BTS’s “Proof” anthology album is lastly right here, having hit cabinets and streaming platforms on June 10. The three-disc album is comprised of 48 tracks spanning BTS’s epic nine-year profession. Whereas the discharge does not embrace as a lot new materials as followers have grown accustomed to with most new BTS albums, the discharge’s paired-down providing of three authentic songs has allowed followers to dig deeper into the lyrics than ever earlier than. So, in between streaming the lead single “But to Come” on loop, the group’s devoted ARMY is analyzing “Run BTS” and “For Youth” as effectively.
Followers are dropping their minds over “Run BTS” (to not be confused with their selection present of the identical title) specifically, not solely as a result of it is an up-tempo, rock/hip-hop hybrid monitor they will dance to, but additionally as a result of its lyrics — that are a mixture of Korean and English — mirror on BTS’s early days arising as a bunch and working towards success, by no means dropping their drive. Try the English lyric translation of “Run BTS” (through Genius) forward, and skim on to be taught extra in regards to the message behind the lyrics.
BTS’s “Run BTS” Lyrics in English
INTRO (SUGA)
Yeah, yeah
Okay
Run, run (Oh-oh-oh-oh)
Okay, okay, let’s go!
VERSE 1 (Jungkook, V, SUGA)
Nonhyeon, 100m, our place
A name from the corporate after faculty (Sure, sure)
Ah, I am coming proper now
Please do not ship me dwelling
(Oh) Typically I dream of that day (Dream)
(Oh) I shivering after which open my eyes (Open my eyes)
I do not wanna go, return once more
Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go
PRE-CHORUS (Jungkook, Jimin, V)
For ten years, wait, wait
We from the underside
I caught you bae, bae
We’re a bit quick
We seven mate, mates
Look carеfully, we received us
Inform me what you wanna
Tеll me what you wanna, woah
If we dwell quick, allow us to die younger
CHORUS
Not dropping our spirit
Make it transfer, left and proper
Regardless of who you’re
Make it transfer, left and proper
Two naked ft are our gasoline, yeah, yeah
Let’s go, are you prepared? Yeah, yeah
*Okay, let’s go!*
POST-CHORUS (J-Hope)
Run bulletproof, run, yeah, you gotta run (Run, run)
Run bulletproof, run, yeah, you gotta run (Run, run)
Run bulletproof, run, yeah, you gotta run (Run, run)
Run bulletproof, run
VERSE 2 (SUGA)
Okay, okay, let’s go
I used to be proper, within the rain-leaking studio in Nonhyeon-dong
Opening a bottle of soju and speaking about my hardships
If we succeed within the phrases that we have promised, all people is useless
The explanation behind Bangtan’s success? I do not know if there’s one thing like that
All of us simply run onerous
It doesn’t matter what, we simply run
That is the reply, ha-ha-ha
VERSE 3 (RM)
(Okay)
Consolation, received them (Bought them)
Rules, received them (Bought them)
Good music, received them (Bought them)
Good staff? Goddamn! (Oh, yeah)
You stated you sizzling (You sizzling)
Oh man, you not (You not)
Above those who run, above those who flies
Run Bangtan, let’s go
PRE-CHORUS (Jungkook, Jin, V)
For ten years, wait, wait
We from the underside
I caught you bae, bae
We’re a bit quick
We seven mate, mates
Look, we received us
Inform me what you wanna
Inform me what you wanna, woah
If we dwell quick, allow us to die younger
CHORUS
Not dropping our spirit
Make it transfer, left and proper
Regardless of who you’re
Make it transfer, left and proper
Two naked ft are our gasoline, yeah, yeah
Let’s go, are you prepared? Yeah, yeah
*Let’s go!*
POST-CHORUS (SUGA)
Run bulletproof, run, yeah, you gotta run (Run, run)
Run bulletproof, run, yeah, you gotta run (Run, run)
Run bulletproof, run, yeah, you gotta run (Run, run)
Run bulletproof, run (Run, run)
BRIDGE (J-Hope, V, Jimin)
Skrrt
With the ignorant religion
Simply run, together with your two legs
That is how we do all of it (Ayy, ayy)
That is how we have proved it
The seven runners
With one million {dollars} (Ayyy, ayy)
Jiminie, V, onerous work
Namjoonie, Hope, onerous work
Yoongi hyung, Jjin, onerous work
Jungkookie, everybody so thanks
Prepare, prepare, prepare, prepare, prepare, there’s extra sooner or later
Go get it, go get it, go get it, go get it, run, run
If we dwell quick, allow us to die younger
CHORUS
Not dropping our spirit
Make it transfer, left and proper
Regardless of who you’re
Make it transfer, left and proper
Two naked ft are our gasoline, yeah, yeah
Let’s go, are you prepared? Yeah, yeah
Yeah
(Yeah)
POST-CHORUS (RM)
Run lovely, run, yeah you gotta run (Run)
Run lovely, run, yeah you gotta run (Run)
Run lovely, run, yeah you gotta run (Run)
Run lovely, run
Take heed to BTS’s “Run BTS”
What Do BTS’s “Run BTS” Lyrics Imply?
BTS members RM, J-Hope, Jungkook, and SUGA participated within the writing course of for “Run BTS,” which is why the message behind the music feels so private and ties completely into the album’s total theme of reflecting over the group’s nearly-decade-long profession.
The music kicks off with SUGA and Jungkook singing, “Nonhyeon, 100m, our place / A name from the corporate after faculty (Sure, sure) / Ah, I am coming proper now / Please do not ship me dwelling,” a transparent name again to BTS’s humble pre-debut days once they lived in a tiny dorm collectively in Nonhyeon-dong working lengthy and onerous hours making ready for his or her debut. The opening line additionally establishes the fixed worries the members felt over their unsure futures (clearly utterly clueless to the actual fact they have been about to grow to be the most important band on this planet).
Within the pre-chorus, Jungkook, Jimin, and V sing, “We from the underside / I caught you bae, bae / We’re a bit quick, We seven mate, mates / Look fastidiously, we received us.” These lyrics appear to mirror how the members of BTS turned to at least one one other as they skilled ups and downs climbing from the underside of a saturated musical panorama towards success at breakneck velocity. Regardless of what naysayers stated (“Inform me what you wanna,” they sing), the members have been all the time there for each other, encouraging each other to push on.
Finally, “Run BTS”‘s lyrical throughline facilities on BTS’s willpower to by no means lose their spirit and keep away from negativity (irrespective of how naive or silly they might appear to outsiders) with strains like, “Not dropping our spirit,” “Run bulletproof, run, yeah, you gotta run,” and “With the ignorant religion, simply run, together with your two legs.”
After 9 years, BTS has but to lose the spirit they cultivated in that tiny dorm in Nonhyeon-dong, and because the lyrics of “Run BTS” say, they will proceed to run resiliently ahead previous any hurdles — like they’re bulletproof.
