FAKE LOVE BY BTS and Why I love this song...

Lyrics Translation :

If it was for you

I could pretend that I was happy even if I was sad
If it was for you
I could pretend that I was strong even if I was hurt
Wishing that love is perfect as itself
Wishing all my weakness can be hidden
In a dream where nothing worked out for me
I raised a flower that couldn't bloom
I raised a flower that's couldn't bloom in a dream that can't come true

I'm so sick of this
Fake Love, Fake Love, Fake Love
I'm so sorry but it's
Fake Love, Fake Love, Fake Love

I wanna be a good man just for you
I gave the world just for you
I changed it all just for you
Now I dunno me, who are you?
A forest of just us, you were not there
I forgot the route that I came along
I became to not know who I even was
I try to talk to the mirror "who are you?"

If it was for you
I could pretend that I was happy even if I was sad
If it was for you
I could pretend that I was strong even if I was hurt
Wishing that love is perfect as itself
Wishing all my weakness is hidden
In a dream where nothing worked out for me
I raised a flower that's couldn't bloom
In a dream that can't come true

Love you so bad, Love you so bad
I craft a beautiful lie for you
Love you so mad, Love you so mad
I erase myself
And try to become your puppet
Love you so bad, Love you so bad
I craft a beautiful lie for you
Love you so mad, Love you so mad
I erase myself
And try to become your puppet

I'm so sick of this
Fake Love, Fake Love, Fake Love
I'm so sorry but it's
Fake Love, Fake Love, Fake Love

Why you sad? I don’t know, I don’t know
Smile and say that you love me
Look at me who even I myself dumped
Who even you cannot understand
You say that I feel like a stranger
Who changed into ‘I’ you used to like
You say that I am not
The ‘I’ you used to know well before
What do you mean by no?
I’m blind for you
How is this love? It’s all fake love

(Woo) I dunno, I dunno, I dunno why
(Woo) Even I, even I don’t know myself
(Woo) I just know, I just know, I just know why
Cuz its all Fake Love, Fake Love, Fake Love

Love you so bad, Love you so bad
I craft a beautiful lie for you
Love you so mad, Love you so mad
I erase myself
And try to become your puppet
Love you so bad, Love you so bad
I craft a beautiful lie for you
Love you so mad, Love you so mad
I erase myself
And try to become your puppet

I'm so sick of this
Fake Love, Fake Love, Fake Love
I'm so sorry but it's
Fake Love, Fake Love, Fake Love

If it was for you
I could pretend that I was happy even if I was sad
If it was for you
I could pretend that I was strong even if I was hurt
Wishing that love is perfect as itself
Wishing all my weakness is hidden
In a dream where nothing worked out for me
I raised a flower that's couldn't bloom
In a dream that can't come true

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For me, this song could be looked from 2 perspective.

1) Fake Love to another person

In this take, for your love you pretend to be someone you're not. You're willing to be a doll, you wish you could hide your weakness from that person. In the end, you could not even recognize yourself. And you realize that this is not love. It's FAKE LOVE.

How many of us could relate to this? It's something embedded in our brain. To please someone else. But how far are we willing to go before we realize that this love is not real? This FAKE LOVE that we're willing to sacrifice ourselves, is it worth it?

2) Fake Love in ourselves

If you look at this from your inner self perspective, you pretend that you're happy when you're sad, you pretend you're strong when you're hurt, you wish that you're perfect as love, wishing you could hide all your weaknesses, you pretend to love yourself but actually it is FAKE LOVE.

Those who suffer from depression could relate much to this. And it's something I could relate to because somehow this is how I feel about myself.

Because I try to love myself, I craft a beautiful lie, I try to erase myself and become a puppet to my own desire. In the end I couldn't even recognize myself. And it hurt so bad that I wanted to die.

If you ever suffer from depression, this song would hurt so much. I couldn't put my sufferings into words but this song captured most of what I'm trying to say, what I'm trying to tell and what I'm trying to hide.

There's a reason I love BTS now. And it's because they have helped me saved myself. When I couldn't even tell my husband how I'm feeling and try to suffer alone, they put a meaning to my suffering. And slowly, little by little I managed to save myself.

I will try and keep on posting more on BTS' songs that saved me and some meanings that I felt beyond their lyrics.

Till then.

Love,

Purple Hearts Emme ;)