Life Goes On

“Life Goes On” is the 1st track of Be, the BTS album released in November 2020. It was produced by
Pdogg, RM, Ruuth, Chris James, Antonia Armato, SUGA, j-hope.

A line-by-line translation and explanation follows the clean version. English lyrics are italicised and the
stanzas are left as they are in the original. One addition for this album: because so many of the lyrics
clearly represent the member that voices them, I’ve made a note of the artist when they sing or rap
alone.

Clean Translation

Jung Kook

One day, the world stopped

without any prior warning

Spring didn’t know to wait

so it came without any tact

Jimin

On a street with footsteps since erased,

here I am, fallen on the ground

Time goes off alone,

without even an apology

RM

It seems like it’ll rain again today

I’m drenched

It still doesn’t stop

I race faster than those dark clouds

I thought that would be enough but

I must merely be human

It hurts so,

this cold I’ve gotten from that damn one called ‘the world’

The dusty rewind I’ve pressed because of it,

dancing to an uneven rhythm while fallen on the ground

Let’s breathe out once winter’s here,

a warmer breath

I can’t see the end

Is there even an exit?

I can’t, can’t move my feet forward, oh

Jung Kook / Jin

I briefly close my two eyes

Here, hold my hand

Let’s fly to that future

Like an echo in the forest

The day will surely return

as if nothing had happened

Yeah life goes on

Like an arrow in the blue sky

Another day will fly past

On my pillow, on my table

Yeah life goes on

Like this again

SUGA

I’ll borrow this music to say this to you:

people say that the world has all changed

Thankfully, our relationship

still hasn’t changed

j-hope

With the words ‘hello/goodbye’ that we always said to begin and end,

let’s try to connect today and tomorrow once again

Though the world has stopped, don’t hide in the dark

for the light will rise again

I remember

I remember

I remember

I remember