“eat this life til your heart is full, if you want you can have it all” is actually the perfect lyric for someone like me, a girl in her 20s, to hear like holy shit yeah time is not running out my life has just begun
bts adding this is VERY important. merry go round emphasizes that while you may feel you are moving forward in life (growing up, achieving success) you are still anchored to the same heavy anxieties. the horse vertical movement mimics life’s temporary highs and lows but the horizontal trajectory never actually leaves the circle. growing up does not mean being free from anxiety and pressure. this is bts telling us that you are NOT alone when it comes to that kind of struggle.