This song is 100% underrated. This performance is 100% underrated. This song is 100% fire.
Like other BTS songs, I find their meaning can apply to times in my life or emotions I’ve felt. I think most of us have songs that we can identify with. This one resonates with me like all of the others. This particular song is about living a lie. You can accept the lyrics at face value, or look deeper to find what the song means to you. To me, this song is about self-acceptance and the web you get caught in trying to get back to the best version of yourself.
If you’ve been reading my music series, I’ve introduced you to my relationship with Aleksei. It was complicated. I hid him away like a terrible secret. I met him when I was about to become a freshman in high school, and he was about to become a freshman in college. As you can imagine, that was difficult to navigate. Aleksei had the patience of a saint. I didn’t want to date him because he was so much older than me.
I spent my freshman and sophomore dating other people. Yet, I always found myself going back to Aleksei. Looking back at myself, I was scared. This song expresses how I felt for two years. I tortured him for two years while I tried to figure out myself. You don’t find the love of your life at 14. That’s just a fairytale. Yet, all I wanted to do was be with him. I pushed him away. I treated him pretty poorly. And, yet. He stayed. Wiping my tears when a boyfriend cheated on me with someone I considered a friend. Showing up with ice cream every time I accomplished something. Bringing me soup when I was sick. Knocking on my window at 2 a.m. because I was lonely.
More than anything, I wanted to stop lying to myself and become the true version of me. For two years, I was emotionally torn. The lie was becoming a burden to bear. Then, one day, he confessed to me that he couldn’t do it anymore. It was then I realized, I couldn’t lie to myself any more, either. We had a perfect year together before he was taken away from me.
When I first heard this song, the partial English lyrics drew me in. There was something about this song. I looked up the translated lyrics and immediately thought about my life with Aleksei. It reminds me of how special he was and how stupid I was. I was caught up in my lies to myself and ignored the best version of myself I could have been if I had just been honest.
Anyhow, this performance is lit. The song is a vibe. Check it out.
LYRICS:
Tell me
With your sweet smile
Tell me
Tell me like you’re whispering in my ear
Don’t be like a prey
Be smooth like a like a snake
I want to get away(Ah woo-woo)
Get away, away, away from me
Get away, away from me
(Ah woo-woo)
Whoever it may be, save me, me
Save me
It continues even when I run away
I am caught in a lieCaught in a lie
Find the me when I was pure
I can’t be free from this lie
Give me back my smile
Caught in a lie
Pull me from this hell
I can’t be free from this pain
Save me, I am being punished
You want me
I’ve lost my way
You want me
Just like me every day
I feel so far away
You always come my way
It repeats all over again
(Ah woo-woo)
Get away, away, away from me
Get away, away from me
(Ah woo-woo)
Whoever it may be, save me, me
Save me
It continues even when I run away
I am caught in a lie
Caught in a lie
Find the me when I was pure
I can’t be free from this lie
Give me back my smile
Caught in a lie
Pull me from this hell
I can’t be free from this pain
Save me, I am being punished
I am still the same person I was before
I am here, the same person I was from before, but
An overgrown lie is trying to swallow me wholeCaught in a lie
Find me when I was pure
I can’t be free from this lie
Give me back my smile
Caught in a lie
Pull me from this hell
I can’t be free from this pain
Save me, I am being punished
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