BTS – 134340 (English Translation and Ramblings)

Track 04 on Love Yourself 轉 ‘Tear’ album.

Korean lyrics from Naver Music.

Written by: Pdogg, ADORA, 정바비, RM, Martin Luke Brown, Orla Gartland, Suga, J-Hope

 

From Wiki about Pluto:

Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune. It was the first Kuiper belt object to be discovered.

Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 and was originally considered to be the ninth planet from the Sun. After 1992, its status as a planet was questioned following the discovery of several objects of similar size in the Kuiper belt. In 2005, Eris, a dwarf planet in the scattered disc which is 27% more massive than Pluto, was discovered. This led the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to define the term “planet” formally in 2006, during their 26th General Assembly. That definition excluded Pluto and reclassified it as a dwarf planet.

 

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If I only could, I wanted to ask
Why were you like that back then? Why did you chase me away
Without a name, I still orbit around you
The farewell seems embarrassingly meaningless, that unchanging colour. 
uses term:  무색하다  – means to be so worthless that it’s embarrassing.  But it uses 무 (none) 색 (color), so can also mean colorless.
—>The farewell was colorless, that unchanging color.

 

I see I have no name
I used to be your star too
You must be happy to be the light
All I can do is accept you like this
I guess Pluto just reflects the light of the sun, instead of emitting light from itself.
In the crumbled king’s castle
where “king’s castle” is part of Korean name for Pluto.
Pluto’s Korean name is:  명왕성 (myung wang sung).
“King’s castle” is  “wang sung.”
명(myung) = “dark” in Pluto’s name, is homonym with “life”
왕(wang) = king
성 (sung) = in Pluto’s case, it means “star” but sounds the same as word for “castle”
Would there be any meaning to the remaining “Myung”?
where “Myung” is what you have remaining when you remove (or “crumble”) “king’s castle(wang sung)” from Pluto’s name (Myung wang sung).
“Myung” means name OR life:
Would there by any meaning to the remaining name?
Would there be any meaning to the remaining life?
I’ll probably receive it until I die, 
your suffocating hot gaze
gaze from the sun, I guess..
I still orbit around you and nothing has changed
But if there is no name to love
Everything has changed
Have you really found the Eris?
Eris is the other dwarf planet that is bigger than Pluto, and discovery of Eris caused re-evaluation of Pluto’s planet status.
Tell me, what about me is not as good as that moon?
“US” is just plural for “U”
Perhaps, I was never there from the beginning.
“Us” is supposed to mean “me and you”
But “Us”, I guess could be “U”, with “S” on it to indicate a plural for “U”.
Where there was never a “me”, but just “you.”

복수, meaning plural, is also homonym for “revenge.”
—> “US” is just your (U’s) form of revenge
Someday you’ll understand this phrase too
My season was always you
reference to “Autum/Dead Leaves” from HYYH: Pt 2 album.
It’s sad though, because in the song “Dead Leaves”, “you” are his “fifth season”…which is a season that does not exist, where the memories are fresh summer green and alive.  And the reality is that it’s end of the fall where all the leaves are dead and falling….
So this reinforces the feel of reminiscing over the good times, which has long past.
My cold heart is 248 degrees below zero
It stopped the day that you erased me
Damn

 

I’m only orbiting around
the word for “orbiting” kind of implies aimlessly wandering
(I lost my hold on you, I lost you)
I’m just idling around uselessly
(You erased me, you’ve forgotten me)

 

One time among the world of the Sun
(The song paused, song stopped)
The star’s heart only has bitter layer of fog
(You erased me, you’ve forgotten me)

 

There’s really not much difference from yesterday, ay
In the same daily life, just you are not there, ay
For sure, we were together up to yesterday, ay
Scarily, the day is exactly the same except that you’re not there. 
To tell the truth, about a year without you
I felt calm,  
The past days when I wouldn’t even feel the common nostalgia, and forget
I don’t even remember your scent, but wait
I’ve smelled this perfume somewhere, ay
The memory seems to faintly come back, ay
I turn my head there there
You’re smiling brightly, walking to me and beside you is him…
“Hello” 
“Hello”
“How are you doing?” 
“I’m doing alright”
Unlike my heart that feels like it’s going to explode
At this moment, the temperature is 248 below zero. 

 

I’m only orbiting around
(I lost my hold on you, I lost you)
I’m just idling around uselessly
(You erased me, you’ve forgotten me)

One time among the world of the Sun
(The song paused, song stopped)
The star’s heart only has bitter layer of fog
(You erased me, you’ve forgotten me)

 

I’m only orbiting around
(Beyond the fog, I watch as you continue to smile)
The reality of my irregular orbit, where there are no meanings, no you, nor anything. 
Pluto has rather eccentric orbit around the sun.
I’m just idling around uselessly
(The numbers that are difficult for you to remember and the Pluto of darkness
But I’ll probably continue to orbit around you, damn)
Pluto’s new name as number is difficult to remember.  But this could be double entendre for phone number that the girl is no longer remembering.  Pluto in Greek mythology is also Hades, the ruler of underworld…so Pluto of darkness fits.  Not to mention that “dark” is part of the Korean name for Pluto.

I’m only orbiting around
(I lost my hold on you, I lost you)
I’m just idling around uselessly
(You erased me, you’ve forgotten me)

One time among the world of the Sun
(The song paused, song stopped)
The star’s heart only has bitter layer of fog
(You erased me, you’ve forgotten me)