = to hurt. คุ้มkúm = worth it, good value, a word you'll hear at every market: คุ้มมากkúm mâak = great value, ไม่คุ้มmâi kúm = not worth it. ที่tîi + a clause = that…, because…: คุ้มที่เธอสุขใจkúm tîi toe sùk-jai = worth it, because you're happy. สุขใจsùk-jai = happy at heart, content, a deeper มีความสุขmii kwaam-sùk. - ฝาก fàakให้ hâiเขา kǎoไม่ mâiทำ tamเธอ toeเสียใจ sǐa-jai
I'm trusting him never to make you sad.
The song's last line. ทำtam + person + feeling = to make someone feel it: ทำเธอเสียใจtam toe sǐa-jai = to make you sad, to hurt you. เสียใจsǐa-jai = sad, hurt; it's also how you share someone's grief: เสียใจด้วยนะsǐa-jai dûay ná = I'm so sorry (for your loss).
Words you'll learn
- แกล้ง glâeng
to tease, to play a trick on; to pretend
- ยิ้ม yím
to smile
เวลาเธอยิ้มwee-laa toe yím = when you smile; รอยยิ้มrawy-yím = a smile.
- เศร้า sâo
sad, sorrowful, gloomy
- ผิด pìt
wrong; to make a mistake
- แก้ตัว gâe-dtua
to make excuses; to redeem yourself
- ฝาก fàak
to leave (something) with someone
Giving something into someone's care: your bag at reception, a parcel with the guard.
- คุ้ม kúm
worth it, good value
Thais use it all the time about prices: คุ้มมากkúm mâak is 'great value', ไม่คุ้มmâi kúm 'not worth it'.
- เจ็บ jèp
to hurt, to be sore (a sharp or surface pain)
เจ็บjèp is sharp or on the surface, like a cut or a sore throat; ปวดbpùat is a deep ache inside.
- เสียใจ sǐa-jai
sad; sorry (to hear that)
Sad, or sorry about someone's bad news: เสียใจด้วยนะsǐa-jai dûay ná I'm sorry to hear that. To apologise, say ขอโทษkǎw-tôot.
- สุขใจ sùk-jai
happy, content (at heart)
- มีแต่ mii dtàe
there's only, nothing but
- สักคำ sàk kam
a single word
Mostly after a negative: ไม่พูดสักคำmâi pûut sàk kam = doesn't say a word.
Grammar in this song
ฝากfàak: leaving something in someone's hands. It's an everyday word: ฝากของไว้ก่อนได้ไหมfàak kǎwng wái gàwn dâi mǎi = can I leave my things here for now? ฝากด้วยนะfàak dûay ná = I'm counting on you, when you hand someone a task; ฝากความคิดถึงfàak kwaam kít-tǔeng = send (them) my love. The song's ฝากให้fàak hâi + person + verb trusts someone with a whole life.
Whose fault: ผิดที่pìt tîi… ผิดpìt + ที่tîi + a clause = it's wrong that…, it's (someone's) fault that…: ผิดที่ฉันเองpìt tîi chǎn eeng = it's my own fault. To say sorry for it, ขอโทษkǎw-tôot.
Nothing but, not enough: มีแต่mii dtàe, ไม่พอmâi paw. มีแต่mii dtàe + noun = there's nothing but…: มีแต่ปัญหาmii dtàe bpan-hǎa = nothing but problems. พอpaw = enough, so ไม่พอmâi paw = not enough, and พอแล้วpaw láew = that's enough.
The culture behind it
Yes'sir Days are a Bangkok band formed in 2011, with Genie Records, a GMM Grammy label, since 2017: Utt (vocals), Art (drums), Toon (bass) and Bom (guitar). "ฝากให้เขารักfàak hâi kǎo rák" came out on 9 July 2025, produced by Nat of the band Klear. GMM Grammy introduced it as the song of the พระรองprá-rawng, the second male lead of a Thai TV drama: the kind man who loves the heroine but steps aside, admitting he's not good enough, so that she can be happy with the hero. Its video tells another story of a love that can't be: a woman who has secretly loved her best friend for years watches him marry another friend, and when the couple can't have children, she agrees to carry their baby for them.
กรรมgam, karma, comes up often in Thai songs. In Buddhist teaching it is what you do, good or bad, which bears fruit in this life or a later one; in everyday Thai it often means that fruit, your lot, and กรรมตามสนองgam dtaam sà-nǎwng, karma catching up with you, is the Thai 'what goes around comes around'. Here the singer calls his broken love the karma he has to bear: he made the mistakes, so he takes the pain.
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