Don’t think about the fact that when Outro: Tear was written, it was for the members. It was written in contemplation of whether they should quit or not.
Don’t think about the fact that it was during a time when they were being faced with such physical, mental and emotional burnout from extreme stress and pressure.
Don’t think about how the lyrics of Tear are meant to counterpart the metaphorical embodiment of the mirror between tears shed from sorrow and grief of something ending and the physical act of tearing or ripping something apart.
Don’t think about how rapline’s individual verses speak of their fears and internal struggles in coming to terms with how they are coping with the distraught of the inevitable end of something they thought was forever, something they were heading towards together, something that was their dream that is now destroying them.
Don’t think about Namjoon’s raw conflict with the illusion of forever when he sings:-
“Goodbye that ended up coming to me is what I deserve at the end of my playacting full of lies”
Or
“Forever, stop saying things like forever
Theres gotta be an end anyway”
Don’t think about Namjoon’s ever present conflict with the mask he wears, wondering if people would still love him the same if they saw the bare face that only he knows behind the illusion. Wondering if that goodbye was what he deserved after all since he’s not been sincere, always hiding behind something. If forever is really forever when an end was always coming for him.
Don’t think about Yoongi’s verse of burning rage and despair when he sings:-
“Slowly cut out my heart, yeah yeah squeeze with your foot the broken pieces of my heart so that my lingering feeling don’t remain anymore”
Or
“I hope you kill me quickly without hesitation, yeah yeah burn it so that even the burnt ash doesn’t remain”
Don’t think about how it is actually Yoongi’s demand of a clean break. To rip his heart apart, doesn’t matter how deep it goes. Rip it. Burn it. Torch it. Don’t hesitate. He’s saying if this beautiful thing needs to end then he wants it to end completely, so that even the hope of possibly putting all the pieces back together are gone.
Don’t think about Hoseok’s verse that serves as the final climax to the visceral pain and heartbreak in his chest when he sings:-
“At the moment a word comes out of your mouth, at the moment where focus becomes irregular, at the moment where everything is in danger ”
Or
“From now on I’m with incurable disease of parting, you’re my beginning and end, that is all, my meeting my parting, that was all, from now on fear will repeat itself, caused by you, tear, tear”
Don’t think about Hoseok’s delivery of his lines here. How at a certain point, he stops singing it. He is screaming it. “I should not have shed tears I should not have torn it off.” He is hyperventilating it. The pain is too much and it’s affecting him.
The way he’s basically crying saying what once was his salvation, his beginning, is now his weapon. His end. How goodbye was just a moment but now it’s here. This inevitability of parting that was always gonna be the price he pays for loving you. This is his end. This is his fear. And it’s because of you. This is his tear. As in rip.
Just don’t think about any of it. At all.
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