Seesaw talks about a toxic relationship where neither of them wants to back out because they don’t want to be the “bad guy,” hence the relationship is nothing but a repeating seesaw game and boy do I felt that
In the first part of the song, he talks about how the beginning was fun like every relationship should be. They’re fine with the “ups and downs” which probably means the good and the bad times of their relationship, but it’s getting tiring.
He realises he can’t do this any longer so like everyone else, he starts to wonder where it went wrong. He’s tired of this seesaw game and knows one of them needs to leave but they can’t, or they won’t.
They’re hurting each other, they want it to end on good terms but neither of them wants to be the “jerk”
He starts to reminisce their relationship, how happy they were in the beginning but now it’s like they’re “competing against each other” and it’s getting toxic. Their words of comfort is fake and they both know it.
In this part, it is also possible that they don’t want to leave bcs they still care about the other person but their relationship, “this seesaw game” is dangerous so it’s time to be selfish. Yoongi is asking them to be selfish.
The ending fucked me up bcs his partner, indeed left. So now he is alone, walking in on the “seesaw” or still dwelling on his relationship bcs there’s always someone who loved more in a relationship and i think in this context, it’s him. But in the end, he managed to get off too.
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