i'm finally on my lunch break, let's get into D-2's lyrics

01. Moonlight: wow just on the first song i already wanna sit down and spend like 30 minutes on it, this lunch break might not be enough time to go through this album This is such a great opener because to me it's one of the tracks that reminds me of AD1 one the most

lyrically it has a similar feel to tracks like 724148 or 140503 at dawn to me. on those tracks he was telling us about the past and on this one he's kinda catching us up on the time between AD1 and now. And one of the things that i like the most about yoongi is that while his

music tends to be VERY specific to his experience, it still feels retable on a broader sense. Like, I've never been a superstar but I've achieved things in my life that i really wanted and felt hollow after, for example. I also really relate to the feeling of constantly fighting

against my own head, fighting laziness, wondering if you really deserve the things you have or if you even have any passions in life
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and this line right here hit me so hard, it reminded me of a tweet i saw the other day talking about how journalists often talk about the last but overlook some other mentions bts makes to MH matters. and yes it's so tiring to fight your head all the time f*ck that!

i also love this part, 1. because i tend to think a lot about changes, both inviting it into your life vs being afraid to change too much and lose a part of yourself, so yes i agree that how we change is the most important part

And also 2. because i can't listen to this song without thinking of moonchild (in fact I've always associated that song with yoongi in my head ever since i noticed this parallel), and while the references are probably not intentional, imo the two songs https://twitter.com/moonIunatik/status/1054402060895092737

compliment each other so well, they both feel like very late nights when you're just thinking about your life and they are both slightly frustrated/sad but also like "we just have to keep going"

02. Daechwita: i know a lot has been said about this song on stan twt and i don't wanna contribute to pointless discourse but while 2019 was going on i did wonder what rap line was thinking about everything going on in the kpop industry and i feel like some parts of this song

can be in reference to that. But it's also interesting how this song and the mv comes back to duality a lot. two yoongis, slave/king, references to a king that did smart things but was also a bit crazy https://twitter.com/BTSARMY_Salon/status/1263779762008252416

and also this aspect. I'm not sure if yoongi is aware of this theory or referencing it directly but even if he isn't, i do think it applies and what makes the song go beyond just a bragging kind of song to me https://twitter.com/dashuyn/status/1263826645267501064

because yes, it's very much a bragging song (isn't it just like yoongi to say that he doesn't flex? you know, like a liar hjdshhds) but it's also about the weight of being in the throne, which is something he also talked about in moonlight, even though i forgot to mention

also gosh, yoongi really hates show me the money and it's hilarious to me sdjhdshjdshhs

03. What do you think? well this song is kinda hard to discuss because while yoongi is definitely sh00ting, i don't the address of all the bullets and would rather not speculate. However, due to the last line here i do believe that whoever he's talking about will get the message

if they listen to the song. Also of course i'm very curious about the part he censored. Which btw is something he has done both on the last and outro:her, yoongi is a tease like that i guess! I was also very surprised that he addressed the whole enlistment thing so directly

but i'm really glad cause it really was ridiculous how much everyone was milking this issue while they were pretty quiet about it. but my favourite part of the song is probably this one! i love how he changes his voice and sounds absolutely tired of it all

i'm gonna be back to do the rest of the songs later!

04. Strange: omg, i can't believe i finally get to dive into this track! the first thing that came to my mind when i read the lyrics of this track was another bangtan track, am i wrong! there are some obvious parallels (first two are from am i wrong)
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but what kinda broke my heart about this track is that while Am I wrong feels very urgent (they even scream "MAYDAY, MAYDAY" in the song, like a warning), strange feels more like you're standing over the wreckage, a bit more resigned to your fate

especially with this repeating chorus of sorts, it gives it kind of an eerie feeling too. and idk, i might be projecting, but i feel like a lot of young people are simply tired. we see the world going insane and it feels so overwhelming that sometimes
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it's easier to just tune out everything or maybe change your approach. a lot of people criticize bts for supposedly abandoning political themes in their music but imo they just changed focus. like i said, this is an interpretation and i might be projecting a little but when the

world gets too overwhelming and you feel powerless to enact some sort of change, sometimes it's easier to focus on the things you feel you can change, or can help with. In my own life it was making sure i was paying attention to the people around me, that i was making sure they

were ok, instead of only thinking about the big picture. making one person's life better might be small but if i can do that, then at least i'm doing something positive. and to me that's partly what the love yourself series is about, that was the way they felt they could help

and it might seem small to onlookers, but armys know how important it is. but anyways, back to the song, the line "life we can't reject" jumped out at me. and it made me wonder if it's also connected to this idea that people can be "simply fed and kept alive"

I also just wanna mention joon's verse because it's soooo good! I don't have anything to say because it's pretty self-explanatory. I'm just really happy that they can see that, especially when so many people can't these days, celebrities or not

and also not to be me but!!! namgi!!! it's just so on brand for them to do a song like this and it's exactly why they will always be bts' foundation. and that foundation feels more and more solid which makes me really happy

05. 28: oh this one hit a little too close to home maybe. I think no one really prepares you for how hard growing up is. I don't even know if it's possible to do so. And it's even harder if you grow up dealing with mental health issues.and i'm not bringing this up for misery porn

but like, one of the toughest things is realizing that you might have to deal with this for your entire life. because when you're young, you think "oh, things will be better when i'm older" you tie your feelings to certain situations and you think that
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once these situations pass, everything will be ok. but for some people, it's not like that. it's not about a situation going on in their lives, it's something you carry and you learn to deal with. and it's not the end of the world but there is a sort of mourning process as you

grow older and you realize that it isn't going away, even if your situation is, or seems great. this part hit especially hard for me because i have this very vivid memory of me, as a child, maybe 6 or 7, praying very hard that i would have a completely happy day

just one day, when i would feel 100% happy. and even though this memory is very vivid, i can't remember anymore exactly what made my life not happy at 7 years old when I came from a pretty normal family, but like i said, sometimes, it's not about the situation at all

and as a child i didn't understand that but now i do. Though sometimes i wish i didn't lol. i wish i could still have that untainted hope, even though it's a bit of a mirage. but you can't help but mourn the loss of it

06. Burn it: this song is a bit confusing to me, ngl. it seems to go in circles a bit, so it's not the easiest to make sense of but what i got from it was this sense of trying to basically burn yourself down to maybe be reborn as something better but it doesn't work and you just

keep burning yourself down, again and again. And it also seems to touch on the fact that sometimes it's easy to sort of go back to very painful moments in your life and use that as a sort of fuel but also as a sort of punishment. like yoongi said, a hostage

and it's complicated because sometimes, in a pursuit of being "good" you keep forcing yourself to confront these bad parts of you like "don't forget all the trash inside you" but doing that can also make you a slave to these emotions and sometimes you just gotta forgive yourself

which makes me think of both this fancafe post that joon wrote and the lyrics of Fire. like yoongi says, sometimes giving up is a form of courage. and sometimes it's ok to give up certain feelings or even certain dreams that don't feel right anymore

07. People: well, to start off i just have to day, i love best friends who inspire each other!!! but like @jiminsbeluga said, even though this song uses a similar metaphor to trivia: love, thematically, it feels a lot closer to everythingoes

tho if everythingoes is that moment when you are almost trying to convince yourself that everything will pass in order to survive, People is more like the calm after you realize that yes, things do pass. and although sometimes thinking of things fading and being forgotten can be

bit depressing, it can also be freeing! Most things we do will simply fade away in time so, why are we so serious like everything is life or death? but imo it's really hard to have that kind of perspective when you're in the thick of it

this song is also a reminder that at the end of the day, we are all people, trying our best to live our lives. so we should try our best to not put anyone on a pedestal

08. Honsool: this is one of those yoongi songs where it almost feels like i'm reading one of his diary entries when i wasn't supposed to, so i don't have a lot to comment. i'm just grateful that he feels safe enough to share those feelings with us. and i hope people respect that

and don't use his honesty to fuel their own narratives.

09. Interlude : Set me free: again, i don't have a lot to say about this song, except that GOSH it's so beautiful. the soundscape that yoongi constructs in this song is just, UGH. like, all the little sounds and the slight distortion in his voice, i love it so much

to me this song just kinda sounds like the internal monologue you have going on in your head on really tough days. or maybe it's just me, but when i'm going through stuff, sometimes i have certain phrases/images that keep running through my head

like, during one period of my life, every time i felt overwhelmed and closed my eyes, i would see myself climbing one of those pieces of fabric, even though I've never done that? but in my head, it was an image of freedom, and that song feels like that

10. Dear my friend: this song is just... heartbreakingly beautiful. i just feel lucky that yoongi shared it with us, even though it's about such a personal topic. i'm especially in love with the chorus. the lyrics are solo beautiful and jongwan delivers the emotion so well

to end this, i was gonna comment that this mixtape follows a similar pattern to Agust D, open with the bragging songs, and then slowly peel the layers, finishing with a very vulnerable and more "emotional" song. but then i realized that by opening with moonlight, yoongi broke the

pattern a bit. I don't know exactly what conclusions i should draw from it but just thought it was interesting to note. Other than that, i'm just so grateful that we have new yoongi music, that he chose to share new stories with us,

that he gave us new friends that will be with us in the moments when we need the most. thank you yoongi @BTS_twt